The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-08-17
DAVIS IS NOTIFIED
Vice Presidential Nominee
Hears Formal News.
At WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, ". va.
Announcement Made by Chairman
WiHiams-Senator's Speech In Re-
ply Dealt Largely with the
Labor situation.

ally notified that he is the Democratic
nominee for vice president Of the
United States ON the lawn in front of
tile White Sulphur Springs hotel here.
Representative eohn Sharp Williams
of Mississippi. chairman of the notiii-
cation committee Of the national Dem
ocratic convention, made the announce
mcnt to the nominee as follows:
we have been appointed by most
notable convention as committee to
notify you of your nomination by the
Democracy as their choice for vice
president of the United States. We
desire to express the pleasure we feel
in having been selected to perform this
duty and our confidence in you, your
faithfulness honesty and wisdom. The
people see in you one Of the best prod
ucts of the best period of American in
stitutions, a period whose salient char
ucteristlcs were local self government,
individuality, equal opportunity and
freedom, freedom TO work, freedom to
buy and sell freedom to compete in in
dustral life, resulting in self depend
ence, freedom to develop as ones own
master, and not merely as the well
trained and well managed industrial
servant of another They see in you
what Oliver Wendell Holmes said is
rare thing, a self made man who is
yet not proud Of his maker
Just before leaving home | said
that l was going to West Virginia,
with some others, to notify you of
your nomination. one of my brothers
little boys, standing by said, Uncle
John, he must be mighty big goose
if he hasn't heard Of it already In
certain way the notification with
which we are charged is perfunctory
and unnecessary, and yet ii is well to
maintain by some degree of formality
that respectable observance which is
due to great events. The nomination
by a great party to the great office TO
which we call you the vice presidency,
carrying with it the duty of presiding
over the senate of the United States
and the possibility of succession to the
presidency, is great event"
Mr.. Davis, in accepting the nomina-
ton, discussed the political situation
briefly. He said;
The official notification which you
bring of my nomination for the vice
presidency of the United States by the
national Democracy gives me a feeling
of the slncerest gratitude to my party
for the honor conferred. At the same
time ii brings TO me a deep sense of
my responsibility to my party as a can
didate and to my country in case of
my election.
II find it, therefore, a great pleasure.
standing here upon the borderland of
the two Nirginias, to receive and ac-
cept the commission you bear and to
send greetings through you to the De-
mocracy of the entire country. Is it
not significant of closer and truer
brotherhood among us that for the
first time since the civil war a nomi-
nee on the national ticket has been
taken from that section of our com
mon country that lies south of Mason
and Dixon's Inca happy recognition
Of the obliteration Of all sectional diff
ferences which led to and followed
that unhappy Struggle
In the campaign preceding the last
election much stress was laid BY Re
publican speakers upon the prosperous
condition Of the country, and fore
bodings were heard of the i'll results.
especially to the laboring man. which
.hp f,. FL
ltical complexion of the government.
Ii is true that the times then were
good, but ii is no less fact that.
while there has been no change in
the party in power, many of the evils
prophesied have come under Repub-
lican rule
In the language of our platform,
The rights of labor are certainly no
less vested, no less sacred and no less
inalienable than the rights of capital
The time Is opportune to emphasize
the truth of this utterance. The most
sacred right of property is the right to
possess and own oneself and the labor
of ones own hands capital itself being
but stored up labor. For years |
worked in the ranks as a wage Garner,
and knowawhat it is to earn my liv-
ing in the sweat of my brow. / have
always believed and my convictions
came from the hard school OF expert
ence that, measured by the character
of work he does and the cost of living.
a man is eVtitled to full compensation
for his services. My experience as
wage Garner and my association with
labor have alike taught me the value
of Democratic principles, for in them
the humblest has the strongest security
for individual right and the highest
stimulus to that independents of spirit
and love of self help which produce
the finest characters and form the base
of the best possible government.