The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-03
EI.IHU RooT'E SPEECH.
Notifying Senator Fairbanks OF His
Nomination for Vice President.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 3.-On behalf of
the committee appointed to notify SEN
ator Fairbanks of his nomination Tor
the vice presidency, Chairman Ellhu
Root spoke as follows;
Senator Fairbanks: The committee
which now waits upon you was ap-
pointed by the national convention OF
the Republican party held at Chicago
in June, and its agreeable duty is to
notify you of your nonalnaticn as tne
Republican candidate for the oft1ce OF
vice president of the United States for
the term to begin on the 4th day OF
March, 1905.
I'VE give you formal notice of that
nomination with assurance of the I'M
divided and hearty support of the great
party which has executed the peoples
will in the government of this country
for the better part OF the last halt
century. The nomination comes to
YOU in accordance with the best meth
DDS and practices of representative
government 1t was the result of long
and earnest consideration and discus
sion by the members of the conven-
ton 1t was not the chance product
of an excited hour and it was not
upon the demand of any powerful in
fuence-political or otherwise-con-
straining the judgment OF the dele
gates 1t was not made for the pur-
pose of conciliating possible malcon-
tents, or of swelling the campaign
fund of the party. No bargains or
intrigues contributed to it. No sup
of the convention as to your principles
and opinions were necessary to bring
it about. 1t was the deliberate, in
formed and intelligent judgment of the
delegates from every state and terri
tory. and it was their unanimous judg-
ment.
ut is a great office to which you are
called. John Adams, and Thomas JEFF
ferson, and George Clinton, and John
c. Calhoun, and Martin Van Buren,,
and many others whose names are il
lustrious in the history of our coun-
try, have filled it. 1t is an office of
high dignity and immediate, ever pres
ent Importance The credit and honor
of our country are greatly concerned
in the character and conduct of the
man who presides over the senate of
the United States-that powerful and
august body, of which you are already
so experienced, SO useful and so hon
ored a member.
but the vice president has other
grave duties of imperative obligation.
When the people elect president I'M
der our political system, they do not
merely select the man for the office:
they give their approval to certain
controlling principles and policies of
government; and the administration of
which the vice president is a part is
bound to give effect to these principles
and policies The primary duty of the
vice president to be always ready to
take up the burden of the presidency
if occasion requires, carries with 1t the
duty to be always ready to continue
unbroken the policies which the peo-
pie have entrusted to the administra-
ton for execution. For the due per-
Torrance of this duty the vice preSi-
dent should be familiar with the con-
duct of affairs by the administration
as it proceeds, be part of its counsels.
and imbued with a knowledge of its
labors. its perplexities and its motives
that can come only from intimate as
ISOLATION and confidence and sympa-