St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-10-01

you should be elected vice president 1t
will be one of your duties as a sort OF
heir apparent to the crown to train
yourself and influence your chief
Judge Parker-in the way Of usurpinR
the functions of the other departments
of the government. Your opportunity
will not be as great as that of the presi-
dent himself, but as president OF the
senate, you may have some OPP
portunity.
I'm conclusion, sir, pray for war-no-
body can tell what great things war will
end in when once begun 1t might result
in making of your chief the first EN-
peror and, lord protector of the western
hemisphere
Remember above all things that our
chief duty as citizens, but especially as
rulers, is not to be 'weaklings' or cow
ards A weakling, sir. is strangely
domesticated animal who listens before
he acts and who weighs evidence before
he decides. who modestly venerates
greatness-in others, who actually pre-
fers piping times of peace to the
'pomp and circumstances of glorious
war Weaklings are men who fear the
strenuous life, the only national Life
that is really worth the living'-the life
of crown-colony- conquest, the life mill
tant in word. We are getting to be as
a people, your committee is glad to say,
splendidly military. A flag, brass band
and a choice collection of epaulets. es-
corting secretary of war to and from
the depot in Washington when he au-
gustly leaves or arrives, appeal to the
higher flights of our patriotic imagina-
ton as nothing else does or can.
Assails Speech Of Root.
ut has been pleasure to us to do our
duty, to notify you Of your nomination.
This has been pleasure, notwithstand-
ing the fact that you had already been
in manner notified by Elihu Root, who,
while pretendedly notifying Senator
Fairbanks, could not set his mind off'n
you,' as the darkies say, and whose
speech consisted principally in saying,
Go to, thou are an old man., and in be-
moaning the fact that you might posi-
bly, die before you got to be president
So might he for that matter.
I'm further comment upon E1ihu
Roots notification of your nomination
will hazard the remark, in reply to one
of exceeding good taste on his part, that
1t Is better to run the risk OF mourning.
as In due course of the flesh we all must,
physical inability than to have been
horn with thof nocr1}o = -, at al Gin hi1ffv,
for any possible task in life which con-
sists Of taking ourselves too seriously |
and nobody else with respect of rever-
ence.'
Davis Reply to Williams.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the |
Committee: 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 sincerest gratitude to my
party for the honor conferred. At the
same time it brings to me deep sense of /
my responsibility to my party as can
didate and to my country in case of my
election
"A spirit of determination to succeed
In the campaign before us appears to
pervade the rank and file of our party in
Ill sections of the country. Ofthat rank
and file I have for many years been a
member and have at all times devoted
ny humble powers to party success, be-
ieving that success to be for the coun-
try's good. Unexpectedly called as ]
I'm now to the forefront, am impeIled
% an acceptance of the obligation by
ense of gratitude to my fellow workers
Ind the hope that it may be able the
better to assist in restoring to power
hat party whose principles and past
history guarantee safe. wise, econom-
cal and constitutional administration
II the government
Il find it, therefore, a great pleasure,
here upon the borderland of
he two Virginias, to receive and accept
he commission you bear and to send
greetings through you to the democracy
# the entire country. It is not signifi-
ant of a closer and truer brotherhood
lmong us that for the first time since
ne civil war nominee on the national
icket has been taken from that Sec
ion OF our common country that lies
outh of Mason and Dixon's line-a hap
y recognition of the obliteration of all
ectional differences which led to and
ollowed that unhappy struggle? /
Declares Himself for Gold.
AS an Introductory to the few remarks
shall make desire to say that heart
" indorse the platform upon which ]
ave been nominated and, with the con-
ention and its nominee for president.
egard the present monetary standard
4 value as irrevocably established.
''In the campaign preceding the last
lection much stress was laid by repub-
can speakers upon the prosperous con-
ition Of the country and forebodings
ere heard of the Ill results, especially
0 the laboring man, which would follow
ny change in the political complexion |
the government. II
1T is true that the times then were
God, but it is no less fact that, while
here has been no change in the party |
l power. many of the evils prophesied
ave come under republican rule. Four +,
ears ago factories, mills, mines and fur ,
aces were in active operation, unable
, supply the demand, but now many are
losed and those that are open are being
perated with reduced force on short s
ours. Then wages were high, labor
as scarce and there was work for all. [
'Now work is scarce many wage earn !
IS unemployed and wages reduced The J
oprehension which now prevails in {
usiness circles and the present unsatis- ,
Lctory industrial condition of the coun- /