Arizona republican., 1904-08-04

Indianapolis, Aug. 3.--United States Senator Charles w. Fairbanks was to- day formally notified of his nomina- ton for vice president of the United States by the republican national con- vention. The notification address was made by Elihu Root, temporary chair man of the convention.
 Senator Fairbanks was given an ova- ton when he accepted the nomination. |
 Five thousand persons from differ ent parts of the country were assem- bled around Fairbanks home where | the ceremony occurred.
 Addressing Senator Fairbanks. Chair l man Root on behalf of the notification | committee, said:
 ''The committee which now waits up- on you was appointed by the national l convention of the republican party | held at Chicago in June, and it's agree 1 able duty is to notify you of your nom- | inatiOn as the republican candidate for | the office of vice president of the Unit | ed States for the term beginning on | the 4th day or March, 1905.
 We give you formal notice of that nomination with assurance of the undi- | vided and hearty support of the great party which has executed the peoples 1 will in the government of this country for the better part of the last half cen tury. The nomination comes to you in accordance with the best methods and practices of representative government. It was the result of long and earnest consideration and discussion by the members of the convention. It was not the chance product of an excited hour. and it was not upon the demand of any ! powerful influence-pclitical or other lwise-constrainirg the judgment of the delegates. It was not made for the purpose of consolidating possible mal- contents, or of swelling the campaign | fund of the party. No bargains or in trigues contributed to it. No suppress sions of the truth or misleading of the convention as to your principles and opinions were necessary to bring it about. It was the deliberate, inform- ed and intelligent judgment of the del egates from every state and territory, and it was their unanimous judgment.
 Ut is a great office to which you are called. John Adams, and Thomas Jef- ferson, and George Clinton, and John C. Calhoun, and Martin Van Bul el, and many others whose names are illus trious in the history of our country, have filled it. It is an office of high dignity and immediate, ever present importance. The credit and honor of our country are greatly concerned in the character and conduct of the man who presides over the senate af the United States-that powerful and au- gust body, of which you are already so experienced, so useful and so honored a member.
 | As to the supreme responsibility O; the vice presidency in case of success sion to the presidency, we shall all pray, and no one more earnestly than yourself, that it may not come to you. But we are not at liberty to ignore the possibility that it may come. Sad and bitter experience admonishes us that provision for succession to the presi- dency is no idle form. Of the last twelve presidents elected by the people of the United States five-nearly one half-have died in office and have been succeeded by vice presidents. A seri- ous obligation rests upon the political parties which select the candidates be- tween whom the people must choose, to see that they nominate men for this possible succession who have the strength of body and mind and charac- ter which shall enable them, if occa- sion comes to take up the burdens of the great presidential office, to endure , its trying and exhausting demands, to meet its great responsibilities, and with
 clear vision to guide the government of the country until the people can ex- press their choice again.
 '"Our opponents of the democr atic
 party have signally failed to perform
 this duty. They have nominated as
 their candidate for the vice presidency an excellent gentleman, who was born
 during the presidency of James Mon
 roe and who before the 4th of March
 next will be in the eighty-second year of his age. Before the next admins
 tration is ended, he will be approaching
 his eighty-sixth birthday. It is no dis
 para agement of this gentleman, for
 whom I believe we all have the high
 est respect. to say that he shares the
 common lot of mortals, and that the
 election of any man of such great age
 would furnish no safeguard to the
 American people against the disaster
 which would ensue upon the deatn of
 a president with a successor not corl- petent to perform the duties of the
 presidential office. It is common eXpe- , rience that very aged men, however bright and active they may appear for
 brief periods, cannot sustain long con-
 tinued severe exertion. The demands of the presidential office upon the men, . tai and physical vitality are so great, , so continuous and so exhausting, as 10 be wholly beyond the capacity of any man of eighty-five.
 The attempt by such a man to per
 form the duties of the office would with practical certainty be speedily
 followed by a breakdown both of body ana mind. I'm contemplating the re-
 mote possibility of the election of the