The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-08-27

will be one oil your uutieS a. sOfe VI
heir apparent1 10 the crown TO train
yourself andf Influence your chief
,Judee Par8er-iD the way of usurping
the functions ~ 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 op-
portunity.
'Tn conclusion, sir pray for war-no-
body can ten what great things war will
end in when once begun Itmight 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 sweaklines' or cow
ards A weakling, ssir, 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 choice collection Of iepaulets, es-
corting a 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 imasina-
tion as nothing else does orsean,
Assails Speech of Root.
at has been pleasure to US to do our
duty, to notify you of your nomination.
This has beenla pleasure, notwithstand-
ing the fact that you had already been
in a manner ptified by EIihu Root, who,
while pretefdedly notifying Senator
Fairbanks, 'csnld not set. his mind off'n
you,' as the4darkies say, and whose
speech consisted principallyEin saying.
Go to, thou are an old man and in be-
moaning the fact that you might possi
bly, die before you got to bespresident.
So might he for that matter.
"In further comment upon Elihu
Roots notification of your nomination
will hazard the remark. in reply to one
of exceeding good taste on his part,athat
1t is betterfto run the risk of incurring,
as in due course of the flesh we all must,
physical inability, than to have been
born with THAI peculiar metal inability
for any possible task in life winch con-
sists of taking ourselves consciously,
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
feelingsof 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
all sections of the country. OF THAT rank
and file have for many years been
member and have at all times devoted
my humble powers to party success. be-
lieving that success to be for the coun-
try's good. Unexpectedly called as
am now to the forefront, | am impeIled
to an acceptance of the obligation by
sense of gratitude to my fellow workers
and the hope that 1t may be able the
better to assist in restoring to power
that party whose principles and past
history guarantee safe, wise, econom-
ical and constitutional administration
of the government. ~
Il find it, therefore. a great pleasure.
standing here upon the borderland of
the two Virginias. to receive and accept
the commission you bear and to send
greetings through you to the democracy
of the entire country. It is not signifi-
cant of a closer and truer brotherhood
among us that for the first time since
the civil war a nominee on the national
ticket has been taken from that see-
tion of our common country that lies
south of Mason and Dixon,s line-a hap
py. recognition of the obIfteration of all
followed that unhappy struggle?
Declares Himself for Gold. ~
AS an Introductory to the few remarks
| shall make desire to say that heart
lily indorse the platform upon which
have been nominated and, with the COM
yenaon and its nominee for president.
regard the present monetary standard
OF value as irrevocabiy estabIishe1
In the campaign proceeding the last
election much stress was laid byrepub-
lican speakers upon the prosperous con-
dition Of the country and forebodIngs
were heard of the i'll results. especially
to the laboring man, which would follow
any change In the political complexion
of the government
1T is true that the times then were
good, but It is no less fact that. while
there has been no change in the party
in power, many of the evils prophesied
have come under republican rule. -Four
years ago factories, mills, mines and fur
naces were in active operation. unable
to supply the demand but now many are
closed and those that are open are being
operated with redGsed force on short
hours. Then wages were high, labor
was scarce and there was~erk foralI.
Now work Is scarce, many wage earn
ers unerployed and wages reduced. The
apprehension which now prevails IN
business circles and represent ursatis-
factory industrial condition Of The coun.
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