Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-27
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
President RooseVelt's Address
at Oyster Bay Today.
TRIBUTE TO HIS PARTY
MASTERLY PRESENTATION OF
REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES.
Accom- plishments of the Past Eight
Years Tersely Told-Notified
by Cannon.
TRIBUTE TO HIS PARTY

OYSTER BAY. L. l.. July 2T.-President
Roosevelt was notified formally today or
his nomination for the presidency by the
national republican convention. The cere-
p,ony took place at his country home at
Sagamore Hill. three miles from this vii
lage In accordance with the wish Of the
President, the ceremony was made as SIM
pie as possible.
The formal notification of the action of
the convention made. on behalf of a
committee representing every state and ter
ritory in the United States, by Joseph G.
Cannon. speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The day opened with ideal weather and
arrangements for the ceremony were com
pleted at an early hour. The wide veranda
of the house at Sycamore Hill. extending
almost entirely around the house, was
decorated with American flags, hung from
pillar to pillar.
In addition. many houses in the neighbor-
hood of the Roosevelt home and in Oyster
Bay were draped with the national colors
Across the main street of the village there
hung a large Roosevelt and Fairbanks
banner.
The Committee Arrives.
The special train bearing the members OF
the notification committee and the invited
guests left Long Island City at 1892 a. m.
and arrived here at 11.35 o'clock. Only
three of the members of the committee
were absent. They were James n. COombs
of Florida, Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew of
New York. who is in Europe, and Senator
Clarence ID. Clark of Wyoming.
Included among the invited guests were
men prominent in all walks of life. Among
them were personal and political friends OF
the President in New York state lifelong
friends and neighbors on Long Island. In
Guiding the pastors of the Oyster Bay
churches, and the officials of the national
and New York state republican organiza-
tons. Those present numbered about 125.
1t was necessary to limit the number on
account OF the isolation of Sycamore Hill
and the lack of facilities for the accom-
mediation of larger assemblage.
Reception at Sycamore Hill.
On arrival at Sycamore Hill the COM
mitteemen were received by President
Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt and National
Chairman George b. Cortelyou. All of the
house guests of the President were gather
ed on the veranda, and the occupants of
each carriage alighted they were welcom-
ed by the President and each was presented
to Mrs Roosevelt.
At the conclusion of the informal recep-
tion the ceremony of notification began.
The members of the family the house
guests and the distinguished visitors
assembled on the veranda.
Both the President and Speaker Cannon
spoke standing on a chair placed
angle Of the veranda. so that all could hear.
The guests stood during the speeches.
Senator Platt of New York, who had been
invited, not present.
When Speaker Cannon rose to deliver his
speech of notification he was greeted with
applause. He spoke as follows:
Speaker Cannon's Address.
Mr.. President: The people of the United
States. by blood, heredity, education and
practice, are self-governing people. We
have sometimes been subject to prejudice
and embarrassment from harmful condi-
tions but we have outgrown prejudice and
overcome conditions as rapidly as possible,
having due regard to law and the rights or
individuals We have sometimes made
mistakes from a false sense of security
from desire To change policies instead OF
letting well enough alone. merely to see
what would happen, but we have always
paid the penalty of unwise action at the
ballot box and endured the suffering until.
under the law. through the ballot box we
have returned to correct policies.
Tested by experience no nation has so
successfully solved all problems and chosen
proper policies as our nation. Under the
lead of the republican party for over forty
years the United States, from being a
third-class power among the nations has
become in every respect first. The people
rule. The people ruling. it is necessary
that they should be competent to rule
Competency requires not only patriotism
but material well-being. education, state
craft.
lican party, wrote upon the statute books
revenue laws levying taxes upon the prod
ucts of foreign countries seeking our mar
kets, which replenished our treasury but
were SO adjusted as to encourage our peo-
pie In developing, diversifying and main
taining our industries, at the same time
protecting our citizens laboring In produc-
uon against the competition of foreign la
Dor. Under this policy our manufactured
product today is one-third of the product
of the civilized world. and our people re-
ceive almost double the pay for their labor
that similar labor receives elsewhere in the
world. thereby enabling us to bear the bur
dens of citizenship.
Liberal Compensation for Labor.
Liberal compensation for labor makes
liberal customers for our products Under
this policy OF protection our home market
ahords all our people better market than
has any other people on earth, and this
too. even II we did not sell any of our
products abroad. In addition to this We
have come to be the greatest exporting
nation In the world. For the year ending
the Nrh OF June. 1894. exports to for
eign countries were valued at 81. AGO 600 900
OF which $3.50 100000 were products OF the
factory. The world fell in our debt last
year 100000 600, an increase Of $4,000 700
over the preceding year
This policy of protection has always been
opposed by the opponents of the republican
party and is opposed by them today. In
their last national platform adopted at st.
Louis they denounce protection as robbery.
They never have been given power but
they proceeded by word and act to destroy
the policy of protection. Their platform is
as silent as the grave touching the gold
standard and our currency system. Their
chosen leader. after his nomina tion having
been as silent as the sphynx up to that
time. sent his telegram. saying in SUBJ
stance that the gold standard is established
and that he Will govern himself according
ly II he should be elected.
4 congratulate him. IL Is better to be
right late than never. Ii is better TO be
right In one thing than wrong in all things
i wonder II IL ever occurred to him that n
his vote and support for his party's can
didate In 1895 and 1900 had been decisive
We would now have the silver standard /
wonder what made him send that telegram
after ne was nominated and why he did
not send II before,
= When did he have a change of heart and
Judgment? And does he at heart believe In