The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-18
HOW WILLIAMS GAVE NOTICE
AND EX-SENATOR DAVIS REPLIED
When the Notification Committee Called on the
Vice Presidential Candidate
DAVIS EXPRESSES
HIS APPRECIATION
He Heartily Endorses the Platform
on Which the Democratic
Party Stands.

on Which the Democratic
Party Stands.
White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, Aug.
17.-Former Senator Davis replied as
follows to the notification address:
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 responsible
ity, to my party as a candidate, and
to my county 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, believing that success to be
for the country's good. Unexpectedly
called as l am now to the forefront, l
am lmpelled to an acceptance of the
obligation by sense of gratitude to
my fellow workers, and the hope that
1 may be able the better to assist in
restoring to poweu that party whose
principles and past history guarantee
safe, wise. economical and consti-
tutional administration of the govern
ment.
A Trucr brotherhood.
I find it, therefore, a great pleas
ure, 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 Is it
not significant of a closer and truer
brotherhood among US, that for the
first time since the Civil War a noni-
nee on the national ticket has been
taken from that section of our COM
mon country that lies south of Mason
and Dixon's line-a happy recognition
of the obliteration of all sectional diff
ferences which led to and followed
that unhappy struggle?
LAS Introductory to the few remarks
I shall make, desire to say that I
hefsrtily indorse the platform upon
which have been nominated, and
with the convention and it's nominee
for President, regard the present mon
etarY standard of value as irrevocably
established.
In the campaign preceding the last
ClCCllOlls HluCu 0lIESS WdS ldlQ DY he
publican speakers upon the prosperous
condition of the country, and forebod-
ings were heard of the i'll results, es-
pecially to the laboging man, which
would follow any change in the polit-
| ical complexion of the government It
is true that the times then We're good,
but it is no less a fact that, while
there has been no change in the party
/ in power, many of the evils prophesied
have 1Inddr P6YuhliPa n vI1Io
years ago factories, mills, mines and
furnaces were in active operation, I'M
able to supply the demand, but now
many are closed, and those that are
open are being operated with reduced
force on short hours. Then wages
were high. labor was scarce and there
was work for ALL Now work is scarce,
wages reduced. The apprehension
which now prevails in business circles
and the present unsatisfactory indus
trial conditions of the country seem
to demand political change.
Himself n Wage Garner for Years.
In the language of our platform, "the
rights of labor are certainly no less
vested, no less sacred and no less in
alienable than the rights of capital"
The time is opportune to emphasize
the truth of this utterance. The most
sacred right of property is the right to
possess and own ones self and the
labor of ones own hands-capital it
self being but stored up labor.
For years I worked in the ranks as
a wage Garner and 1 know what it is
to earn my living in the sweat of my
brow. l have always believed, and
my convictions came from the hard
school of experience, that, measured
by the character Of work he does and
the cost of living, a man is entitled to
full compensation for his services. My
experience as a wage Garner and also
with labor have alike taught me the
value of Democratic principles; for in
them the humblest has the strongest
security for individual right and the
highest stimulus to that independence
of spirit and love of self help which
produce the finest private characters
and form the base of the best posi-
BILE government.
Republican Extravaganza.
The receipts of the government for
the year ending June &c. 1902, the first
fiscal year of the present administra-
ton, showed a surplus over expendi-
lures of S91 900, 900, but for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1904 instead of
surplus there was a deficit of SAL ,000,00O
From the 1st of July, 1904, to Aug. 10,
or for about a month and third of the
present fiscal year. the expenditures Of
the government have exceeded the re-
ceipts by $21 715, 900. There could be no
stronger evidence of the extravaganza
into which the Republican party has
fallen, and no more potent argument
in behalf of a change to the party
whose tenets have always embraced
prudence and economy in administer
ing the peoples affairs.
Our Republican friends are prone to
refer to the great commercial growth
of the country under their rule, and yet
the census reports show that from 1850
to 1860 under Democratic rule and the
Walker tariff, the percentage of in
crease was greater in population.
wealth, manufactures and railroad
mileage, the factors which affect most
largely the prosperity of the country,
than in any decade since.
The cost of government has largely
increased under Republican rule. The
expenditures per capita for the last
years respectively of the administra-
tions given. taken from the reports of
the Secretary of the Treasury, were az
fellows:
In 1860, under Buchanan ..........$2Ol
In 1898. under Harrison. ........... 81
In 1897. under Cleveland. ......... DIT
In 1901, under Mckinley. ........... Csc
In 1904. under Roosevelt........f... 1lc
The Republicans now claim great
consistency in their attitude upon the
currency question. and the president