The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18

even down through the times of Lincoln and Grant; tnougns sound policy. for nations as well as for We know now that the right policy is TO tread softly and carry a big stick. is hell, anyhow? My word for 1t. he never saw real war.
 Avoid Being a Weakling.
 "Remember above all things that our chief duty as citizens, but especiaidy usSrss as rulers IS not weakllsg sS Gs sir is strangely domesticated animal. who listens before he acts, and who weighs evidence before he decides, who mod- sstly yenerates nning times snd pf psaes Glorious Lo ."s war. W Weddings are men who fear the strenuous life, the only national life that Is really worm sne quest, the Life Militant. in word. We are getting to be as n people. your ,,, committee is glad to say, splendidly military. A flag, brass band and 2 a Secretary of War to and from the depot in Washington when he augustly leaves or arrives. appeal to the nigner flights of our patriotic imagination, as nothing else does or can. . f., t,s.e words, speaking for the Committee been your mentor, attribute 1t in part to my shorter experience on the Worlu stage and my consequent superior WIS dom, but still more to the fact Of my close study and assimilation or the wisdom of Republican statesmen. ootn in and out of the White House. U hold, after mature deliberation. m common with the greatest of these and one of the youngest, that youth necessarily insures wisdom because because--the older a man Is the more he has forgotten. :.
 Tt has been a pleasure to us .o uo our duty, to notify you of your nomi- nation. This has been pleasure nov withstanding the fact that you had al- ready been In manner notineo py Hon. Elihu. Root. who. while prssena' could not get his mind off'n you as the darkies say, and whose speech con sisted principally in saying: Go to thou art an old man; ana nemoahim,s d,s hefore YOU got to be President. Sc might he for that matter.
 sThat would be bad enough, put no, as bad a case l know of-the case or a dent. and who, becoming President la ter tickled the ears of the ground lings, but made the judicious to grieve. MT. Root forgot that Democratic rres' idents are never killed ana tnnt .nes never die while holding office, althougf some of them do afterwards.
 "in further comment upon Hon. Eli hu Roots notification of your nomina- ton, I will hazard the remark, In re ply to one of exceeding good taste or his part. that 1t Is better to run the risk of mourning. as in due course oi the flesh we all must. physical inapl, ity.' than to have been born with tna' peculiar mental inability for any pos. sible task in life, which consists oi taking ourselves too seriously and no- body else with respect or reverence
 "in real conclusion, MT. Davis, It is a sincere pleasure, indeed. to know ano to be able to help place in high posi- tion n man of your character and sense and modesty, a man who has the re- suit of a life of confluence, temper, ance, self-containment and usetul ane honest industry, presents picture, Tn viriie though advanced, age, of mems sana in corpore sano, which IS ae' light to the eye. a satisfaction to the soul and was taught by wise ancient: to be the summum bonum or iho'"i"uA earthly existence.
 MT. Davis's Formal uply follows;
 Speech of Mr. Davis.
 Mir Chairman and Gentiomen ot ene
 Committee: .,
 .SThe official notification which you bring of my nomination for the vice- Presidency of the United States. by the National Democracy. gives pe feel ing of the sincerest gratitude to my party for the honor conferred. At tho or my responsibility, to my party as candidate, and to my country Tn case
 "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. or that rank and file I have for many years been a 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 I am now to the forefront, l am impelled to an acceptance or the oD- ligation by a sense of gratitude 10 my fellow workers, and the hope that may be able to better assist in restor- ing to power that party whose prin- ciples and past history guarantee safe, wise, economical and constitution- al administration of the Government.
 q find 1t, therefore, a great pleas ure, standing here upon the borderland of the two Virginias, to receive and &C., cept the commission you bear, and to send greetings through you to the De- not significant of a closer and truer brotherhood among us. that for the first time since the Civil War a nom- inec on the national ticket has been mon country that lies south of Mason and Dixon's line-a happy recognition of the obligation of all sectional diff ferences which led to and followed that unhappy struggle.
 AS introductory to the few re- marks l shall make. I desire to say that I heartily endorse the platform upon which I have been nominated. and with the Convention and It's nom- inees for President. regard the present monetary standard of value as irrevoc- ably established.
 Tn the campaign preceding the last election, much stress was laid by Re- publican speakers upon the prosperous of ba and d. ings were heard of the i'll results, es- pecially to the laboring man, which would follow any change in the po- litical complexion of the Government. It is true that the times then were good, but 1t is no less fact that. while there has been no change in the party in power, many of the evils prophe- sled have come under Republican rule. and furnaces were in active operation, unable to supply the demand, but now many are closed. and those that are open are being operated with re- duced force on short hours. Then wages were high, labor was scarce aud there was work for all. Now work Is scarce. many wage earners unem- ployed and wages reduced. The ap- prehension which now prevails in bus mess circles and the present unsatis- factory industrial conditions of the country seem to demand a political change.
 The receipts of the Government for the year ending June 30. 1902. the first fiscal year of the present administra- tion, showed a surplus over expendi- lures of $9l,000,000, but for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904. instead of a surplus there was deficit of S41 ,O0O,- = 900. From the 1st of July. 1904, to Au- gust 10, or for about a month and a thiSds aS. .thA- -nxAsan4> a@asl ssAAn- khAsA<s.