Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1904-08-05
NOTIFICATION CERE MONIES.
President Roosevelt Is Told Of His
Nomination for Presidency.
Speaker Cannon Delivered the Notlfi-
cation Address-The Presidents
Speech of Acceptance at Sag
amore Hill.

Oyster Bay, l.. l., July 2S.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt yesterday formally
opened the presidential campaign of
1904 at his beautiful country home,
Sycamore Hill. Standing on a spot
made dear to him by the associations
of lifetime, surrounded by his fam
lily and relatives and friends. and in
the presence of an assemblage of men
distinguished in all walks OF life, he
formally received and accepted the
nomination of the republican party
for president Of the United States.
The special train bearing the mem
bers of the notification committee and
the invited guests left Long Island
City at 1882 a. IN. and arrived here
at 11:35 o'clock.
The formal notification of the action
of the convention was made, on behalf
of a committee representing every
and territory in the Union, by Joseph
C. Cannon speaker of the house of
representatives.
AT the close of Mr.. Cannon's ad-
dress, the president advanced to the
veranda railing and, standing under a
great festoon of American flags, de-
1ivered his address in response to the
notification. His address follows:
Mr.. Speaker and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee:-I am deeply
sensible of the high honor conferred
upon me by the representatives of the
republican party assembled in con-
vention, and l accept the nomination
for the presidency with solemn reali-
zation of the obligations | assume.
Hnn n,ti1 p1or roff n
principles which the republican ma
tional convention has adopted, and at
some future day | shall communicate
to you, Mr.. Chairman, more at length
and in detail formal written accep-
tance of the nomination.
Three years ago l became presi-
dent because of the death of my la
mented predecessor. l then stated
that it was my purpose to carry out
Ris principles and policies for the
honor and the interest of the country.
To the best of my ability l have kept
the promise thus made. II next No
vember my countrymen confirm at the
polls the action of the convention you
represent, l shall, under Providence,
continue to work with an eye single
to the welfare of all our people.
A party is of worth only in so far
as 1t promotes the national interest,
and every official, high or low, can
serve his party best by rendering to
the people the best service of which
he is capable. Effective government
comes only as the result of the loyal
cooperation of many different per
sons. The members of legislative
majority, the officers in the various
departments of the administration
and the legislative and executive
branches as towards each other, must
work together with subordination OF
self to the common end of successful
government. We who have been en-
trusted with power as public servant:
during the past seven years of ad
ministration and legislation now come
before the people content to be judged
by our record of achievement. In the
years that have gone by we have
made the deed square with the word
and If we are continued in power We
shall unswervingly follow out the
lgr&at lines of public policy which the
republican party has already laiC
down; a public policy to which Wa
are giving, and shall give, united
In all of this we are more fortunat,
than our opponents, who now appea
for confidence on the ground, whicl
some express and some seek to havl
confidentially understood, that
triumphant they may be trusted t,
prove false to every principle whicl
in the last eight years they have lai,
down as vital. and to leave undis
turbed those very acts of the admin
stration because of which they asl
that the administration itself be driv
en- from power. Seemingly their pres
ent attitude as to their past recor
is that some of them were mistaken
and others insilcere. We make ou
appeal in a wholly different spirit
We are not constrained to keep silen
on any vital question; we are divide
ON no vital question:; our policy
continuous, and Is the same for al
sections and localities. There
nothing experimental about. the gov
.ernment we ask the people to con
tinue in power, for our performanc
I'm the past, our proved governments
efficiency is a guarantee as to ou
promises for the future. Our oppo
inents, either openly or secretly &C
cording to their several tempera
ments, now ask the people to trus
their present promises in considera
ton of the fact that they intend t
treat their past promises as null an
void. We know our own minds an
we have kept of the same mind for
sufficient length of time to give I
OUR policy conference and sanity. l
such a fundamental matter as tn
enforcement of the law we do nc
have to depend upon promises, bl
merely to ask that our record l.
taken as an earnest of what we sha
continue to do. In dealing with tn
great organizations known as trust
we do not have to explain why tn
laws were not enforced, but to poiI
out that they actually have been eI
forced and that legislation has bee
enacted to increase the effectiveness
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