The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-07-27
NOTIFY HIS EXCELLENCY
Of the Fact That He Was Nominated
For the President of the
United States.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 81.


After the committee appointed to
notify President Roosevelt of his
nomination as the candidate Of the
Republican party for President of the
United States, had performed that
duty, the President responded as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Speaker and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee:
am deeply sensible of the high
honor conferred upon me by the rep
resentatives of the Republican party
assembled in convention, and l accept
the nomination for the Presidency
with solemn realization of the obliga-
lions assume. I heartily approve
the declaration Of principles which
the Republican National Convention
has adopted, and at some future day
/ shall communicate to you, Mr.. Chair
man, more at length and in detail
formal written acceptance of the NOM
lnatiOn.
Three years ago I became President
because of the death Of my lamented
predecessor I then stated that it was
my purpose to carry out his principles
and policies for the honor and the in
terest of the country. To the best Of
my ability | have kept the promise
thus made. If next November my
countrymen confirm at the polls the
action of the convention you repre-
sent, | shall, under Providence. con-
tinue to work with an eye single to
the welfare of all our people.
A party is of worth only in so far
as it 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
ZONES only as the result of the loyal
cooperation of many different per-
sons. The members of a 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. In the years that have
gone by we made the deed square
with the word; and if we are contlnu-
ed in power we shall unswervlngly
follow out the reat lines of public
policy which the Republican party has
already laid down; a public policy to
which we are giving, and shall give, a
united, and therefore an efficient, sup
port.
In all of this we are more FORUM
ate than our opponents, who now ap-
peal for confidence on the ground,
which some express and some seek to
have confidentially understood, that
if triumphant they may be trusted to
prove false to every principle which in
the last eight years they have laid
down as vital, and to leave undisturb-
ed those very acts of the administra-
ton because Of which they ask that
the administration itself be driven
from power. Seemingly their present
attitude as to their past record is that
some of them were mistaken and 9th
ers insincere. We make our appeal
in a wholly different spirit. We are
not constrained to keep silent on any
vital question; we are divided on no
vital question; our policy is continu-
Gus. and is the same for all sections
and localities. There is nothing ex-
detrimental about the government we
ask the people to continue in power
for our performance in the past, oul
proved governmental efficiency, is g
guarantee as to our promises for the
future. Our opponents, either openly
or secretly, according to their severa
tempermaments, now ask the people
to trust their present promises in con
sideration Of the fact that they in
tend to treat their past promises a:
null and void. We know our mind:
and we have kept of the same mint
for a sufficient length Of time to give
to our policy conference and sanity
In such fundamental matter as tn,
enforcement of the law We do no
have to depend upon promises, blu
merely to ask that our record be tax
en- as an earnest Of what we shall con
tinue to do. In dealing with tn
great organizations known as trusts
we do not have to explain why tn
laws were not enforced, but to poin
out that they actually have been en-