The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-18
DAVIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
RELIEVES WITH PARKER IN
 THE COLD STANDARD.

strongly Advocates Economy in Gov
 ernment and Expresses His Views on
 Labor-TaIzes occasion to Praise the
 Presidential Nominee.
 White Sulphur Springs, ". Va, Aug. 17:-Henry Gassaway Davis was for mally notified to-day that he is the nominee of the democratic party for yfce-president of the United States. MT. Davis accepted the nomination in a brief speech, reviewing the political sit uation, echoing the sentiments of Judge Parker on the money question and ex- pressing the determination to be sue cessful in the campaign.
 Representative John sharp Williams, of Mississippi, chairman of the notifica- tion committee, delivered the notifica- tion address, making of it a satirical campaign speech.
 MT. Davis speech follows:
 1Ir 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 sineerest gratitude to my party for the honor conferred. At the same time it brings to me a deep sense of my responsibility to my party as a candi- date. and to my country 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 I 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 am now to the forefront, I am impelled to an acceptance of the ob- ligation by a sense of gratitude to my feilow-workers and the hope that I may be able the better to assist in re storing to power that party whose prin- ciples and past history guarantee a safe, wise, economical and constitutions al administration of the government.
 I find it, therefore, a great pleasure, standing here upon the borderland of the two Virginias, to receive and ac- cept the commission you bear, and to send greetings through you to the de- nlocracy 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 nominee on the national ticket has been taken from that section of our common country that lies south of Mason and Dixon's lins-a happy recognition9of the obliter- ation Of all sectional difference which led to and followed that unhappy. struggle.
 sAs introductory to the few remarks I shall make, I desire to say that heartily endorse the platform upon which I have been nominated, and with the convention and its nominee for president, regard the present monetary standard of value as irrevocably es- Established.
 In the campaign preceding the last election, much stress was laid by re- publican speakers upon the prosperous condition of the country, and forebod- ings were heard Of the i'll results, es- pecially to the laboring man, which would follow any change in the politi- cal complexion of the government It is true that the times then were good, but it is no less a fact that, while there has been no change in the party in power, many of the evils prophecied have come under republican rule. Four years ago factories, mills, mines and furnaces were in active operation, unable to supply the demand but now 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, many wage earners unemployed and wages reduced. The apprehension which now prevails in business circles and the present unsatisfactory industrial con- ditions Of the country seem to demand a political change.
 In the language of our platform, "tha nights of labor are certainly no less vested, no less sacred, and no less in ,4alienab1e than the rights of capital" The time is opportune to emphasize the truth of this utterance. The most sa- cred right of property is the right to possess and own one's self and the la Dor Of one's own hands-capital itself being but stored labor. For years I, worked in the ranks as a wage earner, and know what it is to earn my liv- ing in the sweat of my brow. I have always believed, and my convictions came from the hard school 4of experi- ence, that, measured by the character