The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-03
THE VICE PRESIDENCY
Indianapolis, Aug. 3

| In notifying Senator Fairbanks OF
hi snomination as Vice-President
Hon. Elihu Root spoke as follows:
Senator Fairbanks:
The Committee which now waits
upon you was appointed by the Ma
tional Convention Of the Republican
Party held at Chicago in June, and
its agreeable duty is to notify you of
your nomination as the Republican
candidate for the office Of Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States for the
term to begin on the 4th day Of March
1905.
We give you formal notice Of that
nomination with assurance of the un-
divided and hearty support of the
great Party which has executed the
peoples will in the government of
this country for the better part of the
last half century. The nomination
comes to you in accordance with the
best methods and practices Of repre-
sentative government. 1t was the re-
suit of long and earnest consldera-
ton and discussion by the members
Of the Convention. It was not the
chance product of an excited hour,
and it was not upon the demand of
any powerful infuence-political or
Notwithstanding the Judg-
ment of the delegates. 1t was not
made for the purpose Of conciliating
possible malcontents, or OF swelling
the campaign fund of the Party. No
bargains or intrigues contributed to
it. No suppressions of the truth or
misleading Of the Convention as to
your principles and opinions were
necessary to bring it about. It was the
deliberate, informed and Intelligent
Judgment of the delegates from every
state and territory, and it was their
unanimous judgment.
1t is a great office to which you are
called. John Adams, and Thomas JET
ferson, and George Clinton, and John
C. Calhoun, and Martin Van Buren,,
and many others whose names are IL
lustrious in the history of our country,
have filled it. It is an office Of high
dignity and immediate, ever present
Importance. The credit and honor OF
our country are greatly concerned IN
the character and conduct of the man
who presides over the Senate OF the
United States-that powerful and au-
gust body, Of which you are already
so experienced, so useful and so hon
orable a member.
But the Vice-President has other
grave duties of imperative obligation.
When the people elect President I'M
der our political system, they do not
merely select the man for the Office;
they give their approval to certain
controlling principles and policies OF
governments; and the administration
of which the Vice-President is a part
is bound to give effect to these prin-
ciples and policies. The primary du-
ty of the Vice-President to be always
ready to take up the burden OF the
Presidency if occasion requires, car
ries with it a duty to be always ready
to continue unbroken the policies
which the people have entrusted to
the administration for execution.
For the due performance of this duty
the Vice-President should be familiar
with the conduct of affairs by the ad-
ministration as it proceeds, part OF
its counsels, and imbued with knowl
edge of its labors, its perplexities and
it's motives, that can come only from
intimate association and confidence
and sympathy. Too often it has hap
pened that after excited contests fol-
the presidential nomination the can
didate for ce-President has been Sc
lected from the defeated faction fol-
the purpose of appeasing their resent
ment. and that after election he has
remained antagonistic in spirit, and
stranger to the counsels of the
President whom he may be called up
on to succeed. Happily we are now
in no such case. The people would
fain see again such relations Of sym.
pathy and loyal helpfulness for the
public good, as existed between Presi-
dent Mckinley and Vice-President
Hobart; and the personal relations
between President Roosevelt and
yourself, your mutual esteem and
good understanding assure us that
these happy conditions will come