The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-18

its members had mounted the platform
 and extended personal congratulations
 to the candidate.
 Tn notifying MT. Davis, MT. Williams
 spoke as follows:
 Speech of Williams.
 MT. Davis-Sir:
 We have been appointed by most notable convention as a committee to notify you of your nomination oy the Democracy as their choice for Vice President of the United States. We de- sire to express the pleasure we feel in having been selected to perform this duty and our confidence In you, your faithfulness, honesty and wisdom. The people see in you one Of the pest prod- ucts of the best period of American in- stitutions, period whose salient char Incteristics were local self-government, individuality, equal opportunity, ana freedom; freedom to work, freedom to buy and sell. freedom to compete in in- dustrial life, resulting in self -depend-' ence. freedom to develop as ones own
 master-and not merely as the well, trained and we'll managed industrial servant of another. They see in you
 what Oliver Wendell Holmes said is a
 rare thing, "a self-made man, who Is yet proud of his maker"
 "Just before leaving home I said that I was going to West Virginia. with some others to notify you of your nomi-
 nation. One of my brothers little boys, SLdnulnR DY, Sd1u. GIClS JOHD- n0 must be mighty big goose if he hasn't
 heard of 1t already. In a certain way, the notification with which we are
 charged is perfunctory and unnecessa- ry, and yet 1t Is we'll to maintain by | some degree of formality that respect | full observance which is due to great events. The nomination by great par | ty to the great office to which we call | you. the Vice Presidency. carrying with | 1t the duty of presiding over the Senate | of the United States and the possibility | Of succession to the Presidency, is a great event.
 resolution of the convention to be the | mouthpiece of the Committee for the | performance of this pleasant task, I began to look about me in order to see how the duty had been performed by others. I found from recent perform ances, of similar character in the Re- | publican camp that for a notification speech a historical essay is altogether l for the emergency. We shall therefore entitle our notification address: A | Brief Historical Disquisition upon Some l of the Blunders of Our Ancestors, as Viewed from the Standpoint of the Wis dom of Republican Statesmen who have Embraced the Strenuous Life.
 The first of these consisted in dis eliminating against the red man-the Image of God in Cherry-on account of | his race and color and previous condi- tion. Our ancestors said 1t was on &C., count of the inherent, or inherited race | traits. tendencies and supposed inca pacities. of which his color was but the outward sign. Be that claim pretense | or sincerity, we found to our astonish- | ment. that the door of opportunity and | hope in the way of office-holding and
 voting had been closed to Lo! the Poor l Indian He was not invited in by the
 Selectman in Connecticut, nor by the
 electors of the self governing towns in
 Massachusetts, to help govern our an
 cestors and the country which they had
 committed to their charge, nor did our l ancestors promise to assimilate him 1 This first violation in America of the | divine right of manhood, suffrage and 1 of the cherished fundamental dogma | that all men of all races are equally
 capacitated to govern themselves and
 especially to govern others. has doubt less been the 1liad of all our woes. | Plainly 1t was what the Boston Trans
 crlpt so eloquently calls 'colorphobia'
 What Did Cannon Meant
 We could not account for 1t, except. | perhaps upon a line of thought suggest ed by sentence in the notification ad- dress Of the Permanent Chairman of the Cnlcaso Convention. Informing the
 fresident of his nomination by the Re- l pubIlcan party to succeed himself Mir | cannon said: By blood by inheritance.
 by education and by practice we are
 self governing people, Are we to be-
 @ @IIete that MT. cannon meant to inti- | mate, converse. that nobody was of | self- governing capacity unless by blood, education or successful practice? | If so 1t is feared that he is getting 1 back to our ancestors blunder and
 may incur the danger of receiving the | appreciation of some of those benipht =
 ed creatures known as Southern Dem l ocrats. We wonder if our ancestors in l New England, New York and Virginia
 had been stupid enough to have some | notion the converse of Mir. Cannon's ut- l terance in their heads. and if they had
 based their action on the fact that the | noble red man had none of the blood | of self-governing races in his veins.
 none of that subtle force of 'neredity, | which accounts for so much and which
 is so hard to be accounted for itself, if | they thought that he had not for any sufficient length of time been 'educated'
 for the task of governing the white
 man. or had had no practice in it, ex- | cept such as seemed to lead to the con
 clusion that he was not capable of It. | The next great blunder in our early | history consisted in their taking up
 arms against King George and his | forces, when the latter were actuated
 as they themselves confessed, only bv | the kindest designs of 'benevolently kassimilating' to themselves our re-