The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-28
ROOSEVELT NOTIFIED. The President Declares He Stands on His Own Rec
 I'd and That of
 His Party.
FOLLOWING NJ M'KINLEYPOLICY
PROMISED HE WOULD AND IS
 so DOING.

Past and Present Guarantors for the
 Future--Principle That TariR Revis-
 ion, When It Comes, should be by
 Friends of Protection Reiterated
 Democracy's Turnabout Scored.
 Oyster Bay, L. l., July 27.-President Roosevelt was notified formally to-day of his nomination for the presidency by the national republican convention. The ceremony took place at his country home at Sagamore Hill, three miles from this village In accordance with the wish of the president the ceremony was made as simple as possible. The formal notification of the action of the convention was made, on behalf of a committee representing every state and territory in the United States, by the chairman of the Chicago convention, Speaker Cannon of the house of repre- Sentatives.
 The presidents address follows:
 MT. Speaker and Gentlemen of the No
 tiication Committees:
 I am deeply sensible of the high hon or conferred upon me by the represent tatives of the republican party assem- bled in convention, and I accept the nomination for the presidency with sol ennn realization of the obligations I as- sume. I heartily approve the declara- tion of principles which the republican national convention has adopted, and at some future day I shall communi- cate to you MT. Chairman, more at \, oI,1 i,, a al acceptance of the nomination.
 Three years ago became president because of the death of my lamented predecessor. 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 I have kept the promise thus made. If next November my country men confirm at the polls the action of X the convention you represent. 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 peo- ple the best service of which he is ca pable Effective government comes only as the result os the loyal co-op- eration of many different persons. 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. We who have been entrusted with power as pulp N lie servants during the past seven years of administration and legislation now come before the people content to be judged by our record of achievement. Tn 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 great lines of public policy which the repub- lfcan party has already laid down; a public policy to which we are giving, and shall give. a united, and therefore an efficient, support.
 Tn all of this we are more fortunate fhan our opponents, who now appeal x for confidence on the ground, which some express and some seek to have ronfidentially understood, that if trium- ! false to every principle which in the, last eight years they have laid down as vital, and to leave undisturbed those very acts of the administration because of which they ask that the administra- tion itself be driven from power. Seem dngly their present attitude as to their past record is that some of them were mistaken and others insincere. We make our appeal in a wholly different spirit We are not constrained to keep silent on any vital question; we are di- vided on no vital question; our policy Is continuous, and is the same for all sections and localities. There is noth- ing experimental about the government we ask the people to continue in power, for our performance in the past, our proved governmental efficiency, Is a guarantee as to our promises for the future. Our opponents, either openly or secretly. according to their several temperaments. now ask the people to trust their present promises in consd- eration of the fact that they intend to treat their past promises as null and void. We know our own minds and we have kept of the same mind for suffi- ctent length of time to give to our poli-
 
 cy coherence and sanity. In such a, fundamental matter as the enforcement of the law we do not have to depend upon promises, but merely to ask that our record be taken as an earnest of what we shall continue to do. In deal- ing with the great organizations known as trusts, we do not have to explain why the laws were not enforced, but to point out that they actually have been enforced and that legislation has been enacted to increase the effectiveness of their enforcement We do not have to propose to turn the rascals out" for we have shown in very deed that when ever by diligent investigation public official can be found who has betrayed his trust he will be punished to the full extent of the law without regard to whether he was appointed under a republican or democratic administra-