Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-08-19
SENATOR DAVIS
IS NOTIFIED
Venerable Democratic Nomi-
nee is Formally
Notified.
HE PREDICTS A VICTORY
Declares That Democrats Will Win
This Year-His Speech Was Not
Vnry Long and It's Delivery Was
Received With Enthusiasm.


Aug. 1S.-Henry Gassaway Davis
was formally notified yesterday that
he is the nominee of the democratic
party for vice-president of the United
States. Mr.. Davis accepted the NOM
ination in a brief speech, reviewing
the political situation.
Representative John Sharp Will
liams, of Mississippi, chairman of the
notification committee, delivered the
notification address.
In accepting the nomination MI.
Davis said in part:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen Of
the Committee: The official notitica-
ton which you bring of my nomna
ton for the vice-presidency Of the
United States, by the national de-
mOcracy, gives me feelng OF the
sincerest 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
candidate, and to my country in
case of my election.
rs it not significant of 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 line-a happy
recognition of the obliterstion of all
sectional differences which led to and
followed that unhappy struggle?
AS an Introductory to the few re-
marks l shall make, I desire to say
that l heartily endorse the platform
and it's nominee for president, regard
the present monetary standard value
as irrevOcably established.
The receipts of the government
for the year ending June so. 1902,
the first fiscal year of the present
administration showed surplus
over expenditures of sol 100000, but
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1904 instead of surplus there was a
.teticit of Sal 100000. From the first
of July, 1904, to August 10, or for
about a month and a third Of the
present fisC ear the expenditures
of the COVER. .ent have exceeded the
receipts by $217l5,000. There could
be 10 stronger evidence of the ex-
traVa gance into which the repubIi-
can party has fallen and no more po-
4 tent argument in behalf of change
i 70 the party whose tenets have al
4 ways embraced prudence and econ.
my in administering the peoples
hfairs
L Our republican friends are prone
IEn refer to the great commercial
goWth of the country under their
gle, and yet the census reports show
tAt from 1850 to 1860 under demo
cftic rule and the Walker tariff, the
prtTtase Of increase was greater in
pouation, wealth, manufactures and
raroad mileage, the factors which
affct most largely the prosperity OF
thecountry, than in any decade since
.'he cost Of government has large.
~ Increased under republican rule
The expenditures per capita for the
last years respectively of the admin.
lstraions given, taken from the re.
port Of the secretary of the treasury
wei \as follows:
! A1S60-Under Buchanan, 500.
fl893-Under Harrison, $577.
e,rS97-Under Cleveland, $50
I.H9O1-Under Mckinley, $5.56.
lSN9O4-Under Roosevelt, $40.
tq republicans now claim gres
cons nncy in their attitude upon the
curr n question, and the president
IN Necent speech of acceptance,
T said they know what they mean
wheL NY speak of stable currency,
the We thing from year to year,
and j. D. the platforms Of their pa. ty
in lSt, NSSS and 1892, they favored
the dc lie standard of value. In the
plattoln(of 1883, they said, the repub-
llcan | lty is in favor of the use OF
Dotn s.H and silver as money, and
conden4:h he policy of the democratic
, admlnl hion in it's efforts demOne
tie sill Il
"DireeIldictions we're made by orr
) polltlcl' opponents of what would
happen Althe st. Louis convention,
put the (sjudged the temper OF the
party Az be people. While there had
been al lpces in preceding cam
palgns, yeet st. Louis they were all
harmonlzeSand common ground
was foundkon which all could stand
and 40 Dale for democratic princi
: pies. A pAform was adopted by a
l unanimous tie, embracing the issues
, OF the DAY ID presenting to the peo
!. pie declaton OF principles which
in the languse of the times, is sane,
safe and souA.
ME-. A.AaafAn, it is an added pleas.
: s~~'." fecesE tMls notification at
j., your handS. Vou have been cOnser.
+ VatlVe and Eexrageous as leader OF
F.. our party IN N house of representa-.
5 yves, posltN which few men have
| nlled with tnelfgnal ability that you
have displayeI
0 Mrs. Golighl E"This is nv new
/. slXt"-nVe-oollaNba thing dress, my
c dear. what dsppu think of it?' Co.
), lightly-"Thinlbu cot less for your
money than af|bne 7 ever Knew
Town Topics. IN
:, But, remarN a member of the
!, young bllllonal Bible class, "the
good book sayS')Kill be easier for a
camel to passsaRugh the eye of
" needle than for Eich man to enter
:, the kingdom ofl Men," Never mind
v that, my trlend Wick right to bust
y ness. None On Nwill have a cent
r.. when we get g h gate. Chicago
Record Herald I'M
y Mrs. Lakeslda eH, yes; some OF
y those narrow, I've Eastern peo.
u pie say that ChN sn't cultivated"
"a Mr.. Lakeslde-kAoth h.. All the city
- | Is except the sooL Tart, and that's
- too marshy. LIN i'd amt worth
;, cultivating. '-8rGn Life.
:, ''You must nota fne." she said,
I, chat would con- ~ be YOUR wife
/ simply because let you kiss