Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-23
WILLIAMS AND DAVIS SPEAK.
Candidate Replies TO Notification AZ
dress of Committes Chairman.

AICSS Ot NOAu NudlFnlaus
Representatives John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi. chairman of the notifica-
ton committee Of the ST Louis eouyen-
ton. delivered the address notifying Hem
ry Gassaway Davis that he is the nomi-
nee of the Democratic party for Vice
President of the United States. Mr..
Williams said Il found from recent per
formances OF a similar character in the
Republican camp that for a notification
speech historical essay is altogether the
proper thing, absolutely necessary for
the emergency We shall, therefore. en-
title our notification address "A Brief
Historical Disqusition upon Some of the
Blunders of Our Ancestors as Viewed
from the Standpoint Of the Wisdom of
Republican Statesmen. Who Have EN-
braced the Strenuous Life +"
Mr.. Williams then reviewed the blum
ders of the country's rulers from the bar.
ring ont OF the Indians from the suffrage
by New England settlers to the Indianola
postoffice dispute on the color question.
After scoring President Roosevelt's pol
icy of militarism he got to the subject
in hand and said:
1T has been a pleasure to us to do our
duty. to notify you OF your nomination.
This has been a pleasure Notwithstanding
the fact that you had already been in a
manner notified by the Hon. Elihu Root.
who, while pretendedly notifying Sena-
tor Fairbanks. could not get his mind
off n you. as the darkies say and whose
speech consisted principally in saying.
TO TO. thoa art an old man and in be-
moaning the fact that you might possibly
die before you got to be President. SO
might he. for that matter
That would he bad enough but not
as bad as a case | know of--the ease of
a man who was once elected Vice Presi-
dent and who, becoming President LATER
'tickled the ears of the groundlings but
made the judicieus grieve. Mr.. Root
forgot that Democratic Presidents are
never killed and that they never die
while holding Office. although some of
them do so afterward.
In further comment upon the Hon
Elihu Roots notification of your nomina
ton, | will hazard the remark in reply
to one of exceedingly bad taste on his
part, that it is better to run the risk of
mourning, as in due course of the flesh
we all must, physical inability than to
have been born with that peculiar mental
inability for any possible task in life
which consists in taking ourselves too
seriously and nobody else with respect or
reverence.
In real conclusion, Mr. Davis, it is a
sincere pleasure indeed to know and to be
able to help to place in high position
man of your character and sense and
modesty. a man who, as the result of
life of confluence temperance. self-con-
tainment and useful and honest industry
presents a picture, in virile though adj
vanced age, of mems sana in corpore sano
which is delight TO the eye, satisfac-
ton to the soul and was taught by wise
ancients to, be the summum bonum of
individual earthly existence"
Davis Speech of Acceptance.
In accepting the nomination Mr.. Davis
said:
Unexpectedly called as am now
the forefront | am impeled to an accept
ance of the obligation by a sense OF graf
itude to M fellow workers and the hope
that | may be able the better to assist in
restoring to power that party whose prin-
ciples and past history guarantee safe,
wise, economical and constitutional ad-
ministration of the government. | heart
lily indorse the platform upon which l
have been nominated and. with the con
vention and its nominee for President,
regard the present monetary standard OF
value as irrevocably established.
In the campaign preceding the last
election much stress was laid by Repub-
lican speakers upon the prosperous condi-
ton of the country and forebodings we're
heard OF the i'll results, especially to the
laboring man, which would follow any
change in the political complexion of the
government.
1T is true that the times Their were
good, but it is no less fact that. while
there has been no change in the party in
power, many of the evils prophesied have
come under Republican rule. -Four years
ago factories, mills, mines and furnaces
were in active operation, unable to supply
the demand. but now many are closed,
and those that are open are being OPP
Grated with reduced force OH short hours.
Then wages were high, labor was
scarce and there was work for ALL Now
work is scarce, many wage-earners un-
employed and wages reduced. The APP
prehension which now prevails in bust
ness circles and the present unsatisfac-
tory industrial conditions of the country
seem to demand political change.
1.-THE cost of government has largely
increased under Republican rule. The
expenditures per capita for the last years
respectively of the administrations Civ
en-. taken from the reports of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury, were as follows:
In 1860, under Buchanan, S2Q1; in
1893. Under Harrison. $5.7TT; in 1897,
under Cleveland, 500; IL 1901, under
Mckinley. $6.56; i'll 1904, under Roose-
velt, $40.
with a candidate whose personality
appeals to the good sense and sound
Judgment of the American people. plat
form whose principles are for the great
est good to the greatest number and a re-
united party earnest for the restoration
of good and economical government, we
should succeed and the principles of the
Democracy again triumph.
Il beg my countrymen, as they value
their liberty, to guard with great care
the sacred right of local self-government
and to watch with jealous eye the ten-
dency of the times to centralize power in
the hands of the few.
He Put Out" the Light.
When Plus Whallen, of Springfield.
XIV. came to the Fifth Avenue Hotel
he saw his first incandescent light,
saws Louisville paper. But he evinc-
ed no great surprise. 1t was not until
| he went to his room. where the bell
| boy had already switched the current,
that, he noticed that there was no
| opening in the circular globe.
He blew upon it gently. and was
/ encouraged rather than disheartened
/ to find that it didn't blow back. But
the encouragement turned TO anger
when a stronger Whit produced no
/ result whatever. Mr.. Whallen has
strong lungs. and he did his best. his
Indignation increasing with each eff
fort