The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-17
DAVIS IS NOTIFIED
OF NOMINATION
John Sharp Williams Invokes
Irony to Assail Republicans
Belmont There.
THRONGS OF DEMOCRATS
ATTEND CEREMONIES
Chairman Taggart Unable to Be
Present-Aged Nominee
Accepts.

White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, Aug.
17-Henry GaSsaway Davis was for
mally notified today that he is the
nominee of the democratic party for
vice president of the United States.
Mr.. Davis accepted the nomination in
q brief speech reviewing the political
situation, echoing the sentiments of
Judge Parker on the money question
and expressing the determination to
be successful in the campaign.
Representative John Sharp Will
liams of Mississippi, chairman Of the
notification committee of the st. Louis
convention, delivered the notification
address.
Williams Is Sarcastic.
Mr.. Williams speech was a sus-
tanned effort in irony and sarcasm.
He pointed out the "blunders' of the
nations builders, and sought to show,
by viewing the acts Of "our ancestors
in such light, how far the republican
party had departed from the nations
traditions. He said in part:
Mr.. Davis-sir: We have been appointed
by most notable convention as COM
mittee to notify you of your nomination
by the democracy as their choice for vice
president Of the United States. We de-
sire to express the pleasure we feel in
having beeen selected to perfom this duty
and our confidence in you, your faithful
ness, honesty and wisdom. The people
see in you one of the best products of the
best period of American institutions,
period whose salient characteristics were
local self government, individuality, equal
opportunity, and freedom; freedom to
work, freedom to buy and sell, freedom to
compete in industrial life, resulting ir
self dependence; freedom to develop as
ones own master-and not merely as
the wel-trained and well managed in
,dustrial servant of another. They see
In you what Oliver Wendell Holmes said
Is rare thing, "a self made man who Is
yet not proud of his maker
AS soon as learned that was, by res
olution of the convention, to be the
mouthpiece of the committee for the per-
Torrance 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 performances of a
similar character In the republican camp
that for notification speechi a historical
essay is altogether the proper thing, abso-
lutely necessary for the emergency. We
shall therefore entitle our notification ad-
dress: A Brief Historical Disquisition Up
on Some of the Blunders of Our Ancestors
as Viewed from the Standpoint of the
Wisdom of the Republican Statesmen,
Who Have Embraced the Strenuous Life.
Reviewing the "blunder'' in dis
eliminating against the red man. "the
image of God in cherry" that of TAX
his forces, when the latter was actu-
ated only by the kindest designs Of
'benevolently assimilating' to them
selves our resources and our oppor-
tunities," and other like errors, Mr..
Williams came to the "immolation by
our ancestors Of the nations indus
trialism upon the altar of free trade
OF this he said:
The Tariff.
What we ought to have fought for dur
ing colonial days was high protective
tariff to keep British products out Of the
American market and another high pro-
tective tariff to keep American products
out of the British market; thus enriching
both Britain and America. Then, after we
had accomplished our independence, and
each state had become a separate SOW
ereignty South Carolina ought to have
protected herself against Pennsylvania
and New England. Pennsylvania ought tC
have seen to it that line of customhouses
prevented the invasion of her sacred sol
by the products Of the Jerseyman, the
Marylander and the Delawarean. We
ought to have encouraged Interstate
trade by stopping it as much as possible
thus pursuing In that regard the enlight-
ened policy which prevails in regard tt
our international trade Then after form.
Ing the present union, the constitution
itself ought to have prescribed to the
states mutual protection by mutual tax
alton and consequent universal pros
perity."
Likewise Mr.. Williams handled the
wage problem, In part, thus:
A wise man entertains a sovereign con
tempt for a great many sorts of errors
but the soveregnist Of all should be Wis
tied on the designing idiot, who says tina
the price of labor depends upon thu
amount of work to be done in a country
the number of men "a ma bile and de
sirous of doing it; in word on demand
for and supply Of labor. That particular sor
of peculiarly inspired idiot attempts to ex
plain that the high wages which were pai
in California and all the new states TO
those employed on farm, in store, min
or forest, In comparison with the wage
paid in older states, which were WithOu
free lands and with comparative abund
ance Of 1aborers, is to be accounted for b.
the comparative scarcity of workingne1
and the comparative abundance of ney
work in the new states. The same feath
erless biped Eve cannot be too severe O.
him, sir) carries his explanation furthe
and tells you that the superiority of GU
wage rate In colonial times and Away
since then, over that existing in Grea
Britain and on the continent was due t
this same fact, viz: paucity of working
men and abundance of work. How lack
Ing in subtlety of intellect! Instead G
seeking in remote metaphysical place
reasons SdliSldClOIy " o. CullOuS fulllu, II
contents himself, like a brother to the OK
with the facts that happen to obtrud
themselves right in front of his nose
These be, sir, mere demagogic appeals t
''the basest set in the land-the farmers,
as our fellow citizen in the White Hcus
is said to have called them. What is tn
brother to the OK" fit for anyhow, say
to be taxed for the creation of natural
Improbable industries?
Pointers for Vice Presidents.
The speaker finally gave som
pointers on how to perform tn
duties of vice president, in thes
words:
I need not tell you, sir that if yo
should be elected vice president 1t woul
be one of your duties as sort of heir
apparent to the crown to train yourse
and to influence your chief-Judge Pal
KERN the way Of usurping the othe
departments Of the government. Your OF