Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-08-17
VICE PRESIDENT N0NI.
NEE DAVIS NOTIFIED
Democratic Candidate for the Sec
ond Place Was Formally Apprised
of Party's Choice by John Sharp
Williams at White Sulphur Springs,
West Virginia, Today.

White Sulphur Springs, w. Va, Aus
17.-Henry Gassaway Davis was fol
mally notified today that he is the non
inee of the Democratic party for tn
vice-presidency. Mr.. Davis accepte
the nomination with brief speech, re
viewing the political situation, echoinl
sentiments of Judge Parker on tn
money question and expressing a de
termination to be successful in thu
campaign. Representative John Sharl
Williams, of Mississippi, chairman O.
the notification committee delivered
the address. The ceremonies were helt
on the lawn of the White Sulphur
Springs hotel in the presence Of hun
dreds of Democrats. The ceremonies
wer marked with the utmost simple
ity.
Mr.. Williams said:
"Mr Davis-Sir:
"We have been appointed by most
notable convention as a committee to
notify you of your nomination by the
Democracy as their choice for Vice
President of the United States. We
desire to express the pleasure we feel
in having been selected to perform this
duty and our confidence in you, your
honesty and wisdom. The
people see in you one of the best prod
ucts of the best period of American
institutions, a period whose salient
characteristics were local self-govern-
ment, individuality, equal opportunity,
and freedom; freedom to work, freedom
to buy and sell, freedom to compete in
industrial life, resulting in self-depend-
ence, freedom to develop as ones own
not merely as the we'll
trained and well-managed industrial
servant of another. They see in you
what Oliver Wendell Holmes said is
a rare thing, "a self-made man
Just before leaving home said that
I was going to West Virginia, with
some others, to notify you of your nom-
ination. One of my brothers little
boys, standing by, said, Uncle John, he
must be mighty big goose if he hasn't
heard of it already In certain way,
the notification with which we are
charged is perfunctory and unneces-
sary, and yet it is we'll to maintain by
some degree of formality that respect
full observance which is due to great
events. The nomination by great
party to the great Office to which we
call you, the Vice-Presidency, carrying
with it the duty of presiding over the
Senate of the United States and the
possibility of succession to the Presi-
1ency, is great event.
Gas soon as I learned that was, by
resolution of the convention, to be the
of the committee for the
performance of this pleasant task,
began to look about me in order to see
how the duty had been performed by
others. I found from recent perfor-
nances of a similar character in the
Republican camp that for notification
speech historical essay is altogether
he proper thing, absolutely necessary
or the emergency. A Brief Historical
upon Some of the Blunders
If our Ancestors as Viewed from the
Standpoint of the Wisdom of Republi-
can Statesmen who have Embraced
he Strenuous Life.
'The first of these consisted in dis
against the red man-the
image of God in Cherry-on account
If his race and color and previous con-
lition. Our ancestors said it was on
account of the inherent, or Inherited
race traits, tendencies and supposed
of which his color was
but the outward sign. Be that claim
pretense or sincerity, we found to our
that the door Of oppor-
tunity and hope in the way of Office
holding and voting had been closed to
Lo! the Poor Indian. He was not in
vited by the Select Men in Connecti-
cut, nor by the electors of the self
governing towns in Massachusetts,, to
help govern our ancestors and the
which they had committed to
their charge, nor did our ancestors
promise to assimilate him. This first
violation IN America Of the divine right
If manhood, suffrage and the cherished
dogma that all men Of all
races are equally capacitated to gov
ern themselves, and especially to gov
srn others, has doubtless been the
Iliad Of all our woes Plainly it was
what the Boston Transcript SO elo-
luently calls 'colorphobia.' We could
1ot account for 1t, except perhaps on a
line OF thought suggested by SEN
.ence in the notification address of the
Permanent Chairman of the Chicago
Convention. Informing the President