The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-08-19
WILLIAMS
NOTIFIED DAVIS OF HIS
NOMINATION
TO Be VICE PRESIDENT
In Presence of Oistin
guished Gathering.

While Sulphur Springs, w. va, Aug
17.-In the presence of a distinguished
and fashionable concourse of visitors
ex-senator Henry G. Davis was this af-
ternoon formally notified of his NOM
ination as the Democratic candidate
for vice president of the United States
The ceremonies were simple but inter-
esting. John Sharpe Williams, OF
Mississippi, made the notification ad-
dress, to which the candidate replied
as follows:
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
COMMITTEES:
The official notification which you
bring of my nomination for the Vice,
Presidency of the United States by the
national Democracy, gives me feel
ing 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 par
ty as a candidate, and to my country
in case of my election.
A spirit of determination to succeed
in the campaign before us appears to
pervade the rank and file OF our party
in all sections of the country. OF
that rank and file | have for many
years been a member and have at all
times devoted my humble powers to
party success, believing that success
to be for the countrys good Unex-
pectedly called as | am now to the
front, am impelled to an acceptance
of the obligation by a sense of graft
tude. to my fellow-workers, and the
hope that | may be able the better to
assist in restoring"to power that par
ty whose principles and past history
guarantee a safe, wise, economical and
constitutional administration of the
government.
find it, therefore, great pleasure,
standing here upon the borderland of
the two Virginias, to receive and ac-
cept the commission you bear, to send
greetings through you to the Democ-
racy of the entire country. Is it not
significant of a closer and truer broth.
erhood among us, that for the first
time since the Civil War a nominee
on the national ticket has besn taken
from that section of the country that
lies south of Mason and Dixon's line
"a happy recognition of the oblitera.
tfon of all sectional differences which
led to and followed that unhappy
struggle.
AS Introductory to the few remarks
shall make. ! desire to say that !
heartily endorse the platform upon
which | have been nominated and
with the convention and its nominee
for president, regard the present mon
etary standard of value as irrevoc-
ably established.
In the campaign preceding the last
election, much stress was laid by Re-
publican speakers upon the prosper
ous condition of the country, and fore.
bodings were heard of the Ill results,
especially to the laboring man, whi,
Woulu any Shdu6p III LhC poilt-
ical complexion of the government
1t is true that the times were then
good, but it is no less a fact that
while there has been no change in the
party in power many of the evils
prophesied have come under Repub-
lican rule. Four years ago factories,
mills, mines and furnaces were in ac-
tive operation, unable to supply the
demand, but now many are closed
and those that are open are being
operated with reduced force on short
hours. Then wages were high, labor
was scarce and there was work for
all. Now work is scarce, many wage
earners unemployed, and wages re.
duced. The apprehension which now
prevails in business circles, and the
present unsatisfactory industrial con-
ditions of the country seem to demand
political change.
The receipts of the goyernmentfor
the year ending June 30, 1902, tn
first fiscal year of the present admin.
istration, showed a surplus over ex-
penditures of $91, 100000. but for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1904, in
stead of a surplus there was a deficit
Of S41,000,000. From the 1st of July
1904, to August 10, or for about a
month and a third of the present
fiscal year, the expenditures of the
government have exceeded the re-
ceipts by $21, ,715.OO0. There could be no
no stronger evidence of the extrava.
gance into which the Republican par
ty has fallen, and no more potent ar
gument in behalf of change to the
party whose tenets have always en-
braced prudence and economy In adj