The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-08-03
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not merely select, the man for the of.
fee: they give their approval to Ger.
tain controlling principles and policies
of government; and the administra-
ton OF which the Vice-President is
a part is bound to give effect to these
principles and policies. The primary
duty of the vice president to be al
ways ready to take up the burden
of the Presidency if occasion requires
carries with it the duty to be always
ready to continue unbroken the poll
cies which the people have entrusted
to the administration for execution.
For the due performance of this du-
ty the Vice-President should be IA
miliar with the conduct of affairs by
the administration as it proceeds, a
part of the counsels. and imbued with
knowledge of its labors, it's perplexi-
ties and its motives, that can come
only from intimate association and
confidence and sympathy. Too often
it has happened that after excited
contests for the presidential nomina-
ton the candidate for V~ice-President
has been selected from the defeated
faction for the purpose of ~appeasing
their resentment, and hat after cleo
tion he has remained antagonistic in
enirif ond n tTo fo Tho ao,ncalc
of the President whom he may be cal
ed upon to succeed. Happily we are
now in no such case. The people
would fain see again such relations
If sympathy and loyal ~helpfuulness
for the public good, as existed be
tween President Mckinley and Vice
President Hobart; and the personal
relations between President Roose-
welt and yourself, your mutual esteem
that these happy conditions will come
again after the Fourth of neX March
We count upon your wisdom and ex-
oerience and loyal aid as an element
# ever present strength in the COM
ing administration.
AS to the supreme responsibility of
the Vice-Presidency. we shall all
pray. and no one more earnestly than
yourself. that it may not come TO you.
But we are not at liberty to ignore
the possibility that it may come. Sad
md bitter experience admOnishes us
hat provision for succession to the
Presidency is no idle form. OF the
ast twelve presidents elected by the
,eople of the United States five
nearly one-half-have died in office
md have been succeeded by Vice
Presidents. A serious obligation
rests upon the political parties which
select the candidates between whom
he people must choose. to see to il
that they nominate men for this pos
sible succession who AVE the
strength of body and mind and char
acter which will enable them, if oc-
casion comes. to take up the burdens
of the great presidential office, to en-
lure it's trying and exhausting de
mands. to meet it's great response
x~ilities, and with firm hand and clear
ision to guide the government of the
country until the people can express
heir choice again.
Our opponents of the Democratic
Party have ~signally failed to perform
his duty. They have nominated as
their candidate for the V~ice-Presiden-
" an excellent gentleman who was
porn during the presidency of James
Monroe. and who before the 4th of
March next will be in the eighty |
year of his age. Before the
next administration is ended he will
approaching his eighty-sixth birth
day. 1t is no disparagement of this
gentleman, for whom | believe we all
nave the highest respect, to say that
shares the common lot of mortals,
Ind that the election of any man of
such great age would furnish no safe |
guard to American people against the
isaster which would ensue pom the
death of a president with a successor
competent to perform the duties
# the presidential Office. 1t is COM
mon experience that very aged men,
1owever bright and active they may
appear for brief periods, annot sus-
ain long continued YER exertion.
rhe demands of the Presidential Office
,pon the mental and physical vitality
IRE so great, so continuous and so ex-
hausting, as to be wholly beyond the
capacity of any man of eighty-five.
The attempt of such a man to per-
form the duties of the Office would
with practical certainty be speedily
followed by a complete breakdown
both of body and mind. In contem
plating the remote possibility of the
election of the Democratic candidate
- w. D-1ofI0-r tho Hn0n1o of tho