Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1908-08-27
PEOPLE RULE,
SHERMAN SAYS
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR VICE
PRESIDENT ANSWERS
BRYAN's SLOGAN.
NOT AN ISSUE, HE AYERS
Approves Tau's Speech and Declares
That 10 All He Needs to say
Roosevelt 10 the
Issue.

Utica. n. Y.-James SchoOlcraft
Sherman. accepting the Republic.
an nomination for the presidency
here Tuesday. began his speech
with a joke about the practice OF offi.
cially notifying candidates OF their
nomination.
After Senator Burrows OF Michigan,
chairman OF the notification commit
tee, had talked for 10 minutes telling
Mr.. Sherman that he was nominated
and that he was the ideal man for the
office, Mr. Sherman said:
AS CHANGED to be in Chicago I'm
June, had an inkling OF the conven.
tons action, which was confirmed by
a warm-hearted reception rendered
me by my neighbors on the occasion
Of my homecoming, July 2.
This official notification. however,
is welcome and the nomination you
tender me is accepted with graft.
tude commensurate with the great
honor conferred"
Says Ditto" to TAFT.
Mr., Sherman then talked for IL
minutes. He said II was not neces.
sary TO make a long speech for he
agreed with everything that Mr. Taft
said In his speech of acceptance and
he could just endorse that speech. He
was sure he couldn't improve on II, he
said.
Then he mentioned tariff revision,
giving II most prominence as a cam
paign issue. Like Senator Burrows
before him he took whack at Mr..
Bryan's campaign slogan. Shall the
People Rule?"
Both OF them said that this was a
yelled rap at the republican party.
Senator Burrows said II was meant TO
convey the idea that through the re.
publican party the people did not
rule
Mr.. Sherman followed this up by
saying that the people had ruled
through the republican party and al.
ways would rule. MFR. Bryan's ques.
ton he said was not the issue because
parties are merely the instruments
for the expression OF the peoples will.
Roosevelt the ISSUE"
The overshadowing Issue of the
campaign" said Mr. Sherman. really
is: Shall the administration OF Pres.
ldent Roosevelt be approved? Shall
a party Of demonstrated capacity in
administrative affairs be continued in
power? Shall the reins of govern.
ment be placed in experienced hands,
or do the people prefer to trust their
destinies to an aggregation OF eKper.
mental malcontents and theorists,
whose only claim TO a history Is a
party name they pilfered?"
Senator Burrows. in addressing Mr..
Sherman. declared that the republi.
can party had chosen a nominee for
the vice-presidency who was big
enough to be president. He recalled
that Ave times in history the vice.
president had been called to the pres.
idency by death.
circumstances may arise" he said,
in the mutations of human affairs by
which the position may become one OF
the highest concern"
The notification exercises were held
at the Sherman home on Genessee
street. There was a parade OF the
firemen and police of the city.
MIR. Sherman entertained the notifi.
cation committee and other proml.
nent republicans at lunch at his home,
and he will give them dinner In the
evening at the Yahnundasis Coli
Club.
Amog the guests were Secretary of
State Root, National Chairman Hitch.
cock and President Stryker OF Hamil.
ton College.