The San Francisco call., 1908-08-19
PARTY PRINCIPLES
SATISFY SHERMAN
Accepts Vice Presidential Noni-
nation With Expression
of His Faith
Roosevelt Policies the Issue and
Taft's Views O. K, He
Declares

UTICA, n. Y, Aug. 1s.-The last for
NAL ceremony attending the official
launching of the republican national
ticket of 1908 was held here today when
Representative James Schoolcraft Sher-
man was rendered and accepted the
nomination of his party for the vice
presidency.
In accepting he subscribed heartily,
he declared, to the declaration of prin-
ciples adopted at the Chicago conven-
tion in June, to the every utterance
of Secretary Taft in his Cincinnati
speech and to the policies of President
Roosevelt. Sherman asserted that the
approval of the Roosevelt administra-
tion was the real issue of the campaign
to be undertaken. Bryan's question.
Shall the people ruler" was declared
to be no issue at all. Surely the peo-
pie shall rule" Sherman said, surely
they have ruled; surely they do rule.
Shall a candidate insult the American
people by suggestion or declaration
that a majority of its electorate is
venal?"
Sherman's speech was unusually
brief and he did not attempt to dis
cuss any of the questions touched on
by Secretary Taft, saying he could not
hope to persuade any one not con-
vfnced by the presidential candidates
presentatioHof the platforms and the
issues. He did enter into a brief dis
cussion of the tariff and his declaration,
Il am a protectionist. brought spon-
taneous response from his hearers.
The candidate then went on to ex-
plain that he thought the time had
arrived for a revision of the tariff
from the protectionist point of view.
Sherman praised the record of the re-
publican party, and in contrasting it
with the democratic organization re-
ferred to the latter as IAN aggrega-
tion of experimental malcontents and
theorists, whose only claim to a his
tory is party name they pilfered.'
Senator julius C. Burrows of Michi-
gan of the notification committee,
whose members gathered here from the
various states of the union, made the
tender of the nomination. In his speech,
he, too, presented what he declared was
thinly yelled accusation by Bryan that
republican administration did not
represent the rule of the people. Sec
retary of State Root, speaking as a
neighbor and life long friend of the
candidate, eulogized Sherman, politics
having no place in his brief but elo-
quent address.
President NJ. w. Stryker of Hamil-
ton college, from which Sherman was
graduated also paid a personal tribute
to the candidate, and there were ad-
dresses of welcome to the visiting COM
mitteemen and sightseers from Mayor
Thomas Wheeler and Chairman Charles
S. Symonds of the local reception COM
mittee.
At the conclusion os the ceremonies
Sherman was presented with magnifi-
cent gold lined silver loving cup, a
gift from his colleagues in the national
house of representatives. The cup
stands nearly Is inches high and is
mounted on base Of ebony. The in
scription reads:
Presented to James S. Sherman by
his associates, August, 190S.''
A large number of congressman were
at today's exercises. Sherman received
long telegram of felicitation from
Taft, and the mayor of Utica received
congratulatory messages from the
mayor of Cincinnati.
The ceremonies of notification occu-
pied little less than two hours and
were held in the shade of the half
century old elm trees which surround
the Sherman lawn on Upper Geneseo
street. Sherman, who was Ill for a
time appeared today to be In vigor-
Gus health. He will undertake a long
campaign trip through the west in
October.