The bee., 1908-08-20
]. S. SHERMAN
I HEARS NEWS
sAYs PEOPLE 90 RULE IN Ac-
cEPTINo REPUBLICAN
NOMINATION..
ROOSEVELT POLICIES ISSUE
Nominee Thinks Time Has Arrived
for Revision Of the Tarin from
the Point Of View Of a
Proteotionlst.


launching of the Republican national
ticket OF 1908 was held here Tuesday,
when Representative James School
craft Sherman was rendered and &C
cepted the nomination Of his party
for the Vice-presidency
In accepting he subscribed heartily,
he declared, to the declaration of Drin.
ciplss adopted at the Chicago conven-
ton IN June, TO the every utterance
Of Secretary Taft N his Cincinnati
speech and to the policies Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt Mr.. Sherman assert
I'd that the approval OF the Roosevelt
rehabilitation was the real issue of
the campaign to be undertaken. Mr..
Bryan's question, Shall the people
ruler" was declared to be no issue at
all Surely the people shaDtrile,.
Mr.. Sherman said; surely they have
ruled; gHrely they do rule. Shame on
the candidate who insults the Ameri-
can people by suggestion OF declare
-tion that majority Of It's electorate
is venal."
Speech Was Brief.
Mr.. Sherman's speech was unusual
ly brief ana he did not attempt to
discuss in detail any Of the questions
touched upon by Secretary Taft, say
ing he could not hope TO persnade
any one not convinced by the presi-
dental candidates presentation OF the
platforms and the issues. He did en-.
ter into brief discussion of the tar
IN and his declaration, Il am a pro-
tectionist," brought spontaneous re-
Spouse from his hearers. The candi-
date then went on to explain that he
thought the time had arrived for q re-
vision Of the tarin from the protec-
Zionist point of view. Mr. Sherman
praised the record Of the Republican
party and I'm contrasting 1t with the
Democratic organization referred to
the latter as IAN aggregation of ex-
perimental malcontents and theorists.
whose only claim to = history is a
party name they pilfered.' rs
Senator julius Burrows of Michigan,
chairman OF the notification commit
tee, whose members gathered here
from the various states of the Union,
made the tender of the nomination.
In his speech he, too, resented what
he declared was a thinly.yeiled accu-
gation by Mr.. Bryan that a Republican
administration did not sreprestDt-th
TulesSesth4 people. Secretary OF State
Root, speaking as a neighbor and life
long friend offthe candidate, sul6gized
aMr. Sherman, politics having no place
iE hrs bfiek but ELOQUENT fiddrass.
President NJ W. sStryker of Hamilton.
college, from which Mr. Sherman
graduated also paid a personal trfb-
ute TO. the candidate and there vera,
addresses of welcome to the visiting
commissioner, AID sightseers- from
Mayor Thomas Wheeler and Chair
man Charles IS. aSymonds of the local
reception committee.
3,e Presehted with Loving Cup. at''
. AT the eoncld5ion of the ceremonies
M sherman was presented with a
rnaaqiicent gold-lined silver loving
= gift from his colleagues in the
4baionRl house of representatives The
cup staRds nearly IS inches high and
is mounted on base of ebony. The
inscription read:
Presented to James S. Sherman, NJ.
g., by his associates, Aug. Is, 1908"
A large number of congressman
were at Tuesdays exercises. The brief
speech OF presentation was made by
Representative Serene Payne OF New
York. Mr.. Sherman also received a
lengthy telegram of felicitation from
MIR. Taft and the mayor OF Utica re-
eeived congratulatory messages from
the mayor of Cincinnati.
The ceremonies OF notification occu-
pied a little less than two hours and
were held in the shade of the halfcSn-
tury-old elm trees which surround the
Sherman lawn on upper Genesee
street
Mr.. Sherman, who was III for time,
appeared Tuesday 10 bs n vigorous
health. He will undertake long cam
pAign tTip through the west in oc'
fohar