The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-21
MR. SHERMAN'S
 ACCEPTANCE.
;Irst Republican Vice President to Receive denomination.
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 Utica, N. T., Aug. 21.+yice President lanes Schoolcraft Sherman was today notified of his second nomination and replied as follows:
 MT. Chairman, Senator Sutherland, Gentlemen of the Notification Con-
 nittee. Ladies and Gentlemen, My Friends All:
 am pleased to add a word of well come to these distinguished guests in the city of my birth, of which we are SO fustly proud. Let me say to you gentlemen that this vast assemblage Of ray fellow citizens is gathered without regard to party to show good will to a lifelong neighbor and to recognize compliment paid through him to this city, county and commonwealth. Dull would be in feeling, lacking in taste, did I fail to sense and express grad- tude for this generous manifestation of friendship. thank you all for your presence and your esteem, which shall ever prize and shall strive to merit by every effort whether in off, cial station or private walks. Good people of Utica and central New York, I have no interest and no ambition other than to serve as you would have me, loyal to your welfare to the high est purpose of the state and nation and for the benefit of mankind. When fhe- polls are opened in November you will vote for the principles in which you believe, for the candidates ap- proved by your consciences, and we shall continue in good fellowship and civic and social accord so long as time shall spare us. ts@
 Gentlemen of the committee, this company appreciates the honor of this visit by your distinguished member ship. You represent the forty-eight states of the Union and the 8,0O0000 Republican voters in our wide do- main. You bear the commission of the convention which, representing them, met in Chicago in June. That c0nven- ton declared. anew our fidelity to the historic Republican party, our purpose to carry forward tIe work it has so we'll done and to promote further the prosperity and progress of the. United States. The annals of American par lies Co not record the pSceedfngs of a political gathering conducted with more openress, fairness, deliberation, sobriety and worthy purpose than that for which you speak. This assem- blaze will gladly concede the fact that other procedure were impossible in a body presided over by Oneida's native son, Elihu Root.
 Not deceived by the clamor of those who attempted to bolster up claims without basis, by hundreds of contests resting on foundations so fimsy that in the light of investigation most of them melted away like snow in a fur mace heat and were rejected by quite or nearly a unanimous vote, the con- vention adopted platform that rings true for patriotism and constitutional government and worthily bestowed a renomination upon our present chief executive.
 First Vice President ,Renominated.
 You, gentlemen, notify me that the convention named me as the party $ candidate for vice president. Our par ty has never before conferred second nomination for that office upon any man. This distinction was not sought by me; but, unsolicited, it is the more appreciated, and it's value is augment ed by the generous words in which you, Senator Sutherland, are pleased to announce it. cannot but recognize your message, gentlemen, as a man date which I must obey. As a loyal Republican, a disciple of the party of Lincoln and Grant, of Harrison and Mckinley and of him for whom the ground upon which we stand. dedieat- ed to public use is named, Roscoe Conkling. stand squarely upon the party platform. I approve of the ad mIrable statement of Republican prin- ciples and achievements made in the address accepting the nomination for
 
 president by William Howard Taft. Upon that platform and associated with President Taft I gratefully ac, cept the renomination as the Repub- Hcan candidate for the office of vice president of the United States.
 Fortunate are we, Republicans, in the fact that our opponents are divid. ed into two camps, rivaling each other in their efforts to excel in disturbing the civic and economic order of the country. The new party, thrusts itself forward into the vacuum left by the phantoms of other third parties which have passed into oblivion. Oblivion too, awaits it. The Democratic party In the nation has many times defeated As Republican rival in August; but ewice has it done so in November The political skies are often confused and lowering in midsummer, but the cooling breezes of November render them clear and normal. Astronomers tell us that many shooting stars tast Into vision in August; but, dazzling though they be in their flight, they disappear into unknown space, while the planets roll on in splendor in theil regular orbits. So fn the polrrca nrmament--comets may cross the can
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