The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-08-21
SHERMAN IS
NOTIFIED Of
NOMINATION
Says Chicago Convention Was
Open and Fair
First Time Republicans Have
Renamed Vice-PreSident
Says New Party Is Headed
For Oblivion

: Utica, Aug 21.-Utica devoted it.
self today to the notification Of James
! S. Sherman OF his nomination for the
! vice presidency on the republican
! ticket. Sherman was i'll recently but
had been steadily improving for the
! last fortnight and was quite fit to
meet the demands of the day.
Vice Pres. James S. Sherman, in
accepting the vice presidential nOni-
nation for the republican party, said
in part: Gentlemen: You represent
! the forty eight states of the union
and the millions Of republican voters
in our wide domain. You bear the
/ commission of the convention which,
representing them, met in Chicago In
June. The annals of American parties
do not record the proceedings of a
! political gathering conducted with
more openness, fairness and deliber-
alton.
mo one is deceived by the claInor
| Of those who attempted to bolster up
| claims without basis, by hundreds OF
contests resting on foundations so
! fiimsy that in the light of investigation
| most of them melted away like snow
| in furnace heat and were rejected by
| a quite or nearly unanimous vote The
| convention adopted a platform that
rings true for patriotism and con-
|
| bestows the nomination upon our pres
ent chief executive.
! Our party never before conferred
q second nomination for the Office of
vice president upon any man. This
! distinction was not sought by me, but
unsolicited, 1t is more appreciated.
Our opponents are divided into two
camps rivaling each other in their
efforts to excel in disturbing the civil
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,"
Sherman commended the recent
vetoes Of the tariff bills by Taft and
said the vetoes called for the sup
port of every citizen.
"The crime of this new age" he
continued, rs frenzied speech and
action. lack Of thought, the spurning
of deliberation and of the weighing
Of consequences. Fakirs with projects
to get rich quick draw gaping
crowds"
In closing Sherman said: "Con-
fident that the American people are
not yet willing to destroy and dis
card the constitution which has stood
the test for more than a century, that
they have not yet forgotten the
|
calmly awaits the ides of November"
sutheriand's Speech.
| Senator Sutherland of Utah was
spokesman for the committee which
today notified Vice Pres James
Schoolcraft Sherman of his nomfna-
ton by the Chicago republican con-
/ Vention.
Most Of Senator Sutherlands speech
aside from short declaration of
the principles of the republican party
and a tribute to Mr.. Sherman. was
progressive party and its recent con-
| vention which nominated Colonel
Roosevelt and Gov. Hiram Johnson
for president and vice president.
/ I'VE shall have arrayed against us
In the coming campaign our ancient
and hereditary enemy, the democratic
! party" said he. 'In addition we shall
be called upon to contend with some
former associates who have concluded
to abandon their amiable custom OF
firing upon the flag they have been
following, in order that they may en-
| in the more honorable, but no
more effectual occupation Of assault
ing it from the front.
| For the next few months our ears
are to be filled with the voice of tha
malcontent, strident and many KEYED.
calling upon the people to forsalxe the
tried and beaten paths of constitu-
tional government, along which they
have walked with sure feet for more
than century, and enter upon a per-
sonally conducted pilgrimage through
the political wilderness to a promised
land as shadowy and unsubstantIal
as a desert mirage.
"Vasaries of Madhouse."
"The advance agents Of this deIir-
ious excursion tarried a few days ago
at Chicago, long enough to pool their
| individual grievances, visions and
| vagaries in a bewildering farrago of
Impractical political nostrums such
as never before has been collected at
one time outside the violent wards Of
a madhouse. And thus the so-called
progressive party was born, fits sole
excuse for existence being the un-
founded claim that its nominee for
the presidency was defeated for a
like nomination by stolen votes at the
republican convention"