The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-21
SHERMAN HAS
HIS CHANCE NOW
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furnace; has thrown no mechanic or
laborer out of employment.
1t has kept wide open the home
markets for the product of the farm
and factory; industrial workingmen
having the highest wage ever known
I have been enabled to build new house,
to clothe well their children and give
them q generous measure OF the lux
uries of life. The tariff has opened no
soup houses, has formed no bread
| lines Where in can the thoughtful
citizen sees promise for betterment in
the frantic cries for a change? /
have seen in no speech or literature
made or issued by member Of either
OF the opposing parties, the fact that
of the hundreds of millions OF foreign
goods imported last year, 81 per cent
came in duty free.
The democratic majority in the
house of representatives is writing in
4 lurid CHARACTERS the extent to which
our opponents are willing to go in
their Jealous efforts to ruin protec-
tion.
The need Of a republican president
is clearly proven by the defense of
American industry by President Taft
in his vetoes OF these recent tariff
bills from which he has saved every
interest of labor and production.
"The crime Of this new age is
frenzied speech and action. Mad
: haste is the pastime of the multitude
J. The British board of trade attributed
the awful sinking of the Titanic, with
!, its great loss of life. to excessive
! speed. The third term party and can
didate Wilson urge the country te
like disaster and ruin.
4 I'VE republicans are not men wor
! shippers. We are free and we follow
! blindly no leader and bow to no die
t tator. We ask that the republican
$ party be tried upon its record of ser
S vice and accomplishment. Conf1den
S that the American people are not We
S willing to destroy and discard the con
{ stitution, that they have not yet for
: gotten the dire result Of the mistake
a lot 1892, we calmly await the Ides Q
( November
: Il Was a Great Day.
UTICA, N. Y, Aug. PLANE
schoolcraft Sherman this afternoo
was formally notified that he ha
9 been a second time nominated by tn
! republican party for vice presiden
n an honor never before conferred
Il Thousands of friends of Sherman, a
h riving early by train. automobile
4. horse and foot, filled to overflowin
n Roscoe Ccnkling park on the souther
,r outskirts of the city.
"a In delivering the formal notific;
# ton, Senator George Sutherland {
Utah, chairman of the committe'
scathingly attacked Colonel Roeseve
a. and the progressive party movement
AZ A. large part OF Sherman's speech
~ acceptance was devoted TO defenl
!. Of the Payne-Aldrich tariff
:, Vice President Sherman's wish TIL
the ceremonies be as simple as pc
= sible was carried out by the comm1
~ tee. Everything was informal but II
u crowd had good time.
= Three companies Of the First infa
try, N. Y. N. G., the Albany uncont
tionals led by William Barnes, Jr. Il
Syracuse escort club and the ConkliI
% unconditionals of Utica comprised Il
=. escore that conducted Vice Preside
~ Sherman to the park and followil
Il the exercise, the members of the col
~ mittee we're entertained at the She
nd man residence.
10 The celebration which began la
ly night with carnival parade and W
he scheduled to conclude tonight with
is fire works display was the most ella
crate affair Utica ever saw. Citize
subscribed the several thousand d.
lars that the celebration cost al
ng there was little of partisan natu
on about the Notification outside of t
i'm set speeches.
I'm
IN, Taft's Telegram.
he WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Unable
OIL attend the ceremonies incident
vice President Sherman's notificatf
.es of his nomination, President Taft
al day sent his running mate the folio
en- ing telegram:
Use 81 am very sorry that puolic bu
nd ness prevents my presence at the G
He emonies at which you are to recei
va formal notification of your seco
ay well-deserved nomination by the
Ter tional republican party for the hi
eat office you hold. congratulate
ec- ard the party on your nomination.
my "The republican party continues
eff be the party Of the constitution,
ays defender OF our guarantees of CT
on. rights; the upholder of law and ord
va, the opponent of socialism, the stur
ert supporter of high compensation
at wage earners and our industrial s
RS cess through protective tariff.