Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1912-08-12
PRAISE FOR JOHNSON
Roosevelt Lauds Running Mate in
Speech of Acceptance-Candidate
for Nice-President ReciprOcates.

people of all our country, | come for
ward to thank you from my heart
for the honor you have conferred
upon me and to say that, of course,
] accept.
have been president and | meas
ure my words when l say | have seen
and known much of life. | hold it
by far the greatest honor and the
greatest opportunity that has ever
come to me to be called by you to
the leadership for the time being of
this great movement in the interests
of the American peoplpe.
And, friends, | wish now to say
how deeply sensitive | am to the way
in which the nomination has come
to me, and to tell those who proposed |
and seconded my nomination that |
appreciate to the full the significance
of having such men and such women
put me in nomination; and | wish
to thank the convention for having
given me the running mate it has
given.
| have a peculiar feeling toward
Governor Johnson. Nearly two years
ago, after the elections of 1910, when
what / had striVen to accomplish in
New York had come to nothing, and
when my friends, the enemy, exulted
possibly prematurely-over what
had befallen me. Governor Johnson,
in the flush of his own triumph, hav-
ing just won out, wrote me letter
which | shall hand on to my chill
dren and children's children because
of what the letter contained, and
hxn Nc
letter of trust and belief; letter of
ardent championship from the SOL
dier who was at the moment victori-
GUS toward his comrade who at the
moment had been struck down.
In Governor Johnson we have a
man whose every word is made good
by the deeds that he has done. The
man who as the head of a great state
has practically applied in that state
for the benefit of the people of that
state the principles which we intend
to apply throughout the Union as a
whole. We have nominated the only
type of man who ever ought to be
nominated for the vice-presidency;
we have nominated a man fit at the
moment to be president of the United
States.
Friends, l have come here merely
to thank you from the bottom of my
heart for the honor you have con-
ferred upon it. and to say that / ap-
preciate it exactly as / know you
meant it. For the greatest chance,
the greatest gift, that can be given
any man is the opportunity, if he has
the stuff in him, to do something
that counts in the common good.
| appreciate to the full the burden
of responsibility, the burden of obi-
cation that you have put upon me.
appreciate to the full the trust YOU
impose upon me can be met by me
IN only one way, and that is by so
carrying myself that you shall have
no cause to regret or feel shame for
the action you have taken this after
noon.
And, friends, with all my heart
and soul, with every particle of pur-
pose that is in me, | pledge you my
word to do everything | can, to put
every particle of courage, of COM
mon sense and of strength that
have, at your disposal and to en-
deavor so far as strength is given
ME, to live up to the obligations you
have put upon me, and to endeavor
to carry out in the interests of our
whole people the policies to which
yau have today solemnly dedicated
yourselves to the millions of men and
women for whom you speak. |
thank you.
Governor johnson Accents.
Governor Jonnson, in accepting
the nomination for vice-president,
said:
Ii is with the utmost solemnity,
the deepest obligation, that | come
to tell you that | have enlisted for
the war. | enlisted long ago, and |
enlisted in that fight that is our fight
now, the fight of all the nation,
thank God; at last, humanity's fight
politically all over the land.
Enlisting as I have in that con-
test for humanity, that desired gov
fernmentally to make men better
rather than to make men richer,
there is no question of course but
that of necessity | must accept any
place where | may be drafted and
that accept such place as you have
accorded me in the nations history
today (because again you are max
ing history in this land); that
accept it with grateful heart, and
with the utmost singleness of pur.
pose, to carry out as well as | may
the little that may be in my part tc
do.
There is a new era. new fight, 6
new struggle that is abroad now
There is a new political creed. 1t i!
"a political creed that this great man
Theodore Roosevelt. preached ever
when he was in the White House
the great creed of equal opportunity
of a fair seat for all human kind, o
giving to every child in the race o
life an equal start; it is the creed il
the last analysis of humanity that i
now the creed OF one of the grea
national parties in the United State
of America.
If in one little particle, if in on
small degree. ! may Tighten the bul
den of this great man, this BRAY
fighter, who is today doing the great
est and brayest thing in his careel
then | shall feel well repaid in thi
campaign.
My one desire shall be from no
on until November, with what viri
hnN ferhN ID,