The Washington times., 1912-08-21
SHERMAN DECLARES
WILSON IS BRYAN
AND PARKER AGAIN
Sunny Jim" Notified of
Nomination, Scores Demo-
Gratis and Progressives.

UTICA, N. Y, Aug. H.-Vice Presi-
dent James 8. Sherman at noon today
was formally notified that for the
second time the Republican party had
selected him as its candidate for the
Vice Presidency. The notification ex-
ercises were held In Roscoe Conkling
Park. located on the southern out
skirts of the city, and a crowd num-
bering many thousands of persons
gathered on the expansive green or the
sloping terrace of the magnificent park
to witness the ceremony.
United States Senator George Suther-
land. of Utah. headed the notification
committee. and delivered the address
that informed the Vice President of the
latter's denomination.
The celebration incident to the noti-
fication of Mr.. Sherman was the most
elaborate affair ever staged In Utica,
and cost many thousands of dollars.
subscribed by local citizens who have
been inspired by civic pride and a de-
sire to fittingly observe the high honor
conferred upon the city's foremost son.
Aside from the fact that the notifica-
tion ceremony itself Is a Republican
function. there was nothing in the
huge celebration of a partisan nature.
Escort For Candidate.
The festivities started last night with
an elaborate carnival parade. particl-
pated In by organizations from Syra-
cuse, Oneida, Canastota. Rome and
many local non-political societies. To-
day three companies of the First In
fantry, N. G. N. Y; the Albany Un-
conditionals, led by Republican State
Chairman William Barnes; the Syra-
cuse Escort Club and the Conkling In
conditionals of Utica comprised the es-
cort for Vice President Sherman and
the notification committee.
Raps Progressives.
Senator Sutherland, in his speech of
notification, said:
Mr.. Vice President: 1t has become
my pleasant duty, speaking for the
committee appointed for that purpose,
to convey to you the formal informa-
tion that at the national convention re-
Gently held in Chicago you were re-
nominated as the candidate Of the Re-
publican party for the high office of
Vice President of the United States
an office which you have so creditably
filled during the past four years.
We shall have arrayed against us in
the coming campaign our ancient and
HEREDITARY enemy, the Democratic party.
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 engage in the more honora-
BILE, but no more effectual, occupation
of assaulting it from the front.
Tl4 dun NJ f0 nf O
excursion tarried few days ago at
Chicago. long enough to pool their in
dividual grievances, visions, and va
garies in a bewildering farrago of i'm
practical political nostrums such as
never before has been collected at one
time outside the violent wards of q
madhouse. And thus the so-called Pro-
gressive party was born, its sole excuse
for existence being the unfounded claim
that its nominee for the Presidency was
defeated for a like nomination by stolen
votes at the Republican convention.
II cannot, of course, take the tmie to
discuss this claim In detail and point
out its utter and reckless falsity.
"Mr. Roosevelt himself, although ac,
ouiescing in the filing of contests
against twenty-four Alabama delegates
openly stated, after the national COM
mittee had unanimously seated twenty.
one of them. that he had only counted
on two delegates for himself. and ex'
hlbited a list in which twenty-five were
conceded to President Taft. Why were
those twenty-five and the remainder
of the 1874 confesedly frivolous contests
| instituted?
New Form of Larceny.
1.-THE Washington Times, a Munsey
newspaper, and an ardent supporter OF
MIR. Roosevelt ingenuously furnished
the explanation, namely-and l quot
| the exact statement
For psychological effect, as a move
| in practical politics, 1t was necessary
| for the Roosevelt people to start con
tests in these early Taft selections, II
order that tabulation of delegate
| strength could be put out that woult
show Roosevelt holding a good hand
Larceny for psychological effect II
something quite new in the history o
| penology.
"There never has been in all histor!
a more unique convention than that o
| the Progressive party at Chicago Here
tofore. when party has been organ
lied, its organizers have in advance en-
| tertained at least a suspicion respecting
their principles; but the delegates t
this convention, wholly ignorant OF tn
| things for which they stood, waited
with patiently folded hands, the appear
ance OF Mr.. Roosevelt in the convention
to tell them what they believed.
"In form 1000 delegates, more or less
gathered in the Coliseum; In reality MI
Roosevelt met in convention at Chica
go, made a confession of faith, gave hi
hand to the colored brother of the Nortl
and his foot to the colored brother from
the South adopted platform, nomin
ated himself and Brother Johnson an
adjourned with the ease of a thorough
trained thimblerIgger.
Based On Constitution.
1.-THE campaign upon which we ar
about to enter presents issues of NOR
serious moment to the American peopl
than any they have confronted since tn
grave questions which Immediately pre-
ceded and ACCOMPANIED the civil war.
"The 'overshadowing question the
was whether the Union, under the Cor
stitution, could be perpetuated: tina
which cOnfronts us today Is whether tn
Constitution itself. and tSE Government
which the Constitution established, sha
be preserved-a question of equal, II nc
greater gravity, since II would be q
little avail to have preserved the Unio
from the chaos OF disintegration II tn
Government of the Union is to he give
Over to the chaos of disorga MIA ton
"The party to which we belong, MI
Vice President. stands In this suprem
contest for the Independence and intee
rity of the judicial tribunals of the la nd
without which the guaranty OF life
liberty, and property would be mean
ingless pIatitude. II stands for the SET
tied rule Of impersonal government, a
| opposed to the shiftv epportunism c