The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-21
Formally Accepts Nomination
for the Vice Presidency.
Occasion Is Made Holiday for
Northern New York.
4 GREAT CROWD IN UTICA
Ceremony Takes Place in Ros.
cOe COnkling Park.
First Man to Be RenOminated
for the Office.

Utica, Aug. 21.-Utica devoted itself
today TO the notification of ]. S. Sher-
man of his nomination to the vice
presidency by the Republican party
Large numbers of people came to the
city, for the event was prepared with
an idea of making it a holiday for the
central and northern part of the state
About twenty members of the commit
zee of notification were present, head
ed by United States Senator George
sutherland of Utah, the chairman.
They were escorted to the Sherman
resid snce on GeneSee street by thou
sands of citizens massed in different
organizations and headed by bands
and military companies decorated and
lined with multitudes of people.
From the Sherman residence the
program led to Roscoe Conkling park,
where an immense stand has been
erected and where the speaking took
place. Mr.. Sherman was ill recently
but has been steadily improving for
the asst fortnight and was quite fit
to meet the demands of the day. He
had a great many callers yesterday
and last evening but retired early in
order to get rested for the work be-
fore him today.
Speech of Acceptance.
In accepting the nomination Mr..
Sherman said in part:
Gentlemen of the committe, you
represent the forty eight states of the
Union and the eight million Republic
can voters in our wide domain. You
bear the commission of the conven-
ton, which, representing them, met in
Chicago in June. The annals of Amer
lean parties do not record the pro-
ceedingS of a political gathering con-
Quoted with more openness, fairness,
elaboration, sobriety and worthy pur-
pose than that for which you speak.
mot deceived by the clamor of
those who attempted to bolster up
claims without basis, by hundreds or
foundation
f1imsy that in the light of inveSt1ga-
ton, most of them melted away like
snow in a furnace heat and were re
jected by quite or nearly a unanimous
vote the convention adopted a plat
form that rings true for patriotism and
constitutional government and worth
lily bestowed a denomination upon our
present chief executive.
"OUr party has never before con-
ferred a second nomination for the
office of vice president upon any man.
This distinction was not sought by me,
but unsolicited, it is the more appre-
cfated. As a loyal Republican, 1 stand
squarely upon the party platform. l
approve of the admirable statement or
Republican principles and achieve
ments made in the address accepting
the nomination for president by Will
lam Howard Taft. Upon that platform
and associated with President Taft,
gratefully accept the denomination
Sizes Up the Opposition.
"Our opponents are divided into two
camps, rivalling each other in the eff
forts to excel in disturbing the civic
and economic order of the country.
The new party thrusts itself forward
into a vacuum left by the phantoms
of other third parties which have pass
ed into oblivion. Oblivion, too, awaits
it, The Democratic party in the ma
ton has many times defeated it's Re-
publican rival in August; but only
twice has it done so in November"
The speaker commented upon the
platforms of the Democratic and Pro-
g-essive parties and read excerpts
from a volume written by Governor
Wilson, whom he declared a peda-
gogue. not a statesman. Continuing,
he said:
THE crime of this new age is
frenzied speech and action: lack of
thought, a spurning of elaboration and
of the weighing of consequences.
Fakirs with projects to get rich draw