New Britain herald., 1916-08-31

FAIRBANKS ACCEPTS
 i. 0. P. NOMINATION
Approves Party Platform and RapS Record Of Administration
EXHUMES THE TARIFF

EXHUMES THE TARIFF
 Calls the Democratic Party Minority Power and Tells What He and His Followers Would Do About Mexico,
 Merchant Marine, Preparedness.
 Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 31.-Ac- cepting the nomination for the vice presidency of the United States on the republican ticket Charles Warren Fairbanks today delivered the follow ing address:
 Il am deeply sensible of the high honor of the commission which you
 bring me. To be chosen as the can- d1date of the republican party for the vice presidency of the United States IS distinction which any patriotic American may well covet. I accept the nomination and pledge you my ut- most service during the campaign. If the people ratify the choice of the convention I shall consecrate my best efforts to the discharge of my official Iunctlons. AS you are aware, this is a call which was unsolicited by me; that fact 1ntensifies my sense of duty to those in behalf of whom you speak
 The platform adopted by the Chi cago convention has my hearty ap- proval. Carried into the public ad- m1nistration and written into the statutes it will insure industrial and national prosperity during the years Of our ascendancy.
 This is an hour when we must put our faith to the test. We should have nothing short of the best political party in the management of the vast and complicated mechanism of our government.
 we have before us for our judg- ment the platforms of the political partles which are appealing for the popular suffrage. The democratic party has established an unchallenged reputation for the repudiation of it's platform utterances at it's will We never know what convenants it will keep or what it will reject when clothed with power.
 Political parties have individuali- ties by which we may easily identify them. We readily recognize the re- publican party by it's long and suc- cessful conduct of the public bus iness-it efficient administration of our political concerns. It has been a pledge making and a pledge-re- deeming party. To keep faith with the people has been it's supreme de- sire.
 "One of the greatest problems which presents itself for our solution goes to the very root of our national pros perity and to the contentment of mll- 
 take counsel of our friends who are engaged in the great war Although the hour of peace is beyond their vision, they are already planning with reference to their industrial affairs when they leave the trenches. We have given much thought to military in vasion. We should prepare for com- mercial invasion which would paraIyze American industry and blight our hap piness.
 "The democratic party came into power through an unhappy division within our own ranks. It represented a minority of the people, and does not today hold commission from the majority. When invested with power it immediately set to work to force down the threats of the majority pol icies to which they were and ever since have been opposed. Democracy stands, as it has stubbornly stood for many years for a free trade or rev. enue tariff; while the republican party stands, as it has Loyalty stood, for the great doctrine of American pro- tection Our future industrial pros- perity depends upon our choice be-
 tween the two in the pending cam paign. The Tariff.
 What protection and free trade 1 mean we know from actual experi- | ence; they are not in the domain of | the academic.
 "The present free trade. or tariff for revenue law, which democracy re-
 gards with such high favor, has worked infinite damage This law, Wh1ch IS to be maintained if dem- ocracy tr1umphs must stand or fall
 not by what democratic conventions
 say of 1t, but by what it has said for itself under normal trade conditions. hVen before it was approved by MT. wilson, who took pride in the execu- tive act, business began to furl it's sails The coming storm was appar- ent and prudence took possession of our people. The certainty of the law spread fear among us Our com pettors in Europe and in the Orient were filled with joy. COmme ercial travellers from England, France, Ger many and elsewhere were put upon the road in the United States and promptly began writing orders. The slowing down process began with a wrench. The wOrkingmen, who were the first to feel the bHghting effects of the reversal of our great economic policy, began to lose their jobs fac tories were closed; trains were taken