Show ACCEPTANCE SPEECH A MODEL OF BREVITY VicePresidential Candidate Sherman Subscribes to Policies of Roosevelt Roose-velt and Approves Statements State-ments of Taft Utica N YIn one of the briefest speeches ever delivered by a candidate candi-date for so high an office James Schoolcraft Sherman at noon on Tuesday August 18 accepted the nomination of the Republican party for the vicepresidency He spoko from a Iing decked stand In front of his homo In Geneseo street surrounded sur-rounded by party leaders from different differ-ent sections of tho country and by a crowd ot nonpartisan friends and townsmen The nomination was tendered ten-dered by a committee appointed at the Chicago convention In June Senator Sen-ator Julius C Burrows of Michigan being the chairman and spokesman There were brief addresses also by Secretary Root by President M W Strykcr of Hamilton college from which Mr Sherman was graduated by Mayor Thomas Wheeler of Utica and by Charles S Symonds chairman of the local reception committee Mr Sherman In his address of acceptance ac-ceptance followed the example ol Mr Taft in pledging the allegiance of any administration with which ho r r I y e t Ib r l 11 f James Sohooloraft Sherman may have to do to the policies of President Roosevelt Ho declared there was no Issue as to whether or not tho people shall rule Surely the people shall rule said Mr Sherman surely the people have ruled surely the people do rule Casting thus aside the campaign slogan raised by Mr Bryan tho Republican Re-publican vlcei > reiiidentlal nominee asserted that tho overshadowing Issue of the campaign really Is Shall tho administration of President Presi-dent Roosevelt be approved Mr Sherman made no attempt to discuss In detail any ot the Issues raised in the party platform contenting content-ing himself with the declaration that ho subscribes fully and heartily to all that has been written Into the Chicago statement of principles and to all that had been said by Mr Taft In his speech accepting the presidential nomination He referred to the Democratic party as an aggregation aggre-gation of experimental malcontents and theorists whose only claim to history Is a party name they pilfered pil-fered |