| Show acceptance SPEECH vice pres dent al cand date sherman subscribes to pol cies of roose velt and approves state ments of taft utica N in one of the briefest speeches ever delivered by a candi date for so high an office james schoolcraft sherman at noon on thesda august 18 accepted the nomination of the republican party for the vice presidency he spoke from a flag decked stand in front of his home in genesee street sur rounded by party leaders from differ ent sections of the country and by a crowd of non partisan friends and townsmen the nomination was ten dered by a committee appointed at the chicago convention in june sen ator julius burrows of michigan being the chairman and spokesman there were brief addresses also by secretary root by president M W stryker 0 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 ac cep tance followed the example 0 mr tatt in pledging the allegiance of any administration with which he may have to do to the policies ol 01 president roosevelt he declared was no issue as to whether or not the 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 the republican vice nominee asserted that the overshadowing issue of the campaign really is shall the administration of dent roosevelt be approve dT mr sherman made no attempt to discuss in detail any of the issues raised in the party platform content ing himself with the declaration that he 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 tatt in his speech accepting the presidential nomination he referred to the democratic party as an aggregation of experimental malcontents mal contenti and theorists whose only claim to history Is a party name they pil |
