COMMENT AND REVIEW
Office of the Attorney General,
Washington, D. C., June 23, 1904.
The Governor:
Sir:—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your commission appointing me a senator to represent the State of Pennsylvania in the Senate of the United States, to supply the vacancy in that body occasioned by the death of Hon. Matthew Stanley Quay, until the next meeting of the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
I accept the appointment to take effect July 1, 1904, that being the day immediately following the taking effect of my resignation of the office of Attorney General of the United States.
I beg to add that I fully appreciate the great honor you have done me, and that I shall assume the duties of the high office you have deemed me worthy to fill, with a full appreciation of its grave responsibilities and importance.
With great respect, your obedient servant,
Philander C. Knox.
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Indianapolis, June 28, 1904.
My dear Governor:
I regretted not seeing you after the close of the convention at Chicago, for I wished to thank you for your great kindness in making a seconding speech. I now take the first opportunity to write you and to say that I am profoundly grateful for your very generous courtesy.
With best wishes, I remain
Sincerely your friend,
Charles W. Fairbanks.
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
Governor, Harrisburg, Pa.
June 29, 1904.
Dear Governor:
I said to Durham in Chicago, that your reluctance at accepting the nomination for governor, was only overcome by the assurance of Quay and others, that it would not interfere with the only ambition you had; and that this obligation, since Quay's death, had become a sacred one. He agreed with me.
Yours sincerely,
David H. Lane.
Hon. Sam'l W. Pennypacker.
