The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-09-13
AE OFFICIALLY ACCEPTS THE
- NOMINATION..
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM APPROVED.
asional Banking System and Tariff Law
INDiscussed ut LenEth-He Reviews the
Accomplishments Of HIS Admins
tration-will Again Urge the
la Passage OF Federal
e. Election Bill.


WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.-Yesterday
afternoon President Harrison through
secretary Halford, gave out for
publication his letter accepting the
presidential nomination on the Repub-
lican ticket. The letter bears the date
of Sept 3, and is in part as follows:
Hon. William Mckinley, jr, and others,
Committee, etc.
Gentlemen: l now avail myself OF
the first period of relief from puoiic
duties to respond to the notification
that You brought to me on June 90, OF
NV nomination for the Office of pres
ident of the United States by the Re-
publican national convention recently
held at Minneapolis
I accept the nomination and am
grateful for the approval expressed by
the convention of the acts OF the ad-
ministration.
have endeavored without wavering
or WEAKNESS, SO far as the direction of
public affairs was committed to me,
10 carry out the pledges made to the
people in 1855. If the policies OF the
administration have not been distinct
ly and progressively American and
Republican policies, the fault has not
been in the purpose, but in the execu-
/sion.
I shall speak frankly of the lcgisla.
ton of congress and OF the work OF
the executive departments for the
credit of any successes that have been
attained is due to others-senators
and representatives. not the
efficient heads of the several executive
departments. l may do SO without
impropriety. A vote of want OF con.
fidence is asked by our adversaries and
this challenge to a review of what has
been done we promptly and gladly &C.
cept.
The great work of the ffty-first con-
gress has been subject to the revision
of a Democratic house of representa-
tires and the acts of the executive de-
partment to its scrutiny and investiga-
ton. A Democratic national admins
: eration was succeeded by a Republic
an administration, and the freshness OF
the events gives unusual facilities for
fair comparison and judgment. There
has seldom been a time, l think,
when a change from the declared
policies of the Republican to the
declared policies of the Democratic
party involved such serious results to
the business interests of the country.
A brief review of what has been done
and of what the Democratic party
proposes to undo will justify this
opinion
The National Currency.
The Republican party. during the
civil war, devised a national currency,
+ consisting of United States notes,
issued and redeemable by the govern.
ment and national bank notes based
upon the security of the United States
bonds A tax was levied upon
the issues of state banks and
the intended result. that all
such issues should be withdrawn, was
realized. There are men among us
now who never saw state bank note.
Bank failures have brought no fright
delay or loss to the bill holders The
note of an insolveDt bank is as good
and as current as a treasury
note-for the credit Of the
United States is behind it.
Our money is all national money!
might almost say intcrnational-for
these bills are not only equally and in
discriminatory accepted at par in all
the states, but in some foreign cOun-
tries. The Democratic party, il
entrusted with the control of
the government, is now pledged
90 repeal the tax on state
bank issues with a view to putting
into circulation again, under such
diverse legislation as the state may
accept, q food of local bank issues.
Only those who in the years before the
war experienced the Inconvenience
and losses attendant upon the uses of
such money can appreciate what q re-
turn to that system involves.
Changes may become necessary but
q national system of currency. safe and
acceptable through the whole country,
is the good fruit of bitter experiences,
and I am sure our people will not con-
sent to the reactionary proposal made
by the Democratic party.
American shipping.
None of these subjects have elected
more discussion or excited more gen.
eral interest than the recovery By the
United States of its appropriate share
of its ocean carrying trade.
The great ships-the fastest upon
the sea-which are now, in
peace, profiting by our trade, are, in .
secondary sense, war ships of their re-
spective governments. and in time Of
war would. under existing contracts
speedil y take on the guns for which
their decks are already prepared and
enter with terrible efficiency upon the
work of destroying our commerce.
The undisputed facts are that the
great steamship lines of Europe arc
built up and are now in part sustained
by direct or indirect government aid,
the latter taking the form of liberal
pay for carrying the mails or of an
annual bonus given in consideration Of
agreements TO construct ships SO as to
adapt them for carrying an armament
and to turn them over to the govern
ment on demand upon specified terms.
1t was plain to every intelligent
American that if the United States