Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1892-09-15
OF ACCEPTANCE
President Harrison Gives to the
Nation Strong, Sensible and
Exhaustive Document.
A Long Deferred Communication
That Will Add to the Presi-
dents Popularity.
Facts and Figures Showing the Ell.
cient Work Accomplished By
the Administration.
IMPORTANT FACTS PLAINLY SET FORTH

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-President
Harrison today made public his let
ter accepting the nomination rendered
him by the Republican convention at
Minneapolis to succeed himself as
president. The following is an excerpt
of the documents:
Hon. W. Mckinley, Jr., and others,
Committee, ETC.; Gentlemen:-I now
avail myself of the first period of re-
lief from public duties to respond to
the notification which you brought me
June 20, OF my nomination for the
Office OF president OF the United States
by the Republican national conven-
ton. accept the nomination, and
am grateful for the approval ex
pressed by the convention of the acts
of the administration. have
endeavored, without wavering or
weariness, so far as the direction Of
public affairs was committed to me,
to carry out my pledges made to the
people in 1883. Ii the policies of the
administration have not been dis
tinctively and progressively American
and Republican policies, the fault has
not been in the purpose but in the ex
ecu ion. shall speak frankly of the
legislation of congress and of the work
OF the departments, for the credit OF
any successes that have been attained
is in such measure due to Others, sen
ators and representatives, and to the
efficient heads of the several executive
departments, that | may do so with
out improperly.
4 vote OF want of confidence is asked
by our currency system adversaries,
and this challenge to a review of what
has been done wepromptly and gladly
accept. The great work OF the Fifty
first rongress has been subjected to the
revision OF the Democratic house OF
representatives, and acts of the exc
cutive department to its scrutiny and
investigat ion. A Democratic national
administration was succeeded by a
Republican administration, and the
freshness of events gives unusual
facilities for fair comparison and Judg-
ment. There seldom has been a time
think when a change from the de-
clared 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 do will justify this opin-
ion. The Republican | arty, during
the civil war, devised a national cur
rency, consisting OF United States
notes ISSUED and redeemable by the
government, and of national bank
notes based upon the security oi
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 real
iZvd. There are men among us now
who never saw II state bank note,
Notes furnished directly or indirectly
by the United States have been the
only safe and acceptable paper cur.
rencv OF the people. Bank failures
have brought no fright, delay or loss
TO bill holders; the note of an insol-
vent bank is as good and current as a
| United States is behind it. Our money
is all national money, l might almost
say International, for these bills are
not only equally and indiscriminately
accepted at par in all the states, but
in all foreign countries. The Demo
cratic party, if entrusted with the con
troll OF the government, is now pledged
to repeal the tax of state bank issues
with a view to putting them into cir
culation again under such diverse
legislation as states may adopt. Th,
flood of local bank issues only those
who, i'm years before the war, expert
enced the inconvenience and losses at
tendant upon the use of such money
can appreciate what a return to thai
system involves. The denomination
of "a bill was then often no indication
OF it's value. A bank detector of yes
terday was not a safeguard of toda.
as to the credit or values. Merchant
deposited several times Turing the da,
lest an hour of bank closing shoult
show a depreciation OF the none,
taken in the morning. A grocer coul'
not use in a journey east issues @
the most solvent banks of the west
and in cons, quence a money changer
Office was a familiar neighbor of
ticket Office and lunch counter. Th
farmer and laborer found the none
received for their products or thei
labor deprecated when they came t.
make their purchases, and the Who'll
business of the country was hindere
and burdened.
Special interest has been taken b
me in the establishment of lines fror
our south Atlantic and gulf ports, an
though my expectations are not ye
realized, attention has been called I
the advantages possessed by tines
ports, and when their people are MOI
fully alive to their interests / do no
doubt they will be able to secure tn
capital needed to enable them t
, profit by their great natural advar
tages. The Democratic party foun
no place in it's platform For any refel
ence to that subject, and has show
its hostility to the general policy b
refusing to extend the appropriate
made during the last administratio
for ocean mail contracts with Amer
can lines. Patriotic people, workms
in our shops. capitalists seeking ne
enterprises, must decide whether th
great ships owned by Americans
which have sought American registry
shall again humbly ask place in til
English naval service, the great shiI
now on the designers table go {
foreign shops Reconstruction, and th
! United States lose it's now brightenir
opportunity of recovering a plaG
commensurate with its wealth, tt
skill of it's constructors and couraf