The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-08
RRYAN'S RUNNING NATE NO.
GIVES OUT HIS ACCEPTANCE
LETTER.
.LABORED EFFORT 70 say SOMETHING.
Market Reports to the Contrary. H'
Speaks of Three Bushels Of Wheat
for a Dollar-HarpOOns His
Fellow PlutocratS.

IL. VI
all democratic candidate for vice presi-
dent of the United States tonight made
public his letter Of acceptance. 1t is as
follows:
Hon. Stephen B. White, Chairman. and
Members of the Notification Committee:
Gentlemen-I have the honor to accept
in writing. as | have already ycrOallv
done. the nomination rendered - YOU OH
behalf of the democratic party as i, can
didate for vice president of the Un.t"d
States. and in so doing am glad. first, 90
express my satisfaction that the platform
of our party. which has commanded my
lifelong allegiance, is honestly and fully
declaratory of all the principles, and es-
pecially of the absorbing financial issue,
upon which. as you say, | took my stand
when the hours of triumph seemed re-
mote. and when arrogant money changers
throughout the world boosted that the
conquest of the American masses was
completed
These principles can never die. We
have rescued our party from those who.
under the influence of the money power,
mission now is to rescue from this same
power and its foreign allies our own h.
loved country This is the first and
highest duty imposed by our party'S plat
form: upon the performance of this duty
all others must wait. The test of party
principles is the government they assure:
the proof of good government is a con-
tented and happy people. and the supreme
test of both is the ability to guide the
country through Il crisis as well as 10 add
minister the government in ordinary
times. Our people now face a crisis, Il
crisis more serious than any since the
war. TO what party shall they turn III
their dire emergency! 1t is true that
the present crisis may not involve all
equally; that there are those who do not
suffer now and may not suffer should
the crisis threatened by the gold stan
dard come on in all its fury. Human
seltishness makes these deaf to all ap-
peals. but to these, fortunately. the dem
Ocratic party has never needed TO appeal
for aid in its battles, nor did ii now. save
as there are some among them who can
rise superior to self in the sacrifice which
such crisis demands of every patriot.
We are told that the country has pros
pered under the present monetary stan
dard: that its wealth has enormously in
creased. Granted so, but in whose
hands! In the hands of the toilers. the
producers. the farmers, the miners. the
fabricatOrs in the factories. the creators
of the nations wealth in peace, its defend
ers in war? Have they the prosperity
which was theirs so late as even twenty
years ago? l deny it. They deny it.
None affirm it save those whose interests
it is to do so: whose profit will diminish rs
prosperity returns to those on whose dis
tress they thrive
"All is indeed right between capital and
labor The best money in the world is
none too good for those who have got it,,
but how is it with the 80 per cent of our
people who have got it to get! How is
it with those who must buy this best
money in the world with the products of
their labor. Those are the people for
whom the democratic party would legis-
late. What is the best money for these
is the question for all to ask who really
love this land How else can you in
crease labor's purchasing power. but by
increasing the price of labor'S products?
Is it Il fair measure of value that in our
great producing sections ten bushels of
potatoes must he paid for a dollar, ten
bushels of oats for a dollar, six bushels of
corn for dollar. three bushels of wheat
and all other products of soil and mines
and the labor of all wage-earners at the
same ratio? Does any fair mind say this
is honest money that forces such an eX-
change. and if it is not a fair thing. is it
honest. is it less than robbery? This is
the condition to which the single god
standard has brought us. Under it the
appreciation of the best money i'll the
world has increased the wealth of the
rich. and for the same reason has increas-
ed the debt of the debtor. As it has been
so under the present standard. 1t must
continue to be. With these object les
sons about us little need have we for his
tory and statistics and the studies of
scholars. Little satisfaction it is to us
that they have warned us long since of
the deadly evil of the gold standard.
1T has brought us at last to the part
ing of the ways. Whittier shall the peo-
pie go-in the way that has led to their
enslavement or into that which offers
vidual liberty. lasting prosperity and
charge us with creating class distinction.
Alas for the republic, they are already
here held 10y the republican policy of
the last thirty years, created by the very
system we would now overthrow and de-
Stroy. Nor do we raise sectional issue.
The nomination you tender repels the
charge. None know better than | that
this nomination Is meant as no personal
tribute. but as an assurance that our
party is non-scctional party. Not by
our policy. but only by the continuance
of the gold standard, can sectionalSm he
revived Neither shall our opponents he
permitted to terrify the people by pre-
dictions that temporary disturbance or
panic will come from the policy we pro-
pose. The American people will be
loyal to the nations money, will stand
behind it and maintain it at whatever
value they themselves may put upon It..
Once before in the present generation
have our people been called upon to
face a momentous crisis. What then
said Mr.. Lincoln, the chosen leader of
the plain people of the land? Was he
awed by threats or weakened by the willy
persuasion of the false friends. who. as
today. pleaded for compromise with
wrong? His answer was: If our
sense of duty forbids this. then let us
stand by our duty fearlessly and
effectively. Let us be diverted by none
of these sophistrical contrivances where
with we were SO .industriously piled and
belabored: contrivances such as cropping
for some middle ground between right
and wrong, reversing the divine rule and
calling not the sinners. but the righteous.
to repentance, such as invocations to
Washington. imploring men to unsay
what Washington said and undo what
Washington did: neither let us be SLAM
dered from our duty by false accusa-
tons against us. Let us have faith that
right makes might and in that faith let