The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-10-06
BRYAN ACCEPTS
The Nomination of the PopuIIst Party
HIS Letter 20 the Notification
Committee.

follOwIng letter or acceptance OF
the Populist nomination for pres
ident:
Hon. W. V. Allen, Chairman, and
Other Members Of the Notifica
tion Committee, Peoples Party.
Gentlemen-The notification of
the Peoples party for the pres
idency of the United States has
been rendered me in such a gener-
Gus spirit and in such an honorable
way that / am able to accept the
same without departing from the
platform adopted by the Demo-
cratic convention at Chicago. /
fully appreciate the breadth of the
patriotism which has actuated the
members of the Peoples party,
in order to consolidate the senti-
ment in favor of bimetallism, to
be willing to go outside their party
lines and support as their candi-
date one already nominated by the
Democratic party and also by the
silver party. / also appreciate
the fact that while, during all the
years since 1873, large majority
of the Democratic party and con-
siderable minority of the Republi-
can party, have been consistent
advocates of free silver mt the pres
ent ratio, yet ever since the or
ganization of the Peoples s party
its members have supported such
coinage as the only means of re-
storing bimetallism. By persist
emily pointing on the disastrous
effects of a gold standard and pro-
testing against each successive
step toward financial bondage, the
Populists have exerted an import
ant influence in awakening the
Ipnblic to the realization of the ma
tion's present peril.
In time like this when a great
political party is attempting to
surrender the right to legislate for
ourselves on the financial question
and is seeking to bind the American
people TO a foreign monetary sys-
TEN, it behooves us as lovers of
our country, friends of American
institutions, to lay aside for the
present such differences as may ex-
ist among us on minor questions
in order that our strength may be
united in one supreme effort to
wrest the government from the
hands of those who imagine that
the nations finances are only Sc
, cure when controlled by a few
] financiers and that national honor
can only be maintained by
servile acquiescenee in any policy
however destructive to the interests
of the people of the United States
which foreign creditors, present OF
prospective, may desire to forct
upon us.
1t is a cause for congratulatioI
we have in this campaign not onl!
the support of the Democrats, Pop
ulists and Republicans who hav,
long believed In independent bi
metallism. but also the active co
= operation of those Democrats ant
Republicans who, having hereto
fore waited for international. bi
metallism, now join with us rathe
than trust the destiny of the natiol
!. to those who are holding out tn
delusive hope Of foreign aid Will
they labor secretly for the perma
Tl nent gold standard.
While difficulties all arise in tn
settlement of the details of an
plans of corporation, am sur
the advocates of bimetallism are .
e. intensely in earnest that they wi
u be able to devise some means b
So which the silver vote may be con
+. centrated upon one electoral tickC
q in each state. To secure this re
y n suit charity toward the opinion
lie of Others and liberality on the par
T. of all Is necessary. but honest an