The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-08-19


experience and new and dearly &C
quired knowledge. The great body of
our citizens know what they want, and
that they intend to have. They know
for what the Republican party stands,
and what its return to power means to
them. They realize that the Republican
party believes that our work should be
done at home, and not abroad, and ev-
erywhere proclaim their devotion to the
principles of protective tariff, which,
while supplying adequate revenues for
the government, will restore American
production and serve the best interests
of American labor and development.
Appeal to tho Plain People.
"Our appeal, therefore, is not Il
false philosophy or vain theorists, 5ns -
the masses of the American people, the
plain, practical people, whom Lincoln
loved and trusted and whom the Repub-
lican party has always faithfully striven
to serve. The platform adopted by the
Republican national convention has re-
ceived my careful consideration, and has
my unqualified approval. It is a matter
of qualification to me, as l am sure 1t
where, and to all our people that the ex-
pressions of it's declaration of principles
are so direct, clear and emphatic. They
are too plain and positive to leave any
chance for doubt or question as to their
purport and meaning. But you Will not
expect me to discuss its provisions at
length, or in any detail, at this time. 1t
will, however, be my duty and pleasure
at some future day to make to you and
through you to the great party you rep
resent a more formal acceptance OF the
nomination rendered me. No one could
be more profoundly grateful than l for
manifestations of public confidence Oh
which you have so eloquently spoken.
SIT shall be my aim to attest this ap-
appreciation by an unsparing devotion
to what / esteem the best interests OF
the people, and in this work 1 ask the
counsel and support of you gentlemen
and of every other friend of the country.
''The generous expressions with which
you, sir, convey the official notice OF my
nomination are highly appreciated ana
as fully reciprocated, and l thank you
and your associates of the notification
committee and the great party and con-
vention at whose instance you come Tor
the high and exceptional distinction be-
slowed upon me-"
Hon. Garrett A. Hobart-His Statesman
Like Reply to the Notification
Committee.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee: l beg to extend to you my
grateful Acknowledgements for the very
kind and fiattering terms in which you
convey the formal announcement OF my
nomination for Vice-President of the
United States by the Republican nation
al convention at st. Louis. l am pro-
foundry sensible of the honor which has
been done me and through me to the
state in which all my life has been spent,
in my selection as candidate for this
high Office. l appreciate it the more be-
cause it associates me, in contest which
involves the gravest issues, with one who
represents in his private character and
public career the highest intelligence and
best spirit of his party and with whom
my personal relations are such as to af-
ford guaranty of perfect accord in the
us.
1t is sufficient for me to say at this
time that, concurring without other serv-
ices in all the declarations of principle
and policy embodied in the st. Louis plat
form, I accept the nomination rendered
to me with full appreciation of it's re-
sponsibilities and with an honest pur-
pose, in the event that the people shall
ratify the choices made by the national
convention, to discharge any duties
which may devolve upon me with sole
reference to the public good.
Let me add that it will be my earnest
effort in the coming campaign to con-
tribute in every way possible to the sue
cess of the party which we represent
and which to the important issues of
the time stands for the best interests of
the people. Uncertainty and instability as
to the money question involves most Sc
rious consequences to every interest and
to every citizen Of the country. The
gravity of this question cannot be over
estimated. There can be no financial
security, no business stability, no real
prosperity where the policy Of the gov
eminent as to that question is at all a
matter of doubt. Gold is the one STAN
dard of value among all enlightened COM
mercial nations. All financial transac-
tons of whatever character, all business
enterprises, all individual or corporate in
vestments are adjusted to it.
An honest dollar, worth 100 cents ev-
erywhere, cannot be coined out of So
cents worth of silver, plus a legislative
fat. Such debasement of our currency
would inevitably produce incalculable loss,
appalling disaster, and national dishonor.
1t is fundamental principle in COMA ge.
recognized and followed by all the states
men of America in the past, and never
yet safely departed from, that there can
be only one basis upon which gold and
silver may be concurrently coined as
money, and that basis is equality, not in
weight, but in the commercial value of
the metal contained in the respective
coins. This commercial value is fixed by
the markets of the world, with which the
great interests of our country are neces-
sarily connected by innumerable business
ties which cannot be severed or ignored.
Great and self-reliant as our country is.
it Is great not alone within its own Dor.
ders and upon its own resources. but
because it also reaches out to the ends
of the earth in all manifold departments
of business, exchange and commerce.
and must maintain with honor its stand.
ing and credit among the nations of the
earth.
The question admits Of no compromise
1t is vital principle at stake, but it is
in no sense partisan or sectional. It con-
Germs all people. Ours, as one of the
foremost nations, must have a monetary
standard equal to the best. 1t is of vital
consequence that this question should be
settled now in such way as to restore
public confidence here and eyerywhere
in the integrity of our purpose. A doubt
of that integrity among the other great
commercial countries of the world will
not only cost us millions of money. hut
that which, as patriots, we should treas
ure still more highly-our industrial and
commercial supremacy.
My estimate of the value of a pro-
tective policy has been formed by the
study of the object lesson of a great in
dustrial state extending over a period of
thirty years. 1t is that protection not