The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-09-16
WANTS BUT ONE TERM
Candidate William Jennings Bryan
So Declares Himself
WOULD AVOID TEMPTATION.
Each Plank of the Chicago Platform
UnequiYocally IndOrsed.
CIVIL SERVICE is DEPLoRED'
Federal Government Has No Right
to Interfere In States.
BOND ISSUE WITHOUT EXCUSE.
Not Necessary to discuss TArIr as No
other Question Shall he Con-
sIdered Until the Money
Question ID Settled.
Question IL Settled.

Other Question Shall he Con-
sIdered Until the Money
Question ID Settled.
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 9.-Following
is the full text of Hon. William j.
Bryan's letter accepting the Democratic
nomination for president of the United
States:
Hon. stephen NJ White and others. Members
of the Notification Committee OF the Demo-
cratic National Committees:
GENTLEMEN accept the nomination
tendered by you on behalf of tho Demo
cratic party, and III SO doing desire to
assure you that fully appreciate tho
high honor which such a nomination
confers and the grave responsibilities
which accompany an election to the
presidency of tho United States. So
deeply am impressed with the magni-
tude of the power vested by tho consti-
tuition in the chief executive of the ma
ton and with the enormous influence
which he can WELD for the benefit or
injury of the people that wish to enter
tho office, if elected. free from any per-
Eonal desire except the desire to prove
worthy the confidence of my country.
Human Judgment is fallible enough
when unbiased by selfish considerations,
and in order that may not be tempted
to use the patronage of the office to ad-
vance any personal ambition 1 hereby
announce, with all the emphasis which
words can express, my fxed determina-
ton not, under any circumstances to
be q candidate for re- election III case
this campaign results in my election.
l have carefully considered the plat
form adopted by the National DemO.
cratic convention and unquulifedly in
dorsc each plank thereof
Our institution, rest upon the prOpo.
sition that all men, being created equal,
are entitled to equal consideration at
the hands of the government. Because
all men are created equal 1t follows that
No Citizen Has Natural Right
to injure any other citizen. The main
purpose of government being to protect
all citizens in the enjoyment of life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
this purpose must lead the government,
first to avoid acts of affirmative injus.
tico, and, second, to restrain each citi-
zen from trespassing upon the rights of
any other citizen.
A democratic form of government is
conducive to the highest civilization be.
cause it opens before each individual
tho greatest opportunities for develop
ment and stimulates to the highest en-
deavor by inSurinR to each tho full en-
ieyment of all the rewards of toll, OK
cept such contribution as is necessary
to support tho government which pro-
tects him.
Democracy is Indifferent to pedigree;
it deals with the individual rather than
with his ancestors. Democracy ignores
differences i'll wealth; neither riches
nor poverty can be invoked in behalf of
or against any citizen. Democracy
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of each individual to worship God ac-
cordinR to the dictates of his own con.
science, it welcomes all to a common
brotherhood and guarantees equal treat
ment to all, no matter i'll what church
or through what foHms they commune
with their Creator.
Having discussed portions of the plat
form at the time of its adoption and
again when your letter OF notification
was formally delivered, it will not be
necessary at this time to touch upon all
the subjects embraced in the party's
declaration.
Dual GOVornment
Honest differences of opinion have
ever existed and ever will exist as to the
effective means of securing domestic
tranquility, but no citizen fails to recoB-
niZe at all times and under all circum.
stances the absolute necessity for tho
prompt and vigorous enforcement OF law
and the preservation of the public peace.
In a government like ours law is but
the crystallization of the will of the
people without it the citizen is neither
secure i'll the enjoyment of life and lib
erty nor protected in the pursuit of hap
piness. Without obedience to law gov
ernment is impossible. The Democratic
party is pledged to defend the constitu-
ton and enforce the laws of tho United
States. and it is also pledged to respect
and preserve the dual scheme of govern
ment instituted by the founders of the
republic.
The name, United States, was we'll
tional strength with the idea of local
self government and suggests ian in
dissoluble union of indestructiblO
states" Our revolutionary fathers,
fearing the
Tendencies Toward GENERALIZATION
as we'll as the danger of disintegration,
guarded against both, and national
safety, as we'll as domestic security, is
to be fouund in the careful Observance
of the limitations which they impose.
1t will be noticed that, while the United
States guarantees to every state q re-
publican form of government and Is
empowered to protect each state against
invasion, it is not authorized to inter
fere an the domestic affairs of any state
except upon application of the leRisla.
tuEe of state or upon the application OF
the executive whom tho legislature oan
not be convened.
This provision rests upon the sound
theory that the people of the state, Rct-
ing through their legally chosen repre-
sentative, are, because of their more in
innate acquRintences with local oehdt.