The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-07-08
MIR. HOBART ACCEPTS.
Committee of Notification Visits Vice
Presidential Candidate,

Louis Conyention-The Currency Oues-
tion Properly the Burden of His Reply,
Paterson, N. j., July 7SFlags were
displayed from nearly every house. in this
city today in honor of the visit of the
committee appointed to notify Garrett
A. Hobart of his nomination for the Vice
Presidency on the Republican ticket.
The committee of notification Of which
charles W. Fairbanks of Indianapolis,
ls chairman, arrived in Paterson at IL
O'Clock.
The party drove at once to Mr..
Hobart's house where they were received
by Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart. About twenty
Fatersonians were present by invitation.
The band stationed on the piazza struck
up lively tune.
MT. and Mrs. Hobart stood in the hall
way and received the committee. There
We're about three Thousand people in front
OF the house at the time. At 1906 Mr..
ana Mrs. Hobart went on the piazza and
Mr. Fairbanks came out to make his
spec Oh. He spoke as follows:
The Republican National convention
recently assembled at st. Louis, COM
mlssioned us to formally notify you of
your nomination for the office of Vice
President of the United States. We are
met pursuant to the direction of the con-
Ventlon to perform the agreeable duty as
signed us. In all the splendid history of
the great party which holds our loyal
allegiance, the necessity was never more
urgent for steadfast adherence to those
wholesome principles which have been
the foundation rock of our national pros
perity. The demand was never greater
for men who hold principles above all
else, and VINO are unmoved either by the
olamor of the hour or the promises Of
false teachers.
The convention of ST. Louis in full
measure met the high demands of the
timeg in it's declaration of party
principles and in the nomination of cam
didaressfor President and Vice President
Sir, the office for which you were nomi-
mated is of rare dignity, honor and
power. 1t has been graced by the most
eminent statesmen who have contributed
to the upbuilding of the strength and
glory of the Republic. Because of your
exalted personal character and of your
intelligent and patIiouio devotion to the
enduring principles of protective tariff
which wisely discriminates in favor of
American interests and to currency
whose soundness and integrity none can
challenge, and because of your con-
spicuous fitness for the exacting and i'm
portant duties of the high office, the Re-
publican National convention with a
unanimity aud enthusiasm rarely wit
messed, chose you as our candidate for
Vice President Of the United States. We
know 1T to be gratifying to you personal
ly to be the associate of William McKin-
ley in the pending contest.
For you and your distinguished asso-
ciate WE bespeak the enthusiasm and
Intelligent support of all our countrymen
who desire that prosperity shall again
rule throughout the republic.
When Mr.. Fairbanks concluded, the
people oheered and the band played.
Mr.. Hobart then made his reply amid
great cheering.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee Il beg to extend to you my
grateful Acknowledgements for the very
kind and flattering terms in which you
convey the formal announcement of my
nomination for Vice President of the
United States by the Repu blican Nation
al Convention at ST. Louis. I am pro-
foundly sensible of the honor which has
been done ME, and through me to the
State in which oil my life has been spent
In my selection as a candidate for this
high office. / appreciate it the more be-
cause it associates me, in contest which
involves the very grayest issues, with one
and public career the highest intelligence
and best spirit of his party. and with
whom my personal relations are such rs
to afford a guarantee of perfect accord in
the work of the campaign which lies be-
fore me.
1t is sufficient for me to say at this
time that. conourring without reserve in
all the declarations of principle and
policy embodied In the st. Louis plat
form, l accept the nomination rendered
me. with full appreciation of its re-
sponsibilities, land with an honest pur-
pose. in the event that the people shall
ratify the choice 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 suo-
cess OF the party which VIC represent, and
which as to the important issues of the
time stands tor the
BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE.
Uncertainty or Instability as to the
money question involves most serious
consequence to every interest and to every
citizen of the country.
The gravity of this question cannot be
uSIS Cdu Ub no uuHU-
cial security; no business stability; no
real prosperity, where the policy of the
Government as to that question is at all
a matter of doubt.
Gold is the one standard of value among
all enlightened commercial nations. All
financial transactions of whatever char
actor, all business enterprise, all individ
uel or corporate investments are adjusted
to it. An honest dollar worth 100 cents
every where, cannot be coined out of So
cents worth of asilyer plus Legislative
fiat.
Such debasement of our currency
would inevitably produce incaloulahle
loss appalling disaster ana national dis
honor.
1t is fundamental principle In coin
age. recognized and followed by all the
statesmen 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 oonourrently
| coined as money, and that basis is equal
ity, not,in weight but in the commercial
value of the metal contained in the re-
spective coins. This commercial value is
fixed by the markets of the world with
which the great intnreeta of Jo,1r couptry