The herald., 1896-10-07
The Nomination rendered Him
at Chicago
RIsHT aNLY 5 TATEMENr
OF the Issue Now Agitating The Ameri.
can People
The Free Coinage of Silver Is the Sole
Remedy to Check Wrong and
Undo Ruin
.ssociated Press Special Wire

ASsOcldteu FTeSS special wire
BATH, Me-, Oct. 6.-Hon. Arthur Sew
all, Democratic candidate for the vice.
presidency, tonight made public his let
ter of acceptance. 1t is in part as fol-
lows:
Hon. Stephen M. White, Chairman,
and Members of the Notification Com
mittee: Gentlemen have the honor to
accept in writing, as have already ver
bally done, the nomination rendered by
you on behalf Of the Democratic conven
ton, for president of the United
States. And in so doing am glad first
to express my satisfaction that the plat
form of our party, which has commanded
my lifelong allegiance, is honestly and
fully declaratory Of all the principles and
Of the absorbing financial issue upon
which, as you say, I took my stand
when the hour of triumph seemed re-
mote and when arrogant money chang
ers throughout the country boasted that
the conquest Of the American masses
was complete"
These principles have been Of late in
allegiance, but only because those whom
we trusted to maintain them have failed
to do SO. These principles can never die.
We have rescued our party from those
who, under the influence of the money
power, have controlled and debased it.
Our mission now is to rescue from this
same power and its foreign alliance our
own beloved country. This is the first
and highest duty imposed by our party's
platform, and upon the performance of
this duty all other reforms must wait.
We are told that the country has pros
pered under the present monetary stand
ard; that it's 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 trainers
Of the nations wealth in peace, it's de-
tenders in war? Have they the pros
perity which was theirs so late as even
twenty years ago? I deny it; none affirm
it save those whose interests 1t is to do
50, whose profit would diminish as pros
perity returns to those on whose dis
tress they thrive.
Let not our opponents charge us with
creating class distinctions. Alas for the
republic! They are already here, created
thirty years, created by the very system
we would now overthrow and destroy.
Nor do we raise sectional ISSUE The
nomination you tender repels the charge.
None know better than that this nomi-
nation is meant as no personal tribute,
but as an assurance that our party is a
non-sectional party.
We know we'll the nature of the strug-
gle in which we are engaged. Weare anx-
ious only that the people of the land
shall understand, and then our battle is
won. Behind the strong entertainments
of the gold standard are gathered all
those favored classes it has fostered, the
only dangerous classes Of the land. Av-
arice and unholy greed are there; every
trust and combination is there; every
monopoly is there. led by the greatest
monopoly Of all the monopoly of the
power of gold. With us in our assault
upon these intrenchments are all those
unselfish men who, not now suffering
themselves, cannot rest content with
conditions so full of suffering for others,
and that vaster number of our people
who have been sacrificed to the small
and selfish class who now resist their at
tempts to regain their ancient rights and
liberties. These are the patriots of 1896,
the foes of a dishonest dollar" which
enriches 10 per cent of our people to rob
the rest; the defenders of the homes of
the land, the public morals and the pub
lie faith, both of which alike forbid the
payment of government obligations in
a coin costlier to those who have to pay
than thai the contract calls for; the de-
tenders of honor of the nation whose
most sacred charge is to care for the
welfare of all it's citizens
The free and unlimited coinage of sill
Yer is the sole remedy with which to
check the wrongs of today, to undo the
ruin of the past; and for our inspiration
we have the justice of our cause and
those cherished principles of Jefferson
and Jackson, which shall be our guide
on our return to power: Equal and ex-
act justice to all men, absolute aruuies
cence in the decisions of the ma;crity
(the vital principle of republics) the
honest payment of our debts, and the sa-
cred preservation of the public faith"
Profoundly sensible of the high honor
of the nomination you tender, I am
yours truly, ARTHUR SEWALL.