Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-06

auired knowledge. The great body OF
our citizens know what they want, ana
that they intend to hsve. They know
for what the Republican party STANDS,
and what its return to power menus 70
them. They realize that the Repuniican
party believes that our work should De
done at home, and not abroad, and ev-
erywhere proclaim their devotion 10 tne
principles of a protective tariff. when,
while supplying adequate revenues Tor
the government will restore American
production and serve the best interests
of American labor and development
Appeal to the Plain People.
"Our appeal. therefore. is not TO a
false philosophy or vain theorists, but 10
the masses of the American people, the
plain, practical people, whom Lincoln
loved and trusted and whom the RepuD-
lican party has always faithfully striven
TO serve. The platform adopted by the
Republican national convention mas re-
ceived my careful consideration anu nus
my unqualified approval. 1t IS matter
of qualification to me. rs l am sure IL
must be to you. and Republicans every
where, and to all our people that the cx-
pressions of its declaration OF principles
are so direct, clear and emphatic. Ihey
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 AZ
! length, or i'm any detail. at this time. IL
WILL however, be my duty ana pleasure
| at some future day to make to you ana
| through you to the great party you rep
resent more formal acceptance OF the
nomination rendered me. No one could
| be more profoundly grateful than l FOR
manifestations of public confidence OF
| which you have so eloquently spoken.
1T shall be my aim to attest this APP
appreciation by an unsparing devouon
| to what | esteem the best interests OF
| the people, and i'm this work l ask the
| counsel and support of you gentlemen
| and of every other friend of the country
"The generous expressions with when
| YOU. sir, convey the official notice or my
nomination are highly appreciated ana
as fully refrigerated, and l thank you
| and your associates of the notlncatloh
committee and the great party and con-
| yention at whose instance you come Tor
the high and exceptional distinction De-
slowed. upon me-
Hon. Garrett A. Hobart-His Statesman
like Reply to the Notification
Committee.
Mr.. Chairman end Gentlemen of the
| Committee: ] beg to extend to you my
| grateful acknowledgements for the very
| kind and flattering terms In when you
| convey the formal announcement OF my
nomination for VicePresident OF the
| 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 all my life has been spent,
| in my selection as candidate Tor TINS
high office. l appreciate 1t the more be-
cause it associates me, in contest which
| involves the gravest issues, with one who
| in his nriynfa char etpr and
public career the highest intelligence and
best spirit of his party and with whom
| my personal relations are such as to al
ford a guaranty of perfect accord in the
work of the campaign which is before
| us.
1t is sufficient for me TO say at this
| time that concurring without other serv-
ices i'm all the declarations of principle
and policy embodied in the st. Louis plat
form, l accept the nomination rendered
| to me with full appreciation of its 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 earnes,
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 al
to the money question involves most Sc
rious consequences to every interest anC
TO every citizen of the country. The
| gravity of this question cannot he over
estimated. There can be no financia
security. no business stability, no rea
prosperity where the policy of the gov
eminent as to that question is at all o
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 bushes.
enterprises, all individual or corporate in
vestments are adjusted to it.
An honest dollar, worth 100 cents ev
erywhere, cannot be coined out of 3:
cents worth of silver, plus legislative
fiat. Such debasement of our CURRENCY
would inevitably produce inca lculable loss
appalling disaster, and national dishonor
1t is fundamental principle in coinage
recognized and followed by all the states
men of America i'm the past, and neve,
yet safely departed from. that there car
be only one basis upon which gold anc
silver may he concuirently coined n,
money. and that basis is equality, not il
weight, but in the commercial value ot
the metal contained in the respectiy,
coins. This commercial value is fixed b,
the markets of the world, with which tn,
| S''dt ihttltsts VI OuT Country are neCeS
sarily connected by innumerable business
ties which cannot be severed or ignored
Great and self-reliant as our country is
II Is great not alone within its own Dor
ders and upon its own resources. bu
because it also reaches out to the end
of the earth in all manifold department,
of business, exchange and commerce
and must maintain with honor its stand
ing and credit among the nations of tn,
earth.
The question admits OF no compromise
II is vital principle mt stake. but II /
in no sense partisan or sectional. 1t con
Germs all people. Ours, as one of In,
foremost nations, must have n moneta r,
standard equal to the best 1t is of yitn
consequence that this question should h,
settled now in such a way as to restor
public confidence here and everywher
, in the integrity of our purpose. A doub
of that integrity among the other grea
commercial countries of the world will
not only cost us millions of money. bu
: that which, as patriots, we should treas
ure still more highly-our industrial an,
commercial supremacy.
My estimate of the value of n pro
tective policy has been formed bv IN
study of the object lesson of a great i'm
dustrial state extending over n period n
, thirty years. 1t is that protection no
only builds up important industries from
small beginnings, but that those and nj