The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-13

waged upon lines of theory and specula- ton, but in the light of severe practical experience and new and dearly ac- 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 it's 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- anywhere 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 to a false philosophy or vain theorists. but to the masses of the American people, the plain, practical people, whom Lincoln loved and trusted and whom the Repub- lican party has always faithfully striyen to serve. The platform adopted by the Republican national convention has re- ceiyed my careful consideration, and has my unqualified approval It is matter of qualification to me. as 1 am sure 1t must be to you, and Republicans every. 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. It 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 of which you have so eloquently spoken.
 'It shall be my aim to attest this ap- appreciation by an unsparing devotion to what 1 esteem the best interests of the people, and in this work l 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 and 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 for the high and exceptional distinction be- slowed upon me-"
 like Reply to the Notification
 Committee.
 Mir. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: l beg to extend to you my grateful acknowledgements for the very kind and tlattering 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 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 q 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 ford guaranty of perfect accord in the work of the campaign which is before us.
 It is sufficient for me to say at this time that. cOncurring without other sery- ices in 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 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 se- rious consequences to every interest and to every citizen of the country. The gravity of this question cannot be Oyer- estimated. There can be no financial security. no business stability, no real prosperity where the policy of the gov ernment 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- tions 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 B cents worth of silver, plus a legislative fat. Such debasement of our currency would inevitably produce inca alculable losS appalling disaster, and national dishonor It is fundamental principle in coinage. 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 ns money, and that basis is equality. not in weight, but in the commercial yalue 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 ipnored Great and self-reliant as our country is 1t is great not alone within its own bor, ders and upon its own resources, but because it also reaches out to inc ends of the earth in all manifold depa rtments of business, exchange and Commerce, and must maintain with honor it's stand. ing and credit among the nations of the earth. VA A'
 The question admits of no compromise It is a vital principle at stake. but if ia in no sense partisan or sectional. If con. cerns all people. Ours, as one of the foremost nations, must have n monetary standard equal to the best. It is of vital consequence that this question should ba 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. hui that which, as patriots, we should treas ure still more higkly--our industrial and commercial supremacy.
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