The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1896-08-15
FORMALLY NOTIFIED
Bryan and Sewall Waited on
by the Committee.
JAPS WANT BLOOD
They Seek to Subjugate Formosa by
Exterminating Defenseless
Natives.
England and Russia are Unable to Reach
an Agreement by which ths People
-. Of Armenia and Crete Can bs .
saved From the Turka

NEW YORK, Aug. l2.-At Madison
Square garde tonight, 10 the presence
OF vast 'coucourse Il people, William
Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall
were officially notified that they had
been nominated for president and vice.
president OF the United States by the
democratic national convention at
Chicago. The notification speeches
were made by Governor Stone of Mis-.
souri,.
In responding to the notification
speech of Governor Stone, Bryan said
that at future day, he would, in q
formal letter of acceptance. enter up.
Tn the issues presented by the platform
Continuing he said in part:
"Citizens, either public or private,
who assail the characters and question
the patriotism OF the delegates who
were assembled in the Chicago con-
vention, assail She character and ques-
tion the patriotism Of millions who
have arrayed themselves under the
banner raised there. 1t has been
charged by men standing high in bus.
tness and political circles, that our
platform is menace to private securi-
ties and public safety; and 1t has been
asserted that those, whom I have the
honor for the time being to represent,
not only mediate an attack upon the
rights Of property, but are the foes Of
social order and national honor. Those
who stand upon the Chicago platform
understand the genius Of our institu-
tions, they are staunch supporters of
the form OF government under which
we live and build their faith upon the
foundations laid by our fathers,
"Our campaign has not for itsobject
the reconstruction of society. We
cannot insure to the vicious the fruits
of virtuous life; we would not invade
the home Of the provident In order to
supply the wants Of the spendthfift,
and we do not propose TO transfer the
rewards Of industry to the lap Of indo-
lence. Property is and will remain
the stimulous TO endeavor and the
compensation for toll. We believe, as
asserted in the declaration Of indepen-
dence. that all men are created equal,
but that does not mean that all men
are, or can be, equal in possession, in
ability or in merit, 1t simply means
that all shall stand equal before the
law, and that the government shall
not,in. making, construing or enforcing
law, discriminate between citizens, !
assert that the property rights, as well
as the rights Of person, are safe In the
hands OF the common people.
THE Chicago platform has been
condemned because it ditfers from an
opinion rendered by the supremecourt
declaring the income tax law uncon.
stitutional. Our critics even go 80
far as to apply the name anarchist to
those who stand upon the planks Of
the platform. While the money ques-
tion overshadows all questions OF im-
portance, desire it understood that
shall offer no apology for the income
tax plank Of the Chicago platform.
Not only shall refuse to apologize for
the exercise, by It, of the right to dis
sent from the decision Of the supreme
court"
Bryan then took up the money ques-
tion as the great issue of the campaign.
lie said that it was scarcely necessary
to defend the principle Of bimetalism.
He said that any Legislation, which
lessons the world's stock of standard
money. increases the exchangeable
value of dollar, therefore the crusade
against silver must inevitably raise
the purchasing power OF money and
lower the money value Of all other
forms of property. He then dwelt on
the injury done to the farmer, the
merchant and manufacturer by the
gold standard,