Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-01


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 its return to power means to
them. They realize that the Republican
party believes that work should be
done at home. and not abroad, and ey-
erywhere proclaim their devotion to the
principles of a 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 the Plain People.
"Our appeal, therefore. is not 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 strlven
to serve. The platform adopted by the
Republican national convention has re-
ceived my careful consideration, anu mas
my unqualified approval. 1t is a matter
of qualification to me. as L am sure 1t
must be to you. and Republicans every
where, and to all our people that the ex-
pressions of its 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
expect me to discuss its provisions at
length, in any detail, at this time 1t
will, however, be my duty and pleasure
through you to the great party you rep
resent n 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
ut shall be my aim to attest this APP
appreciation by an unSparlng deyotlon
to what l esteem the best interests OF
the people, and in this work l ask the
counsel and support of you gentlemen
1.-The generous expressions with winch
you, sir, convey the official notice of my
as fully refrigerated, and l thank you
and your associates of the notification
committee and the great party and con
yention at whose instance you come for
the high and exceptional distinction be-
slowed upon me-
Hon. Garrett A. Hobart-His Statesman-
like Reply to the Notification
Committee.
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen of the
Committee: 1 beg to extend to you my
grateful Acknowledgements for the very
kind and f1attering terms in which you
nomina ton for VicePresident of the
United States by the Republican nation
al convention at St. Louis. am pro-
foundry 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 a candidate for TINS
high Office. / 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
| my personal relations are such as to af-
| ford a guaranty of perfect accord in the
work of the campaign which is before
1t is sufficient for me to say at this
| time that. concurring without other serv-
| ices in all the declarations of principle
and policy embodied in the st. Louis plat
| form, l accept the nomination rendered
| to me with a full appreciation of its re-
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| pose. in the event that the people shall
| ratify the choices made by the national
convention, to discharge any duties
| 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 Sc
rious consequences to every interest and
to every citizen of the country. The
| gravity of this question cannot be over
| estimated. There can be no financial
| security. no business stability, real
prosperity where the policy of the gov
| eminent 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 IOO cents ev-
| erywhere, cannot be coined out of So
| cents worth of silver, plus legislative
fiat. Such a debasement of our currency
would inevita bly, produce incaIculable loss,
| appalling disaster, and national dishoner
1t is fundamental principle in coinage,
| recognized and followed by all the states
| men of America in the past, and never
vet safely departed from, that there can
| be only one basis upon which gold and
| silver may be concurrently coined as
| money, and that basis is equality not in
| weight, but in the commercial value 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-
sarlly connected by innumera Bile business
ties which cannot be severed or ignored.
| Great and self-reliant as our country is
1t is great not alone within its own Dor
| ders and upon its own resources but
because 1T also reaches out to the ends
| of the earth in all manifold departments
| OF business, exchange and commerce.
| and must maintain with honor its stand
i ing and credit among the nations of the
| earth.
| The question admits of no compromise.
| 1t is vital principle at stake but it is
| In no sense partisan or sectional. 1t con-
| Germs all people Ours as one of the
| foremost nations, must have a monetary
standard equal to the best. 1t is of vital
consequence that this question should be
settled now in such a way as to restore
public confidence here and everywhere
in the integrity of our purpose. A doubt
of that integrity among the other great
commercial countries of the world will
not only cost millions of money. but
that which, as patriots, we should treas
ure still more highly-our Industrial and
commercial supremacy.
| My estimate of the value of a pro-
| haS