Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-11
HOBART ACCEPTS.
He Writes Letter to the Notification
Committee to That Eject.


PATERSON, N. j., Sept. 1o.-Garret
A. Hobart's letter, accepting the re-
publican nomination for vice president
of the United States, was made public
Wednesday.
He expresses himself as well pleased
with the platform adopted by the st.
Louis convention.
The platform declarations in refer
ence to the money question express
clearly and Enthusiastically the attitude
of the republican party as to this su-
premely important subject. We stand
unqualifiedly for honesty in finance,
and the permanent adjustment of our
monetary system, in the multifarious
activities of trade and commerce, to
the existing gold standard Of value.
| We hold that every dollar of currency
issued by the United States, whether
of gold. silver or paper, must be worth
dollar in gold, whether in the pocket
of the man who tolls for his daily
bread, in the vault of the savings bank
which holds his deposits, or in the ex-
changes of the world.
The dollar of our country, whether
of gold or silver, should be of the full,
value of 100 cents, and by so much as
any dollar is worth less than this in
the market by precisely that sum will
some one be defrauded.
This country can not afford to give
its sanction to wholesale spoliation. 1t
must hold fast to it's integrity. 1t must
still encourage thrift in all proper
ways. 1t must not only educate its
children to honor and respect the flag,
but it should inculcate fidelity to the
obligations of personal and national
honor as well.
Both these great principles should
hereafter be taught in the common
schools of the land, and the lesson i'm
pressed upon those who are the voters
of to-day and those who are to become
the inheritors of sovereign power in
this republic, that it is neither wise,
patriotic nor safe to make political
platforms the mediums of assault upon
property, the peace of society and upon
civilization itself.
The platform of the republican ma
tional convention states the party posi-
tion concerning other questions than
those herein referred to. These, while
at the present time of subordinate i'm
portance, should not be overlooked.
The republican party has always been
the defender of the rights of Amer
| lean citizenship, as against all aggres-
sions whatever, whether at home or
abroad. 1t has, to the extent of its
power, defended those rights, and
| hedged them about with law. Regard
ing the ballot as the expression and
EN- mbodiment of the sovereignty of the
individual citizen, it has sought to
safeguard it against assault, and to
preserve its purity and integrity.
In our foreign relations it has
| labored to secure to every
man entitled to the shelter of our flag
the fullest exercise of his rights con-
! sistent with international obligation.
If it should be restored to rulership, it
would infuse needed vigor into our re-
lations with powers which have mani
tested contempt and disregard, not
only Of Anne rican citizenship but of
humanity itself
The republican party has always
stood for the protection of the Amer
lean home. 1t has aimed to secure it
in the enjoyment of all the blessings
of remunerated industry, of moral
culture, and of favorable physical en-
vironment 1t was the party which in
stituted the policy Of free homesteads,
and which holds now that this policy
should be re-established, and that the
public lands yet vacant and subject tc
entry in any part of our national terri
tory, should be preserved against cor
porate aggression as homes for the peo
pie. 1t realizes that the safety of the
state lies in the multiplication o.
households, and the strengthening OF
that sentiment of which the virtuou'
home is the best and the truest EN-
bodiment; and it will aim to dignity
and enlarge by all proper Legislation
this element of security.