The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-07
MR. SENtLL ACCEPTS
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HAVE RESCUED OUR PARTY
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We Must Rescue Our Country
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AVE RESCUED OUR PARTY
TIE NATURE OF THE STRUGGLE
Gold Has Increased the Wealth of the
Rich and the Debt of the Oebtor--
/ hna The People Need Only to
Understand.

Gu0CFSb0tAs
Bath, Me, Oct. 6.-Hon. Arthur Sew
all, Democratic candidate for Vice
President of the United States, to-
night made public his letter of accep-
tanee. 1T is as follows:u
Hon. Stephen b. White, Chairman, and
Members of the Notification com
inittee: Eear5 a+ uH sEt
Gentlemen: Erhaye the honor to ac-
cept In writing, as l have already YER
bally done, the nomination rendered by
you on behalf of the Democratic par
| ty, as its candidate for Vice-President
of the United States. And in doing so,
l am, glad first to express my salts
| faction THAT the platform of our party
which has Commanded my lifelong all
| legiance, is honestly and fully declara-
/ tory of all its principles and especially
| of the. absorbing financial issue upon
/ WHICH. as. you say, ! took my stand
L when the hour OF triumph seemed
Iiremote. and when, arrogant money
bcbangets throughout the world tboasted
|. that the conquest of the american
masses was colnpleted.'' si'otloi '.I s@
/ These principles. have been Of late
| I'M abeyance, but only because those
/ whom we trusted TO maintain them
\ lltbNE 10 1AASfC PIES
!, cam never die9 We have rescued our
/ party from those who, under the iHffu-
enee Of the money power, have c0ntroll-
| edand debased il. Our mission now is
/ to- rescue from this same power. and
it's foreigne 1aHies, onI; OWN beloved
| country. d9Eissisa the first and highest
| duty imposed by our party platform;
| upon the performance of this duty all
| other reforms must wait. The test of
party principles is the government
| they ASSUME; the proof of good govern
nient issa eonbentedsand happy people,
and the supreme stest of both is the
| ability to guide the country through
crises as we'll AS to administer the IgovE
ernInept8 in ordinary times Our people
NOW 8aQg a crisis a, crisis more serious
than ANY since the war s To what shall
| they turn ia thfiF dire eIaergepcY,?r 1t
| IS true that the present crisis may not
inYolye, alhequaIly, that there are those
Whofd not esptfer BOW, and may not
suffer- should the crisis Threatened by
the, gold, Rtandafd come on in all it's
fury Fl Human selfshnesso makes these,
deaf to all appeals but to these, fcrtl-
nately, the Democratic party has never
needed to appeal TO win it's battles,
nor does it pow, save as there are some
among them who can rise superior to
self III fheasEie eriHee which stieh "a crisis
demands of every patriot We are fold
that THE c6hfltry has prospered under
The present monetary standard, that
its wealth has ENORMOUSLY Increased
Cffa8lte5i 50, ,9btftf ia whose handkP g In
the hands Of the t6ilers, the pr6dicets
tfie Farmers, the miners the fabffcaI
tors I'll tife factories, the eTea tors of the
NATIONS 'wealth@in peace, its defenders
I'M war? iHaveG they the sbibrosyoef-ityl
whieh was theirsso late as e8enitSvehtyT
years agl09 III deny 10 They deny il. ;
None affirm itllsaTe .thdseI wh6se iifiteFu
ests Ut 1S9to do 'so.f Whose tBr6fti would
diminish as prosperity returns to thOsea
on, whose distress theyathFixe2- ALI -is~
indeed right between capital and capi-
tai. The best money is tie Morld' is
none too apod,for Hhases who have got
it, but hoTsais IL with the ninety per
cent of our people who have got it
to get?" How is it Ritlr those who
must bux gtfis f'best T7olfeys m8the
worldW With the products ofsflieir own
labor. These are the people FOR whom
the Democratic party would Iegislate.
What is then best money for these, is
the question for all to ask who love
their land. How else can. you increase
lsttJOA IBAlAGltdSAil8 fFONNGAB tAbub ON III
creasing' the price of labor's products?
Is it a fair measure of values that in
our producing sections. ten bushels
of potatoes must be paid for a dollar,
six bushels of corn for a dollar, three
busheIs'of wheat and all other products
of the soil, and mines and the labor of
all wage-earners at the same ratio?
Does any fair mind say, this is honest
money that forces such an exchange,
and if it is not fair exchange, is it
honest, is it less than robbery? This
is the condition to which the single
gold standard has brought us Under
it, the appreciation of the 'best money
in the world has increased the wealth
of the rich, and for the same reason
has increased the debt of the debtor
So it has been, so under the present
standard it must -continue-to be-
With these object lessons about us,
little need have we for history and
Statistics and the studies Of scholars |
Little satisfactionit t is to us chat they
have warned US long since of the dead |
ly evil Of the gold standard 1t has |
brought us at last to the parting of |
the ways Whittier shall the people |
go-in the way that has led to their |
enslaYement, or into that which offers |
them their only chance to regain in |
dividual liberty, lasting prosperity and |
happiness? Let not our opponents |
charge us with creating class distinc- |
ton Alasl for the Republic they are |
already here, created by the Repub- |
lican policy of the last thirty years. |
created by the very system we would |
now overthrow and destroy Nor do |
we raise a sectional issue. The nomi-
nation you tender repels the charge.
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