Gilpin observer., 1900-09-13

Hcan party. A synopsis of 1t follows:
Executive Mansion, Washington,
Sept. S.-Hon. Cabot Lodge, chairman
notification committees:
my Dear Sir-The nomination OF
the Republican national convention OF
June 10th, 1900, for the office of Presi-
dent of the United States, which as
the official representative of the con-
vention you have conveyed to me, is
accepted. 1 have carefully examined
the platform adopted, and give 1t my
hearty approval
Upon the great issue of the last
national election it is clear. 1t up
holds the gold standard and indorses
the legislation of the present Congress,
by which that standard has been great
ly strengthened. The stability of our
national currency is, therefore, secure
SO long as those who adhere to this
platform are kept in control of the
government In the first battle, that
of 1896. the friends of the gold stand
y ard and of sound currency were tri-
umphant, and the country is enjoy
ing the fruits of that victory. Our
antagonists. however, are not salts
fed. They compel us to a second bat
tie upon the same lines on which the
first was fought and won.
y while regretting the reopeninS of
Mis- question, which can only disturb
the present satisfactory tinancia! con-
dition of the government and visit un-
certainty upon our great business EN-
terpriseS, we accept the issue, and
again invite the sound money forces to
join in winning another, and, we hope,
permanent triumph for an honest
financial system. which will continue
inviolable the public faith.
LAS in 1S,b. the three silver parties
are united under the same leader,
whom. Immediately after the election
of that year. in an address to the bi-
metallists, said:
1.-The friends of bimetallism have
not been vanquished; they have sim
ply been overcome. They believed that
the gold standard is Il conspiracy of
the money changers against the well
fore of the human race, and they VIII
continue the warfare against it
The policy thus proclaimed has
been accepted and confirmed by these
parties.
In all three platforms, these parties
announce that their eff orts shall be un-
ceasing until the gold act shall be blot
ted from the statute books and the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at IL
to 1 shall take its place. The relative
Importance of the issues do not stop
to discuss. All of them are important.
Whichever party is successful will be
bound in conscience to carry into ad-
ministration and legislation its several
declarations and doctrines.
THE Chicago platform of 1896 is re-
AFFIRMED in its entirety by the Kansas
Zity convention. Nothing has been
omitted or recalled: so that all the per-
lis tlien threatened are presented anew
x,,tth n11a1 of a 1nliharD tn
reatfirmation. Four years ago the peo-
pie refused to place the seal of their
approval upon these dangerous and
Revolutionary policies. and this year
they will not fail to record again their
| eaNest dissent.
"A subject of immediate Importance
| to our country is the completion of
great waterway of commerce between
the Atlantic and Pacific. The construc-
ton of IA maritime canal is now more
than ever Indispensable to that inti-
mate and ready communication be-
tween our eastern and western sea-
ports demanded by the annexation of
the hawaiian islands and the expan-
sion of our influence ana traue III tne
Pacific.
"Our national policy more impera-
lively than ever calls for its compile
tion and control by this government;
and it is believed that the next session
of Congress-, after receiving the full re-
port of the commission appointed un-'
der the act approved March 3, 1899,
will make provisions for the sure ac-
accomplishment of this great work.
combinations of capital which con-
troll the market in commodities neces-
sary TO the general Use of the people,
by suppressing natural and ordinary
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l he general consumer, are obnoxious to
he common law and the public wei
arc They are dangerous conspiracies
lgainst the public good and should be
made the subject of prohibitory or
,enal legislation.
publicity will be n helpful influence
o /heck this evil and uniformity of
luZislation in the several states should
Ie secured. Discrimination between
What is injurious and what Is useful
nd necessary In business operations Is
ssential to the wise and effective
Treatment of this subject. Honest CO.
peration of capital is necessary to
Aeet new business conditions and eN-
NJ our rapidly increasing foreign
,ade. but conspiracies and combna-
ons intended to restrict business, ere
te monopoies and control prices,
lould be effectually restrained.
"IFor labor, n short day Is better than
short dollar. one will tighten the bur-
lens, the other lessons the rewards of
III. The one will promote content
ent and independence: the other pen
y aud want
We have been IN possession of Cuba
nee January l. 1900. We have re-
ored domestic tranquility. We have
the starving. clothed the naked ana
Mustered to the sick. We have Inn
owed the sanitary condition of the
and. We have stimulated industry,
troduced public education and taken
full and comprehensive enumeration
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