Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-17
MAJOR MKINLEY ACCEPTS.
Speech Of the President in Response to Senator Lodge
Thursday.

Canton, Ohio, July 13.-In accepting
the nomination for president at the
hands Of the republican party yester-
day Mr.. Mckinley said:
Senator Lodge and Gentlemen of
the Notification Committee: The
message which you bring to me is one
of signal honor. 1t is also summons
to duty. A single nomination for the
Office of president by great party,
which in thirty-two years out of forty
has been triumphant at. national cleo
tions, is distinction which CRATE
fully cherish. To receive unanimous
denomination by the same party is
an expression of regard and a pledge
of continued confidence for which it
is difficult to make acknowledg cement.
If anything exceeds the honor of
the Office OF president of the United
States, it is the responsibility which
attaches to it. Having been invested
with both, do not under-appraise
either. Anyone who has borne the
anXieties and burdens of the presi-
dental office, especially in time of
national trial, cannot contemplate as
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foundly realizing the severe exactions
and the solemn obligations which it
imposes, and this feeling is accentu-
ated by the momentous problems
which now press for settlement If
my countrymen shall confirm the
action of the convention at our ma
tional election in November, I shall,
craving Divine guidance, undertake
the exalted trust to administer it for
the interest and honor of the coun-
try,and the well-being of the new peo-
pies who have become the objects of
our care. The declaration of princi-
pies adopted by the convention has
my hearty approval. At some future
date I will consider, its subjects in
detail and will by letter communicate
to your chairman a more formal ac-
ceptance of the nomination.
On a like occasion four years ago
said: The party that supplied by
legislation the vast revenues for the
conduct of our greatest war; that
promptly restored the credit of the
country at it's close, that from its
abundant revenues paid off a large
share of the debt incurred by ,.lis war
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and placed our paper currency upon a
sound and enduring basis, can be safely
tru-ted to preserve both our credit and
currency, with honor, stability and in
volatility. The American people
hold the financial honor of our gov
eminent as sacred as our flag, and can
be relied upon to guard it with this
same sleepless vigilance. They hold
its preservation above party fealty,
and have often demonstrated that
party ties avail nothing when the spot
less credit Of our country is threat
ened.
The dollar paid to the farmer, the
wage Garner and the pension must con-
tinue forever equal in purchasing
and debt-paying power to the dol
lar paid to any other government cred
flor.
"Our industrial supremacy, our pro-
ductiye capacity, our business and
commercial prosperity, our labor and
its rewards, our national credit and
currency, our proud financial honor
and our splendid free citizenship, the
birthright of every American, are all
involved in the pending campaign and
thus every home in the land is direct
ly and intimately connected with their
proper settlement.
"Our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle working people en-
ployed in gainful occupations at Amer
lean wages. Our home market must
be restored to it's proud rank of first
In the world and our foreign trade
so precipitately cut off by adverse ma
tional legislation, reopened on fair and
equitable terms for our surplus agri-
cultural and manufacturing products.
Public confidence must be resumed
and the skill, energy and capital Of
our country find ample employment at
home. The government of the United
States must raise money enough to
meet both it's current expenses and in
creasing needs. It's revenues should be
SO raised as to protect the material in
terests of our people with the lightest
possible drain upon their resources
and maintaining that high standard Of
civilization which has distinguished
our country for more than century
of its existence.
The national credit which has thus
far fortunately resisted every assault
upon it must and will be upheld and
strengthened. If sufficient revenues
are provided for the support of the
government there will be no neces-
sity for borrowing money and in
creasing the public debt"
Three and one-half years of leg
islation and administration have been
concluded since these words were
spoken. Have those to whom was
confided the direction of the govern
ment kept their pledges? The record
is made UP. The people are not un-
familiar with what has been accom-
plished. The gold standard has been
reaffirmed and strengthened The end
less chain has been broken and the
drain upon our gold reserve no longer
frets us. The credit of the country
! has been advanced to the highest place
among all nations. We are refunding
our bonded debt bearing three and
four and five per cent. interest at two
per centa lower rate than tnat of
ony other country and already more
than three hundred millions have been
SO funded with a gain to the govern
ment of many millions of dollars. In
stead of 16 to 1 for which orr oDnon-