The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-09-22
The Governor Accepts the Nom
nation For Vice President
Of the United States.
A Strong Document Treating on the
Several Issues of the Present
Presidential Campaign.
Imperialism and Sound Money Are Fully
Treatetl-He Gives the Position OF
the Republican Party ON the
Trust Question.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, September II. 1900.
Committee on Notification OF Vice Pres
ldent:
sir-.,I accept the nomination as Vice
President OF the United States, rendered
me by the Republican National Conven-
ton, with very deep sense OF the honor
conferred upon me and with an ihniseiy
deeper sense of the vital Importance TO
the whole country OF securing the re-
election OF President Mckinley. The ma
tons welfare Is at stake We must con,
tinue the work which mas been so well
begun during the present administration:
We must show in fashion incapable or
being misunderstood that the American
people, at the beginning of the twentieth
century, face their duties In calm and
serious spirit; that they have no inten7
ton OF permitting folly or iawlessneSs
being which they have attained at home,
nor yet of permitting their flag to be dis
honored abroad.
I feel that this contest IS by no means
one merely between Republicans and
Democrats. We have IA right to appeal
to all good citizens who are far.sighted
enough 10 see wnat the honor ana the
interest of the nation demand. To put
into practice the principles embodied In
the Kansas City platform would mean
grave disaster 10 the nation; for that
platform stands Tor reaction and disorder;
Tor an upsetting of our financial system
which would mean not only great suf-
fering but the abandonment OF the ma
tons good faith; and for u policy abroad
which would imply the dishonor OF the
flag and an unworthy surrender of our
national rights. Its success would mean
unspeakable humiliation to men proud
OF their country, jealous OF their coun-
try's good name, and DESTROYS OF securing
the welfare OF their fellow citizens.
Therefore We have right to appeal TO
all good men. north ana south, east and
west, whatever their politics may have
been in the past, to stand with us. be-
cause we stand for the prosperity OF the
country and tor the renown Of the Amer
The most important OF all problems is,
OF course, that of securing good govern
ment and moral and material weil-being
within our own borders. Great through
the need Is that the nation should do It's
work well abroad, even this comes second
to the thorough performance OF the duty
at home. Under the administration of
president Mckinley this &C uD<'y has been
blessed win u degree OF prosperity alb
s1iuteiy unparaiieied; even h IN i's previous Hi
true that no legislation and no admins
traticn can bring success TO those VINO
are not stout Oh neart, cool OF head, ana
ready OF hand, yet II Is no less true that
the Individual capacity or each man to
get good results Ior himself can be alb
soiuteiy DESTROYED by pad legislation or
bad administration, While unuer the re-
verse conditions the power VI the IN
livldual to DO good WORK Is assured and
stimulated. Tins Is what mas been done
under the administration CT President
mckinley Thanks TO ms actions ana to
the WISE legislation OF congress on the
industrial lite have been rendered more
favorable than ever before, ana they have
been taken advantage OF to the tull by
American thrift, Industry and enterprise.
Order has been observes, the courts up
held, and the fullest liberty secured TO
all citizens. The merchant ana manufac-
turer. but above all the farmer and the
wage-worker, have pronted by this state
OF things.
Fundamentally and primarily the pres
ent contest Is contest Tor the contin-
uance OF the conditions which have told
in favor OF our material welfare and OF
our civil and political integrity. Ii this
nation Is TO retain either ITS weli-being
or its self-respect IL can not aHord TO
plunge INTO financial ana economic chaos !;
IL can not auord TO endorse governmental
theories winch would unsettle the stan
dard of national honesty and destroy the
integrity OF our system or justice. The
poncy of the tree coinage OF silver at "a
ratio OF sixteen TO one is a policy traught
with destruction to every home in the
land. 1t means untold misery To the head
OF every household, ana, above ali, TO
the women and children of every home
When our opponents champion Tree sill
Yer at sixteen 10 one they are either in
sincere or sincere In their attitude II
insincere In their championship they, OF
course, forfeit all rignt to belief or sup
port on any ground IL sincere. then
country. Whether they shout their sin
lister purpose or merely whisper 1t makes
but little difference, save as 1t reflects
their own honesty. No issue can be par
amount to the issue they thus make, for
The paramountcy OF such an issue is to
be determined, not by the dictum of any
1t vitality affects the well-peing of every
home in the land. The financial question
is always of such far-reacning and tre-
mendous Importance to the national well
fare that 1t can never be raised in good
faith unless this tremendous Importance
Is not merely conceded but insisted on
Men who are not willing to make such
an issue paramount have no possible
justification for raising 1t at all, for under
| such circumstances their act can not I'M
der any conceivable circumstances do
aught but grave harm.
The success of the party representing
the principles embodied in the Kansas
City platform would bring about the de-
struction OF all the conditions necessary
to the continuance of our prosperity. IL
would also unsettle our whole govern
mental system and would therefore dis
arrange all the vast and delicate ma
cbnery OF our complex industrial life.
Above all, the effect would be ruinous to
currency Of this country must be based
upon the gold dollar worth one HUNDRED
cents. The stability of our currency has
been greatly increased by the excellent
financial act passed by the last congress-
But no law can secure our finances
against the effect of unwise and disastrous
management In the hands of unfriedly
administrators. No party can safely be
entrusted with the management of our
national affairs unless II accepts as AK
iomatic the truths recognized In all pro-
gressive countries as essential to a sound
and proper system of finance In their
essence these must be the same for all
great civilized people. In different stages
OF development, different countries face
varying economic conditions, but at every
stage and under all circumstances the
most important element In securing their
economic wcll-being Is sound finance, hon
est money. So Intimate Is the connection
between industrial prosperity and a sound
currency that the former Is jeopardized
not merely by unsound finance, but by
the very threat of unsound finance. The
business man and the farmer are Wit
no mans interest Is so great as that of
rency means loss and disaster to the
business man; but II means grim suffer-
Ing to the wage-worker. The capita list
will lose much of his capital and will
suffer wearing anxiety and the loss OF
many comforts; but the wage-worker
who loses hts wages must suffer, and see
his wife and children suffer, for the
actual necessities of life. The one alb
solutely vital need OF our whole indus
trial system Is sound money
One of the serious problems with which
we are confronted under the conditions
of our modern Industrial civilization Is
that presented by the great business COM
binations, which are generally known
under the name of trusts.
The problem IL an exceedingly difficult
one and the difficulty In immensely ag-
gravated both by honest but wrong
system In the effort to remove some OF
mischievous advice of men who either
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