Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-13
M K|NLEY'S LETTER.
Presidents Acceptance OF His
Second Nomination for
the Presidency.
DISCUSSION OF ALL THE ISSUES.
Special Attention Being Given to
Finances and the ISL
and Policy.
DISCUSSION OF ALL THE ISSUES.
NO SUCH ISSUE AS IMPERIALISM
So the Republican Standard Bearer
Declares-His Position on Trusts
Remarks on Protection,
Reciprocity and Labor.

Washington, Sept. 1O.-William Nc
Kinley's letter of acceptance of the Re
publican nomination for president of
the United States was given to the
public today. 1t is addressed to Zion.
Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman Motif
cation COMMITTEE and is in its material
substance as follows:
1.-THE nomination of the Republican
national convention of June 10, 1900,
for the office of the president Of the
United States, which as the official rep
resentative of the convention you have
conveyed to me, is accepted. l have
. carefully examined the platform adopt
ed and give to it my hearty approval.
Upon the great issue of the last ma
tional election it is clear 1t upholds
the gold standard and indorses the leg
islation of the present congress by
which that standard has been effect
lively strengthened. The stability of
our national currency is therefore Sc
cure 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
ard and of sound currency were tri-
umphant, and the country is enjoying
the fruits Of that victory. Our antag-
Onists, however. are not satisfied. They
compel us to a second battle upon the
same lines OIL which the first was
fought and won. While regretting the
re-opening of this question, which can
only disturb the present satisfactory
financial condition of the government
and visit uncertainty upon our great
business enterprises, we accept the is
sue and again invite the sound money
forces to join In winning another and
we hope a permanent triumph for an
honest financial system, which will
continue inviolable the public faith. AS
In 1896 the three silver parties are
united, under tile same lender who i'm
medlately after the election of that
year, in an address to the bimetallists.
said!
The friends CT bimetallism have
not been vanquisbed; they have simply
been overcome. They believe that the
gold standard is a conspiracy of the
money changers against the welfare of
the human race, and they will con-
tinue the warfare against it,
PLATFORMS OF THE OPPOSITION
With Respect to the Question of the Mon
ey of the Country.
THE policy thus proclaimed has
been accepted and confirmed by these
parties. The silver Democratic plat
form of 1900 continues the warfare
against the so-called gold conspiracy
when it expressly says we reiterate
the demand of that 1.-THE Chicagol plat
form of 1896 for an American finan-
cial system made by the American
people for themselves, which shall re-
store and maintain q bimetallic price
level, and as part of such system the
immediate restoration of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold
at the present ratio OF 16 to 1, with
out waiting for the aid or consent of
any other nation So the issue is pre-
sented. 1t will be noted that the de-
mand is for the immediate restoration
of the free coinage of silver at 16 to /.
II another issue is paramount, this is
{ immediate. 1t will admit of no delay
and will suffer no postponement.
Turning to the other associated
parties we lind in the Populist ma
tionG platform adopted at Sioux Falls
South Dakota, May 10, 1900, the fol-
lowing declaration: we pledge anew
5 the Peoples party never to cease the
agitation until this financial conspir-
acy is blotted from the statute book,
the Lincoln greenDack restored, the
bonds all paid and all corporation mon
ey forever retired. We reaffirm the
demand for the reopenin2 of the mints
of the United States for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of l6 to /, the
immediate increase In the volume Of
silver coins and certificates thus Gre
ated to be substituted, dollar for dol
lar, for the bank notes issued by pri.
waite corporations under special privi-
lege granted by law Of March Ia.
$500, and prior national banking laws.
The platform of the Silver party
adopted at Kansas Sity July 6, 1900,
makes the following announcement:
We declare it to be our intention te
aend our efforts to the repeal of this
currency law, which not only repudi-
ates the ancient and time-honored
principles Of the American people be-
fore the constitution was adopted but
ds violative of the principles Of the
constitution itself; and we shall not
cease our efforts until there has been
established in its place monetary
system based upon the free and I'm.
limited coinage of silver and gold into
money at the present legal ratio Of
16 to by the independent action Of
the United States, under which sys-
gym all paper money shall be issued
by the government and all such mon
ey coined or issued shall be full
legal tender In payment of all debts,
public and private, without exception
In all three platforms these par
ties announce that their efforts shall
be INCREASING until the gold act shall
he b!otted from the statute books and
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at 16 to I shall take its place. The
relative Importance Of the issue I do
not stop to discuss. All of them are
Important. Whichever party is sue
cessful will be bound in conscience to
carry into administration and legisla-
zion Its sevarAl declarations and doc