The Forrest City times., 1900-10-26
ANOTHER NOMINATION
Silver Republicans Notify Bryan
 of Their Selection.
To Which the Nominee Replies at Length Accepting the Nomina- tion and Than ks sethe Plain
 People,.


 The following letter notifying Will liam T. Bryan of his nomination for the presidency by the national silver republican convention has been in Mir Bryan's possession for some time:'
 Mount Pleasant. Mich. Oct. 17.-Hon William j. Bryan, Lincoln. Neb.: The sil- yer republican organization at its na- tional convention, held at Kansas City July last. appointed committee whose duty 1t is to notify It's presidential nom- inee of such nomination.. In performing that duty permit us to say that conven- ,Ion was made up of voters 250 of whom voted for Abraham Lincoln; 250 bore arms as union soldiers in our great civil conflict many were soldiers in the late Spanish American war. and gave their best efforts for the liberation of suffering Cuba. Four hundred were sons of veterans We men tion that as showing the fact that liberty fires burned in their lives as warmly as in the lives of their patriotic forefathers.
 Learning as we do, that the great lead CT of democracy, Jefferson, wrote the declaration of independence, and the great leader of republicanism, Lincoln, support ed. defended and applied 1t, both seeking in their efforts to establish and maintain government of equal rights for the people, we readily see why Jeffers onian democrats and Lincoln republicans may unite and should unite and do unite now in their support of one ticket for the welfare of our country.
 ITO us 1t is no wonder that all the po- litcal parties split in 1896 on the rock of finance. IL was the struggle of the oligarchy of money changers in opposition to the rights of the people. At St. Louis the arstocracy controlled and kept the party name-without it the campaign would have resulted differently. At Chicago the peo- pie controlled and kept the party name. We believe the rank and file of voters in all parties are faithful to the true Amer icanism embodied fin the declaration of independence, and when freed from party surroundings will support and vote for the man representing the rights of the masses.
 From the patriotism of the republican party of 1856 and 1860 to the greed of the republican party of 1896 and 1900 Is to- began equaled only by the descent from the grandeur of Lincoln's lofty motives to the lust and greed of the present admins tration.
 When we think one-fourth of 1,00o,o0o people own three-fourths of the nations wealth. when sixty-four and three-fourths millions own only one-fourth-when5 52 per cent. of the people own not even a home We become alarmed. This showing alone Is enough to alarm the great mass of American voters. All who seek to have the nation kept in the lines of republic must see il can only be done by not sur rendering the control of the country en- tirely into the hands of the one-fourth of l,000,0oo; but that the executive and law makers must be representatives of the siXty-four and three-fourths millions. The plea of trade must never cover and hide the plea of human rights; for when disregard the rights of others, are but schooling them and ourselves to dis e Sir n gf a nd by the principle of war only when waged for mans liberty, and we declare that We have millions for defense. and millions more for development, but not dollar for conquest.
 Now. with the attemptedYsold stand ard. the seeking to.destroy thy, greenback the peoples money-the concentration of wealth in hands of the few the want of reverence for equal rights set forth in the declaration pf independence. coupled with the attempt' to destroy such rights, the recognition of human slavery under the American flag the subjugation of a strug gling. liberty-loving people-denying them the right of citizenship and compelling the relation of subjects, thus crushing out and destroying the equality of the people of a republic. the attempt to establish the rule of the few and the submission of the many, raises and forces upon us for our consideration the question of imperialism, and makes it the question for us now to decide. A subject must belong to an em- pire. A republic has only citizens. In an empire the few rule. the many submit. In a republic equal rights to all, and spe cial privileges to none are ever ap- plicable.
 With this explanation we hereby notify you that at the gathering of Lincoln re- publicans in the silver republican conven- tion. held on last Independence day. in Kansas City, you were made their nom- inee.
 May we ask as we believe in the rights of free government, that you. when elect ed and become president, as we fully be- lieve you will be-that you remember with solicitude the cause of the great common people, the sixty-four and three-fourths million toilers. The people for whom Jef- ferson lived and labored, and for whom Lincoln lived and la abored well. The people whose arm never tires, the people whose labor produces the wealth of the nation, and whose prosperity Is the pros- perity of all; whose devotion never ceases; whose patriotism never falters; who are ever ready to defend and protect; they who are the rock upon which our coun- try may safely rest they whose strength builds whose loyalty guards. whose patri- otism defends the trocha, filled with their blood. if need be. over which their country's enemy can never pass.
 Now, sir, believing in your faithfulness, integrity and wisdom to discharge the du- ties of such high office, We hereby tender you the nomination of the Kansas City silver republican convention, and most re- spectfuly request that you accept the same and become our candidate for the presidency of our beloved republic. and may your proudest plume be that you never deserted your country's welfare. With great respect we are.
 SAMUEL w. HOPKINS. Chairman.
 SAMUEL l. HALE, Secretary.
 Bryan's Acceptance Letter.