Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-11
tM'KINLEY'S
| ACCEPTANCE.
Strongest State Paper Issued
Since the Civil War.
GREAT ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN.
GREAT ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN.
Second Battle on Same Lines Fought
And Won Four Years Ago.
PROSPERITY OF THE PEOPLE.
For Labor a SHORT DAY Is Better
Than a SHORT DOLLAR
OUR DUTY IN THE PHILIPPINES.

OUR DUTY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Republican Party Doesn't Have to
Assert Its Devotion to the Declara-
tion of Independence - Opponents
Should Practice as Well as Preach
The Doctrines of Abraham Lincoln.
Let the Verdict Be For Duty Against
Desertion-Chinese Situation.
Washington, Sept. 10. - President
Mckinley's formal letter of acceptance
mas been given to the public. 1t is
ITegarded here as the strongest and
most important state paper which has
been written since the civil war era.
In many respects it is more like a
formal message to the people of the
United States than a routine reply to a
nomination. The president will take
no step backward He stands at the
head of the nation. the representative
OF the policy of progress and of ex-
pansion. He states to his fellow-citi-
zens the facts of his four years of ad-
ministration, so far as they are mat
tars of controversy today, and frankly
challenges his political opponents to
point out wherein his course has been
unpatriotic and un-American.
No more powerful political docu-
ment could be written than this letter
of acceptance. 1t goes at once to the
pth of the matter. President McKin-
ley does not waste time in discussing
abstract theories, nor in gabbling over
shop-worn dogmas. He deals with
facts, not with possibilities. He wastes
no time nor argument in discussing
what might be, but he states what has
been. He does not indulge in rain.
bow fancies.
The feeling here in the national
capital is that. in this letter, the pres
ddent has appealed to the reason anC
common sense of the American voters
and not to their passions, their preju-
dtces nor their ignorance. There is nc
Republican in the nation but will finf
in this letter the reasons why he
should support the party, the candi
dates and the platform at the polls
next November.
There is no doubt but this letter viii
exercise a powerful influence upon thu
pending campaign in the nation. Mr.
Bryans sophistries are swept to ont
side and the cold, hard logic of fact
can not be disputed.
The full text of the letter is here
with given:
The Second Battle.
Executive Mansion,
Washington. ID. c., Sept. TO- 1900
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman Not
fcation Committee:
My Dear Sir--The nomination of the Re
publican convention Of June 49, $500, TO
the office of president Of the United States
which the official representatiy
of the convention you have conveye
10 me is accepted. I have care
fully examined the platform adopted
and give to 1t my hearty approval. Upo
the great issue of the last national electio
II is clear. II upholds the gold standar
and endorses the legislation OF the presen
congress by which that standard has bee
effectively strengthened. The stability q
our national currency is therefore secur
so long those who adhere to this plat
form are kept in control of the government
In the first battle, that of 1896, the friend
of the gold standard and of sound currenc
were triumphant, and the country is enjoy
ing the fruits of that victory. Our antal
onsts, however, are not satisfied. The
compel us to second battle upon the sam
lines on which the first was fought an
won While regretting the reopening
this question, which can only disturb I'll
present satisfactory financial condition
the government and visit uncertainty upo
our great business enterprises, we acceI
the issue ANA again invite the sound none
forces to join in winning another and, W
hope, a permanent triumph for an homes
financial system which will continue inv
Olable the public faith
Silver Parties United.
As in 1896, the three silver parties al
united under the same leader. who, mm
diutsly after the election of that year,
an address to the bmetallsts said
''The friends of bimetallism have not bee
vanquished they have simply been owe
come. They believe that the gold STAN
ard is a conspiracy of the money -change
agaInst the welfare Of the human race
and they will continue the warfal
against it,"
The policy thus proclaimed has been a
cepted and confirmed by these parties. III
Silver Democratic platform of 1900 conu
ues the warfare against the so-caled go
conspiracy when 1t expressly says: 1--WE r
iterate the demand of that Uhe Chlcag
platform Of 1896 for an American hnanci
system made by the American people Il
themselves, which shall restore and mai
tain bimetallic price level, and as pa
or such system the immediate restoratio
OF the Tree and unlimited coinage of slIv,
anu soid at the present ratio OF III to
Withont waiting for the aid or consent