Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-09-14
'M'KINLEYS LETTER.
PRESIDENTS STATEMENTS OF THE
ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN.
A STABLE CURRENCY.
The Vital Issue Before the People
The Nations Credit Under the Gold
standard-A Review of the Country's
Recent Expansion The Philippine
Foley INDICATED.

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standard-A Review of the Country's
Recent Expansion : The Philippine
Foley INDICATED.
Washington Especially President Will
liam Mckinley, I'enominated for the
high Office he now holds by the Repub=
lican National Convention, which met
of acceptance to the notification COM
mittee. 1t is in part as follows.
Executive Mansion;
Washington, d. c., Sept. s, 1900
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman
Notification Committee.
My Dear Sir:-The nomination of
the Republican National Convention Of
June 10, 1900, for the Office Of Presi-
dent of the United States, which, as the
Official representative of the conven-
ton, you have conveyed to me, is ac-
cepted have carefully examined the
platform adopted and give to it my
hearty approval. Upon the great is
sues of the last national election it Is
clear. 1t uphOlds the gold standard
and Endorses the legislation of the pres
ent Congress by which that standard
has been effectively strengthened. The
stability Of our national currency is
therefore secure 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 standard aud of sound currency
were triumphant and the country is
enjoying the fruits of that victory. Our
antagonists, however, are not satisfied.
They compel us TO second battle upon
the same lines on which the first was
fought and won. While regretting the
reopenng 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 the same leader. So
the issue is presented. 1t will be noted
that the demand is for the immediate
restoration of the free coinage OF sill
| yer at Is to 1. II another issue is para
mount, this is immediate. 1t will adj
nit of no delay and will suffer no post
pOnement.
In all three platforms these parties
announce that their efforts shall be I'M
ceasing until the gold act shall be
blotted from The statute books and the
free and unlimited coinage of silver at
f6 to shall take its place.
The relative Importance of the is
sues / do not stop to discuss. All Of
them are important. Whichever party
| is successful will be bound in con-
science to carry into administration
and legislation its several declarations
and doctrines One declaration will be
as obligatory as another, but all are
not immediate. 1t is not possible that
these parties would treat the doctrine
of 16 to l, the immediate realization OF
which is demanded by their several
platforms, as void and imperative in
the event that they should be clothed
] with power. Otherwise their profess
sion of faith is insincere. 1t is, there
fore, the imperative business of those
opposed to this financial heresy to pre-
vent the triumph of the parties whose
union is only assured by adherence to
the silver issue. Will the American
people, through indifference or fancied
security, hazard the overthrow of the
wise financial legislation of the past
year and revive the danger of the sill
yer standard with all of the inevitable
evils of shattered confidence and gen.
eral disaster which justly alarmed and
aroused them in 1896?
Those who profess to distrust the
| liberal and honorable purposes of the
Administration in its treatment OF the
Philippines are not justified. Imperial
| ism has no place in its creed or con-
| duct. Freedom is a rock upon which
the Republican party was built and
now rests. Liberty is the great Re-
publican doctrine for which the people
went to war and for which million
| lives were offered and billions Of dol
lars expended to make it a lawful leg
acy of all without the consent of mas
ter or slave. There is a strain of ill
concealed hypocrisy in the anxiety to
extend the constitutional guarantees to
the people of the Philippines, while
their notification is openly advocated
at home. Our opponents may distrust
| themselves, but they have no right to
discredit the good faith and patriotism
of the majority of the people who are
opposing them They may fear the
worst form of Imperialism with the
helpless Filipinos in their hands; but
| if they do 1t is because they have part
ed with the spirit and faith of the
fathers and have lost the virility Of
the founders of the party which they
profess to represent.
The Republican party doesn't have
to assert it's devotion to the Declara-
| ton of independence. That immortal
| instrument of the fathers remained I'M
executed until the people under the
lead Of the Republican party in the
awful clash of battle turned its prom
! ises into fulfllment. 1t wrote into the
| Constitution the amendments guaran-
teeing political equality to American
citizenship, and it has never broken
them or counseled others in breaking
them. 1t will not be guided in its con-
| duct by one set of principles at home
and another set in the new territory
belonging to the United States.
If our opponents would only practice
as well as preach the doctrines Of
! Abraham Lincoln, there would be no
fear for the safety OF our institutions
at home, or their frightful influence in
any territory over which our flag
| floats.
Empire has been expelled from Porto
Rico and the Philippines by American
4 ryxfy1 Rurue1 IN Death,