The Worthington advance., 1900-09-21
The Governor Accepts the Nom
'ination 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
Treateal-Hs Gives the Position Of
the Republican Party ON the
Trust Question.


Sir-I accept the nomination az Vice
President Of the United states, rendered
tion, with very deep sense OF the honor
conferred upon me and with an tfinlIely
deeper, sense of the vital Importance to
election Of President Mckinley. The ma
tion's welfare Is at stake. We must con-
tinue the work which has been so we'll
begun during the present administration:
we must show In fashion incapable OF
being misunderstood that the American
people, at the beginning Of the twentieth
serious spirit: that they have no inten-
tion Of permitting folly or lawlessness
70 mar the extraordinary material we'll
nor yet OF permitting their mag to be dis
hOnored abroad.
feel that this contest is by no means
Democrats: We have a right to appeal
to all good citizens who are far-slgnted
enough TO- see what the honor anu the
into practice the principles embodied in
the Kansas City platform would mean
grave disaster to the nation;, for that
Tor an upsetting Of our financial system
which would mean not only great suf-
terins but the abandonment OF the ma
which would imply the dishonor OF the
tas and an unworthy surrender OF our
national rights. Its success would mean
OF their country, jealous of their coun-
try's good name, and desirous OF securing
the welfare OF their fellow citizens
Therefore we have right to appeal to
all good men, north anu SOUTH east anu
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
ican nag.
The most important Of all problems is,
OF course, that Of securing good govern
moral Weli-hoing
within our own borders. Great through
the need Is that the nation should do lts
TO the thor0ugh performances OF the duty
at home. Under the administration OF
PRESIDENT Mckinney this &C unxy has been
blessed with degree OF prosperity alb
soluteiy Unparalleled, even in IT'S previous
prosperous history. Whlle it is, OF course,
true that no legislation and no admins
are not stout or neart, cool of mead, ana
ready Of hand, yet it Is no less Icue that
the lnolvldual capacity OF, eAch man TO
get good results Tor nimsel1 can be alb
soiulely destroyed by bad sleSl54atlon or
Dad administration, Whlle tullhel1 the re-
verse conditions the pow&E rQD the in
uVlduAl TO DO good WORK Is assured and
stimulated. TINS Is what mas been done
under the administrator OF President
Mckinley Thanks to his actions ana to
the WISE legislation OF congress on the
tallH and Hnance, the cOnulLlOnS OF our
lnuustrlal lie nave been rendered more
laVOlaDAe than ever before, ana tney nave
OcSn leheu advantage OI 10 tnc ny
american THRIFT, lnuustry and enterprise.
OrUer mas been observed, the courts up-
held, ana the fullest liberty secured 10
all citizens. The merchant and manuIac-
lurer, put above AL the farmer ana the
Mage.Worker' have pronteu by this state
OF things.
ent contest Is d contest tor the coltln-
uance or the Conditions winch nave tod
In favor OF our material welfare and OF
our civil and polltlcai integrity. II this
ll.hp O.
or Its selt-respcct, 1t can not anord "
plunge INTO financial ana economAc chaos;
theories which would unsellle the stan
GARD OF national honesty ANA destroy the
integrity or our system Oi justice. The
poilcy Of the Tree coinage or silver at a
ratio OF sixteen 10 one is policy traught
with destruction to every home IN the
land. 1t me;ns untold misery 70 the head
the women and children of every nome.
W hen our opponents champion Tree sill
yer at sixteen 70 one tney are either in
sincere OF sincere in their attitude Ii
lnslncere in their championship they. Of
course forfeit all r.gnt TO belief or sup
port ON any grounu. Ii sincere, then
country. Whether they shout their SIN
lister purpose or merely whisper it makes
but little difference. save as it rejects
their own honesty. No issue can be par
the paramountcy OF such an issue Is to
be determined, not by the dictum Of any
man or body of men. but by the fact that
!; vitally affects the well-Deing of every
home in the land. The financial question
Is always of such far-reaching and tre-
mendous Importance to the national well
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 nm
der any conceivable circumstances do
N
The success OF the party representing
the principles embodied in the Kansas
CITY platform would bring about the de-
to the continuance of our prosperity. 1t
would also unsettle our whole govern
mental system and would therefore dis
arrange all the vast and delicate ma
chinery of our complex Industrial life.
Above all, the effect would be ruinous to
our finances. III II we are to prosper, the
currency OF this country must be based
upon the gold dollar worth one hunderd
cents. The stability of our currency has
been greatly increased by the excellent
But no law can secure our finances
against the effect OF unwise and disastrous
management in the hands of unfriediy
administrators. No party can safely be
entrusted with the management of our
national affairs unless it accepts as az
1olnatic the truths recognized in all pro-
and proper system of finance. In their
essence ,.,,es, these must must be the same for all
great civilized people. In different stages
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
ally interested in this question: but
the wage-worker. "A deprecated cur
rency means loss and disaster to the
business, man: but itrmeans grim suffer-
will lose much of his capital and viii
suffer wearing anxiety and the loss of
many comforts; but the wage worker
his wife and children suffer, for the
actual Necessities of life. The one alb
solutely vital need of our whole Indus
One ofSthe serious problems with which
we are onfronted under the conditions
Of f6a our he traat
under lie name of trusts. VA
The problem is an exceedingly difficult
gravated both by honest but wrong
headed attacks on our whole industrial
system In the effort to remove some of
mischievous advice Of men who either
think crOokedly or who advance remedies
know ing them to be ineffective, but
deeming that they may, by darkening
rious reputation for wisdom. No good
whatever Is subserved by indiscriminate
denunciation of corporations generally.
ana OF AL forms Of industrial combine
nation In particular; and when this pub
lic denunciation sis accompanied by prt-
vate membership in the great corpora
to give m air Of insincerity to the whole
movement: Nevertheless, there are real
abuses. md there Is ample reason for
crude. tpr ill-considered j effort to
remedy them would either be abso-
lutely Without effect or else would Sim