, 1900-09-13
Mr.. M'KINLEY'S LETTER
ACCEPTING THE NOMINATION

washington. sept. W.
Kinley has issued his letter of accept
nnce of the nomination by me hepup.
lican party. \ synopsis of il follows
Executive Mansion. Washington
Sent S-Hon. Cabot Lodge, chairman
notification committee:
my Dear Sir-The ot
the Republican national OF
June 10Th. 1900. for the office OF iresl-
dent of the United States, when as
the official representative of the con
vention you have conveyed 10 me- u
accepted | have carefully eNhmlheu
the platform adopted, and give II my
hearty approval.
Upon the great issue of the last
national election it is clear. IL up
holds the gold standard and lndorses
the legislation of the present congress-
by which that standard has been great
~ strengthened. The stability OF our
national currency Is. therefore, setuie
so long as those who adhere TO this
platform are kept in control OF the
government. In the first battle, tha'
of 1896, the friends of the gold stand
ard and of sound currency We're tri-
umpllant. and the country is enjoy
ing the fruits of that victory. our
antagonists. however, are not satls-
fled. They compel us to Il second Dat
tie upon the same lines on when the
first was fought II won.
While regretting the reopenlns OF
this question, which can only disturb
the present satisfactory on
dltion of the government and VISIT uh-
certainty upon our great business eh,
terprises, we accept the ISSUE ana
again invite the sound money forces TO
Join in winning another, and we nope
a permanent triumph for an honest
financial system, which Will continue
inviolable the public faith.
AS ii 1896, the three silver parties
are united, under the same leader
whom. Immediately after the election
of that year. in an address 10 'he III
metallists, said:
1.-The friends of bimetailism have
not been vanqulshed; they have sim
ply been overcome. They believed mat
the gold standard is n conspiracy of
the money changers against the wei
fore of the human race, II they VIII
continue the warfare against it
THE policy thus proclaimed n
been accepted and confirmed by these
parties.
I'm all three platforms, these parties
announce that their eff orts shal be I'M
%ceasing until the gold act shall be blot
ted from the statute books and the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at III
to / shall take its place. The relative
importance of the issues | do moi stop
to discuss. All of them are important.
Whichever party is successful Will be
bound in conscience to carry into ad-
ministration and legislation its several
declarations and doctrines.
"A subject Of immediate Importance
H. S,,u ..,,ptr,- l., tla nnrpHlnrinn nf "a
great waterway of commerce between
the Atlantic and Pacific. The construc-
ton of Il maritime canal is now more
than ever Indispensable to that init
mate and ready communication be-
tween our eastern and western sea-
ports demanded by the annexation of
the Hawaiian islands and the eNpan-
sion of our influence and trade in the
Pacific.
THE Chicago platform of 1896 is re-
affirmed in it's entirety by the Kansas
City convention. Nothing has been
omitted or recalled: so that all the per-
lis then threatened are presented anew
with the added force of a deliberate
reatiirmutioA. -Four years ago the peo-
pie refused 10 place the seal of their
approval upon these dangerous and
revolutionary policies, and this year
they will not fail to record again their
earnest dissent.
I'VE hold Porto Rice by the same
title as the Philippines. The treaty of
peace which coded us the one conveyed
to us the other. Congress has given
to this island II government in which
the inhabitants participate. elect their
own Legislature. enact their own local
laws, provide their own system of tax
alton, and in these respects have the
same power and privileges enjoyed by
other territories belonging TO the Unit
ed States. and n much larger measure
of Self-gOvernment han was given to
the inhabitants of Louisiana under
Jefferson. a District Court of the
United States for Porto Rico has been
established. and local courts have been
in~augurated. all of which are in opera
ton.
The tariff duties paid and collected
both in Porto Rico and the United
States are paid to the government of
Porto Rico, Ii no part thereof Is tax
en- by the national government.
Mr.. Mckinley goes into the Philip.
pine question ut length. After recit.
ing the history of our relations with
the islands. futile negotiations for
peace with the Filipinos, the instruc,
tons to the commission and its report.
he says:
''There has been no time since the
destruction of the enemy's fleet when
we could or should have left the Phil.
ippine archipelago. After the treaty of
peace was ratified no power but Con.
gress could surrender our sovereignty
or ALLEVIATE n foot of the territory thus
acquired. The Congress has not seen
fit to do the N or the other, and the
President has no authority to do either
il he had been SO inclined, which lie
was not. So long as the sovereignty
remains in us. it is the duty of the cx.
ecutiVe, whoever lie may he. to uphold
the sovereignty, and If it be attacked
10 suppress its ASSISTANTS. Would our
political adversarlcs do less?
at has been asserted that there
would have been no fighting in the
Philippines if Congress had declared
its purpose to give independence to the
Tagal insurgents. The insurgents did
not wait for the action of Congress
They assumed the offensive. They
opened fire ON our army. Those who