The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-28
ADLAI TAKES 1T.
Accepts Populist Nomination
For Vice Presidency.
Letter Takes Form of Exh0rta-
tion Against Imperialism.

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 2S.-In a letter re-
ceived at the Populist national head
quarters, Adlai E. Stevenson accepts
the nomination for the vice presidency
rendered him by that party early this
month. The letter notifying Mr.. Steven
son of his nomination says:
1--WE know that you are not a Popu-
list. but we are familiar with your ca
reer,t the patriotic character of your pub
lie services, and we confide implicitly in
your unf1inching devotion to. the prinei-
pies of free government as taught by
the fathers of the republic. Conscious
that nothing but good to the public can
result from your elevation to this high
office, with sincere regard. we have the
honor to be, very truly yours,
81. B. WEAVER,
81 H. EDMISTEN,
81 A. EDGERTON,
"Committee of Notification"
Replying Mr. Stevenson SAYS:
Upon the important questions of fin
ance, of domestic administration, and of
reform in our methods of taxation, the
platform of the Peoples party gives no
uncertain sound 1t is no less emphatic
in it's demand for return to the policy
of honest and economical expenditures
of the public money. The further de-
mand for wise and efficient legislation
looking to the suppression of trusts can
not fail to challenge the attention OF all
thoughtful men.
ssIn common. however, with the Silver
Republican and the Democratic parties,
you recognize the important fact that
all these are but questions of the hour.
In the presence of the OverShadOwing is
sue of imperialism, others are but as the
dust in the balance 1t is not strange
then that there should now be concert
of action between those who sincerely
believe that a crisis has been reached
in which party considerations are of Sec
onGary Importance
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the Philippine islands; how much great
er will be the sacrifice of treasure and
life before the contest is completed no
man can know. And when completed,
what next2 How are these islands to
be held and governed? Does any sane
man doubt that is can only be by force;
by the power of the army and of the
navy? And this not for a day or for a
year, but for all time.
''All this implies the exercise of power
unknown to the constitution. It is in
very truth government outside of the
constitution 1t means the adoption by
the American republic of the colonial
methods of European monarchies. 1t
means the right to hold alien peoples as
subjects. 1t enthrones force as the con-
trolling agency in our government. In a
word. it foreshadows the downfall of the
republic.
more than this, following close in the
wake of imperialism, as the night the
day, comes the immense standing army.
The dread arm of militarism is to be
bare in the new world as it is in the old.
The strong arm of power is to be SUBJ
stituted for the peaceful agencies which
for more than a century have brought
contentment and happiness to all our
people. Existing conditions in continen-
tai Europe-entailing taxation and
misery to the verge of human endur-
ance-illustrate by a sad object lesson
the inevitable result of large standing
armies in times of peace
Conditions now existing in the Phil
ippine Islands for which we are in a
measure responsible, impose new duties
upon US. These people are entitled to our
protection against the cupidity and ag-
gressive spirit Of other nations And
this, not to the end of subjugation upon
our part, but to that of the full enjoy
ment by them of liberty and the ultimate
establishment of stable government
fashioned by their own hands,"
The Cardinals Confidence Gone.
The story of the cyclist who, found
over the door of Cheshire church the
cheerful text This is the gate of
Heaven with the modifying postscript,
This door is closed in the winter
months" recalls to THE Tablet an
other incongruity of a rather similar
kind. Cardinal Manning went one day
to his publishers for a copy of a book
of his own-'Confidence in Cod The
order was shouted down to the stock
room, whence came the reply MAN
ning's confidence in God all gone The
cardinal heard and smiled. 1t happened
that he was Just then in a very pessi-
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