Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-17
Prosperity at Home, Prestige Abroad and Duty
to Our Possessions, and -Four More
Years Of Progress.
COMBINATIONS OF CAPITAL
PUBLICITY THE FIRST STEP IN Determining THEIR LEGAu
STATUS-W WISE AND UNWVIS LEGSLAT0N-THE LETT
- TER OF A SOLDIER STATESMAN AND PATRIOT

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 17.-Hon. Ed
ward o. Cotton, chairman committee on
notification of vice-presdent:
Sir: I accept the nomination as vice.
president of the United States, rendered
me by the republican national conven-
ton, with the very deep sense of the hon
or conferred upon me, and with an inf
nitely deeper sense of the vital import
ance to the whole country of securing the
reelection Of President Mckinley. The
nations welfare is at stake. We must
continue the work which has been SO well
begun during the present administration.
We must show in fashion incapable of
being misunderstood, that the American
people, at the beginning Of the twentieth
century, face their duties in a calm and
serious spirit; that they have no inten-
tion of permitting folly or lawlessness to
mar the extraordinary material well-be
ing which they have attained at home,
nor vet Of permitting their flag to be dis
hOnored abroad.
I feel that this contest is by no means
one merely between the republicans and
democrats. We have a right to appeal to
all good citizens who are far-sighted
enough to see what the honor of the ma
tion demands. To put into practice the
principles embodied in the Kansas City
platform would mean grave disaster to
lle HdllOl, LOT lHuL STANDS TOR
reaction and disorder; for an upsetting
of our financial system which would
mean not only great suffering, but the
abandonment of the nations good faith;
and for a policy abroad which would
| imply the dishonor of the flag and an
unworthy surrender of our national
rights. It's success would mean un-
| speakable humiliation to men proud Of
| their country, jealous of their country's
| good name and desirous OF securing the
welfare of their fellow citizens Therefore
| we have a right to appeal to all good
| men, north and SOUTH east and west
| whatever their politics may have been
| in the past to stand with us, because
we stand for the prosperity of the coun-
| try and for the renown of the American
| flag.
WONDERFUL PROSPERITY.
The most important of all problems, is
| OF course, that of securing good govern
ment and moral and material we'll being
within our own borders. Great though
| the needs is that the nation should do
| it's work well abroad, even this comes
second to the thorough performance of
duty at home. Under the administration
of President Mckinley this country has
| been blessed with a degree of prosperity
| absolutely unparalleled, even in it's pre-
vious prosperous history. While it is of
course true that no legislation and no ad-
|
| who are not stout of heart, cool of head
| and ready of hand, yet 1t is no less true
| that the individual capacity of each man
| to Set good results for labor can be abso-
| lutely destroyed by bad legislation or bad
| administration, while under the reverse
conditions the power of the individual to
| do good work is assured and stimulated
| This is what has been done under the ad-
ministration of President McKinley
Thanks to his actions and to the wise leg
| islation of congress on the tariff and fl
nance, the conditions of our Industrial
| life have been rendered more favora BILE
| than ever before and they have taken
| advantage of it to the full by American
| thrift, industry and enterprise Order
has been observed the courts upheld and
the fullest liberty secured to all citizens
| The merchant and manufacturer, but
above all the farmer and the wage work
| er have profited by this state of things
Fundamentally and primarily. the
| present contest is a contest for the con-
| tinuance of the conditions which have
| told in favor of our material welfare and
of our civil and political integrity. II
! this nation is to retain either is we'll
being or it's self-respect, it cannot afford
! to plunge into financial and economic
! chaos; 1t cannot afford to endorse gov
|. ernmental theories which would unsettle
| the standard of national honesty and
| destroy the integrity of our system of
justice. The policy of the free coinage of
| silver at ratio of 16 to 1 is a policy
| fraught with destruction to every home
| in the land. 1t means untold misery to
| the head of every household and above
| all, to the women and children of every
! home. When our opponents champ: IN
| free silver at 16 to / they are either IN
| sincere or sincere in their attitude If
| insincere in their championship, they of
| course forfeit all right to belief or sup
| port on any ground. If sincere, then
ar a IN a lfay Of ha
! country. Whether they shout their sim
| lister purpose or merely whisper it makes
| but little difference, save as 1t reflects
| their own honesty No issue can be par
| amount to the issue they thus make for
| 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 it vtally affects the well-being of
| every home in the land. The financial
| question is always of such far-reaching
| and tremendous imrortar ce to the na-
! tional welfare that it can never be raised
| in good faith unless this tremendous i'm
| portance Is not merely conceded but IN
| sisted on. Men who are not willing 20
| make such an issue paramount have no
| possible justification for raising it at nj.
| for under such circumstances their act
cannot under any conceivable circum-
stances do aught but grave harm.
NEED OF STABLE FINANCE.
| The success of the party representing
! the principles embodied in the Kansas
City platform would bring anou: the de-
| struction of all the conditions necessary
to the continuance of our prosperity. 1t
would also unsettle our whole govern