The Saint Paul globe., 1900-09-10

WASHINGTON, D. c.. Sept. S.-Presi-
dent McKinley's letter of acceptance was
given to the public today. 1t is as fol-
lows:
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. c.,
; Sept. 6.-1on. Henry Cabot Lodge, Chair
main Notification Committee.-My Dear
sir: The notification of the Republican
= national convention Of June 19, 1900, for
the office of president of the United
States, which as the official representa-
tive of the convention you have conveyed
to me, is accepted. [ have carefully eX-
amined the platform adopted and give to
it my hearty approval. Upon the great
\ issue of the, last national election it IS
clear. 1t uphoids the gold standard and
indorses the legislation of the present
y congress by which that standard has
been effectively strengthened The sta
bility of our national currency is there
fore secure SO long as those who adhere
? to this platform are kept in control of
the government. In the first battle, that
of 1886, the friends of the gold standard
and of sound currency were triumphant,
and the country is enjoying the fruits Of
that victory. Our antagonists, how
ever, are not satisfied. They compel US
to a second battle upon the same lines
on which the first was fought and won.
= While regretting the reopening of this
question, which can only disturb the
g present satisfactory financial condition of
the government and visit uncertainty
upon our great business enterprises, we
accept the issue and again invite the
sound money forces to join in winning
another and we hope a permanent tri-
umph 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 who i'm
mediately after the election of that year,
in an address to the bimetallists, said:
The friends of bimetallism have not
been vanquished; they have simply been
K overcome. They believe that the gold
standard is a conspiracy of the money
f changers against. the welfare of the hu-
man raee-and they will continue the
warfare against it.
The policy thus proclaimed has been
accepted and confirmed by these parties.
The Silver Democrats platform of 1900
continues the warfare against the So
called gold conspiracy when it expressly
says, we reiterate the demand of that
(the Chicago) platform of 1896 for an
American financial system made by the
American people for themselves, which
shall restore and r1Tairtain a btmetallIc
price level, and as part of such system
and unlimited coinage of silver and gold
- at the present ratio of 16 to l. without
waiting for the aid or consent of any
other nation.
PLATFORMS OF ALLIES
So the issue is presented It will be
noted that the demand is for the imme-
diate restoration of the free coinage of
silver at 16 to 1, if another issue is para
mount this is Immediate 1t will admit
of no delay and will suffer no postpone
ment.
-, Turning to the other. associated parties
1--WE find in the Populist national platform
adopted at Sioux Falls, S. D., May 10,
1900 the following declaration:
I'VE pledge anew the People party
never to cease the agitation until this
3. financial conspiracy is blotted from the
statute book. the Lincoln greenback re-
stored the bonds all paid and all cor
poration money forever retired. We re-
affirm the demand for the reopening of
the mints of the United States for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio of l6 to !,
the immediate increase in the volume of
silver coins and certificates thus created
to be substituted, dollar for dollar, for
the bank notes issued by private COR
porationS under Special. privilege, granted
by law of March IA, 1900, and prior ma
tional bank laws.
The platform Of the Silver party, adopt
d ed at Kansas City, July 6, 1850, makes the
following announcement:
1--WE declare it to be our intention to
lend our efforts to the repeal of this cur
rency law, which only repudiates the
ancient and time-henored principles of
the American people before the constitu-
tiOn was adopted, but is violative of the
principles of the constitution itse,f; and
we shall not cease our efforts until there
has been established in its place a mon
etary system based upon the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold into
= money at the present legal ratio of 16 to
by the Independent action of the United
States, under which system all paper
money shall be issued by the govern
sued shall be a full legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private.
without exception"
In all three platforms these parties
announce that their efforts shall be un,
ceasing until the gold act shall be blot
ted from the statue book and the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to
1 shall take its place.
MONETARY ACTION WOULD ENSUE
The relative Importance of the issues
I DO not stop to discuss All of them
are important. Whichever party is sue
cessful viii be bound in conscience to
carry into administration and Iegisla-
tion its several declarations and doc
trines One declaration will be as OBJ
lgatory as another, but all are not i'm
= mediate. 1t is not possible that these
parties would treat the doctrine of 1f
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 9th
erwise their profession of faith is in
sincere. 1t Is therefore the imperative
business of those opposed to this finan-
cial heresy to prevent the triumph CT
1the parties whose union is only assured
by adherence to the silver issue. VIII
the American people, through indiffer-
ence or fancied security, hazard the
overthrow of the wise financial legisla-
danger of the silver standard with all
OF the inevitable evils of shattered con-
ftdence and general disaster which just
ly alarmed and aroused them in 1896?
firmed In It's entirety by the Kansas City
convention. Nothing has been omitted
or recalled; so that ali the peris ther
threatened are presented anew with the
= added force of a deliberate reaftirmation
Four years ago the people refused tc
place the seal of their approval upor
these dangerous and revolutionary pol
icies, and this year they will not fai
to record again their earnest dissent
rs The Republican party remains faith e,,
to its principle of a tariff which supplies
sufficient revenues for the government
and adequate protection to our e,-
prises and producers; and of rec,nroc,rv
: which opens foreign markets to fht
fruits of American labor and furnishes
new channels through which to nlaskst
the surplus of American farms The
time-honored principles Of protection anf
reciprocity were the first pledges of Re
publican victory to be written into pub
lie law.
WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE.
The present congress has given tc
Alaska territorial government FOL
which 1t had waited moro than a GUAR.
ter of century; has established rep