The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-10-27
ANOTHER NOMINATION
silver Republicans Notify Bryan
of Their Selection.
xyntch the Nominee Replies al
Length Accepting the Nominal
zion and Thanks the Plain
People.

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The following letter notifying Will
tam 7. Bryan of his nomination for
.he presidency by the national silver
-.,hl;cau convention has been in Mr..
prvan's possession for some time:
.,,o,nt Pleasant, Mich, Oct. 17.-Hon.
urnrom 7 BRYAN, Lincoln, Neb.: The sill
W. republican organization at Its ma
,,aral convention, held at Kansas City
ISIv 4 last. appointed a committee whose
Su,y II is to notify its presidential nom
49, of such nomination. In performing
,hot duty permit us to say that conven-
.ton was made up of voters $50 of whom
I'd for Abraham Lincoln; $50 bore arms
= urion soldiers In our great civil conflict;
monv were soldiers In the late Spanish
American war, and gave their best efforts
sor the liberation of suffering Cuba. Four
hundred were sons of veterans. We men
,ion that as showing the fact that liberty
srss burned in their lives as warmly as
In the lives of their patriotic forefathers.
Learning as we do, that the great lead
or of democracy, Jefferson, wrote the
declaration of Independence, and the great
leader of republicanism, Lincoln, upport
cd defended and applied 1t, both seeking
in their efforts to establish and maintain
government of equal rights for the people,
we readily see why Jefersonian democrats
and Lincoln republicans may unite and
should unite, and do unite now in their
support of one ticket for the welfare of our
country.
"To us 1t is no wonder that all the po-
,uical parties split in 1896 on the rock of
finance. II was the struggle of the oligarchy
NJ money changers in opposition to the
rights of the people. At st. Louis the
aristocracy controlled and kept the party
name-without 1t the campaign would have
--tIr A fNhtano on Tho mao
nile controlled and kept the party name.
I'VE believe the rank and file of voters in
all ~narties are faithful to the true Amer
icanism embodied in the declaration OF
independence, and when freed from party
surroundings will support and vote for
the man representing the rights of the
masses.
"From the patriotism of the republican
marty of 1856 and 1850 to the greed of the
republican party of 1896 and 1900 Is a to-
boggan equaled only by the descent from
the grandeur of Lincoln's lofty motives to
the lust and greed of the present admins
~tratiOn.
"When we think one-fourth of 100000
people own three-fourths of the nations
wealth. when sixty-four and three-fourths
millions own only one-fourth-when 81 per
cent. of the people W not even a home
we become alarmed. This showing alone
is enough to alarm the great mass of
American voters. All who seek to have
the nation kept in the lines of a republic
must see it can only be done by not sur
rendering the control of the country en-
tirely into the hands of the one-fourth of
1000 600; but that the executive and law
makers must be representatives Of the
sixty-four and three-fourths millions. The
plea of trade must never cover and hide
the plea of human rights; for when we
disregard the rights of others, We are
but schooling them and ourselves to dis
regard our own rights. We desire to stand
by the principle of war only when waged
for mans liberty, and we declare that we
have millions for defense. and millions
more for development, but not a dollarNor
conquest.
Now, with the attempted gold stand
ard, the seeking to destroy the ~greenback
the peoples money-the concentration of
wealth in the hands Of the few. the want
of reverence for equal rights as set forth
in the declaration of independence, coupled
with the attempt to destroy such rights,
the recognition of human slavery under the
American flag. the s~ubjugation of a strug-
Cling, liberty-loving people-denying them
the right of citizenship and compelling the
relation of subjects. thus crushing out and
destroying the equality of the people of
a republic. the attempt to establish the
rule of the few and the submission OF the
many, raises and forces upon us for our
consideration the question of imperialism,
and makes IL the uuesllOl iOt us HoN "
decide. A subject must belong to an en-
pire. A republic has only citizens. In ar
empire the few rule, the many submit
In a republic equal rights to all, and spe'
cial privileges to none are ever ap-
plicable.
with this explanation we hereby notify
you that at the gathering of Lincoln re-
publicans in the silver republican conven'
ton, held on last Independence day, II
Kansas City, you were made their nom
inee.
MAY we ask, as we believe in the rights
of free government, that you. when elect
ed and become president, as we fully be
lieve you will be-that you remember Will
solicitude the cause of the great common
people, the sixty-four and three-fourthi
million toilers. The people for whom JEFF
ferson lived and labored, and for whon
Lincoln lived and labored as well. TIL
people whose arm never tires, the peopl
whose labor produces the wealth of tn
nation, and whose prosperity Is the pros
perity of all; whose devotion never ceases
whose patriotism never ~falters; who ar
ever ready to defend and protect; the,
who are the rock upon which our coun
try may safely rest; they whose strengtl
builds, whose loyalty guards, whose patri
otism defends the trocha, filed with thei
blood, II need be, over which their country
enemy can never pass.
Now, sir. believing In you faithfulness
integrity ana WISDOM 10 uischdrSe lhe uu
ties of such high office, we hereby tende
you the nomination of the Kansas Cit
silver republican convention, and most re
spectfully request that you accept tn
same, and become our candidate for III
presidency of our beloved republic, an
may your proudest plume be that 20
never deserted your country's welfar,
With great respect, we are,
SAMUEL w. HOPKINS, Chairman.
SAMUEL l. HALE, Secretary.