Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-10

Executive Mansion. Washington. d. c.,
September 10.-Hon. Henry Cabot
Lodge, Chairman Notification Commit
tee. Dear Sir:-The of the re-
publican national convention of June 10,
1900. for the office of president of the Uni
ted States, which as the onlcial repre-
sentative of the convention, YOU, have
communicated to me. is accepted. I have
carefully examined the platform adopted
and give to it my hearty approval. On
the great issue of the last national elecr
ton it is clear. 1t upholds the gold inc
ard and endorses the legislation of the
present congress by which that standard
has been strengthened. The stability Of
our national currency is therefore secure
so long as those who adhere to this plat!
form are kept in control of the govern
ment. In the first battle. that of 1896, the
friends of the gold standard nj of sound
currency We're triumphant and the coun-
try is enjoying the fruits of that victory.
WANT 70 FIGHT TT OVER. i
Our antagonists, however, are not sata
iSfed. They compel us to a second battle
upon the same lines on which the first
was fought n won While regretting
the reopening of this question. which can
only disturb the present satisfactory con-
dition of the government and visit I'M
certainty upon our government and bus
mess enterprises, we accept the issue and
again invite the sound none forces to
join in winning another n we hope a
permanent triumph for an honest inan-
cial system, which will continue inviOla-
Bile. IS in 1896, the three silver parties
are united under the same leader who
Immediately 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 overcome. They believe that the
gold standard is a conspiracy of the mon
ey changers against the welfare of the
human race and they will continue the
warfare against it," The policy thus
proclaimed has been accepted. The sill
Yer democratic platform of 1900 continues
the warfare against the so-called gold
conspiracy when it expressly says: 1--WE
reiterate the demand OF that the Chica-
gO) platform of 1896; for an American
financial system made by he American
people for themselves, which shall restore
and maintain a bimetallic price level
and as part OF such system and immed-
late restoration to the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of silver and gold at the pres
ent ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for
the action or consent of any other ma
tion." So the issue is presented. It will
be noted that the demand is for the i'm
mediate restoration of free coinage of
silver at 16 to l. If another issue is par
amount, this is immediate. 1t will ad-
nit of no delay and will suffer no post
ponement. Turning to the other associat.
ed parties, we find in the populist ma
tional platform adopted at Sioux Falls,
s. D., May 10, 1900, the following decIar-
alton: We pledge anew the peoples
party never to cease the agitation until
this financial conspiracy is blotted from
the statute books, the Lincoln greenback
restored the bonds all paid and all cor
poration money forever retired. We re-
affirm the demand for the reopening of
the minis of the United States for the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio of Is to J.,
the immediate increase in silver coins,
dollar for dollar for the bank notes issu-
ed by private corporations under spec
ial privilege, granted by law of March
IA, 1900, prior to he national banking
laws"
The platform of the silver party adopt
ed at Kansas City, July 6, 1900. makes the
following announcement: I'VE declare
it to be our intention to lend our efforts
to the repeal of this currency law, which
not only repudiates the ancient and
time-honored principles of the, American
people before the constitution was adopt
ed. but is violative Of the principles of
the constitution itself, and we. shall not
cease our efforts until there has been
established in it's place a monetary sys-
! tenn 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 government and
all such money coined or issued shall be
a full legal tender in payment of all
debts, public and private. without ex-
ception."
In all three platforms, these parties an
nounce that their efforts shall be un-
ceasing until the gold act shall be blotted
from the statute books and the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to l shall
take it's place.
ALL ISSUES IMPORTANT.
The relative Importance of the issues
I do not stop to discuss. All of them are
important. Whichever party is success
full will be bound in conscience to carry
into administration and legislation its
several declarations n doctrines. One
declaration will be as obligatory as an
other, but all are not immediate. 1t is
not possible that these parties treat the
doctrine of 16 to /, the immediate reali-
cation of which is demanded by theil
several platforms, as void and inopera-
tive in the event that they SHOULD be
clothed with power. Otherwise their pro-
fession of faith is insincere. 1t is there.
fore the imperative business Of those op-
posed to this financial heresy to prevent
the triumph of the parties whose unior
is only assured by adherence to the sill.
Yer issue. Will the American people ir
indifference or fancied security, hazarC
the overthrow of the wise financial leg
islation of the past year and revive thu
danger of the silver standard with al
the inevitable effects of shattered con
fidence and general disaster which just
ly alarmed and aroused them in 1896
The Chicago platform of 1896 is reaffirm'
ed in it's entirety by the Kansas City con
vention. Nothing has been omitted OF
recalled, so that all the perIs ther
threatened are presented anew with thu
added force of a deliberate r~eafirmatiOn
Four years ago the people refused tt
place the seal of their approval upor
these dangers and revolutionary poll
cies, and this year they will not fail t.
record again their earnest dissent.
OUR GREAT PROSPERITY.