Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
Gov ROOSEvELT'S
ACCEPTANCE LETTER
Repub lean Vice Presidential Car.
didate Discusses Issues
Of The Campaign.
AssA.Ls DEmOCRAtic POSITION
biintes on the Prevailing Prosperity
niid Declares IL Is Due TO Re-
publican Ruic-s-Si.ver aud
Imperialism;

Oyster Bay, n. T., Sept. is.--Gov=
erhur R~oosevelt's letter TO Hon. Ed
ward o. Wolcott, chairman uf the
committee on notificaiio OF vice
president, accepting the nomination
rendered by the republican national
tehtentich i'll Philadelphia, Was made
public. II is IN part as follows:
TO Hon. Edward .. Wolcott, Chairman
Committee on Notification of Vice Presi-
dent-Sir: l accept the nomination az
Vice president af tho United States, tend
cred me by the republican national con-
Vention, with n deep sense OF the honor
conferred upon me and with an Infinitely
deeper sense of the vital Importance 10
the whole county Of sstiring the re-e!et-
tiCn 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 ia fashion incapable OF being
misunderstood that the American people,.
at the beginning OF the twentieh cent--y,
face their duties In a calm and serious
spirit; hat they. nave MS intention ~
permitting folly Or la wlessness 10 mar the
extraordinary material well being which
they have attained at home, nor yet OF
Permitting their flag to be d"lshonored
I feel that this contest Is by no means
bne merely between republicans and dem
ocrats. We have n right to appeal TO AL
good citizens who are far-sighted enough
TO see what the honor and the interest or
the nation demand. To put into practice
the principles embodied In the Kansas
rity platform would mean grave disaster
10 the nation; for that platform stands
Tor reaction and disorder; for an upset
ting Of our financial system which would
mean not only great SUFFERING but the
a"bandonmtnt 81 the nations good faiths
and for "A policy abroad which would i'm
ply the dishCnor of the flag and an UNI
worthy surrender or our national rights:
It's success would nean u~nspeakable hui
Initiation TO men proud Of their country,
jealous OF their country's, good name;
and DESTROYS of securing the welfare or
their fellow citizens. Therefore we LAY
d right TO appeal TO all good men, north
and south, east and west, whatever their
politics may have been in the past, 70
stand with us. because we stand for the
prosperity " the country and for the re-
nown of the American nag,
Prosperity with Precedent,
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
need In that the nation should DO It's WORK
well abroad, even this comes second TO
the thorough performance or duty AT
home. Under the administration OF Pres
Ident Mckinley this country has been
blessed with "a degree of prosperity abSo-
ititely unparalleled, even in ITS previous
PROSPEROUS history. While 1t IS, OF course
true that no legislation and no admin
istfation can bring success TO those VINO
are not stout OF heart, cool OF mead ana
ready of hand, yet II Is not less true that
the individual capacity OF each man 10
get good results for himself can be abso-
lutely destroyed Ny bad Legislation or bad
administration, while under the reverse
conditions the power OF the individual to
10 good work Is assured and stimulated
This is what has been done under the al
ministration OF President Mckinley.
Thanks to his actions and to the wise
legislation Of congress on the tarl1 ana
finance. the conditions of our Industrial
life have been rendered more faVorah.e
than ever before, and they have been Ia
ken advantage OF 10 the full py amer
lEan thrift, industry and enterprise or
der has been observed, the courts uQhe!d'
and the fullest liberty secured to all citl-
zens. The merchant and MANUFACTURER,
but above nl the farmer and the wa6e
worker, have prohted by this state OF
things.
10 10 1 Mrnns Misery.
Funda mentally and primarily the pres
ent contest is q contest for the continu-
ance of the conditions which nave told
in favor Of our material welfare ana OF
our civil and political integrity. II this
nation is to retain either It's VII being
or It's self respect, II cannot AFFORD t9
plunge into financial and economic chaosi
N cannot AFFORD 10 indorse governmental
theories which would unsettle the stand
ard of national honesty and destroy the
integrity OF our system or justice. uhe
policy OF the free coinage OF silver at a
ratio of IS 20 l Is a policy fraught with
destruction to every home In the land. It
means untold misery to the head OF every
household, and, Above all, to the women
and children Of every home. When our
opponents champion free silver at 10 to |
they are either insincere or sincere In
their attitude. If sincere In their chain-
pionship they, Of course, forfeit all right
10 belief or support on II ground. lt
sincere, then they are "A menace to the
welfare of the country Whether they
shout their sinister purpose or merely
whisper 1t makes but little difference.
saye as II reflects their w honesty. NO
Issue can be paramount to the issue they
thus make. for the paramountcy or such
an issue Is TO BE- determined, rot by the
dictuIn of any man or body OF men, but
by the fact that It vitality affects the well
being OF every home In the land, The
financial question Is always OF such far
reaching and tremendous Importance to
the national welfare that II can never
be raised In good faith unless this ire
mcndous importance Is not merely con-
ceded but insisted ON. Men who are not
willing to make such an Issue paramount
have no possible Justification for raising
II at all, for under such circumstances
their act cannot under any conceivable
circumstance do aught but grave harm.
There u M imperialism.
Mr.. Roosevelt discusses the ques-
ton of expansion at length, reviewing
the various territorial extensions of
the United States. In conclusion he
says:
i Ic ollllDlS ANA' 10 iAo I" 49,
ing even remotely resembling imperial
ism" or "militarism' involved In the pres
ent development OF that policy of cxpan-
sion which has been part or the history
OF America from the day when she be-
came a nation. The words mean abso-
lutely nothing as applied TO our present
policy I'm the Philippines; FOR this policy
is only imperlalistic in the sense that JEFF
ferson's policy in Louisiana was imperial
istic; only military In the sense that
Jackson's policy toward the Semlno.es
or Clusters toward the Sioux embodled
militarism; and there is no more danger
OF ats producing evll results at home now
than there was OF Its interfering with
freedom under Jefferson o~r Jackson. or In
the days OF the Indian wars on the plains.
Our army is relatively not as large as 1t
was In the days of Wayne; We have not
one regular tor every 1000 inhabitants.
There Is TO more danger of "A draft han
there Is of the reintroduction OF Slavery.
When we expanded over New Mexico
and California we secured free govern
ment 10 these territories and prevented
their falling under the 'militarism' of a
dictatorship like that of Santa Anna, or
the imperialism Of a real empire in the
days of MaXlTillian We put a stop 10
Imperialism In Mexico as soon as the civil
war closed. We made a great anti-im-
perialistic stride when we drove the Span
iards from Porto Rico and the Philippines
and thereby made ready the ground IN
these Islands for that gradually increas-
ing measure of self-government for which
their populations are severely fitted. Cuba
is being helped along the path to indie
p~endence as rapidly as her own citizens
the presence Of troops In the Philippines
during the Tagal insurrection has no
more TO do With militarism or imperial
ism than had their presence in the Da-
Ladders to Heaven.
The Chinese minister to the United
States recently expressed his ideas
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