The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-07-17

ley of his nomination, reached him this
morning. The committee was escort
ed to the Mckinley residence by
number of local organizations. Sena-
tor Lodge made the speech of noti1ica-
ton.
Mr.. Mckinley replied as follows:
Senator Lodge and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee-The message
which you bring to me is one of signal
honor. 1t is also a summons to duty.
A single nomination for the office of
president by the great party which in
thirty-two years out of forty has been
triumphant at national elections is n
distinction which l gratefully cherish.
To receive a unanimous denomination
by the same party is an expression of
regard and pledge of continued confi-
dence for which it is difficult to make
adequate acknowledgment.
If anything exceeds the honor of the
office of president of the United States,
1t is the responsibility which attaches
to ii. Having been invested with both
l do not underappraise either.
Any one who has borne the anxieties
and burdens of the presidential office,
especially in time of national trial, can
not contemplate assuming it second
time without profoundly realizing the
severe exactions and solemn obliga-
tions it implies, and this feeling is ac-
centuated by the momentous problems
which now press for settlement. III my
countrymen shall confirm the action of
the convention at our national election
in November, | shall, craving Divine
guidance. undertake an exalted trust,
to administer it for the interests and
honor of the country and the well be-
ing of the new peoples who have be-
come the objects of our care.
The declaration of principles adopt
ed by the convention has my hearty APP
proval. AT some future date l will con-
slider its subjects in detail and will by
letter communicate TO your chairman n
more formal acceptance of the nomina-
ton.
On like occasion four years ago l
said: ''The party that supplied by leg
islation the vast revenues for the con-
duct of our greatest war; that promptly
restored the credit of the country at its
close: that from its abundant revenues
paid Off n large share of the debt in
CURED by this war. and that resumed
specie payment and placed our paper
currency upon sound and enduring
basis, can be safely trusted to preserve
both our credit and currency, with hon
or, stability and inviolability. The
American people hold the financial
honor of our government rs sacred as
our flag and can be relied upon to
guard 1t with the same sleepless vigi-
lance. They hold its preservation
above party fealty and have often dem
onstrated that party ties avail nothing
when the spotlcss credit of our coun-
try is threatened.
"The dollar paid to the farmer, the
wage-earncr and the pensioner must be
continued forever equal in purchasing
and debt-pnying power to the dollar
piffu to any s,ovcfr,r,s cent -sreditar---
Our industrial supremacy, our pro-
ductive capacity, our business and COM
mercial prosperity. our labor and its
rewards. our national credit and cur
rency. our proud financial honor and
our splendid free citizenship the birth
right of every American. are all in
volved in the pending campaign: thus
every home in the land is directly and
Intimately connected with their prop
er settlement.
"Our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle working people must
be employed in gaining occupations at
American wages. Our home market
must be restored to It's proud rank of
first in the world and our foreign trade,
so prccipitately cut off by adverse ma
tional legislation, opened on fair and
equitable terms for our agricultural
and manufacturing products.
Public confidence must be resumed
and the skill. energy and capital of our
country find ample employment at
home.
1.-The government of the United States
must raise enough to meet both its cur
rent expenses and increasing needs Its
revenues should be so raised as to pro-
tect the material interest of our peo-
pie with the lightest possible drain up
on their resources and the maintaining
of that high standard of civilization
which has distinguished our country
for more than century of its exist
ence.
1.-THE national credit, which has thus
far fortunately resisted every assault
upon 1t, must and will be upheld and
strengthened. If sufficient revenues
are provided for the support of the gov
ernment there will be no necessity for
borrowing money and increasing the
public debt"
Three and one-half years of legisla-
ton and administration have conclud-
ed since these words We're spoken.
Have those to whom was confided the
direction of the government kept their
pledges? The record Is made up. The
people are not unfamiliar with what
has been accomplished. The gold
standard has been reaffirmed and
strengthened. The endless chain has
been broken and the drain upon our
gold reserve no longer affects us. The
credit of the country has been ad-
vanced to the highest place among all
nations. We are refunding our bonded
debt bearing three and four and five
per cent. interest at two per cent, a
lower rate than that of any other coun-
try, and already more than S300,O00,-
600 have been so funded with a gain
to the government of many millions of
dollars. Instead of 16 to l, for which
our opponents cohtended four years