The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-17

Governor Theodore Roosevelt has sent
in his letter of acceptance to the COM
mittee on notification. 1t follows:
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. Is.
To Hon. Edward o. Wolcott, Chairman
Committee on Notification of Vice
President.
Sir:-I accept the nomination as vice
president of the United States, tender
ed me the Republican national conven-
ton, with very deep sense of the honor
conferred upon me and with an infinite
" deeper sense of the vital Importance
to the whole country of securing the re-
election Of President Mckinley The ma
tion's welfare is at stake. We must con-
tinue the work which has been so we'll
begun during the present administration.
We must show in fashion incapable of
being misunderstood that the American
people, at the beginning of the twentieth
century face their duties in a calm and
serious spirit; that they have no inten-
tion of permitting folly or laWleSSnesS to
mar the extraordinary material well be-
ing which they have attained at home,
nor yet of permitting their flag to be
dishOnored abroad
feel that this contest is by no means
one merely between Republicans and
Democrats We have a right to appeal
TO all good citizens who are farsighted
enough to see what the honor and the
interest of the nation demand To put
into practice the principles embodied in
the Kansas City platform would mean
grave disaster to the nation, for that
der; for an upsetting Of our financial
system which would mean not only
great suffering but the abandonment of
/. the nations good faiths and Tor pollcy
abroad which would imply the dishonor
of the flag and an unworthy surrender
of our national rights Its success would
mean unspeakable humiliation to men
proud of their country. Jealous of their
country's good name, and desirous OF
securing the welfare of their fellow cit-
zens- Therefore, we have a right to ap-
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east and west, whatever their politics
may have been in the past, to stand with
us, because we stand for the prosperity
of the country and for the renown of the
GOOD GOVERNMENT PARAMOUNT.
The most important of all problems is,
Of course, that of securing good govern
ment and moral and material well be-
ing within our own borders Great
though the need is that the nation should
do its work well abroad, even this comes
second to the thorough performance of
duty at home. Under the administration
of President Mckinley this country has
been blessed with a degree of prosperity
absolutely unparalleled, even in its
previous prosperous history. While it is.
of course, true that no legislation and
no administration can bring success to
those who are not stout of heart, cool of
head and ready of hand, yet 1t is no
less true that the individual capacity of
each man to get good results for himself
can be absolutely destroyed by bad leg
der the reverse conditions the power of
the individual to do good work is assured
and stimulated. This is what has been
done under the administration of Presi-
dent Mckinley. Thanks to his actions
and to the wise legislation of congress
the tariff and finance, the conditions
of our Industrial life have been rendered
more favorable than ever before, and
they have been taken advantage Of to
the full by American thrift, industry and
enterprise. Order has been observed, the
hold frr11 -
secured to all citizens. The merchant
and manufacturer. but above all the far
mer and the wage worker, have prof1ted
by this state of things.
FREE SILVER CONSIDERED.
Fundamentally and primarily the
present contest is contest for the con-
tinuance of the conditions which have
told IN favor of our material welfare
and of our civil and political integrity.
If this nation is to retain either its we'll
being or its self-respect, it cannot af-
ford to plunge into financial and econ
olnic chaos; it cannot afford to indorse
governmental theories which would un-
settle the standard of national honesty
and destroy the integrity of our system
of justice. The policy Of the free coin
age OF silver at a ratio of 16 to I is a
policy fraught with destruction to ev
cry home in the land. It means untold
misery to the head of every household
and, above all, to the women and child
rem OF every home When our opponents
champion free silver at 16 to ] they are
either insincere or sincere in their atti-
tude- If insincere in their champion
ship they, Of course. forfeit all right to
belief or support on any ground If sim
cere, then they are menace to the well
fare OF the country. Whether they
shout their sinister purpose or merely
whisper it makes but little difference.
save as II reflects their own honesty. No
issue can be paramount to the issue
they thus make, for the paramountcy
OF such an issue is to be determined, not
Q1cInm
men, but by the fact that it vitally af-
fects the wel-being of every home in
the land The financial question is al
ways of such far-reaching and tra
mendous Importance to the national
welfare that it can never be raised in
good faith unless this tremendous inn
portance IS not merely conceded, but in
sisted on Men who are not willing to
make such an issue paramount have no
possible justification for raising it at