Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-07-12
FORMALLY NOTIFIED.
Continued from First page.

mons to duty that 1t involved He
spoke his gratitude for the manner in
which the nomination had been made
and dwelt upon the responsibility at
tached to the Office as we'll as the
anxieties and burdens it meant; espe-
cially in the time of national trial.
He said that if his countrymen should
confirm the action of the republican
convention in the election next No
vem Der, he would. craving divine
guidance, undertake the exalted trust
to administer it for the interest and
honor of the country and the well-be-
ing of the new peoples who have be-
come the objects of our care. He gave
his hearty approval to the de-
claration OF principles adopted by the
convention, and stated that he would
later, By letter, make formal accept
ance of the nomination He recalled
his utterances of four years ago in ac-
cepting his first nomination on the
money and tariff questions, and asked
if in the three and half years that
have passed since those words were
spoken, those to whom was contided
the direction of the government had
kept their pledges. Said the presi
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 frets us. The
credit of the country has been adj
vanced to the highest place among all
nations. We are refunding our bond
ed debt bearing and 4 and 5 per
cent interest at per cent. lower
rate than that of ony other country
and already more than three millions
have been so funded with a gain to
the government of many millions of
dollars. Instead of 16-to-1, for which
our opponents contended four years
ago, legislation has been enacted
which while utilizing all forms of our
money, secured one fixed value for
every dollar and that the best known
to the civilized world.
"A tariff which protects American
labor and industry and provides am
pie revenues has been written in pub
lie law We have lower interest and
higher wages; more money and fewer
mortgages. The worlds markets
have been opened to American pro-
ducts, which go now where they have
never gone before. We have passed
from bond-issuing to a bond-paying
nation; from a nation of borrowers to
a nation of lenders; from deficiency
IN revenue to a surplus; from fear to
confidence; from enforced idleness to
profitable employment. The public
faith has been upheld; public order
hn
Eerity at home and prestige abroad. -
Does Not Like Other Convention.
The president attacked the action
of the Kansas City convention on the
money and tariff questions, and then
took up the action of the government
on the international question, held
that the platform of 80 declared that
the Hawaiian islands should be con-
trolled by the United States; that this
dsclaI alton had been carried out by
annexation; that at the great confer
ence at the Hague the Monroe doc
trine had been reaffirmed by US and
our determination set forth not to
participate in the complica ii )ns of
Europe. We have happily en- led the
European alliance in Samoa, curing
to ourselves one of the most valuable
harbors in the Pacific ocean, while the
open door in China gives to US fair
and equal competition in the vast
trade of the orient. Some things
have happened which were not prom
ised, nor even foreseen. and our pur-
poses in relation TO them must not be
left in doubt. A just war has been
wsged for humanity, and with
it have come new problems and
responsibilities. Spain has been
elected from the western hemisphere
and our flag floats over her former
territory. Cuba has been liberated
and our guarantees to her people will
be sacredly executed. A benefcent
government has been provided for
Porto Rico. The Philippines are
ours and American authority must
be supreme throughout the archipel-
ago. There will be amnesty brond
and liberal, but no abatement of our
rights. no abandonment of our duty.
There must be no scuttle policy. We
will fulfill in the Philippines the obi
cations imposed by the triumphs of
arms and by the treaty of peace; by
international law; by the nations
sense of honor; and, more than all.
by the rights, interests and conditions
of the Philippine people themselves.
- . haI