Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-11-02
ANOTHER NOMINATION
Silver Republicans Notify Bryan
of Their Selection.
To Which the Nominee Replies at
Length Accepting the Nominal
ton and Thanks the Plain
People. Isf


ton and Thanks the Plain
ttsH People. ;
The following letter notifying VII
liam j. Bryan of his nomination for
the presidency by the national silver
republican convention has been in Mr..
Bryan's possession for some time:
Mount Pleasant. Mich, Oct. 17.-Hon.
William j. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.: The sill
yer republican organization at it's ma
tional convention, held at Kansas City
July 4 last, appointed committee whose
duty it is to notify it's presidential nom
inee of such nomination. In performing
that duty permit us to say that conven-
ton was made up of voters $50 Of whom
voted for Abraham Lincoln; $50 bore arms
as union soldiers in our great civil conflict;
many were soldiers in the late Spanish
American war, and gave their best efforts
for the liberation of suffering Cuba. Four
hundred were sons of veterans. We men
ton that as showing the fact that liberty
fires burned in their lives as warmly as
in the lives of their patriotic forefathers.
Learning we do, that the great lead
er of democracy, Jefferson, wrote the
declaration of independence, and the great
leader of republicanism, Lincoln, support
ed, defended and applied it, both seeking
In their efforts to establish and maintain
government Of equal rights for the people,
we readily see why Jeffersonian democrats
and Lincoln republicans may unite and
should unite, and do unite now in their
support of one ticket for the welfare of our
country.
ITO us it is no wonder that all the po-
litical parties split in 1896 on the rock of
finance. 1t was the struggle of the oligarchy
of money changers in opposition to the
rights Of the people. At st. Louis the
aristocracy controlled and kept the party
name-without it the campaign would have
resulted differently. At Chicago the peo-
MI onpfr Lan he ,ov-fU no
We believe the rank and file of voters in
all parties are faithful to the true Amer
icanism embodied in the declaration of
independence, and when freed from party
surroundings will support and vote for
the man representing the rights of the
masses.
From the patriotism of the republican
party of 1856 and 1860 to the greed of the
republican party of 1896 and 1900 is a to-
boggan equaled only by the descent from
the grandeur of Linco1n's lofty motives to
the lust and greed of the present admins
tration.
when we think one-fourth of 100000
people own three-fourths of the nation s
wealth. when sixtyfour and three-fourths
millions own only one-fourth-when So per
cent. of the people own not even home
we become alarmed. This showing alone
| is enough to alarm the great mass of
American voters All who seek to have
| the nation kept in the lines of a republic
must see it can only be done by not sur
rendering the control of the country en-
tirely into the hands of the one-fOurth of
1000, 600; but that the executive and law
makers must be representatives of the
sixty-four and three-fourthS millions. The
plea of trade must never cover and hide
| the plea of human rights; for when we
| disregard the rights of others, we are
but schooling them and ourselves to dis
| regard our own rights. We desire to stand
| by the principle of war only when waged
| for mans liberty, and we declare that we
have millions for defense. and millions
| more for development, but not dollar for
conquest.
| "Now, with the attempted gold stand
| ard, the seeking to destroy the greenback
the peoples money-the concentration of
| wealth in the hands of the few, the want
| of reverence for equal rights as set forth
| in the declaration of independence, coupled
| with the attempt to destroy such rights
| the recognition of human slavery under the
| American flag, the subjusat1on OF strug-
| Cling, liberty-loving people-deny1ng them
| the right of citizenship and compelling the
| relation of subjects. thus crushing out and
destroying the equality of the people OF
. republic, the attempt to establish the
| rule of the few and the submission OF the
| many, raises and forces upon us for ouI
| consideration the question of Imperialism
and makes it the question for us now tc
| decide. A subject must belong to an en-
pire. A republic has only citizens. In ar
| empire the few rule, the many submit
In republic equal rights to all, and spe'
cial privileges to none, are ever ap-
| plicable.
with this explanation we hereby notify
| you that at the gathering of Lincoln re-
publicans in the silver republican conven
| ton, held on last independence day, IL
| Kansas City, you were made their nom
| inee.
May we ask, as we believe in the right:
| of free government, that you, when elect
ed and become president, as we fully be
lieve you will be-that you remember will
solicitude the cause of the great common
people, the sixty-four and three-fourth.
million toilers. The people for whom JET
ferson lived and labored, and for whom
Lincoln lived and labored as well. Thu
people whose arm never tires, the people
| whose labor produces the wealth of thu
nation, and whose prosperity is the pros
perity of all; whose devotion never ceases
ever ready to defend and protect; the,
| who are the rock upon which our coun
try may safely rest; they whose strength
builds, whose loyalty guards. whose patri
4 otism defends the trocha, filled with thei
| blood, if need be, over which their country.
| enemy can never pass. s
Nov, sir, believing in your faithfu1ness
integrity and wisdom to discharge the du
ties of such high Office. we hereby tendel
you the nomination of the Kansas Cit!
| silver republican convention, and most re
spectfully request that you accept thu
| same, and become our candidate for tn
presidency of our beloved republic, ant
| may your proudest plume be that 70,
never deserted your country's welfare
With great respect, we are, &
SAMUEL w. HOPKINS, Chairman.
| SAMUEL I. HALE, Secretary.
Bryan,s Acceptance Letter.
| In response to the above notification
Mr.. Bryan on Friday, October 10, CAV
out the following letter:
seHon Samuel w. Hopkins, Chairman
and Others, Members of the Notification
Covnmittee of the Silver Lincoln Repub