The Portland daily press., 1900-09-10
Executive Mansion,

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Executive Mansion,
Washington, d. c., Sept 8, 1900.
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman No
tihcatiOn Committee:
My Dear Sir:-Yhe nomination of the
Republic convention OF June 49, 1900,
for the Office of President OF Uhe United
States which as the Official Representative
of the cOnve 1tiOn you have conveyed to
me, is accepted. ] have carefully ex-
amined the platform adopted and give
to it my hearty approval. Upon the great
issue of the last national election it is
clear, 1t uphOlds the gold standard and
endorses the legislation Of the present
Congress by which that standard has
been effectively strengthened. The
stability of our national currency Is
therefore secure as long as those who
adhere to this platform are kept in con-
troll of the government In the first bat
tie, that of 1926, the friends of the gold
standard and of sound currency was tri-
umphant and the country is enjoying
the fruits of that victory. Our antagO
nists, however, are not satisfied. They
compel us to second battle upon the
same lines on which the first was fought
and won. While regretting the reopen
Ing Of this question, which can only dis
turb the present. satisfactory financial
condition of the government and visit
uncertainty upon our great business en-
terprises we accept the issue and again
invite the sound money forces to join in
winning another and we hops a perma-
nent triumph for an honest financial sys-
tenn which will continue inviolable the
public faith,
AS in 1896 the three silver parties are
united under the same leader who imme-
diateIy after the election OF that year, in
an address to the bimetaIIists, said:
''Ihe friends Of bimetallism have not
been vanquished; they have simply been
overcome. They believe that the gold
ctn & a of
changers against the welfare Of the hui
man race-and they Will continue the
warfare against it.,
The policy thus proclaimed has been
accepted and confirmed by these parGies.
The silver Democratic platform of 1900
continues the warfare against the So
called gold conspiracy when it expressly
says I'VE reiterate the demand of that
(the Chicago platform of 1896 for an
American financial system made by the
American people for themselves, which
shall restore and maintain blmetalic
price level, and as part of such system
the immediate restora tiOn Of the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and gold at
the present ratio OF 16 to 1, without
waiting Tor the aid or consent of any
other nation.
So the
ISSUE is PRESENTED.
1t viii be noted that the demand is for
the immediate restoration of the free ooin-
age OF silver at 16 to 1, II another issue
is paramount, this is immediate 1t will
admit of no delay and viii suffer no post
ponement.
Turning to the other associated parties
we lind in the Populist national platform
adopted at Sioux Falls South Dakota
May 10, 1900, the following declaration:
''We pledge anew the PEOPLES party
Tn ca the AGITATION mill fl
nancial conspiracy is blotted from the
statute book, the Lincoln greenback re-
stored the bonds all paid and all corpo-
ration money forever retired. We reaflirm
the demand for the reOpening of the
m1nts of the United States for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and gold
at the present legal ratio of is to 1, the
immediate increase in the volume of sill
yer coins and certificates thus c-eated to
be substituted, dollar for dol lar, for the
bank notes issued by private corporations
under special privilege, granted by law of
March IA, 1900, ana prior to national
banking laws
The platform Of the Silver party adopt
ed at Kansas City, July 8, 1900 makes
the following announcement:
''We decare it to be our intention to lend
our efforts to the repeal of this currency
law, which not Ony reDudiates the an e
cient and time -hOnored principles of the
American people DsfOre the constitution
was adopted, but is V1Olative OF the prin-
ciples of the constitution itself; and we
shall not cease our efforts until there has
been established in it's place a monetary
system based upon the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver ana gold into IN oney at
the present legal ratio of 16 to / by the
independent action of the United States,
under which system all paper money shall
be Issued by the government and all such
money coined or Issued shall be q full To-
gal tender In payment Of all debts, pub
lie and private, without exception -
In all three platforms these parties an
nOunce that their efforts shall be unceas-
Ing until the gold act shall be blotted
from the statute books and the free and