The age-herald., 1900-09-19
MT. Bryan's Letter of Acceptance.

At the end of MT. Bryan's admirable let ter of acceptance he says that when the people are secured from attack as the only source of power, then and not until then can they proceed safely to settle the do- nestle and economic questions which are continuously arising. He does not further discuss the tendencies of the Republican party towards European methods; but he 7 does take occasion to say that the Republi- can party is powerless to protect the peo- pie because it is mortgaged through the payment to it of large campaign subscrip- tions by the special privileged class It will stand by the campaign subscribers, who are largely members of the trusts, and not by the people. These impeach- ments of the foreign and domestic policies of the administration are direct and vivid and truthful, but they are briefly told because they were fully discussed in the speech that followed notification of nomina- tion in Indianapolis.
 Mr Bryan does discuss in the letter of acceptance the other issues before the peo- pie, and he does this lucidly and with that dfrectness and force which goes with sim cerety. Whatever else opponents may say about MT Bryan, no intelligent and at the same time honest man denies his thor ough honesty and consistency of purpose. Among public men he stands almost alone in this respect Alabama has two Senators
 t. ;~ lect many more like him in political life
 He characterizes the trusts with all the force of expression he can command, and yet he does not in the least depart from the known truth and he very properly re- fers the existence Of these vicious monop- olies to the Dingley Mckinley tariff, which is the sum of all villanies, the root of all our economic troubles. He denonunces the appearance of corporations in politics; stands firmly up to his often-expressed currency views; demands the election of Senators by tho people; endorses direct leg islation; pronounces the blacklist d gisan- tic conspiracy against labor; advocates ju- 6iciai arbitration of troubles arising be- tween labor and capital; urges the estab- lishment of department of labor; favors an immediate construction of the Nica- ragua canal, and supports the Monroe doc Urine.
 His support of the popular election of Senators is so much to the point and so unanswerable that we reproduce it. He says:
 The demand for a constitutional amend lEent providing for the election of Senators by direct vote of the people appears for the first time in a Democratic national platform, but a resolution proposing such an amendment has three times passed the House of Representatives, and that, too, practically without opposition. Whatever may have been the reasons which secured the adoption of the present plan, a century ago, new conditions have made 1t impera- tive that the people be permitted to speak directly in the selection of their representa- lives in the Senate. A Senator is no less the represen tative of the State because he receives his commission from the people themselves, rather than from the members of the State Legislature. If voter is competent to vote for O member of Con- gross, for State officers and for President, he is competent to choose the representa- tive in the Senate. A system which makes the Senator responsible for his election to the people, as whole, and amenable to them it he misrepresents them, must com sntnd itself to those who have confidence