The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-13
M'KINLEY ACCEPTS.
His Speech in Reply to Notification
Committee

His Speech in Reply to Notification
Committee.
Senator Lodge and Gentlemen of
the Notification Committee:
THE message which you bring to me
is one of signal honor 1t is also a
summons to duty. A single nomination
for the office of president by great
party which in thirty-twO years out
of forty has been triumphant at nation
al elections is a distinction which L
gratefully cherish. To receive unan-
1mous denomination by the same party
as an expression of regard and pledge
of continued confidence for which it is
difficult to make adequate achnoWl-
edgment.
the office of president of the United
States it is the responsibility which at
taches to it. Having been invested with
both 1 do not under appraiSe either.
Anyone who has borne the anxieties
and burdens of the presidential Office
especially in time of national trial, can
not contemplate assuming it second
time without profoundly realizing the
severe exactions and the solemn obli-
cations which it imposes, and this feel
ing is accentuated by the mOmentOus
problems which now press for settle
ment.
If my countrymen shall confirm the
action Of the convention at our ma
tiOnal election in November, 1 shall,
craving Divine guidance, undertake the
exalted trust to administer it for the
interest and honor of the country and
the we'll being of the new peoples who
have become the objects of our care
THE declaration of principles adopt
ed by the convention has my hearty
approval. At some future date L will
consider its subjects in detail and will
by letter communicate to your chair
man more formal acceptance of the
nomination.
'.On a like occasion four years ago
said: The party that supplied by leg
islation the vast revenues for the con-
duct of our greatest war; that prompt
~ restored the credit of the country at
its close; that from it's abundant reye-
nues paid off a large share of the debt
incurred by this war, and that resumed
specie payments and placed our paper
currency upon a sound and enduring
basis, can be safely trusted to preserve
both our credit and currency with honor
stability and inviolabitiy. The Ameri-
can people hold the financial honor of
our government as sacred as our flag,
and can be relied upon to guard it
with the same sleepless vigilance They
hold its preservation above party fealty
and have often demonstrated that party
ties avail nothing when the spotless
credit of our country is threatened.
The dollar paid to the farmer, the
wage Garner, and the pensioner must
continue forever equal In purchasing
and debt-paying power to the dollar
paid to any government creditor.
WHAT IS INVOLVED.
Our industrial supremacy, our pro-
ductive capacity, our business and com
mercial prosperity, our labor and it's
rewards, our national credit and cur
rency, our financial honor and our splen-
did free citizenship, the birthright of
every American, are all involved in the
pending campaign, and thus every
home in the land is directly and init
mately connected with their proper set
Element.
our domestic trade must be won
back and our idle working people en-
ployed in gainful occupations at Ameri-
can wages. Our home market must be
restored to its proud rank of first in
the world and our foreign trade, so
precipitately cut off by adverse national
legfslation, re-opened on fair and equit-
able terms for our surplus agricultural
and manufacturing products
Public confidence must be restored
and the skill, energy and the capital of
our country find ample employment at
home The government of the United
States must raise money enough to
meet both its current expenses and in
creasing needs Its revenues should be
raised so as to protect the material in
tereStS of our people, with the lightest
possible drain upon their resources and
maintaining that high standard of
civilization which has distinguished
our country for more than a century of
its existence.
4" The national credit. which has
thus far fortunately resisted every as
Sault upon it must and Will be upheld
and strengthened. If sufficient revenues
are provided for the support of the gov
eminent there will be no necessity
for borrowing money and increasing the
public debt
Three and one-half years of legis-
Iation and administered have been
concluded since these words were sDolz-
en- Have those to whom was confided
the direction of the government kept
their pledges2 The record is made up
The people are not unfamiliar with
what has been accomplished. The gold
standard has been reaffirned and
strengthened. The endless chain has
been broken and the drain upon our
rar011
credit of the country has been advanc-
ed to the highest place among all ma
tons We are refunding our bonded
debt bearing and 4 per cent interest
at per cent, lower rate than that
of any other country and already more
than 300 millions have been so funded
with gain to the government Of many
millions of dollars Instead of Is to /
for which our opponents contended
four years ago, legislation has been
enacted, which, while utilizing all
forms Of our money secures one fixed
value for every dollar and that the best
known to the civilized world.
"A tariff which protects American la
Dor and industry and provides ample
revenues has been written in public
law. We have lower interest and high
er wages: more money and fewer mort
cages. The worlds markets have been
opened to American products, which go
now where they have never gone be-
fore We have passed from a bond
issuing to a bond-paying nation: from
q nation of borrowers to a nation of
lenders; from deficiency in revenue to
q surplus; from fear to confidence;