The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-08
THOMAS TO STEVENSON.
The Governor Notifies the vice Pres
fdentiaI Candidate

! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug S-The
! speech of Governor Thomas, formally no.
s:fying Mr. Stevenson of his nomination
for the Vice Presidency by the Democratic
National Convention, was briefer than the
other addresses, but was no less eloquent.
! It follows:
For the second time you have been
chosen by the National Democracy as lis
Vice Presidential candidate This signal
honor is not unprecedented, but il is not
less exceptional. Elected TO that high Of
fee eight years ago. you discharged its du-
ties faithfully and we'll, retiring with the
respect, love and the confidence of all the
people Thus endeared to your party its
recent action was merited and appropriate
Long before the Kansas City Conven-
ton was called, Its Presidential candidate
had been selected Its platform had been
foreshadowed by the events of the sue
ceeding years. To complete the ticket,
wisely and well was a serious and exigent
duty Arrayed against money, monopoly,
and nilitarism, the associate of our great
leader should be devoted TO the same ideals
equipped for the same duties inspired by
the same convictions and prepared to sus-
tain the same burden if Providence should
so decree. Conscious of this great respon-
sibility, but ready to meet il squarely our
Convention on the first ballot gave you its
nomination.
THE Democracy long ago endorsed its
action. The people will gIoriously vindi-
cate it III November. The campaign of
1900 is no holiday affair; like that OF JET
ferson. It involves the great quest ons
whether the people of the classes shall
rule, whether the principles Of his immortal
Declaration are transient or fundamental.
It holds before the public the gold and sill
yer Of the Constitution, the freedom and
the welfare OF the citizens at home, the
duty OF the nation toward feeble communi-
ties struggling for liberty and depend
ence in distant islands.
Democracy the AGGRESSION.
Democracy is everywhere the aggress-
or. Il demands the restoration of the BIZ
metallic coinage Of the Constitution. 1t
denounces the surrender 10 private corpor-
ations of the sovereign power of note is
sues. 1t protests against a currency sys-
tenn based and grounded upon the national
debt. 1t would iHterpose the mandate of
law between monopoly and>the people.
1T realizes that the trust and the Con-
stitution cannot both endure and has high
ly resolved that the Constitution shall
live. 1t has sworn that the present and
future OF people which r. ed its strug-
gle for liberty at our hands shall not be
measured by the sorGid standard of ava
rice and greed It would lift the reproach
that commercialism has placed upon the
honor Of the nation. It declares that ius
tice is still the standing policy of our
country. 1t would rescue liberty from the
atmosphere of the counting room 1t would
remove the dollar mark from the face of
duty. 1t would rise to the height of other
and better days and make the Declaration
of independence the common heritage of
the Cuban and the Filipino
The attitude of the Republican party
OF 1890 is and must continue to be
strange anomaly. 1t safely piIoted the
nation through the awful perils of slavery.
yet 1t would conjure again into life that
terrible evil whose sepuIchre is sealed with
the blood and the treasure of the Republic
Y worships at the shrine of Abraham Lin
Sln, but dares not ask his benediction up-
on its unholy scheme of plumber and CON
quest
A Reunited Democracy.
Sir, in your nomination there is given
to the world the outward and visible SIGN
OF reunited Democracy. The revolt and
discomfort that marked and marred the
of 1896 have subsidized forever
We have clasped hands in the presence nj
a great national peril.
Democratic voices iG@universaI ehor,s
are everywhere chanting a symphony
whose dominating note is liberty. To its
vibrant melodies the hearts and eonsciences
of men are responding and in the grey
dawn of the new century their ballots will
register for the Republic new birth of
freedom -