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ROOSEVELT ON THE ISSUES
THOROUGHLY REVTEWS THEM IN
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.

Kansas City Platform Means Disaster
unparalleled Prosperity of the Coun-
mount Issue-Gold Standard Must be
Observation-Disclosures of the Trusts
Story of the Nations Expansion-No
Imperialism, No NIilitarism.
Oyster Bay N. Y, Sept. 15.-Governor
Roosevelt's letter accepting the nomi
nation as vice president, rendered him
by the republican party, was given out
to-day for publication Monday. The
letter is addressed to Hon. Edward o.
Wolcott, chairman Of the notification
committee, and is as follows:
Sir-I accept the nomination as vice
president of the United States, rendered
me by the republican national conven-
ton, with very deep sense of the hon
or conferred upon me and with an in
finitely deeper sense of the vital impor-
tance to the whole country of securing
the reelection of President Mckinley.
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must continue the work which has been
SO we'll begun during the present admin
istration. We must show in fashion in
capable of being misunderstood that the
American people, at the beginning of
the twentieth century, face their duties
in a calm and serious spirit that they
have no intention of permitting folly or
lawlessness to mar the extraordinary
material well-being which they have at
tained at home, nor yet of permitting
their flag to be dishonored abroad.
Grave Disaster to be Averted.
feel that this contest is by no means
one merely between republicans and
democrats. We have a right to appeal
to all good citizens who are far-sighted
enough to see what the honor and the
interest of the nation demand. To put
into practice the principles embodied in
the Kansas City platform would mean
grave disaster to the nation, for that
platform stands for reaction and dis
order; for an upsetting of our financial
system which would mean not only
great suffering, but the abandonment of
the nations good faith; and for policy
abroad which would imply the dishonor
of the flag and an unworthy surrender |
of our national rights. It's success |
would mean unspeakable humiliation to |
men proud Of their country, jealous of |
their country's good name and desirous
of securing the welfare of their fellow |
citizens Therefore we have a right to
appeal to all good men, north and south,
east and west, whatever their politics
may have been in the past, to stand
with us, because we stand for the pros
perity of the country and for the re-
nown of the American flag
Most Imp portant Problem.
The most important Of all problems
IS, of course that of securing good gov
arnment and moral and material we'll
being within our own borders. Great
though the need is that the nation
should do its work well abroad, even
'ormance of duty at home. Under the
administration of President Mckinley
his country has been blessed with a
legree of prosperity absolutely unpar-
alleled, even In it's previous prosperous
Order has been observed, the
courts upheld, and the fullest liberty
secured to all citizens. The merchant
md manufacturer, but above all the
armer and the wage-worket have prof
ted by this state of things.
The Present Contest.
Fundamentally and primarily the
present contest is contest for the con-
inuance of the conditions which have ,
old in favor of our material welfare
md of our civil and political integrity. :
f this nation is to retain either it's we'll /,
,eing or it's self-respect it cannot afford :
O plunge into financial and economic
haos; it cannot afford to endorse gov
theories which would unset '
lie the standard of national honesty and .
estroy the integrity of our system of
ustice The policy of the free coinage
f silver at ratio of sixteen to one is a
olicy fraught with destruction to every
ONE in the land 1t means untold a
Misery to the head Of every household, +
nd, above all, to the women and chill d
rem of every home. When our oppo- 8
ents champion free silver at sixteen to f
ne they are either insincere or sincere
! their attitude If insincere in their c
championship they, of course, forfeit n
round. If sincere, then they are a
lenace to the welfare of the country
Whether they shout their sinister pur-
ose or merely whisper 1t makes but
tile difference save as it reflects their
wn honesty. =
The Paramount Issue. n
No issue can be paramount to the is h
1e they thus make, for the para a
of such an issue to be deter
lined, not by the dictum of any man
: body of men, but by the fact that it
tally affects the well-being of every
,me in the land The financial ques- IL
ON is always of such far-reachng and -
emendous Importance to the national !, !,
elfsre that II con never be raised in v
1od faith unless this tremendous i'm II
1rtance is not merely conceded, but :
sisted on. Men who are not willing y
make such an issue paramount have
, possible justification for raising it
all, for under such circumstances
eir act cannot under any conceivable
do aught but grave OF
lrm. o.
II
Country Must Have Gold Standard. -
The success of the party representing h,
e principles embodied in the Kansas
ty platform would bring about the
struction of all the conditions neces-
ry to the continuance of our prosper
II UOIlld also unsettla orr whole | s,