The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-09-22
REVIEWED. BY
ROOSEVELT
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE OF THE
Woe PREsIDENTlIAL NOMINEE.
ut Alludes to the Unprecedented De-
gree of Prosperity Prevailing
Under President McKinley's ADJ
ministration, and Shows That
Disaster Would Follow the Policy
of Free Coinage.

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Disaster Would Follow the Policy
Of Free Coinage. .
Following is Theodore Roosevelt's let
ter accepting the Republican nomination
for vice president:
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Sept. 15.-To Hor.
Edward o. Wolcott, Chairman Committee
on Notification of Vice President: Sir
I accept the nomination as vice president
of the United States, rendered me by the
Republican national convention, with a
very deep sense of the honor conferred
upon me and with an infinitely deeper
sense of the vital importance to the whole
country Of securing the reelection of
President Mckinley. The nations well
fare is at stake. We must continue the
work which has been so well begun dur
ing the present administration. We must
show in fashion incapable of being mis-
understood 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 per-
hitting folly or !awlessness to mar the
extraordinary well being which they have
attained at home, nor yet permitting their
Gag to be s- e n1rs- @sa g.
DishOnOred ABROAD
I feel that this tcontest 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 wha the honor and in
terest 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 disorder; for an
upsetttng Of u financial system which
would mean not only great suffering, but
the abandonment Of the nations good
faith, and for a policy abroad which
would imply the dishonor of the flag
and an unworthy surrender Of our nation
al rights. It's success would mean un-
speakable humiliation to men proud OF
their ountry, jealous of their %country's
good. name, and DESTROYS Of securing the
welfare Of their fellow citizens There.
fore, we v 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, be-
cause we stand for the prosperity of the
country and for the renown Of the Amer
1can flag.
The most important of all problems is,
of course, that Of securing good govern
ment and moral and material well-being
within our own borders. Great though
the need is that the nation should do it's
work we'll abroad, even this. comes Sec
ond to the thorough performance of duty
at home. NV =
Under the administration of Presi-
dent Mckinley this country has been
blessed WITH n degree of prosperity
absolutely unparalleled, even In Its
previous prosperous history;
While it Is, of course, true that no
legislation and no administration can
bring success to those who are not stout
Of heart, cool of head and ready Of hand,
yet it is no less true that the individual
capacity Of each nan to get good results
for himself can be absolutely destroyed
by bad legislation or bad administra-
ton, while under the reverse conditions
the power Of the individual to dc good
work is assured and stimulated. This
.is what has been o under the admin
istration of President Mckinley. Thanks
to his actions M to the wise legislation
Of congress on the tariff and finance, the
conditions Of our industrial life have been
rendered more favorable than ever before,
and they have been taken advantage OF
to the full by American thrift. Industry
n enterprise. Order has been observed,
the courts upheld, and the fullest liberty
secured to all citizens. The merchant
and manufacturer, but above all the
farmer n the wage-worker, have profit
ed by this state Of things.
~ Continuance OF Prosperity.
Fundamentally and primarily the pres
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tinuance Of the conditions which
terial welfare and of our civil and
retain either its well-being or it's selt-re
spect, 1t cannot AFFORD to plunge into
nnancia and economic chaos; 1t canno1
afford to indorse governmental theories
which would unsettle the tandard OF
national honesty and destroy the integrity
Of our system Of justice.
The policy of rec coinage of sill
yer at q ratio of sixteen to one is a
policy fraught with destruction to
every home in the land. 1t means
untold misery to. the head of every
women and children of every home.
When our opponents champion free Sill
yer at sixteen to n they are either In
sincere or sincere in their attitude. II
~insincere in their championship they o,
course forfeit all right to belief or sup
port,son n ground. II sincere, then
they are menace to the, welfare Of the
country. Whether they shout. their SIN
ister. purpose or merely whisper 1t, makes
but little difference, a W as 1t reflects
thstr. own honesty. No issue can be para.
mount to the issue they thus make, fol
the p~aramountcy of such an issue Is @to'be
determined, not by the dicturn OF any
man or body OF men. but by. the FAC,
that It vitality afects the well-being' OF
every home in the land. The financial
question Is always Of such far-reacmne
and Tremendous Importance to the ma
tional welfare that 1t can never be raised
in good faith unless this tremendous i'm
portance is not merely conceded but In
sisted upon. Men who are not wiling
to make such an issue paramount have
no possible justification for raising 1t al
all, for under such circumstances tneil
act cannot. under any conceivable ctrcum'
stances do aught but grave harm.
RuinOas to Finances.
The success OF the party representing
the principles embodied In the Kansas
City platform would bring about the de-
structionl OF all the conditions necessary
to the continuance Of prosperity. II
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