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money. secures one fixed value for every dol
lar, and that the best known to the civilized

been written in public law. We have lower
interests and higher wages more money and
fewer mortgages The, worlds markets have
been opened to American products. which
go now where they have never gone before.
We have passed from q bond-issuing TO q
bond-paylng nation; from q nation OF Dor
rowers To nation Of lenders; from den
clency IN revenue to surplus; from fear 10
confidence: from enforced idleness to pro-
htabie employment The public faith has
hined. We have prosperity at home and
frestige abroad.
Unfortunately tine threat Of 1896 has just
been renewed by the allied parties without
abatement or modification. The gold bill has
been denounced and its repeal demanded.
The mensee Of 10 to /, therefore, still hangs
over W ~ith all It's dire consequence 10 credit
and confidence: TO business and industry.
The enemies of sound currency are rafying
thsir scattered forces. The people must once
more unite and overcome the advocates OF
Reputation and must not relax their energy
until the battle for public honor and honest
money shall again triumph.
congress which Will sustain and IL need
be strengthen the present law can prevent
financial catastrophe which ever y lover Of the
republic is interested to avert.
Not satisfied with assaulting the c, rrency
and credit Of the government, our poli zeal adj
versaries condemn the tariff law enacted at
the extra session of congress in 1897. known as
the Dingley act, passed in obedience To the viii
OF the people expressed at the election in the
preceding November, a law which at once
stimulated our Industries, opened the idle fac
tories and mines and gave to the laborer and
to the farmer fair returns for their toll and
Investment Shall we go back to tariff
which brings deficiency in our revenues and
destruction to our industrial enterprises
Faithful to its pledges in these internal
affairs how has the government discharged its
international duties?
Our platform of 1896 declared 'sthe Hawaiian
Islands should be controlled by the United
States and no foreign power should be per
mitted to interfere with them" This purpose
has been fully accomplished by annexation,
and delegates from those beautiful islands par
ticipated in the convention for which YOU
speak today. IN the great conference of ma
tons at The Hague, we reaffirmed before the
world the Monroe doctrine and our adherence
to 1t and our determination not to participate
In the complications Of Europe We have
happily ended the European alliance in Samoa
securing to ourselves one of the most valuable
harbors in the Pacific ocean, while the open
door in China gives us fair and equal competi-
ton in the vast trade of the Orient Some
things have happened which were not prom
lsed nor even foreseen, and our purpose in re-
lation to them must not be left in doubt A
just war has been waged for humanity and
with it have come new problems and RESPONSE
bilities.
Spain has been elected from the western
hemisphere and our flag floats over her for
mer territory. Cuba has been liberated and
our guarantees to her people will be sacredly
executed. beneficent government has been
provided for Porto Rico The Philippines
ours and American authority must be
preme throughout the archipelago There
will be amnesty broad and liberal but no
abatement of our rights, no abandonment of
our duty There must be scuttle policy.
We will fulfill in the Philippines the obliga-
tions imposed by the triumphs of our arms
and by the treaty of peace, by international
law, by the nations sense of honor and, more
than all, by the rights interests and condition
of the Philippine people themselves. No out
hide interference blocks the way to peace and
a stable government The obstructionsts are
here, not elsewhere. They may postpone, but
they cannot defeat the realization of the high
purpose of this ma ton to restore order to the
islands and to establish a just and generous
government, i'll which the inhabitants shall
have the largest participation for which they
are capable The organized forces, which have
been misied into rebellion, have been dis
persed by our faithful soldiers and sailors and
the people of the island. delivered from an
archy, pillage and oppression, recognize Amer
lean sovereignty as the symbol and pledge of
peace, Justice, law, religious freedom, educa-
ton the security of life and property and the
welfare and prosperity of their several COM
munties
We reasert the early principle of the Re.
publican party, sustained by unbroken judi
cial precedents that the representatives of the
people in congress assembled, have full legis-
lative power over territory belonging to the
United States, subject to the fundamental
safeguards Of liberty, justice and personal
rights, and are vested with ample authority to
act 'sfor the highest interests of our nation
and the people entrusted to its care" This
doctrine, first proclaimed in the cause of free
dom will never be used as weapon for OPP
preston / am glad to be assured by you that
what we have done in the far east has the ap-
prevail of the country. The sudden and terri
BILE crisis in China calls for the gravest consid-
GRAFTON, and you will not expect from me now
any further expression than to say that my
best efforts shall be given to the immediate
purpose of protecting the lives OF our citizens
who are in peril with the ultimate object of the
peaee and welfare of China the safeguarding
Of all our treaty rights and the maintenance of
those principles of impartial intercourse to
which the civilized world is pledged.
can not conclude without congratulating
my countrymen upon the strong national SEN
timent which finds expression in every part of
our common country and the increased respect
with which the American name is greeted
throughout the world. We have been moving
in untried paths but our steps have been
guided by honor and duty There will be no
turning aside, no wavering, no retreat. No
blow has been struck, except for liberty and
humanity, and none will be. We will perform,
without fear, every national and international
obligation.
The Republican party was dedicated to free
dom Al years ago. 1t has been the party of
liberty and emancipation from that hour not
of profession but of performance. 1t broke
the shaekles of 100000 slaves and made them
free and to the party of Lincoln has come
another supreme opportunity which it has
brayely met in the liberation of 100000 of
the human family from the yoke of imperial
ism In its solution of great problems, in its
performance of high duties, it has had the
support of members of all parties in the past
and confidently invokes their cooperation in
the future.
Permit me to express Mr.. Chairman, my
most sincere appreciation of the compliment
airy terms in which you convey the official mo-
tice of my nomination and my thanks to the
members of the committee and the great CON
stituency which they represent for this addi-
tional evidence of their favor and support
West Virginia Republican Ticket.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, July 13.-The
Republican state convention, which had