The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-06-14
HE ACCEPTS!
DONNELLY DELIVERS HIS FORMAL
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
Discusses the Money Question an
Other Matters Dear to the
POpulists.
By Wire From Hastings, June 10.

Ignatius Donnelly, who was made the
Mid-Ro Populist candidate for vice pres
ident at the Cincinnati convention, has
formally accepted the honor. Mr.. Dom
| nelly's letter Of acceptance follows:
Howard. T J. NJ % aaiiett and and ". s. Morgan. C Com.
ceived your valued letter Of the 18th ult.. for
mally notifying me OF my nomination on the
States
charge the duties Of the position to the satisfac-
BY. the convention. Anxious t6 BE- brief. they
did NOT perhaps cover every question upon
Money is q necessity Of civilization. Without
sas e It % @
must end. II it 10 furnished in insufficient
Ss an s
duced by labor. correspondingly fall. The rich
s with
preme function Of government, for the only end
!, Of Eovernmsnt = the prosperity and happiness
Hence the cosseatuticn declares that congress-
Ana in anna s.ction i sn1 nd1s shst
congress shall declare war, raise and support
Congress- has no more right to anthori.e private
banking corporations to coin money and issue 1t
similar private corprations to declare war. raise
and support armies and provide and maintain a
And when the issue Of the money Of the nation
n left in the hands of private corporations,
fore dear moi not dollar Of it can c Come me- to OF tho
people across their counters until some one
The country is then in horrible condition.
It is as II we were charged for the air we
prSats refused to rssst the % Ry
yaders OF our country until every citizen came
forward and paid them a private bonus for de-
Originally eli business was barter. and gold
and silver valuable because A.. the m priest
and moon. became standard commodities; and
being and pornDs nn na used
so descended to our own times.
Lately. however ,,d,;a1 criminal conspiracy con was
new worlds to deny the moons metal. silver.
access to the mints . They y have thus reduced the
Political necessity has forced them. in this
the people by being borrowed and paid for-with
upon its aps1.the gold supply Of the world
pyramid Is totterins to its fall and the bankers
tha T nss election ae And
will be overwhelmed with calamities fol which
history affords no parallel.
While we regard the redemption of the money
Of our country in gold and silver relic Of
sno cesnd q that either
10 50 used. both shall be 80 used. II there is to
be . metallic basis for our currency. it must
be broad possible
money Of metals than there is for ens1av,nx our
When silver vas demonetized it fell one-haK
in the same cow way. There is little intrinsic use-
fulness in either. Civilization could endure
without both Of them; it could scarcely live
without iron copper.
In civil war government paper money.
can be maintained in times Of peace by the
greenbacks.
to depend for the first essential of human
society upon a few thousand bankers. who make
the the people sss s1s able to DO
selves The bankers, note Is E redeemaoie en- IN
and issue the superior paper-the greenbacks7
The world is today trying to solve the problem
A great republic, based on the theory OF equal
rights to all and special privileges to none,
a archy and aristocracy. needs a political party
that is devoted to liberty and nothing else.
'Of what avail
Is flag or sail.
II freedom fail?''
Can we reach the ends we have in view through
suppose that the old Whig party. instead
o decsny dying IN @ naa out se
stage and the people OF the United States had
tried. to use It fundamentally to destroy
slavery could they possibly have succeeded?
No; they would have found one-hah OF its
membership favorable 70 slavery and one-haH
opposed to 1t; and instead Of reform, we should
have had continuous internecine warfare.
Slavery was destroyed by party, evegy men,
Plutocracy will never be overthrown by the
Democratic party. with its head in Wall street
and its tail in the Mississippi valley.
We must have party dreadfully In earnest
and in which there is not single plutOcrat.
II ten horses hitched to the front OF cart,
and ten horses, equally strong. are fastened to
the tail end, will not the cart stand still?
Regret 1t as we may. plutocracy Is as much
of a sectional question today slavery was
in 1885, It IL the battle Of the money-lending
region against the moneyborrowing region; the
section where the dollar IL bigger than the man
against the section where the man IL infinitely
biRRer than the dollar. It IL Threadneedle street
against the spirit OF 1776. Its roots reach down
to the issue Of monarchy versus republic; nay,
they 70 even deeper. It is the forward move
ment OF God for the blessing OF his children.
against the troglodyte in his cavern cracking the
leg-bones Of his victim. to extract the marrow
Tor his cannibalistic feast
The families the suffering. the strikes, the
poverty, the wretchedness, the suicides Of the
multitude; are al cannihalistic; but the bap-
oueters are better dresaed than their predeces-
corp Of the caverns. They do not boat their
victimss brains out with clubs. they crush them
with laws and combinations, petrify them
with false statements and false arguments
the Sovereignty Of the common people Europe
furnishsa " with settlers and now Il =
overwhelming n with IT. idsas. Ar1stocracy