Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-19
REPUBLICAN DAY.
Mckinley and Roosevelt Formally
Notified of Their Nominations.
The President Discusses at Length the Ad-
mInistratiOn's Attitude on Finance and
Our Territorial Acquisitions as q
Result of Spanish War.

Canton, o., July 13.-President Nc
Kinley was yesterday officially mott
fed of his nomination for the presi-
dency. Henry Cabot Lodge, OF Massa-
chUsetts, made the notification
speech. In reply the president said:
President McKtnIey's Address.
Senator Lodge and Gentlemen of the
Notification Committee: The message
which you bring to me IS one of signal
honor. 1t is also a summons to duty.
a single nomination for the Office OF
president by a great party which in q
years out of 40 has been triumphant at
national elections is a distinction which
! gratefully cherish To receive unan-
1mous denomination by the same party
is an expression Of regard and pledge of
continued confidence for which it, is diff
cult to make adequate acknowledgment.
If anything exceeds the honor of the
Office of president of the United States
it is the responsibility which attaches
to it. Having been invested with both.
L do not under appraise either. Anyone
who has borne the anxieties and burdens
of the presidential office, especially in
time of national trial, cannot contemplate
assuming it a second time without pro-
foundly realizing the severe eXactions and
the solemn obligations which it imposes,
and this feeling is accumulated by the
no1nentuoUs problems which now press
for settlement. If my countrymen shall
confirm the action of the convention at
our national election in November, 7
shall, craving Divine guidance, undertake
the exalted trust to administer it for
the interest and honor Of the country and
the wel1-being of the new peoples who
have become the objects OF our care.
The declaration of principles adopted by
the convention has my hearty approval.
At some future date I will consider its
subjects in detail and will by letter COM
municate to your chairman q more formal
acceptance of the nomination.
Nv &C
said: 1.-THE party that supplied by legis-
Iation the vast revenues for the conduct
of our greatest war; that promptly re-
stored the credit of the country at its
close; that from its abundant revenues
paid off a large share of the debt in
Cured by this war. and that resumed
specie payments and placed our paper
currency upon a sound and enduring ba-
sis, can be safely trusted to preserve both
our credit and currency with honor, sta
biIity and inviola ability. The American
people hold the financial honor of our
government as sacred as our flag, and
can be relied upon to guard it with the
same sleepIess vigilance. They hold its
preservation above party fealty, and
have often demonstrated that party ties
avail nothing when the spotless credit
of our country IS threatened.
''The dollar paid to the farmer, the
wage Garner and the pensioner must con-
tinue forever equal in purchasing and
Notwithstanding power to the dollar paid
to any government creditor.
'tOur industrial supremacy, our pro-
ductive capacity, our business and COM
nerciaI prosperity, our labor and its
rewards, our national credit and cur
rency, our pride, financial honor and our
splendid free citizenship, the birthright
of every American, are all involved in
the pending campaign, and thus every
home in the land is directly and init
mateIy connected with their proper set
tlement.
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and our idle working people employed
in gainful occupations at American
wages. Our home market must be re-
stored to its proud rank of first in the
world and our foreign trade. so precip-
itateIy cut off by adverse national leg
tslatfon, reopened on fair and equitable
terms for our surplus agricultural and
manufacturing products.
''Pubiic confidence must be resumed
and the skill, energy and the capital of
our country find ample employment at
home. The government OF the United
States must raise money enough to meet
both its current expenses and increasing
needs. It's revenues should be so raised
as to protect the material interests of
our people, with the Hghtest possible
drain upon their resources and main
tanning that high standard of civiliza-
ton which has distinguished our coun-
try for more than a century Of its ex-
istence.
THE national credit which has thus far
it. must and will be upheld and strength
ened. II sufficient revenues are provided
for the support OF the government there
will be no necessity for borrowing money
and inc-ea sing the public debt
Three and One-half years of legislation
and administration have been concluded
since these words were spoken. Have
those to whom was confided the direction
of the government kept their pledges?
The record is made up. The people are
not unfamiliar with what has been &C
CornpIished. The gold standard has been
reaffirmed and strengthened. The end
less chain has been broken and the drain
upon our gold reserve no longer frets
US The credit of the country has been
advanced to the highest place among all
nations. We are refunding our bonded
debt bearing three and four and five per
cent. interest at two per cent, a lower
rate than that of any other country and
already more than $500, 000, 600 have been
so funded with gain to the government
of many millions of dollars. Instead OF
16 to 1, for which our opponents con-
tended four years ago, legislation has
been enacted which, while utilizing ali
forms of our money, secures one fixed
value for every dollar and that the best
known to the civilized world.
A tariff which protects American labor
and industry and provides ample rev
enues has been written in public law We
have lower interest 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 a bond-issuing to a
bond-paying nation; from nation of
borrowers to a nation of lenders; from
a deficiency IN revenue to a surplus; from
fear to confidence: from enforced idle
ness to profitable employment. The pub
lie faith has been upheld; public order
has been maintained. We have pros
perity at home and prestige abroad.
Unfortunately the threat of 1896 has
Just been renewed by the allied parties
without abatement or modification. The
gold bill has been denounced and its re-
peal demanded. The menace of 16 to 1
still hangs over US with all its dire con-
sequences to credit and confidence, to
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