Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-17

R|D0@[lILILIIIER
formal Acceptance Of the Nom1na.
tion For tho once Of Vice
President
issues Of tho Day Discussed In I
Candid Manner importance
Of Election.
Success Of the Democrats Means
Financial Disaster lhs Phil
ippine Policy.


bears an Oyster Bay date and is di-
rected to Senator Edward %. Wolcott.
Of the notification committee. It reads:
TO Edward o. wolcott, Chairman
Committee on Notification OF Vice
President-sr: acuept the notifica-
Stion OF vice president Of the United
States. rendered me by the republican
national convention. with g very deep
sense OF the honor conferred upon me
and with an Infinitely deeper sense of
the vital Importance to the whole coun-
try OF securing the. reelection OF Presi-
dent Mckinley.
The nations welfare is at stake. We
must continue the work which has been
30 we'll begun during the present adj
minist-atton. We must show in fashion
incapable OF being misunderstood tha.
the American people. at the beginning
Of the twentieth century, face their du-
ties In q calm and serious spirit; that
they have no intention of permitting
folly or lawlessness to mar the extra
ordinary material we'll being which
they have attained at home, nor yet of
permit ting their flag to be dishonored.
abroad. =
II feel that this contest is by no
means one merely between republicans
and democrats. We have q right to ap-S
peal TO all good citizens who are far
sighted enough to see what the honor
and the interest OF the nation demand.
ITO put into practice the principles
embodied in the Kansas City platform
would mean grave disaster to nation
for that platform stands for reaction
and disorder; Tor an upsetting of our
financial system which would mean not
only great suffering but the abandon
meut of the nations good faith. and for
n policy abroad which would imply the
dishonors Of the flag and an unworthy
surrender OF our national rights. It's
\ Success would mean u1speakaabl hu-
s mutation 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 q 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 prosperity OF the country
and for the renown of the American
nag.
.Fundamentally and primarily the
present contest is q contest for the con-
tinuance OF the conditions which have
told in favor OF our material welfare
and OF our civil and political integrity.
( II this nation is to retain either Its we'll
being or It's self-respect 1t cannot at
ford to plunge into financial and eco
nomic chaos: 1t cannot afford to indorse
governmental theories which would un-
settle the standard of national honesty
and destroy the integrity OF our system
OF Justice.
THE policy Of the free coinage OF sill
yer at the ratio OF 16 to 1 is a policy
fraught with destructio to every home
In the land. It means untold misery to
the head OF every household; and, above
d all. TO the women and children OF every
home.
when our opponents champion free
silver at 16 to I they are either insin-
cere or sincere in their attitude. II
insincere In their championship they. OF
course, forfeit all right TO belief or sup
mort on any ground. II sincere, then
/. they are menace to the welfare Of the
country. Whether they shout their
sinister purpose or merely whisper II
Nmakes but little difference, save as II
Eefects their own honesty. No issue
Ian be paramount to the issue they thus
make for the paranountcy OF such an
Issue ID to be determined not by the die
yum OF any man or body OF men. but by
he fact that 1t vitality effects the well-
eing OF every home in thekland.
A..The financial question Is always OF
tch far-reaching and tremendous Inn
nrtance to the national welfare that Il
q an never be raised In good faith unless
(Its stremendousl Importance isnot mere
conceded but Insisted on. Men who
4 Ire not willing to make such an issue
j Paramount have no possible justifica-
lion for raising 1t at all. for under such
circumstances their net can not under
rom ncelyable circumstances do aught but
grave harm.
Governor Roosevelt also discueeef
trusts and other isues and devotee con-
\ kderable space to the Philippine ques
s Ions. quoting American history to show
hat the administration has not entered
Il apon q new policy IN its treatment Of
j uhe Filipinos, but has followed the tra-
3 kitfons and policies of Jefferson, Jack.
on and all the presidents. He concludei
& b followe:
"Properly speaking. the question Il
Now not whether we shall expandvfoi
= have already expanded-but whether
e ehall contract. The Philippines are
wv part of American territory. Tc
Drrender them would be to surrender
rerican territory. They must OF
ree. be governed primarily in the In
ests of their own citizens Our frs,
must be for the people Of the is
q /.