The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-07-26
CANDIDATES NOTIFIED.
Committees Call on the Republican
Nominees.
THE PRESIDENTS ACCEPTANCE.
He Declares That Republican Policy
Has Saved Ten Million Human Ne
serve Our Rights in China.

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Canton, O., July 12.-William Nc
Kinley was today officially notified OF
his second nomination by the Repub-
lican party for the Office Of president
The notification speech was made by
Senator Lodge, who was chairman OF
the national convention, and the presi.
dent responded in substance as fol-
lows:
Senator Lodge and Gentlemen OF the
Notification Committee The message
which you bring to me is one OF signal
honor. IL is also "A summons to duty. A
single nomination for the office OF presi-
dent by a great party which In 80 years
out of ~ has been triumphant at ma
tional elections is a distinction which I
gratefully cherish. To receive unanimous
denomination by the same party is an ex-
preston of regard and a pledge OF con-
tinued confidence for which It Is difficult
TO make adequate acknowledgment.
The president then quoted from his
speech OF acceptance four years ago. in
which he declared for the financial
honor OF the government, and assert
ed that "Our domestic trade must be
won back and our idle working people
in gainful occupations at American
wages" and proceeded:
and administration have been concluded
since these words We're spoken. Have
those to whom was Contided the direction
OF the government kept their pledges?
The record is made up. The people are
not unfamtlur with what has been ac-
complishcd. The gold standard has been
reafhrmed and strengthened. The end
less chain has been broken and the drain
upon our gold reserve no longer frets U.S.
The credit of the country has been ad-
vanced to the highest place among all ma
tions. We are rcfunding our bonded debt
bearing and and per cent interest at
per cent a lower rate than that Of
any other country. and already more than
5000. .0Oo.0 600 have been so funded. with Il
gain to the government of many millions
of dollars.
A tariff which protects American labor
and industry and provides ample reve-
nucs 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 bond issuing to bond
paying nation; from a nation OF borrow
ers to nation OF lenders. from deficiency
in revenue to surplus: from fear to con-
fidence: from enforced idleness to profit
able employment. We have prosperity at
home and prestige abroad.
Unfortunately the threat of 1896 has
Just been renewed by the allied parties
without abatement or modification. The
peal demanded. The menace Of is to ].
therefore. stili hangs over us with all It's
dire consequences to credit and conf
dence. to business and industry. Vhe
enemies OF sound currency are rallying
their scattered forces
Not satisfied with assaulting the cur
Tency and credit of the government, our
political adversaries condemn the tariff
law enacted at the extra session Of con-
gress In 1897 known the Dngley act.
passed in obedience to the win OF the
people expressed at the election IN the
preceding November. law which At once
stimulated our industries. opened the Idle
factories and mines and gave to the la
borer and to the farmer fair returns for
back to a tariff which brings deficiency
in our revenues and desti Ictton to our
industrial enterprises?
Our platform Of 1895 declared: THE
the United States and no foreign power
should be permitted to interfere with
them. This purpose has been fully ac-
complished by annexation, and delegates
from those beautiful islands have par
ticipated in the convention for which
you speak today. In the great conference
OF nations at The Hague We reaffrmed
before the world the Monroe doctrine and
our adherence to II and our determine
tion not TO participate in the complic1:
tions of Europe. We have happily ende1
the European alliance in Samoa, securing
10 ourselves one OF the most valua BILE
harbors in the Pacific ocean while the
open door in China gives to us fair and
equal competition in the vast trade OF
the Orient. Some things have happened
which were not promised nor even fore
seen. and our purposes In relation to them
must not be left In doubt a just war
has been waged for humanity. and with II
have come new problems and RESPONSE
bilities. Spain has been elected from
the western hemisphere and our flag
floats over her former territory. Cuba
has been liberated and our guarantees
l. IL. l.
A beneficent government has been pro-
rided for Porto Rico. The Philippines
are ours and American authority must
be supreme throughout the archipelago.
There will be amnesty broad and liberal,
but no abatement OF our rights, no
abandonment Of our duty. No outside in
reference blocks the way to peace and a
stable government; The obstructionists
pone, but they cannot defeat the realiza-
ton OF the high purpose OF this nation
TO restore order to the islands and to es-
tablish just and generous government,
in which the inhabitants shall have the
largest participation for which they are
capable.
We reassert the early pripciple OF the
Republican party. sustained by unbroken
judicial precedents. that the representa-
tives OF the people, in congress assembled.
have fun legislative power over terri
tory belonging to the United States sub
jeet to the fundamental safeguards OF
are vested with ample authority to act
for the highest interests of our nation
and the people entrusted to Its care" The
doctrine. first proclaimed In the cause of
freedom will never be used a weapon
for oppression. l am glad to be assured
by you that what we have done in the
far east has the approval of the coun-
try. The sudden and terrible crisis in
China calls for the gravest consider q tion,
and you Will not expect from me now
any further expression than to say that
my best efforts shall be given to the i'm
mediate purpose of protecting the lives
OF our citizens who are in peril, with
the ultimate object OF the peace and well
fare OF China, the safeguarding of all
our treaty rights and the maintenance
of those principles OF impartial inter-
course to which the civilized world is
pledged. cannot conclude without con-
graduating my countrymen upon the
strong national sentiment which finds ex-
preston 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 wav
ering, no retreat. No blow has been
struck except for liberty and humanity
and none will be. We will perform with
out fear every national and international
obligation. The Republican party was
dedicated to freedom a years ago. II has
been the party OF liberty and emancipa-
ton from that hour: not OF profession,
but of performance II broke the shack