Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-01
ANOTHER NOMINATION
Silver Republicans Notify Bryan
of Their Selection.
To Which the Nominee Replies at
Length Accepting the Nomina-
ton and Thanks the Plain
People.

The following letter notifying Will
liam j. Bryan of his nomination for
the presidency by the national silver
republican convention has been in Mr..
Bryan's possession for some time:
Mount Pleasant, Mich. Oct. T.-Hon.
William ]. Bryan. Lincoln, Neb-: The sill
yer republican organization at Its ma
! tional convention, held at Kansas City
July 4 last, appointed a whose
duty it is to notify its presidential nom
fnee of such nomination. In performing
that duty permit US to say that conven-
ton was made Up of voters $50 of whom
voted for Abraham Lincoln; 25O bore arms
as union soldiers IN our great civil confict;
many were soldiers in the late Spanish
American war, and gave their best EFFORTS
Cor the liberation of suffering Cuba Four
hundred were sons of veterans. We men
ton that as showing the fact that liberty
fires burned in their lives as warmly as
in the lives of their patriotic forefathers.
Learning as we do, that the great lead
or of democracy, Jefferson, wrote the
declaration of independence, and the great
leader of republicanism, Lincoln. support
cd, defended and applied 1t, both seeking
In their efforts to establish and MAINTAIN
government OF equal rights for the people,
we readily see why Jeffersonian democrats
and Lincoln republicans may unite and
should unite, and do unite now in their
support of one ticket for the welfare of our
country.
s'To us It is no wonder that all the po-
1itlcal parties split in 1896 on the rock Of
nance. It was the struggle of the oltgarchy
of money changers in opposition 10 the
rights OF the people. AT st. Louis the
aristocracy controlled and kept the party
~namc-without it the campaign would have
resulted differently. At Chicago the peo-
| pie controlled and kept the party name.
We believe the rank and file of voters in
I'll parties are faithful to the true Amer
icanism embodied in the declaration of
independence, and when freed from party
surroundings will support and vote for
the man representing the rights OF the
masses.
From the patriotism Of the republican
party of 1856 and 1860 to the greed of the
republican party of 1896 and 1900 is a to-
boCCan cqualed only by the descent from
the grandeur of Lincoln's lofty motives to
the lust and greed Of the present admins
tration.
"Whcn we think one-fou-th of LOCO 900
| people own thrce-fourths of the nattoHs
wealth, when sfz-ty-four ard three-fourths
millions own only one-foUrth-when 81 per
cent. OF the people own not even a nome
we become alarmed. This showing alone
IS enough to alarm the great mass Of
American voters. All who seek to have
the nation Kept in the lines of a republic
mUst zee It can only be done by not sur
rendering the control of the country en-
trey into the hands of the on~e-fourth OF
COOS Coo; but that the executive and law
makers must be representatives OF the
ci-ty-four and three-Eourths millions. The
plea OF trade must never cover ard hide
the plea of human rights; for when we
disregard the rights of others. we are
but schooling them and ourselves to dis
regard our own rights. We desire to stand
by the principle of war only when waged
for mans liberty, and we declare that We
have millions for defense, and millions
more Cor development, bur not a dollar Tor
conquest.
Now, with the attempted gold stand
| ard, the seeking to destroy the ~g-eenback
the peoples morey-the concentration OF
wealth in the hands of the few. the wan
of reverence fo- equal rights as set forth
in the declaration of independence. coupled
with the attempt to destroy such rights,
The recognition of human slavery under the
American flag, the s~ubiugation of a strug-
Cling, ~liberty-loving people-denying them
the right of citizenship and compelling the
relation of subjects. thus crushing out ana
destroying the equality of the people OF
a republic, the attempt to establish the
rule of the few and the submission OF the
many, raises and forces upon US for our
consideration the question of Imperialism,
and makes it the question for us now to
decide. A subject must belong to an en-
pire. A republic has only citizens. In an
empire the few rule, the many submit.
In a republic equal rights to all. and spe-
cial privileges to none are ever ap-
plicable.
with this explanation We hereby notify
you that at the gathering of Lincoln re-
publicans in the silver republican conven-
ton, held on last independence day, in
Kansas City. you were made their nom
inee.
May we ask, as we believe in the rights
of free government, that you, when elect
ed and become president, as we fully be-
lieve you will be-that you remember with
solicitude the cause of the great common
people, the sixty-four and three-fourths
million ~toilers. The people for whom JEFF
ferson lived and labored, and for whom
Lincoln lived and labored as well. The
whose labor produces the wealth of the
perity of all; whose devotion never ceases;
ever ready to defend and protect; they
try may safely rest; they whose strength
otism defends the trocha, filled with their
blood, if need be, over which their country's
enemy can never pass.
Now, sir, believing in your ~faithfulness,
integrity and wisdom to discharge the du-
ties of such high office, we hereby tender
you the nomination of the Kansas City
silver republican convention, and most re-
spectfully request that you accept the
same. and become our candidate for the
presidency of our beloved republic, and
may your ~proudest plume be that you
/ never deserted your country's welfare.
With great respect, we are,
SAMUEL w. HOPKINS, Chairman.
'SAMITEL 7 HALE Secretary.