The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-28
The Governor Accepts the NOM
nation For Vice President
Of the United States.
4 Strong Document Treating on the
Several Issues Of the Present
Presidential Campaign.
Imperialism and Sound Money Are Fully
Treated-He Gives the Position OF
The Republican Party ON the
Trust Question.

10 Hon. Edward o. Wolcott, Chairman
Committee on Notification of Vice Pres
ldent:
SRI accept the nomination as Vice
President OF the United States, rendered
me by the Republican National Conven-
tior. with very deep sense of the honor
conferred upon me and with an thntsely
deeper sense of the vital Importance to
the whole country of securing the re-
election Of President Mckinley. Tho ma
tons welfare is at stake. We must con-
tinue the work which has been so well
begun curing the present administration
We must show in fashion incapable Of
being misunderstood that the American
people, at the beginning Of the twentieth
century, face their duties in a calm and
serious. spirit; that they have no intsn-
ton OF permitting folly or laWlessneSs
TO mar the extraordinary material we'll
being which they have attained At home,
nor yet OF permitting their nag to be dis
l feel that this contest is by ne means
one merely between Republicans and
Democrats. We have a right to appeal
TO all good citizens who are far-sighted
enough TO see what the honor and the
interest of the nation demand. To put
into practice the principles embodied in
the Kansas City platform would mean
grave disaster 10 the nation: for that
platform stands for reaction and disorder;
Tor an upsetting of our financial system
which would mean not only great suf-
fering but the abandonment OF the ma
ton good faith; and for policy abroad
which would imply the disnonor OF the
national rights. Its success would mean
unspeakable humiliation to men proud
OF their country, Jealous OF their coun-
try's good name, and DESTROYS or securing
the welfare OF their fellow citizens.
Therefore we have right TO appeal to
all good men, north and south. east and
been in the past. to stand with us, be-
cause we stand for the prosperity OF the
country and Tor the renown OF the Amer
1can nag.
The most important OF all problems is,
OF course, that OF securing good govern
1nent and moral and material weil-being
within our own borders. Great through
the need is that the nation should do It's
work We'll abroad, even this comes second
TO the thorough performances or the duty
at home. Under the administration OF
President Mckinney this &C un%'y has been
blessed with degree OF prosperity alb
soiuteiy Unparalleled, even IN its previous
true that no leg station and no admInlS-
traI1on can brl.4S SUCCESS 10 those VINO
are not stout OF nearu, cool OF mead, ana
ready or hand, Yet II IS no less true tnat
the InoIVlduai capacity OF each man TO
get GOOD results Tor himself can be abb
eoIuleiy destroyed by bad legislation or
bad administrator, while unuer the re-
verse conditions the power OF the in
1Iy1dual To 90 5000 WORK is assured and
stimulated. THIS Is what mas been done
unuer the adInlnlst rauon OF PRESIDENT
mckinley THANKS TO mis- actions and to
the WISE Legislation OF congress on the
taliff and nnance, the conoA.Ions OF our
1nuustrlaI lie nave been rendered more
favorable tnan ever before, ana they have
been taken advantage OF to the tull by
american THRIFT INDUSTRY and enterprise.
Oruer mas sDeen OpServe1, the courts up
he'd, ana the fullest liberty secured 10
aii citizens. rhe merchant and manufac-
turer, out above all the FARMER and the
wage-worker, have pronted by this state
OF Things.
Fundamentally and primarily the pres
ent contest is d contest Tor The contln-
uance or the conditions which have told
i'll favor OF our material welfare and OF
our civil and political integrity. Il this
nation is TO retain either lis welI-being
or its self-respect, it can not AFFORD to
piuEge into financial and economic cnaoS !;
IL can not AFFORD TO enoorss governmental
theories winch would unSeIIls the STAN
GARD OF natlonal honesty and destroy the
integrity OF our system OF justice. The
pSiicy of the free coinage OF silver at a
with destruction to every homie in the
land. 1t means untold misery 10 the head
OF every household. ana, above all, TO
the women and children OF every home
When our opponents champion Tree sill
Yer at sixteen TO one they are either in
sincere or sincere In tnSir attitude. II
insincere in their championship Iney OF
course, forfeit all right to belief or sup
port on any ground. II sincere, then
they are menace TO the welfare of the
country. Whether they shout their sin
lister purpose or merely Whisper 1t makes
but little difference, save as 1t reflects
their own honesty. No issue can be par
amount 10 the Issue they thus make, Tor
the paramountcy OF such an issue is to
be determined. not by the dictum of any
man or BODY of men. but by the fact that
home in the land. The financial question
Is always of such far-reaching and ire
mendous Importance to the national well
fare that II can never be raised in good
faith unless this tremendous Importance
is not merely conceded but insisted on
Men who are not willing to make such
justification for raising II at all, for under
such circumstances their act can not un-
der any conceivable circumstances do
aught but grave harm.
The success of the party representing
the principles embodied in the Kansas
City platform would bring about the de-
to the continuance of our prosperity. II
would also unsettle our whole govern
mental system and would therefore dis
arrange all the vast and delicate ma
cbinery of our complex Industrial life
Above all, the effect would be ruinous to
our finances. II we are to prosper, the
currency OF this country must be based
upon the gold dollar worth one HUNDRED
cents. The stability of our currency has
been greatly increased by the excellent
financial act passed by the last congress.
But no law can secure our finances
against the effect Of unwise and disastrous
management in the hands Of unfriedly
administrators. No party can safely be
entrusted with the management of our
national affairs unless 1t accepts as AK
iomatic the truths recognized in all pro-
gressive countries as essential to a sound
and proper system of finance. In their
essence these must be the same for ali
great civilized people, In different stages
OF development, different countries face
varying economic conditions but at every
stage and under all circumstances the
most important element in securing their
economic well-being is sound finance, hon.
est money. So intimate Is the connection
between Industrial prosperity and sound
currency that the former is jeopardized
not merely by unsound finance, but by
the very threat of unsound finance. The
business man and the farmer are Wit
ally interested in this question; but
no mans interest Is so great as that of
the wage-worker. A deprecated cur
-rency means loss and disaster to the
business man; but 1t means grim suffer-
ing to the wagesworker The capt. alist
will lose much of his capital and will
suffer wearing anxiety and the loss, of
who loses his wages must suffer, and see
his wife and children suffer, for the
actual necessities of life. The one alb
solutely vital need of our whole indus
trial system Is sound money.
One of the serious problems with which
we are confronted under the conditions
of our modern industrial civilization is
that presented by the great business COM
binations, which are generally known
under the name or trusts.
The problem is an exceedingly difficult
one and the difficulty is immensely ag-
gravated both by honest bit wrong
headed attacks on our whole Industrial
system in the effort to remove some of
the evils connected with it. and by the
mischlevous advice OF men who either
think crooksdly or who advance remedies