Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-10

The folio ging is the letter of President
Mckinley accepting the denomination of the
republican national convention for Presi-
dent of the United States:
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
September 8, 1900
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge, Chairman Notifi-
cation Committee.
NV dear sir: The nomination of the re-
publican national convention Of June 49,
1900 for the office of President of the
United States. which. as the official repre-
sentative of the convention, you have con-
veyed to me. is accepted. 1 have carefully
examined the platform adopted and give to
| 1t my hearty approval. Upon the great
issue of the last national election it is clear.
1t upholds the gold standard and indorses
| the legislation of the present Congress by
which that standard has been effectively
strengthened. The stability of our national
| currency Is, therefore, secure so long as
| those who adhere to this platform are kept
| in control of the government. In the first
battle that Of 1896 the friends OF the gold
standard and of sound currency were tri-
umphant, and the country Is enjoying the
fruits of that victory.
The Free Silver Issue.
Our antagonists, however, are not salts
fed They compel us to second battle
upon the same lines on which the first was
fought and won. While regretting the re-
opening of this question, which can only
disturb the present satisfactory financial
condition of the government and visit I'M
certainty upon our great business enter
prises, We accept the issue and again invite
the sound money forces to join in winning
another and, we hope, a permanent tri-
umph for an honest financial system, which
will continue inviolabIe the public faith.
As in 1896, the three silver parties are
united. under the same leader who immedi-
ately after the election of that year, in an
address to the bimetallists, said:
The friends of bimetallism have not been
vanquished; they nave simply been over
come. They believe that the gold standard
Is a conspiracy of the money changers
against the welfare Of the human race, and
they viii continue the warfare against it"
The policy thus proclaimed has been ac-
cepted and confirmed by these parties. The
silver democratic platform of 1900 continues
the warfare against the so-calied gold con-
spiracy when it expressly says: 1--WE re-
iterate the demand of that the Chioago)
platform of 1896 for an American financial
system made by the American people for
themselves which shall restore and main
tain bimetallic price level, and as part of
such system the Immediate restoration of
the Tree and unlimited coinage of silver md
gold at the present ratio of 16 to l. without
waiting for the aid or consent of any other
nation"
SO the issue is presented. 1t will be noted
that the demand is for the immediate res
toration OF the free coinage of silver at III
to l. If another issue is paramount this is
immediate. 1t Will admit of no delay and
viii suffer no postponement.
turning to the other associated parties
We find in the populist national platform
adopted at Sioux Falls s. D., May 10 1900
the following declarations:
we pledge anew the peoples party
never to cease the agitation until this finan-
cial conspiracy is blotted from the statute
book, the Lincoln greenback restored. the
bonds all paid and all corporation money
forever retired. We reaffrm the demand
for the reopening Of the minis of the United
States for the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver and gold at the present legal ratio
of 10 to 1. the immediate increase of the
volume or silver coins and certificates thus
created to be substituted dollar for dollar,
Tor the bank notes issued by private corpo-
ratfons under special privilege granted by
banking laws"
The platform of the silver party adopted
at Kansas City July g. 1900, makes the fol-
lowing announcements:
I'VE declare 1t to be our intention to lend
our efforts to the repeal of this currency
law. which not only repudiates the ancient
and time-honored principles of the Ameri-
can people before the Constitution was
adopted. but is vioIative of the principles
OF the Constitution itself: and we shall not
cease our efforts until there has been es-
tablished IL Its place monetary system
based upon the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold into money at the pres
ent legal ratio of 10 to by the independent
action Of the United States under which
system all paper money shall be issued by
the government and all such money coin
ed or issued shall be full legal tender in
payment of all debts, public and private,
without exception"
In all three platforms these parties an
nounce that their efforts shall be unceas-
ing until the gold act shall be blotted from
the statute books and the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver at 16 to / shall take
its place.
Relative Importance of Issues.
The relative Importance of the issues I
do not stop to discuss. All of them are inn
portant. Whichever party is successful will
be bound in conscience to carry into adj
ministration and legislation its several dec
larations and doctrines. One declaration
Will be as obligatory another, but all are
| not immediate 1t Is not possible that these
parties would treat the doctrine of 10 to 1.
| the immediate realization of which is de-
manded by their several platforms as void
| and imperative in the event that they
should be clothed with power Otherwise
| their profession Of faith is insincere. 1t is
| therefore the imperative business Of those
| opposed to this financial heresy to prevent
| the triumph of the parties whose union is
only assured by adherence to the silver
| issue. VIII the American people, through
| indifference or fancied security, hazard the
| overthrow of the wise financial leeisla ton
| of the past year and revive the danger of
| the silver standard, with all of the ineyita-
| BILE evils Of shattered confidence and gen.
eral disaster which justly alarmed and
aroused them in 1896?
The Chicago platform Of 1895 Is reaf-
| firmed in its entirety by the Kansas City
! convention. Nothing has been omitted or