Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-10-12
FAIRBANKS SPEAKS. /
Points from Letter of Acceptance
The Party's Record.

| The Party's Record.
Fhe foreign policy of the administration
has been conservative, just and Arm, aud
has made for the advancement of peacs,
We favor the adjustment OF interns-
tionsi disaereements by appeal TO reason
rather than TO arms.
The development of the country during
the last forty four years Is a complete
Wind cation Of the virtue and efficacy OF a
protective system.
The republican party Is direct and ra-
tional. 1t does not strike down good and
BAD alike, 1t is as inststent upon the
protection of capital employed In whole
some enterprise as In preventing It's use
in contravention OF the public interests.
We should not relax our vigilance In
UNFOLDING the integrity Of our currency
so long as a considerable element Of our
country are at war with It,
The Presidents eourss In Panama mer-
Its the most generous approval. He dealt
with delicate and difficult situation
clesrly within our national rights.
The administration In the Philippines
has been dictated by broad sense OF duty.
1t has not been subversive of our natiousi
ideals. but has been in conformity WIKI
the best traditions OF the republic.
Republican politics are as broad as our
country's needs. They are neither sec.
tional nor racial IN their generous design.
TIE convention did well In Its hearty
commendation of the administration of
President Roosevelt. This is sharply
challenged by the opposition. We accept
the Issue with confidence. The President
assumed the responsibilities of chief ex-
ecutive with pledge to carry out the
policy OF his beloved and lamented prede-
cessor.
He kept he cabinet of President Nc
Kinley, composed Of statesmen of emf
nent ability, in whom the country placed
entire confidence. He carried forward the
successfully.
The pledge has betn kept scrupu-
lousy; the promise has been fulfilled.
Peace and good order have been main
tanned. Domestic and foreign trade have
increased and relations OF amity have
been preserved with foreign powers.
Time and events have given US a
larger place in international affairs.
While we have enlarged our foreign com
merce, we have increased COR prestige
abroad, not with the sword, but with the
peaceful agency OF enlightened diplomacy.
Thirty treaties have been concluded aud
proclaimed and stand TO the credit OF the
ad NJ inissration. Some of these are of far
reaching importance. Among the numb Der
are the Hay Paunceiote treaty, Suppressed
ing the Clayton Bulwer convention,
which stood in the way of the construe-
ton OF sn isthmian canal; the Panama
canal treaty, the Alaskan boundary
treaty, and com mercial treaties with Chins
and with Caha.
Events in the far East suggest the wis
dom and necessity of continuance of the
present foreign policy. We have main
tanned exact neutrality between Russia
and japan. At the beginning Of the war
between them they assented to the sag-
gestion made by the administration,
limiting the zone of hostilities.
This tends to preserve the open door in
the Orient, so important and so much de-
sired in the expansion of our commerce.
1t is the policy Of tue administration, pred
icated upon the soundest national
prudence, to settle and remove by treaty.
so far rs possible, those international
differences which lead to future friction. c
We favor the adjustment of interps-
tional dissgreements by an appeal to rea-
son, rather than to arms. A great ma
jority Of the questions which arise be-
tween nations may, without compromising
the national honor, be submitted to
arbitration.
The administration of President Nc
Kinley did well to aid in the creation of
The Hague tribunal, snd President
Roosevelt is entitled to crest cred for
being the first to invoke Its jurisdiction
| in the settlement of the Pious fund cases.
Our relations with the world were never
better. We have avoided ali entangling
alliances, and, in the language OF the
eminent secretary OF state, 'swe are with
| out an ally aud without an enemy.
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