The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-22
Senator Fairbanks Points With
Pride to Administration.
Says 1t Is a Story of Promises
Fulfilled.
HIS LETTER TO ROOT
Accepting Nomination for Vice
President Made Public.
What Parties Do, Not What
They Say, Is the Test.

Indianapolis. Sept. 22.-Senatol
Charles W. Fairbanks has issued hi:
letter formally accepting the Repub-
ncan nomination for the vice presi-
dency. It is as follows:
The Hon. Elihu Root, Chairman OF
Notification Committee:
NV Dear Sir:-in accordance with
the promise made when you formally
notified me of my nomination for vice
president, 1 avail myself of this oppor-
tunity to submit to you, and through
YOU 10 my fellow citizens, some fur
Their views with respect to the ques-
tons in issue before the people.
The principles which are as frankly
and felicitously expressed in the plat
form adopted by the Republican ma
tionaI convention meet with my heart
lest approval. In the main they have
been subjected to a test of &C
tual experience and have been
found 10 be well suited to our indus
trial and national needs They have
brought us to high state of material
development, and have made the ma
tons name respected among the
powers of the earth
The utterances of political parties
must be interpreted in the light of
that practical construction which they
have put upon them when intruSted
with power. 1t is not alone what they
say but what they will do which
should weigh in determining their ca
pacity to administer public affairs
We have had two administrations in
the last seven years which have been
governed by the same policies We
may consult the trade reports in vain
to discover when the one ended and
the other began. Both were obliged
TO make vast expenditures for much
needed public works. The rapidly
expanding needs of the government
business must be met The national
equipment must keep pace with our
national growth. yet always with due
regard to the principles of sound econ
omy in public expenditure We have
pursued no parsimonious policy on the
one hand nor INDUCED in extravaganza
on the other We have measured the
public expense by the public necessity.
The convention did well in its hearty
commendation of the administration
of President Roosevelt This is sharp
" challenged by the opposition. We
accept the issue with confidence. The
president assumed the responsibilities
of chief executive with a pledge to
carry out the policy of his beloved
and lam ented predecessor. He kept
the cabinet of president Mckinley,
composed of statesmen of eminent
ability, in which the country placed
entire confidence. He carried forward
the uncompleted work fruitfully and
successfully The pledge has been
kept sCrupulously; the promise has
been fulfilled. Peace and good order
have been maintained. Domestic and
foreign trade have increased and re-
latlOnS OF am1ty nave Deen preserved
with foreign powers.
The foreign policy of the adminis-
tration has been conservative, just and
firm, and has made for the advance
ment of peace. Time and events have 1
given us a larger place in international
affairs While We have enlarged our
foreign commerce. we have increased |
our prestige abroad. not with the
sword. but with the peaceful agency
of enlightened diplomacy.
Thirty treaties have been concluded !
and proclaimed and stand to the credit !
of the administration Some of these !
are of far-reaching importance.
Among the number are the Hay
Paucefote treaty. superseding the |
ClaytOn-Bulwer convention. which |
stood in the way of the construction |
of an Isthmian canal; the Panama |
canal treaty. the Alaskan boundary
treaty. and commercial treaties with 1
China and with Cuba.
Events in the far east suggest the 1
wisdom and necessity of a continuance ]
Of the present foreign policy. We have /
exact neutrality between /
Russia and Japan At the beginning /
Of the war between them. they assent
ed TO the suggestion made by the ad- |
limiting the zone of hos
tilities- This tends to preserve the
open door in the Orient so important
and so much desired in the expansion