Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-09-13

and Party of Negation," Is HE
Advice-Letter Is a Review of the
Work of His Administration and a
Justification of Every Move That Ia
Criticised by the Opposition.
Oyster Bay. N. Y, Sept 12.-Theo.
dore Roos evelt's formal letter accept.
ing the republican nomination for
President, issued to the country today,
can be regarded as the real opening
gun of the campaign. The document
includes an exhaustive discussion of
every possible issue in the campaign,
in addition to a comprehensive review
of the accomplishments of the repub-
lican party, especially during the last
eight years
RooseveIt's Message.
Choose between party of action
and party of negation, party Of
honor and party of dishonor, party
of honesty and party of insincerity.
a party of proved efficiency and par
ty of historic inef1iciency."
Such is the message to the Ameri.
can voters sent broadcast throughout
in his letter accepting the unanimous
nomination to succeed himself accord
ed to him by the republican national
convention asst June.
The Main Issues.
Especial stress is laid by the Presi-
dent on the subjects Of the Philip.
pines tariff, and finance. He arraigns
the democrats for shifting three
times in their last convention attitude
on the Philippines, and declares that
their policy of independence for the
natives, If carried out, would be an
international crime. In like manner
he asserts that abandonment of the
protective-~tariffa ssyste nlAsr ! :.i,sSrjrg
national misery. On the financial iss;
4 sue he holds UP to ridicule the policy
/ OR rather lack of policy-of the op-
position.
The Letter of Acceptance.
"Oyster Bay, N. Y,
September 12, 1904
Hon j. G. Cannon,
Chairman of notification commit
"My dear sir: accept the nomina.
tion for the presidency rendered me
by the republican national convention
and cordially approve the platform
adopted by it. In writing this letter
there are certain points upon which
l desire to lay especial stress.
"It Is difficult to find out from the
utterances of our opponents what are
the real issues upon which they pro.
pose to wage this campaign. 1t is not
unfair to say that. having abandoned
most of the principles upon which they
In ictn nj toh%
; years, they now seem at a loss both
as to what it is that they really be-
lieve. and as to how firmly they shall
assert their belief in anything In fact
1t is doubtful if they venture resolute-
ly to press single issue: as soon as
!, they raise one they shrink from 1t and
seek to explain 1t away. Such an atti-
: tude is the probably inevitable result
of the effort to improvise convictions;
J. for when thus improvised it is natural
. that they should be held in tentative
manner.
1.-THE party now in control of the gov.
2 ernment is troubled by no such diff.
+; culties. We do not have to guess at our
) own convictions, and then correct the
guess if it seems unpopular The prin
ciples which we profess are those in
which we believe with heart and SOU
and strength Men may differ from us
but they cannot accuse lis of shift
ness or insincerity. The policies we
have pursued are those which we
earnestly hold as essential to the ma
v tional welfare and repute. Our actions
speak even louder than our words fol
o the faith that is in u.s. We base oul
appeal upon what we have done ant
are doing upon our record of admin
. stration and legislation during the las
seven years in which we have hat
complete control of the government
We intend in the future to carry OF
the government in the same way tina
= we have carried it on in the past.
An Untrustworthy Party.
"a party whose members are radl
cally at variance on most vital issues
a and If united at all are only united OF
issues where their attitude threaten
widespread disaster to the whole coun
try. cannot be trusted to govern il
!. any matter. A party which, with facil
- ease, changes all it's convictions befor
election cannot be trusted to adher
with tenacity to any principle afte
election. A party fit to govern mus
e., have convictions. In 1896 the reput
lican party came into power and Il
1900 it retained power on certain def
mite pledges each of which was scru
pulously fulfilled. But in addition t
s. meeting and solving the problem
which were issues in these campaign
ne it also became necessary to meet othe
te problems which arose after election
:. and it is no small part of our clair
to public confidence that these wer
ed - $1,000, " ------------