The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-09-12
Republican Candidates
Letter of Acceptance.

eminent ir the world has more con
sistently stood for the broadest spirit
OF brotherhood in our common hui
maniiy, or has held a more resolute
attitude OF protest against every
wrong thas out;aged the civilization
Of the age, al home or aeroad. Do
our opponents object to he fact that
tho international tribunal al the
Hague vas rescued from impotence,
and turned into a 20 ent instrument
foe peace among the nationsl This
government has used that tsihunal.
AID advocated Es use by others. in
pursuance Of its policy 70 promote tho
cause of International peace andgood
win by all honorable methods In car.
rying out this policy, II has settled dis
pute after dispute by arbitration or
by friendly agreement. It has be
havea towards al nations, strong or
weak. with courtesy, dignity and
justice: aud It II now on excellent
terms with all.
Executive Entertainments.
When our opponents speak Of zen
croachnents" by the executive upon
the authority Of congress or the judlc-
iary. apparently the act they ordinar-
Wy have in view is Pension order No
7S. Issued under he authority Of exist
ing law This order directed that
hereafter ally veteran OF the Civil war
WHO had reached the age Of sixty-two
should be presumplively entitled to
the pension Of six dollars a month,
giyen under The dependent pension
law 20 those whose capacity &c earn
their livelihood by manual labor has
been decreased fifty per cent, and that
by the time the age Of seventy was
reached the presumption should be
That the physical disability was com
pletc; the age being treated as an ev-
identlal fact in each case. This order
was made IN the performance of di,-
ty imposed upon The president by an
act Of congress, which requires the
executive to meiSe regulations to gov.
er1s The subordinates or the pension
Office in determining Who are entitled
10 pensions. President Cleveland had
already exercised this sower by a reg
ulation which declared that seventy,
Ave should be set as the age at which
total disability should be conclusive
ly presumed Similarly President
Mckinley established sixty-fve as the
age at which half disability should be
conclusiyely presumed. The resula
tion now in question, in the exercise
Of the sarce power, supplemented
these regulations made under Presi
dents Cleveland and Mckinley.
IN addition to those acts of the ad
ministration which they venture tS
assail only after niisrepresenting
them, there are others which they
dare not oyertiy or officially attack
and yet which they covertly bring for
ward as reasons for the overthrow of
the party, In certain great centeri
and with certain grea interests oul
oppor ents make every effort to show
that the settlement OF the Anthracite
coal strike by the individual act o
the president and the successful sui
against the Northern Securities com
pany--the merger suit undertaken
by the department Of justice, wer'
acts because OF which the present ad
miniatrati ticn slorld be thrown frou
power Yet they dare not openly con
lemn either act They dare not II
any authoritative or formal manne
say that 10 either case wrong wa
done or error committed In the meth
OIL Of acticn, o. IN the choice of In
strnnents Tor putting that action int
eHec' But what they dare not man
fully assert in open day. they seek q
use furiyely ana through specla
agents II IS perhaps natural tina
an attack so conducted should b
made sn;netlmes on the ground ha
too much, sometimes on the sroun
AANA NhN AitA.ff mas hNNA hNAN tfRfAA
Of our opponents complain becaus
under rho antitwst and in erstat
commerce laws suits were underial
en which aave heon successful; OF
ers because suits were not undertake.
which wonlc have been unsuocessfu
The Democratic state convention 4
New York dealt wi h the anthracit
coal strike 10y demanding In deliberai
and Formal fashion that the nations
government should take possession
the coal fields; vet champions Of tha
conventions cause now condelan IA
fac iha' there was any action by n
president AZ all though they mu.
know that Z was only this &C ion b
the president which prevented th
movcmen. for national ownership {