Arizona republican., 1904-09-22
Of Senator Fairbanks Upon
 the Issues Made
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
He Goes Over the Whole Field - Two Administrations Without Change CT Policies During Which the Country Has Been Greatly Benefited.

Indianapolis. Ind. Sept 21.-The let- ter of United States Senator Fairbsuls accepting the republican nomiuaton for vice president wh.ch was made public today is in paIS os follows
 The Hon. Elihu Root. Chairman Of the
 Notification Committees
 My Dear Sir-In accordance with the promise made when you formally notified me of my nomination for vice president, I avail myself of this op- portunity to submit to you. and through you to my fellow citizens. some further views with respect to rhe ques- tiOns in issue before the people The principles which are so frankly and felicltOusly expressed in the plat form adopted by the republican na- tiOnal cOnentiOn meet with my heart fest approval In the main they have l been subjected to the test Of actual ex- 2 perience and have been found To be well suited to our industrial and ua- tional needs. They have brought us to a high state of material develop ment. ana have made the nations name respected among the powers of the | earth.
 The utterances of fpoliizaI parties must be interpreted in the light of that , practical construction which they have put upon them when lntrusted with power. It is nor alone what they say. but what they will do which should weigh in determining their capacity 10 administer public affairs
 TWO INSPIRATIONS. ! We have had two administrations in the last seevn years which have been governed by the same policies. We may consult the trade reports in vain 70 discover when the one ended and the other began. Both were obliged 10 make vast expenditures for much need ed public works. The rapidly expand ing needs of the government bustuesz must be met The national equiprneur must keep pace with our national growth, yet always with due regard to the principles of sound economy In public expenditure. We have pursueI no parsimOniOus policy on the one hand or indulged in extravagauce on the other. We have measured the pub lie expense by the public necessity
 The foreign policy Of the admins tTatiou has been conservative. just and firm, and has made for the advance ment of pea-e- Time and events have given us a larger place in Information al affairs While We have enlarged our foreign commerce We have increas- ed our prestige abroad. not with the
 
 of enlightened diplomacy.
 Thirty treaties have been conclude.l
 and proclaimed and stand to the cred
 it Of the administration Some ot 7 these are of far reaching snportance.
 Among the number are the Hav-
 Bauncefote treaty supersedins the Clayton-Bulver convention. vghf-h g stood in the way Of the construction ot an isthmian canal; the Panama canal = treaty. the Alaskan boundary treaty s and commercial treaties wfth Chin | and with Cuba
 ] NEED OF STRONG POLICY. - Events in the far east suggest th.
 wisdom and necessity of conrfnuauc, b Of the present foreign policy. We have @ maintained exact neutrality betweer q Russia and Japan At the beginnin. 2 of the war between them. they assent ed to the suggestion made by the ad
 ministration. limiting the zone of hos
 tilities- This tends to preserve rh
 open door in the Orient so importari s and so much desired in the expansioi
 of our commerce It is the policy O @ the administration. predicated upoi y the sOundest national prudence to ser It tie and remove by treaty. so far as DOS ,f s1ble, those international difference d which might lead to future friction V We favor the adjustment of interna e tlonal disagreements by an appeal a le reason. rather than to arms. A rrea D. majority of the questions which aris
 between nations. may. without com
 promising the national honor. be sub
 nlitted to arbitration The adrn!nfztra
 ton of President Mckinley did well . D. aid in the creation of credit for b-iu a the first to invoke its jurlsdsction ] le the settlement of the Pious Fun ,a eases.
 st Our relations with the world urer 1e never better We have avoided all en l- tangling alliances. and. in the Ianguas Y. of the eminent secretary of state, -a Continued on Pane &