The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-09-29
FAIRBANKS ACCEPTS.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
DISCUSSES THE ISSUES.
In His Letter of Acceptance He Has
Praise for the President and Dwel1s
on His Party's Record = Common
Action in Panama.

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York, who was chairman of the notifca
ton committee. The Senator heartily
commends the principles of the party as
voiced in the platform adopted at the
Chicago convention and says of parties
and their pronunciamentos:
1T is not alone what they say, but
what they will do which should weigh in
determining their capacity to administer
public affairs"
With this prelude he plunges into
discussion Of the issues.
In their order Senator Fairbanks dis
cusses public economics as illustrated by
the expenditures, revenues and retrench-
ments of the last two administrations;
the foreign policy as it relates to the
European and Asiatic countries and to
the treaties which have been made during
the last seven years; of the governments
neutral attitude to the belligerents in the
Orient; of tariff and tariff revision; Of
reciprocity and the treaty consummated
with Cuba, and c. the efforts made to
cement reciprocal tie with the Domin-
ion Of Canada; of the trust question and
of legislation to reduce to a minimum the
evils following illegal combinations; of
sound money; of the Panama canal and
the Presidents part in negotiating the
Panama treaty; of the Philippines, and
hnally OF irrigation in the arid West and
the disappearance Of sectional differ
ences.
Concerning the administration record
In public economy, the Senator says that
we have pursued no parSmonicus pol
scy on the one hand nor INDUCED in e1,
travagance on the other We have meas.
ured the public expense by the public
necessity"
de declares the foreign policy of the
administration has been conservative.
just and firm, and has made for the ad.
yancement Of peace" He continues:
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
a ahe t m aayPaunceforte treaty. superseding
IN the way OF the construction of the 18th.
man canal; the Panama Canal treaty. the
Alaskan boundary treaty, ans commercial
treaties with China and with Cuba.
VI Russia and Japan the Senator
says:
=. AT the beginning of the war between
mem tney assented to the suggestion made
n
Festivities This tends to preserve the omen
door Ia the Orient, so important and SC
| merce. 'u' ''"
Senator Fairbanks declares for the
settlement OF international difficulties by
appeals to reason rather than to arms
and recalls that President Roosevelt frs;
invoked the aid of The Hague tribunal
In the settlement of the Plus fund cases
! He says:
our relations with the world were nere,
oetter. We have avoided entaneIing alli
S Sacss, and In she language of the eminent
ally and without an enemy
Takee Up the Tariff.
The Senator asserts that. so far as the
tarn question is concerned, the differ.
ence between the two great parties sis
radical and fundamental" Of tariff re
vision he says:
A revision OF duties should be made onI,
| when conditions have changed SO thar nnb
| lie interest demands their alteration and
tney snould De revised so as to preserve
and not destroy the protective principle.
revision and reduction by those vyhf
regard the tarfn as q robbery must awaken
serious apprehension among all whose can
ital Is employed or who are engaged at
| the country which depend I'm large meas
ure Upon the maintenance of the protective
system. revision of the tariff along rev
| enue lines means the increased imDorta
ton Of the products of foreign manufacture
| which comes into competition with our do
nestle production. 1t means a loss to the
| American wage earners and to American
! capital.
The Senator declares that during tho
period when protective tariff was main
tanned labor has received its largest
| L
ftably engaged" He disposes of reel
procity in a few paragraphs, asserting
that Commercial reciprocity with for
eign countries consistent with the princi
pies of protection has long been one OF
the well recognized policies of the Re
publican party"
He dwells upon the efforts made by
Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt to
negotiate a treaty with Canada and OF
the failure Of the same because OF the
disagreement in the joint high commits
sion on the Alaskan boundary matter. Oh
| Cuba he declares:
| The present administration In the face OF
| serious Democratic opposition, secured
| treaty Of reciprocity with Cuba which prom.
| ises to give us control Of q large share
| of the commerce OF that Island
| OF trusts and combinations the vict
presidential nominee writes more extern,
sively. He tells the people the admins
| tration has enforced the Sherman anti
| trust law and that the last Congress en-.
acted legislation which aimed TO expedite
the hearing and determination Of anti
trust suits; that Congress also created
the Department Of Commerce and Laboa
and amended the interstate commerce
law so as to abolish "the pernicioua
system. of rebates under which large
shippers could crush out their smallea
competitors"
Senator Fairbanks declares sound
money "is so vital to our welfare, so I'M
portant to our industrial development,
that we should let its open enemies OF
negative friends know that we abate
nothing of our determination to uphold
and defend it." He alludes to the Dem.
ocratic view on this subject somewhat
satirically.
| When Democratic candidates cannot hope
| to win preferment In a national convention
| without industriously concealing their mon
| etary views, and when Democratic national
| aud State conventions dare not declare
| their faith In the virtue Of the gold stand.
ard. the hour has not arrived when the
forces of sound money should dlsband and
leave the field.
The Senator says the President'a
course in Panama merits most general
approval. A brief history Of the nego
tiations leading to the Panama treaty Il
given. and Senator Fairbanks adds:
When the instruction occurred upon the
isthmus the President safeguarded Ameri-
inf re a.