Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-16

Oyster Bay, Sept. 12-President
Roosevelt this morning issued his let
ter accepting the nomination for the
| Presidency rendered him by the Re-
publican National Convention. In
part the document is as follows:
Oyster Bay N. Y,
| September u, 1904.
Hon. ]. G. Cannon. Chairman of the
Notification Committee:
| My Dear Sir: I accept the nomination
for the presidency rendered me by the
| daily approve the platform adopted by it..
The principles which we profess are
| those in which we believe with heart d
soul and strength. Men may differ n
us: but they cannot accuse us of shitt-
| pursued are those which we earnestly
| hold as essential to the national welfare
and repute. Our actions speak even
| louder than, our words for the faith that
is in lis. We base our appeal upon what
we have done and are doing, upon our
| record of administration and legislation
| auring. the last seven years, in which we
have had complete control OF the gov
! eminent. We intend in the future to
carry on the government in the same
past.
The acts of the Administration in
connection with the war with Spain,
the Isthmian canal and the UNFOLDING
of the Monroe doctrine the President
defends at length, and declares the
party is prepared fully to accept the
issue on these questions. He con.
tinues:
In addition to those acts Of the admin
lstration which they venture to assail
after misrepresenting them, there are
ideally attack, and yet which they Gov
ertly bring forward as reason for the
overthrow of the party. In certain great
centers and with certain great interests
our opponents make every EFFORT to show
that the settlement Of the anthracite
coal strike by the Individual act of the
| president and the successful suit against
merger suit-undertaken by the depart.
ment of justice. were acts because OF
which the present administration should
be thrown from power, Yet they dare
dare not in any authoritative or formal
manner say that in either case wrong
| was done or error committed In the meth
ments for putting that action into effect:
But what they dare not manfully assert
| In open day, they seek to use furtively
and through special agents. Some of our llr
| antitrust and Interstate commerce laws
suits were undertaken which have been
successful; others, because suits were not
undertaken which would nave been un-
| vention in New York dealt with the an
thracite coal strike by demanding In de-
liberate and formal fashion that the ma
tional government should take possession
Of the coal fields; yet champions of that
| conventions cause now condemn the fac,
that there was any action by the presi,
dent at ALTHOUGH they must know now ina,
which proven ID the movement for. ma
tional ownership of the coal fields from
gaining what might we'll have beer, an IT.
structive criticisms furnish an adequate
| measure of the chance for coherent ac-
| tion or constructive legislation If our
| opponents should be given power.
So much for what our opponents open
ly or covertly advance in the way Of an
| attack on the acts of the administration.
| When we come to consider the policies
| for which they profess to stand we. are
met with the Difficulty always ARISING
that they can be interpreted in different
yays. On some of the vital questions
| that have confronted the American PEG
The position that silence is the best pos
Gble way to convey their views, They
contend that their lukewarn attitude OF
partial acquiesence. in what others have
|
the Gust odians of the financial honor
and commercial interests which they have
but recently sought to ruin. Being I'M
able to agree i amGng sren is Curse or
a blessing, and as to whether, we ought
or ought not to have free and unlimited
| coinage of silver. they have apparently
thought it expedient to avoid any com m
initial on these subjects, and individually
| each to follow his particular bent. Their
nearest approach to a majority Judgment
to be that 1T is no" one nr
Of the gold standard by, the Republican
party Should not be disturbed unless
smantity of production of silver and gold
Hen who hold sincere convictions on vi
sal questions can respect equally sincere
| men with whose views they radically oil
far. and men may confess change OF
f feith a1 Without Compromising their honor
| mr. their self-respect. But 1t Is difficult
10 respect an attitude OF mlnd such as
has been fairly tb anoVe can be
NJ trust. A policy with SO slender. a
| basis Of principle would not stand the
strain of single year OF business ad-
| zersity.
| standard as fixed by the usage and YER
| dict Of the business world, and in
! sound monetary system as matters OF
principle as matters not or moneearf p pp-
l ranic policy. In 1896 and again in 1890
far-sighted men, without regard to their
party pa feaity in the past: Joined to work
Monetary system. The policies which
thav championed. have been steadfastly
adhered 70 by the admini lson and
| ~ sstahlished the single gold standard as
The measure Of our monetary value. This
act received the support of every Repub-
ican in the house, and of very Repub-
nnnonerlts, eleven supported it. in the
house and two in the senate; and one
hundred and fifty opposed it in the house
and twenty eight in the senate. The rec
ho 10 CT that