The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-09-30
MIR. FAIRBANKS LETTER.
His Formal Acceptance Of the Republican
Nomination.

| NCpuDIlCdH HOuHIce lOT VIC PiCSi-
| dent, is. in part, as follows:
The Hon. Elihu Rott, Chairman of
| Notification Committee:
Dear Sir-In accordance with the
promise made when. you formally noti-
fed me of my nomination for vice
president, l avail myself of this OPP
portunity to submit to you, and
through you to my fellow-citizens,
some further views with respect to
the questions in issue before the peo-
! pie.
| The principles which are so frankly
and felicitiously expressed in the plat
form adopted by the Republican Ma
tional Convention meet with my hearth
est approval. In the main, they have
been subjected to the test of actual
experience. and have been found to
| be well suited to our industrial and
national needs. They have brought
US to high state of material devel-
opment, and have made the nations
name respected among the powers of
| the earth.
The utterances of political parties
must be interpreted in the light of that
practical construction which they have
put uPOll tHSul WHSI iiliu SlCd Will
! power. 1t is not alone what they
say, but what they will do, which
| should weigh in determining their ca
pacity to administer public affairs.
We have had two administrations
in the last seven years which have
been governed by the same politics.
We may consult the. trade reports in
vain to discover when the one ended
and the other began. Both were
obliged to make vast expenditures for
much-needed public works. The rap
idly expanding needs of the govern
ment business must be met. The ma
tional equipment must keep pace with
our national growth, yet always with
due regard to the principles of sound
economy in public expenditure. We
have pursued no parsimonlous policy
on the one hand, nor INDUCED in ex-
travagance on the other. We have
measured the public expense by the
public necessity.
The convention did well in its hearty
commentator of the administration OF
President Roosevelt This is sharply
challenged by the opposition. We &C
cept the issue with confidence. The
President assumed the responsibilities
of chief executive with a pledge to
carry out the policy of his beloved and
lamented predecessor. He kept the
Cabinet of President Mckinley, COM
posed of statesmen of eminent ability,
in whom the country placed entire
confidence. He carried forward the
uncompleted work faithfully and sue
cessfully. The pledge has been kept
scrupulously; the promise has been
fulfilled Peace and good order have
been maintained: Domestic and for
eign trade have increased, and rela-
tons of amity have been preserved
with foreign powers.
The foreign policy of the admins
tration has been conservative, just and
firm, and has made for the advance
ment of peace. Time and events have
given us larger place in interna-
tional affairs. While we have enlarged
our foreign commerce, we have in
creased our prestige abroad, not with
the sword, but with the peaceful
agency of enlightened diplomacy.
Thirty treaties have been concluded
and proclaimed, and stand to the cred
it of the administration. Some of
these are of far-reaching importance.
Among the number are the Hay
Pauncefote Treaty, superseding the
Clayton Bulwer convention, which
stood in the way of the construction
of an isthmian canal; the Panama
Canal Treaty, the Alaskan Boundary
Treaty, and commercial treaties with
China and with Cuba.
Events in the Far East suggest the
wisdom and necessity of a continu-
ance of the present foreign policy. We
have maintained exact neutrality be-
tween Russia and Japan. At the be-
ginning of the war between them
they assented to the suggestion made
by the administration, limiting the
zone of hostilities This tends to pre-
serve the open door in the Orient, so
important and so much desired in the
expansion of our commerce. 1t is
the policy of the administration, pred
icated upon the soundest national pru-
dence, to settle and remove by treaty.
as far as possible, those international
differences which lead to future fric-
ton.
We favor the adjustment of interna-
tional disagreements by an appeal to
reason rather than to arms. A great
majority of the questions which arise
between nations may, without compro-
missing the national honor. be sub
mitted to arbitration. The admins
tration of President Mckinley did well
to aid in the creation of The Hague
Tribunal, and President Roosevelt is
entitled to great credit for being the
first to invoke its jurisdiction in the
settlement OF the Pious Fund cases.
Our relations with the world were
! never better. We have avoided all en-
tangling alliances, and, in the Ian
guage of the eminent Secretary OF
State. 1--WE are without an ally and
without an enemy"
Very respectfully yours,
CHARLES w. FAIRBANKS.