The Red Cloud chief., 1904-08-05
ROOSEVELT NOTIFIED OF Nomination.
Speaker Cannon, Chairman of the National Com
mittee, Makes the Address.
RESPONSE OF PRESIDENT THERETO
Chief Executive Touches Upon Some of the Issues
That will Be Before the People In the
Coming Campaign.

servants during the last seven years OF
ADMINISTRATION and legislation now
come before tho people content to- be-
Judged by our record OF achievement
~ the years that have gone by we
nave made tho deed square with the
word: and IL we are continued i'm power
wo shall unswervingly follow out tho
great Ines OF public policy which the
DOWN dSpnSi' g party has already laid
giving, and shall give. n united, and
therefore an efficient. support.
More Fortunate Than Opponents
In oil of this we are moro fortunate
than our opponents, who now appeal
Tor confidence on the ground, which
some express and some seek to have
Honndentiaily understood. that IL tri-
umphant they may be trusted to prove
raise TO- every principle which In the
iast eight years they have laid down
a ~ v,'a,, end to leave undisturbed
because OF which they ask that the
administration Itself DO driven from
power; seemingly their present atti-
tuue as TO their past record In that
some OF them were mistaken and 9TH
ers insinccre. We make our appeal in
a WHOLLY Inherent spirit. We are not
constrained to keep silent on any vital
question; our policy In continuous. and
Is the same for all sections and locnli-
ties. There Is nothing experimental
N"' iihltlN W. Htk Ino DeO-
' PIE TO continue In power. for our per-
Iormance In the past, our proved gov
erhnientai efficiency. Is a guarantee as
opponents. either. openly or secretly,
according to their several tempera,
ments. now ask the people to trust
OF the fact that they intend to treat
their past promises as null and void.
We Know our own minds and we have
kept or the same mind for "a sufficient
ItUktn OF time to give IN n,tr nnIi,y
conference and sanity. In such a fun-
damental matter as the enforcement
upon promises. but merely to nsk that
our record DO taken as nm earnest OF
what we shall continue to do. In deal
Ing with the great organizations
explain why the laws were not en-
forced. but to point out that they actu-
aliy have been enforced to Increase
the effectiveness OF their enforcement.
the rascals out" FOR we have shown
IN very deed that whenever by diligent
found who has betrayed his trust he
VIII BIO punished to the full extent OF
the law without regard to whether he
was appointed under n republican or
q. democratic administration. This is
the emHent way to turn the rascals
out n to keep them out. and II has
The merit OF sincerity. Moreover, the
Detrayals OF trust I'm the last seven
years have been insignificant In num-
per when compared with the extent of
m%inistration of the government been
on IA cleaner and igher level: never
has the public work OF the nation been
done moro honestly and efficiently.
Unwise to Change Good Policies.
Assuredly II Is unwise to change the
policies which have worked so well
iro @nifn ar are nov working SO well.
tlOnhl nOnOr and infpre9f hnvn haap
upheld abroad. we have place the
finances of the nation upon a sound
goId basis; We have done this with
our opponents. but who would neither
openly support nor silently acquiesce
IN tho heresy OF unsound finance. and
we nave done IL against the convinced
ana violent opposition of the mass of
our present opponents h still refuse
to recant the unsound opinions which
Tor the moment they hin 1t inexpe-
dent to assert. We know what we
mean when we speak of an honest and
ssbbdhDae currency; We mean the same
have to avoid a definite and conclusive
committal on the most important Issue
which has, recently been before the
the near future BIO before them again.
Upon the principles. which underlie
this issue the convictions OF half OF
of the other half. SO long as the re-
publican party liz In power the gold
standard Is settled. not as n matter
because OF shifting conditions In the
production of gold In certain mining
centers. but in accordance with what
we regard as the fundamental princi-
pies Of national morality and wisdom.
Under the financial legislation which
we have enacted there Is now ample
circulation for every business need.
worth q dollar In gold. We have re-
duced the Understanding debt and in
SIN larger measure the Interest on
that debt. All OF the war taxes i'm
posed during the Spanish wal have
been removed with IA view to relieve
the people and to prevent the accumu-
result is that hardly ever before have
the expenditures and income OF the
government 80 closely correspondent.
In the fiscal year that has just closed
the excess of income over the ordinary
expenditures was . 900. 900. This does
not lake account OF $50, 600. 900 expend-
ed out OF the accumulated surplus for
the purchase of the isthmian canal. II
IL an extraordinary proof of the sound
financial condition of the nation that
instead of following the usual course In
such matters and throwing the burden
upon posterity by an issue of bonds.
we were able to make the ayment
1fntrsgry ana y surp nr,sr 1t TO haSe % 6 ame
Moreover. we were able to pay S5,0OO.-
900 out of hand without causing the
slightest disturbance to business con-
ditions.
Country On High Plane.
We have enacted a tariff law under
which during the past few years the
country has attained a height OF ma
terial ~well-belng never before reached
Wages are higher than ever before.
That whenever the need arises there
should be reimbursement of the tariff
schedules Is undoubted: but such
changes can with safety be mad only
by those whose devotion to the princi-
pie OF n protective tariff Is beyond
question; for otherwise the changes
would not amount to readiustment but
to repeal. The readjustment when
made must maintain and not destroy
the protective principle. To the farm
er, the merchant, the manufactures this
IL vital; but perhaps no other man liz
so much interested as the wage work.
or in the maintenance OF our present
economic system. both as regards the
finances n the tariff. The standard
OF living OF our wage workers Is high
err than that OF m other country, and
II cannot so remain unless we have a
protective tariff which will always
keep az a minimum "A rate of duty suf-
flcicnt 20 cover the difference between
the labor cost here and abroad. Those
who, like our opponents,
protection as robbery" thereby explic-
lily commit themselves to the PROPOSE