Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-09-28
FAIRBANKS ACCEPTS.
VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
DISCUSSES THE ISSUES.
In His Letter of Acceptance He Has
Praise for the President and DweIIs
ON His Party's Record = commends
Action in Panama.

Senator Charles Warren Fairbanks,
Republican nominee for Vice President.
has formally accepted the honor in
letter addressed TO Elihu Root of New
York, who was chairman of the notifica-
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 lac plunges into a
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 belIigerents in the
Orient; Of tariff and tariff revision; of
reciprocity and the treaty contaminated
with Cuba. and of the efforts made to
cement n 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
finally Of irrigation in the arid West and
the disappearance of sectional differ
ences.
Concerning the administrations record
ia public economy. the Senator says that
we have pursued no parsimonous pol
icy on the one hand nor INDUCED in ex-
travagance on the other. We have meas
ured the public expense by the public
necessity"
He declares the foreign policy of the
administration has been conservative.
just and firm. and has made for the ad-
vaheement Of peace" lie Continues:
Thirty treaties have been concluded apa
pr"ciaimed and stand to the credit Of the
administration Some Of these are Of far
reaching Importance Among the number
are the IIat-PSunceforte treaty supeTsedin6
The Clayton Bulwer convention which Stooi
IN the way Of the construction Of the 18TH
mIan canal: the Panama Canal treaty. the
t.l,nti hoHndary treaty, and commercial
treaties with China and with Cuba.
OF Russia and Japan the Senator
says:
them they asseuted to the suggestion made
by the administration limiting the zone OF
h h This tends to preserve the open
much desired in the expansion of our com.
merce.
Senator Fairbanks declares for the
settlement of international difficulties bv
appeals 10 reason rather than to arms
and recalls that President Roosevelt first
invoked the aid of The Hague tribunal
in the settlement of the Plus fund cases.
He says:
Our relations with the world were never
petteF. we have avoided ehtangling aIi-
S Se,. and in the language Of the eminent
any ana without an enemy"
Takee Up the Tariff.
The Senator asserts that SO far as the
tariff question is concerned, the differ
enee between the two great parties lis
radical and fundamental" OF tariff re-
| vision he says:
| A revision Of duties should be made on.v
! when conditions have changed so that pub
nc Interest demands their alteration and
they should he revised so as to nreserve
and not destroy the protective principle
A revision and reduction by those who
regard the tariff as a robbery must awaken
serious apprehension among all whose can
ital Is employed or who are engaged at
labor in the various enterprises Throughout
the country which depend IN large meas
ure upon the maintenance of the protective
system. revision Of the tariff along rev
enUe lines means the increased fmporta-
ton of the products of foreign manufacture
which comes into competition with our do
nestle nduction. II means a loss to the
American wage earners and 80 American
capital
The Senator declares that during the
period when protective tariff was main
tanned Labor has received its largest
rewards and capital has been most pro-
| fitably engaged He disposes of reci-
procity in a few paragraphs, asserting
that commercial reciprocity with for
elm countries consistent with the princ
| pies Of protection mas long been one of
| the well recognized policies of the Re
| publican party"
lie dwelis upon the efforts made by
! Presidents Mckinley ard Roosevelt to
negotiate 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. or
! Cuba he declares:
The present administration In the face of
! serious Democratic opposition. secured
| treaty Of reciprocity with Cuba which prom
4 Uses to give us control OF large snare
! Of the commerce Of that island.
| or trusts and combinations the vice
| 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 aimel to expedite
| the hearing and determination of anti
/ trust suits; that Congress also created
| the Department of Commerce and Labor
| and amended the interstate commerce
| law so as to abolish 1.-THE pernicious
! system of rebates under which large
| shippers could crush out their smaller
| competitors"
Senator Fairbanks declares sound
money sis 50 vital to our welfare, 50 inn
| portant to our industrial Development,
| that we should let its open enemies or
negative friend know that we ahate
| 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
! Ia win prefetment In national convention
/ without iniustIiously Coucealiug their mon,
/ etary views. and when Democratic Mfloaal
| and state conventions dare not declare
| their faith IN the virtue OF the gold stalld'
! ard the hour has not arrived whft the
| forces Of sound money should disbahd alid
| leave the field.
The Senator says the Presidents
| course in Panama merits most general
| approval. 4 brief history e. the neEo-
tiatioI,s leading to the Panama treaty is
/ given. and Senator Fairbanks adds