The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1904-10-01

Senator Charles warren talrDankS,
Republican nominee for Vice Presi-
dent. formally accepted the honor In
a letter addressed to Ellhu Root OF
New York. who was chairman of the
notification 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 pronun-
ciamentos:
1T is not alone what they say. but
what they will do which should weigh
in determining their capacity TO adj
minister public affairs"
With this prelude he plunges into a
discussion Of the issues.
In their order Senator Fairbanks
discusses public economics as illus
trated by the expenditures. revenues
and retrenchments OF the last two adj
ministrations; the foreign policy as
1t relates to the European and Aslatic
countries and to the treaties which
have been made during the last seven
years; of the governments neutral at
titude to the belligerents in the ORR
emit; Of tariff and tariff revision: of re-
ciprocity and the treaty consummated
cement a reciprocal tie with the Do
minion of Canada: of the trust ques-
ton 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 differences.
Concerning the administrations rec
ord in public economy, the senator
says that Eve have pursued no parsi-
monious policy on the one hand nor
INDUCED in extravaganza on the other.
We have measured the public expense
by the public necessity"
He declares the foreign policy of
the administration "has been conserv-
alive, just and firm, and has made for
the advancement of peace" He con-
tinues
Thirty treaties have been conclua-
ed and proclaimed and stand to the
credit 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 tho fsfbn,ian oano1. tho Dono,, a
Canal treaty, the Alaskan boundary
treaty. and commercial treaties with
China and Cuba"
or Russia and japan the senator
says:
AT the beginning of the war be
tween them they assented to the sug-
gestion made by the administration
limiting the zone OF hostilities. This
tends to preserve the open door in the
Orient, SO important and SO much de-
sired in the expansion of our com
MERGE"
Senator Fairbanks declares cor the
settlement OF international difficulties
by appeals to 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 better. We have avoided en-.
tangling alliances, and, in the Ian
guage OF the eminent Secretary OF
state. We are without an ally and
without an enemy"
The senator asserts that, so far
as the tariff question is concerned,
the difference between the two great
parties lis radical and fundamental. /"
OF tariff revision he says:
"A revision OF duties should be
made only when conditions have
changed so that public interest de-
mands their alteration, and they
should be revised SO as to preserve
and not destroy the protective prin-
ciple.
"A revision and reduction by those
who regard the tariff as a robbery
must awaken serious apprehension
among all whose capital 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 pro-
tective system. A revision of the tar