The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1904-09-23
ROOSEVELT'S LETTER OF ACCEPT
ANCE A CAMPAIGN DOCUMENT.

President ROOsevelt's letter of accept
ance IS nothing more or less than a
campaign document, and, probably,
was intended to serve as a pointer to
stump speakers Of his party the nation
over. A summary of its salient points
would be about as follows:
The democratic party is shifty, insin-
cere, deceitful, and unsafe in the man
agement of national affairs.
The republican party is safe, Patri-
otto, and successful in the management
of national affairs.
The democratic party does nothing,
except to undo the good things the re-
publican party has done
The republican party does things and
all the great and good things done have
been accomplished by the republican
party
Among the good things done by the
republican party there is the adoption
Of the gold standard and the enact
ment Of a protective tariff.
AL the prosperity of the nation de-
ponds upon the principle and policy of
protection.
Without denying that a protective tar
III was a sound financial policy at the
beginning of die establishment of our
manufacturing industri Is, or that the re-
publican party and the McKinley-ROOs-
evelt administration has done some
good things, but to continue the policy
now would be like contending that a
foot Of snow, which would be a good
thing on the fourth day of March,
worlld be a good thing on the plains Of
Kansas in the forth day of July would
be to talk like a mad man or a fool.
So the; presidents letter urging this,
which is its main point, the arguments
Of course are sPecious, misleading and
false.
In arraigning the democratic party
the president might just as well have
said that they were Il party of knaves
and fools, and yet he states that IS per
cent of the voting population of the
United States cast their ballots for that
party in 1900, which is not very com
Plimentary to the Intelligence of the
American electors.
THE democrats have been shifty,
insincere and deceitfuI," the president
IN effect says. The democrats might
retort as to the republican party, You
are another" In 1872, U. S. Grant
being president and the republican
party IN full power in the nation, by
stealth and fraud silver was demOnetiz-
ed, which act, together with the con-
traction OF the currency for a number
of years, brought on he worst panic
this country has ever seen, that Of 1873,
al under republican rule and high
protection, war tariff.
When the people revolted, and the
national greenback party was formed
denouncing the contraction of the cur
rency, and the republicans themselves,
almost en- mass, demanding the re11on-
etizing Of silver. IN every national con
ventiOn Of the republican party down to
1892 their platform declared for the re-
mOnetizatiOn and free coinage of silver
In 1896 they shifted" to-the free coin
age Of silver upon an international
agreement; and in 1900, by the dicta-
ton Of Mr.. Mckinley, and at the in
stance of Wall street, they shifted
to the gold standard And every one
of these shifts, including the Sher-
man silver purchase law, was in def
ance Of the majOriy sentiment Of their
own party and the overwhelming opPo-
sition of the American people, and al
at the behest Of the money bags" Is
there any incincerity. stiffness and de-
ceitfulness here2
The president in effect says that ali
or prosperity is due to a protective
tariff. This is untrue He takes a fling
At the Wilson tariff, as do all republican