THE MAJOB’S LETTEB
ACCEPTING THE REPUBLICAN
*' NOMINATION.
A Review of All the Intel Before the
People In This Campaign—Sound Money
end Protection Pnoaceas for the Dis
tress That Prevails—Meaning of the
•Chicago Declaration on Money.
~Mr. McKinley’s Acceptance Letter.
Canton, 0., Aug. 27.—Following- la
"Alajor McKinley’s letter of acceptance
-of the Republican nomination for
President:
% , "*ilaa. John M. Thurston and Others. Members
of the Notiticati >n Commit.ee of the Kepub
4 li*an National Committee:
■‘Gentlemen:—In pursuance of the promise
* made to yonr committee, wheu notified of my
■ *\ nomination as tin Republican candidate for
President. I beg to submit this formal accept*
' arcs of that high honor an 1 to consider in de
*1 tail questions at issue in the pending cam*
% pihro.
l “Perhaps this might be considered unneses*
- -sary in view of my romarki dn tint o;easioo
•aid those 1 have made to delegation* that
£ have tisi ed me *iiioe the St. Louis convention,
1 but in view of the momentou* importance of
, 'the proper sstt’ement of the is*u*s presented
on our future prosperity and standing as a na
' tion. and considering only the welfare and hap*
? pines a of our piole, I could not bo content to
* omit again calling attention to the questions
2 which in my opinion vitally affect our strength
* and position amoig the governments of the
* world, and our morality, integrity and p itriot*
* tsm as citizens of that republic whi’h for a,
* century psgp hai been the best hopes of the^
■ world and the inspiration of mankind. We
r most not now prove fairs tp’ our own high
Y st;indar<tsib government, nor unmindful of the
^ n;>b!e example aud wise praoept-, of our fath
ers or of the confide *ee mud trust which dur
*- -conduct in the pant has always inspired.
T Free Coinage of fillvw.
| >‘yof tj^e fir** time «iac» l8oS, if ever befor®«
^tbere is presented to th) American people this
.yeir acle ir aud direct issue as to our mone
tary system of vast importance ia, its effects,
t and upon the right *»tt ament of which rests
dafioly the financial honor and prosperity of
(■ t io couutry. It is proposed by on© wing of the
$ Democratic party and its alibi, the People's
| an l Silver parties, to inaugurate the free and
* runliniitod coinage of silver by independent
g. action on the part of the United St ites. at a
^ :ratio of si c teou ounces of silver to one oun ;e
«i gold. The mere declaration of this purpose
;.v, ia a menac * to our , hnanao ial and industrial
' interests and has already created universal
alarm It involves great peril to the credit and
"bu inoss of t’le country, a porit so gravj that
$ ^.-conservative ihon ovarywhore are breaking
away from their old part/ associations and
£ "Uniting with other pitriotio citizens in em
phatic protest against the p’atfor n of the
Democratic Litional convention as an assault
% fnpon tho faith and h mor of thi gdvornment
and the wq.fere of the people. We have had
f yfew questi ms in the lifetime of tho republic
more serious than the. one which is thus pne
t ysent id
‘*1 be character of the monev whi*h shall.
^ measure our values and exchanges and settle
•our balance * with one another, and With, tho
^ nation* of th » world, is of such primary im
"rportance aid so far reaching in its conse
quences as to call for ths mo*t painstaking in
>'To tig at ion, and. in the end, a so-er and un
i prjnlicid judgment at the polls. We must
bo mtsloi by4 phrases, nor *ielu led .by t Iso
tmrories Fro3 silver would no : mean that sil
ver dollars ware to be freely had without cost
-of labor. It would mean the froe use of tho
TOin?H of tha United Stat«3 for the few who are
-os’ ere of silver bullion, but would make sil
ver coins no floor t» the many who are en*
gag id ia other enterprises It would not make
labor easier, the hours of labor shorter or the
pay bettir. It would not mike (arming leas
aborious or more profitable It would not
.-start a factory or ma fa a diman 1 fo ■ an addi
tional day’s labor* ; It would create no new oc
cupations It would add nothing t j the conj
fort of the masses, the capital of the people or
the nation. It peeks to introduo a new meas
ure of valu», but would add no value to the
thing measured. It would notconsorvo values.
On tho contrary, it would derange all existing
valuos, It would not restore buuiess con
fllonce, but its dlroiteffct would be to de
stroy tho little which yet remains.
“The meaning of ,tho free coinage plank
,.s udo .ted at Chicago is that a iy one may take a
- ' Vquant.tr of s Ivor bullion now worth 58 cents
to’the mints of tho United States, have it
•coined’at*tho e ; pen<0 of the government, and
t »oetv«3> for it a silver dollar which shall be
le ral tender for the payment of all debts, pub
lic and private. The owner of the silver bul
lion would get the silver dollir. It would be
, long to him an,l fce nobody else. Other people
Would get it only by their labor, the products
-of their land, or something of value. Thi bul
lion owner, on tho basis of preiant values,
scroll'd receive the silver dollar for 53 cents’
worth of silver. and other people would be re
quired to receive it as a full dollar in the pay
ment of d>bt*. The government would get
nothing for tha transaction, dt would bear
the expanse of coining the silver, and the com
munity would suffer loss by its uso.
• Wo have coined since more than,403,
•Wl.OO silver dollar*, %\ueh a e maintained by
the government at parity with gold, aud are a
dull legal te ider for the payment of all debts,
-y>' publio an;i private How are the silver dollars
'Slow in u e different from (base which would
be ians) under free coinage? Tney are to be
H>f thesa^no woijht and fineness ;tho/ are to
boar the same stflimp o i the government, Why
'Would they not bo’of th® same valtj®?' 4^.4
'V Gold and Silver Hollars.
i answer: iap sjuvor collars now in uas
were coinpd on account of the govtrarieat anl
not for private account or gain, and thi g >y.
or nine it has solemnly agreed to keep them as
goo i a* thn b at dol lars w» have. The govern
anent bought the silver bullion at its market
> va tf vtfnt coin® 1 it into silver. Having exclu
sive control of the mintage, it only coins what
it can hold at a parity wita gjld. The pro tit
representing the difference between the com*
•m *r iul value of th > silver bullion and tLe face
Viral io of th • silver dollar, g >es to the govern
ment |or, the b©ri3 fit, of the PP >ple. The gjv
oru nooc b mght the sdver bullion contained in
■ the silver dollar at very much lesp than its
•Coi iage value.' It pa id it out to it9 creditors
and put it in circulation among the people at
its fa e value of li>J cents, or a fall dollar. It
required the people to accept it as a legal ten
der, find Is thus morally bound to maintain it
gi-n parity with gold..whi j h was than, a* now,
t id racogriizjd standard with u* and the most
# onl ghtaned nations ol the world. Th# gov
i. o. ament having i-suod and circulated the si I
V ver dollar, it innst ii honor p-otejt the holder
from loss Th s obligation it has s© far sacred
, ly kopt. Not only is th>re a moral obligation,
but there is a logil obligation, expressed in
| pabliuatehitwto maintain the parity.'
•*. ‘’These dollars in the particulars 1 hive
ere ,not the. same as the del an
V w.iich would bi issued under free cointge.
They would be the same form but dif
M ? 'rent in value. The government would
ha vo no part in the transaction. oxs«pt to coin
V th silver bullion into dollars. It would share
in opart of fh© profit. It would take upon
it olf no obligat on It wool t not put the dol
V J«rs into circulation It could only get them as
any citizen woull get them by tiring some
thing for them. _ It would deliver them to tho e
who deposited~thn silver, snd its connection
V with the transaction would end tin re.
Question of Parity.
JV “Such are the siiver doll .r> which would be
issned under fren coinage of s lver at a ratio of
1C to 1. Who waul 1, then, maintain the parity t
V What would k©!»p tlnm at par with goldT
There would b> no obligation resting upon the
government to do it. and. if tin re wore,
it woull be poworless to do it. Tho *imp’e
truthUs, w \ would bo driven to a silver basis~
to silver mono.nelallum.
“Those dollars, therefore, would stand upon
> their roal valuo. If th> free and unlimited
coinage of silver at a ratio of sixteen ouncas of
•ilvertoono ounce of gold would as some of
its advocates assort, make 5S cents in silver
•Wor^U WO tents, and ti e silver dollar equal to
thj gold dollar, then w » would hrv j no cheaper
m'mejr than now and it wonld be no eia:erto
get
"But that anch wonld be the remit ia against
reason and ia contradicted by exp?ren*.e ia all
times and in all lands. it meant tbe deba e
ment of our currency to tho amount of the dif
ference between the commercial and coin value
of the silver dollar, which it ever changin?,
and the effect would be to reduce property val
ues, entail untold financial loss, da troy confi
dence, impair the obllg Uoaa of exist ng con
tra sta, fur her impoverish the laborers and
producers of the country, creato a panic of un
paralleled severity, an 1 inflict upon trade and
commerce a deadly blow.
"Against any such policy, I am una'terably
Opposed.
4 Bimetallism cannot be secured by independ
ent action on onr part. It cannot bj obta a'd
by opening onr mints to the unlimited coinage
of the silver of the wo id at a ratio of sixte n
ounces of silver to one ounce of g»l I, wh *n the
commercial ratio is more th in thirty ounces
of silver t> one ounce i f gold. Mexico and
China have tried the experiment Mexico haa
free oeimtge of silver and gold at a ratio slight
ly in excess of sixteen and a half ounces of sil
ver to one ounce of gold and whilt her mints
are freely open to both metals at that ratio,
not a single dollar in goi l bullion ia coined
and circulated as money Gold has beon driven
oat of circulati >n in these countries and the/
are on a silver basis alone. Until interna
tional agreement i* had it is fcae plain du y of
the .United Slates to maintain the g »ld stand
ard. It is the recognized undso.e standard of
the great commercial mtims of the w»rld.
with which wo trade more largely than any
oth^r. Eighty-four per cent of our foreign
trado for the fiscal year 1851 was with gold
standard countr es, and our tr.tde with other
countries was settled on a gold basis.
‘*Chiefly by meins of legislation during and
aince 1878. there has beon put in circulation
more than 621,4)0,tM) of silver, or itsrsprec nt
ative. This has been done in the honest effort
to give silver, if posable, the same bullion and
coinage valuo and encourage the concurrent
use of both gold and silver as money. Prior
to that time there had beau leia th in 9,1 H>, )00
pt silver dollars coined in the entire history of
the 'United States, a period of eighty-nine
years. This legislation ssanris the larg st uso
of silver consistent with financial safety and
the pledga to maintain its parity with gold.
We have to-dav more silver than cold. This
hai beon accomplish'd uptimes with great
peril to ths public urolit The so-oalted Slier
man law sought to use all the ailv er-prodae
tiou of the United Stat s for money at its mar
ket value. From 1890 to 193 the government
purchased4,5.0,0- 0 ounces of silver a month or
ouncos a year* ThU was one-third the
product of the world, and practica ly all of
this country's pro luct. It was bdiovtal by
those who fchen and now favor free coinage
that such use of silver would advanco i s bul
lion value to its coinage va uo but thi» expec
tation was not realized. Ip a f w mouths, not
With;tending the unprecedented market for
•liver.produced ia the United States, the price
of silver went down very rapidly, reaching a
lower i oint than ever b fore. Then. upen ihe
recommendation of President Cleveland, both
political parties united in the repeal of the
purch ing clause of the Sherman lawi Wa>
cannot, with safety, engige iu further experi-*
meats in this direction • *
Not Opposed to Silver.
4 The R^publuan party hai not been, and is
not now opposed to the os > of silver money,
as its record abundantly s lows it hue done all
that could be don> for it : increased use, with
safety and honor, by the United Stat »3 acting
auart from other government*. There are
those who ibiuk that it has ahead? gone be
yond the limit of financial prudeice Surely
we can go no further, and we must not permit
false lights to lure us a :ross the danger lino.
“We have marh m >re silver in use than any
country in tho world except India or China — 4
$ 00 DO »,UJO more han Great Britain, $1SJ,»J0,
QJj more than France SUO. JJJ, JJJ more than
, Germany, til , NiJ.OiJ) less than India, and
|1.5,-) 0. Uu less than China.
“The Ripublican party has declared in favor
of an international agreement, and if elected
president it will b) my duty to employ all
proper means to promote it. Tho free coinage
of silver in this country would dafor, if not
defeit, international bimetallism, and until a,
an international agroement can be had every
interest requires ut to maintain our present
standard.
“Independent free coipago of silver at a
ratio of 16 ounces of silver to 1 ounoe of gold
would insur> the speedy Contraction of the
volumiofonr currency. It would drive at
least$ 00. of gold which we now hive
permanently from the trado or the country and
greatly de*rease our per capita circulation.
“It is not proposed by th) Republican party
to tike from the circulating media in of the
country any of the silver we now have. On
thy contrary, it is proposed to k)op all of the
silver momy now in circulation on a parity
with gold by maintaining the pledge of the
government that all of it sh ill b*> equal to
gold This has been tho unbroken policy of
th) Republican party since lfe7i It has in
augurated no new policy. It will keep in cir
culation, and as good as gold, all of tho silver
and paper which are now included in the cat
rancy of the country. It will maintain thsir
parity, it will preserve their equality ia the
future as it has always done in the past. It
w.ll not con99nt to pat this country on a silver
b isis, which would inevitably follow independ
ent free coinage at a ratio of li to 1. It will
oppose the expulsion of gold from our circa- ,
lation
Flat Money.
k , ‘The silver question is not the only ib*ue !
effectin'* our money in ths pending contest ;
Not content with urging the free coinag) of
silver, its strongest champions demand that
our paper money shall be issued directly by
the government of the United (States, This is
the Chicago Democratic dscla-ation.
‘ The St, U ui* People’s party declaration is
that ‘oar national money shall bi issued by
the general government only, without the in*
* tarvention of banks of issue be fall legal ten
der for the payment of ail debt*, public and
private,’and be dntribute! diect to th3 peo
ple, and through lawful die tursements of the
government. ’
l_ * Thus, in addition to the free coinage o’ ths
world’s silver, wj are askad to enter upon an
ara of unlimited irrodoamabla paper currency.
Th3 question which was fojght out from 1301
to 187 > is thus to be reopened with nil ii a cheap
money experiments of every conceivable form
foisted upon us. This indicates a most start*
ling reactionary po’icy, strangely at varianco
with every requirement of souui finance, but
the delaration shows the spirit and purpose of
those who, by combined action, are contending
for the control of the government. Not satis*
fled with the debasament of our coin which
inevitably fellows the fra» coinage of silver at
IS to 1, they would still further dogndo our
currency and threaten tho public honur by the
unlimited issue of an irredeemable piper cur
rency. A graver menace to our financial stand*
ing and credit could hardly be conceived, and
t every patriotic citizen should be aroused
promptly to meet and effectually de
feat it, ,
■** Sectionalism.
' •‘It is a.cause for painful regret and soliii
tudo that an effort is being made by those high
in the counsels of the allied parties to divide
the people of the country into data s and cre
ate distinctions among us. which, in fact, do
not exist and are repugnant to our form of gov
ernment. These appeals to passion and pro*
judico are beneath the spirit and intelligence
of a free people and should be moc with s.ern
rebuke by those they are sought^to influonc?.
and 1 beleive they will b?. Every att3 npt to
array class against class, ‘ths classes against
the masses.* socti n against section, labor
against capital,’the poor against the rich,’ of
iuteroit against interest in the United States
is in the highest degroo reprehensible.
Protection.
"An issue of suprcT.e importance is that of
protect on. Tli■* j>r» U free silver is a meu*
ace to be feared; we era already experiencing
the effect of partial fro? trade The one mutt
be averted; the other correc-sd. Thi Republi
can party is wedded to the doctrino of protec
tion, and was nover more earnest in its support
and advocacy thaa n?w. If argument were
needed to strengthen its devotion to ’the Amer
ican system.’ or incro is? th? hold of that sjs
tern upon th3 party and people, it i* found in
i the lessou and experience of the past three
years. Men realize in their own daily lives
what was to m mv of them only report, history
.or tradition. Th»y have had a trial of both
! systems, and know what oach has done for
\ tiera.
I “The people of the country must uow face
the conditions which be*et tlnm. ‘Tho public
f
oxigenotsV demand prompt protective leglsla*
l Ho-» whi-'K will *n»l l the accumulation of
further debt by providing adequate revenue*
for the expense* of the government. This is
manifestly the r'quiremont of duty. If elected
president of the United States it will be ray
aim vigorously to promote this object and
give that ample encouragement to the occupa
tion* of the American people which, above all
ole, is %o imperatively demanded at thia Jttno*
ture of ojt national affairs.
“la December, 183i, Protilont Harrison svnt
[ his last message to congress. It was an able
j hud exhaustive review of th> condition and re
| source* of th» country. It stated our situation
, 80 accurately that 1 am sure it will out be araias
j to re *ite his offi.'ial and val iabl * testimony:
| ** *Tnero never haa been a time in our history,’
i said he, ‘when work was so abundant and wagea
! w^re so high, whether measured by the cur*
j ronoy in which they are paid, or by their power
t» supply 110 necessaries and comforts of life,
due general average of prices has be m such as
to giv * to agriculture a fair participation in
the general prosperity. The new industrial
plants established since Octobe 0, UW, and up
to October number 31>, and the exten
sions of existing plants 1)& The new capital
invested amounts to SI),41 ,000, and the nura
bor of additional employes 37,S9>. During the
first six months of the present calendar year,
13»now factories were built, of which forty
wore cotton mills, forty-eight were knitting
mills, twenty-six woolen mills, fifteen silk mills,
four pludi mills and two linen mills. Of the
for.y cot on mills, twenty-oue have bom built
‘ This ftt.riy do sc ri bn* th 6 11 tippy condition of
the couutry in December, liOtf. Wlmt has it
bsen siuce and what i» it no«T .
“Tho m ‘Si a teas of Pruiilnut CbveUud from
the baginning of his sjeoad administration to
the present tim\ abound with descriptions of
the daplorablo miustrial and fiuau:ial sitae
tion of th) country. While a > resort to history
or officia. statomeut is required to advieo u*of
tho pr isont cjnditiou. and that which baa pre
vailed during the past three years 1 venture to
quo o from Preiul at Cleveland's first message,
August 8, 1893. add re < sod to tho Fifty-third
Congress, which ho had called together in ex
tiaordinary eossioo: The existence of an alarm
ing and extraordinary business situation,’said
ho, involving the welfare and prosperity of all
our people, has constrained ina to cull together
in extra session tho people's representatives
in Congress, to the end that through the wiso
and p triotic exercise of the legislative duties
with which they s dely are charged, the pres*
totovi s may bq mitigated and hangers threat*
the future mu y be averted Our tin for
tunate financial plignt is not the result of an*
toward ev -nts, nor of conditions related to our
natural resources Nor m U iraoeabla to any
of the affliction! Which frequently check na
tional growth and prosperity. With plente
ous crops, w.th abundant prouiiso of remuner
ative proluction and manufacture, with
unu^u d invitation to safe investment and with
satisfactory assurances to business en
terprises, suddenly. financial dis
trust and feari have sprung up on overy side.
Numerous moneyed institutioQs have sus
pended. because abundant assets wore not im* >
mediatoly available to meet the demands of
frightoned depositors Surviving corporations
and individu als are content to keep in hand
the money they are usually anxious to loan,
and those engaged in legitimate business are
surprised to find that tho securities they offer
for loans, though boretofore satisfactory, are
nov longer accept jd. Values supposed to be
fixed are fast becouiiug conjeotur tl, and lose
and failure have invaded overy branch of bhst
ness ” '• :-;5? :> ' ' , *
‘ What a startling au 1 suddon change within
the short porioi of eight months, from Decom
ber, 119-’, to August, 18911 What had occurred Y
•▲ change of admini«tration; all branches of
the government had boen entrusted to the
Democratic party, which was committed
against the protective poli.y that had pre
vailed uninter uptedly for more than thirty
two years and brought unexampled prosperity
to the country, and firmly pledged to its com
plete overthrow and the substitution of a tariff
for revenue only. The change having been de- f
oread by the elections in November, Its effects
were at once Anticipated and felt We cannot
close onr eyes to these altered conditions, nor
would it be wise to exclude from coutempi*
tion and investigition the causes which pro
duced them. They are facts which we cannot
as a people disregard, and wo can only hope to
improve onr present condition by a study of
their causes
“In December, 189’. we had the same car*
rency and practically tho same volume of cur
rency that we have now. It aggregated in 1892
$2,174599,HU; in 189’. $2,3 3,JM,09J; in 1891,
12,3.3,U2.38 ; and in Docember, 189>, $2,191,09)—
2 ft Tho per capita of money has been practi
cally tbe same during thi* wool) period. The
quality of the money has been Identical—all
kept equal to gold. There is nothing connected
with our money, therefore, to account for this
sudden and aggravated, industrial change.
Whatever U^obo deprecated in our financial
system, it must everywhere bo admitted that
our money has been absolutely stable, and has
brought neither loss nor inconvenience to its
holders. A depreciated currency has not ex
isted to further vex the troubled business situ
ation.
Gold Basis and Hard Tinea
“It is a mere pretens3 to attribute the hard
timoi to the fact that all our e-irrenoy is on a
gold basis. Good raoaejr never made times
hard. Those who assert that our present in
dustrial and financial depression is the result
of tho gold standard havs not rqgd American
history aright, or been careful students of the
events of recoat years We niver had greater
prosperity in this country, in every field of em
ployment and industry, than in the busy years
from. 148) to 1892, during all of which time the
country was on a gold basis and employed
more gold money in its fiscal and business op*
orations than over bsfors. We had, too, a pro
tective tariff under which ample revenues
wor * collected for tho government and an
accumulating surplus which was con
stantly applied to tho payment of thi pub
lic debt. Lot us hold fast to that which
wo know is good It is not more money we
want; what wo wank is to put the ra. noy we
4already hav^ at work. Both have alway s boen
steadily and remuneratively engaged during all
the year • of protective tariff legislation When
those who have money lack confidence in the
(itatility of volu s and investments, they will
not part with their money. Business i« stag
nated—the lifeblood of trado is checked and
congested We cannot restore public con
fid nee by an act which would revolutionize all
statutes, or an act which entails a deficiency in
the public revenue* Wo cannot inspire con
fidence by advocating repudiation or practic
ing dishonesty. We canuOt restore confidence
either to tha treasury or to tin people without
a change in our present tariff legislation. '< \
Tariffs of 1890 and 1894.
“Tho only moasure of a general nature that
affected the treasury anl tho employment of
our people passed by the Fifty-third Contro s
was tho general tariff act, which did not re
eoive the approval of tho president Whatever
virtues may bo claimed for that act. thore is
confessedly one which it does not possoss. It
lacks the essential virtue of its creation—the
raising of revonuo sufficient to supply the
needs of the government It lias at no time
provided enougli revenue for such noeds, but it
bascaused a constant deficiency in tho treas
ury and a steady depletion in tho earnings of
labor and land. It has contributed to swell
our national debt more than $242, n sum
nearly as great as the debt of the gwv.>rnment
from Washington to Lincoln, including all onr
foreign wars, from the revolution to the rebell
ion. Since its passage work at home has been
diminished; prices of agricultural products
have fallen; confidence has boon arrested, and
general business demoralizatioa is scan on
every hand.
hw'i.* under the tariff set of
1814 for {ho first twenty-two months of Its en
forcement. from September, 194. to June, 1S9J,
were Si >7,815,328, and ; he expenditure* $iu,418,«
3U or a defi iency of f8i.80i.025. The decrease
in our exports of American products ant man
ufactures, during the first fifteen months of the
present tariff, as contraetol with the exporta
of the first fifteen months of the tariff of 1891,
was $; 0,553,. 20, The excels of exports over
imports during the first fifteen months of the
tariff of la9i was $213.872.9i8. but only $56.7 8,
623 under the first fifteen months of the tariff
1 of 189', a loss under the latter of $157,214,845.
I The not loss in tho trade balance of the United
| States has been $19 t08?,6J7 during the first fif*
! teen months' operati >n of the tariff of 1834, as
| compared with the first fifteen months of the
i tariff of 1890. Thedas' as bee?large, constant
i andseady, at the rate of $11, l >0,00) permoath,
or $V)j.OOj for every business day of the year.
“We here either been Blinding ton ranch
•honey out of the country or retting too little
in, or both We her* loet steadily in both di
rection! Onr foreign trade bee been dimin
ished end our dome - tic trade has suffered in
calculable loet. Does not thl* suggest the
cause of our p-eeent depression, and indicate
its remedy? The lost of earning power alone
in this country lu the put three years is suf
ficient to hare produced our unfortunate busi
ness situation. If our labor were well em
ployed, end employed at at remuneratire
wages es in 1891. in a few months every farmer
in the land won d feel the glad change in the
increased demand for his products and in the
better prices which he would receive.
More Business Heeded. Mot More Money.
“It it not an insreasa in the vnlumo'of monoy
which ii the neod of the time, but an increase
in the volume of basin iss: not an tnereaas of
coin, but an increase in eonfidsnee: not more
coin iga, but a more active use of the mmey
coined; not open mint* for the unlimited coin
age of the silver of the world, but open nulla
for the full and unrestricted labor of American
workingmen. The employment of our minte for
the coinage of the silver of the world would
not bring the neesttariaa and comforts of life
bick to onr people. This will only come with
the employment of the ma sos, an l such em
ployment i* certain to fo low ihe re-establi.h
■nent of a wise protective policy, which shall
encourage manufacturing at home
‘ Protection has lost none of its virtue and
importaaco The first duty of tin Republican
party, If restored to power in Ihe country, will
he the enactment of a tariff luw w.iicli will
raise all the money n cossary tocouduct the
government, economically and houestly ad
ministered. and so adjusted as to give prefer
ence to home manufactures aud adequate pro*
taction to homo lnb >r and lh> homo market We
are not c immittoi to any s,;0 rial schedules or
rates of dutr> Their are and always should tie
always rub]set to ejsaoge to meet now condi
tions; bat t ho principle upon which rates of
dn^r are imposed remains the semi. Onr duties
should always be h gh enough to messare the
difference be.waen the wages psit labor at.
home and nil eompeting oonntrloe. and
so adequately protect Amorican Invest
ments and American enterprises.
varuifn ana sue run it.
“Our farmers havj been hurt by the changes
io our tariff legislation as severely as our la
borers and minufaoturors, badly at they havo
suffered Xho Ropublioan p'.atform wisely de
clares in furor of aucu encourage neat to our
sugar interests ai will ‘lead to the production
on Am or ban anil of all the sugar which the
Amerioen people usu ’ It promises to our
wool ana woolau interests 'tbo mo it ample
protection;’ a guaranty t:iat ought to com
mend itself to orery patriotio ci iron Never
was a m jra grievous wrong done the farmers
of our country than that so unjustly iuliiot'd
during the pas: throe yiari upoi tho w >ol
growers of Amoriea. Although among our
most industr.oua and useful citixens their in
terests haro boon praotically destroyed, and '
our woolen manufacturers inyolved in similar
disaster. At no time in the past thirty-six
yean, and porhaps during any proriousporio 1,
have so many of our woolsn manufactories
been suspended as now. The Republican party
can be relied upon to correct these great
wronga, if again intrusted with the control of
Congress
Question of Reciprocity.
"Another declaration of ths Repnblioao plat
form that has my m at cordial tupp rt is that
which favora reciprocity. The splendid results
of the reciproci y arrangements that wore
made nnder authority of the tariff law of 181)
are striking and suggestive. Ths brief
psriod they wire in force, in most cases only
three yearn, was not long enough to test thor
oughly their great value, but sufficient was
shown by the trial to demonstrate conclusively
the importance and the wisdom of their, adop
tion.
Foreign Immigration.
"The declaration of tho platform touching
foreign immigration is one of peculiar impor
tance at this time; Winn our own laboring poo
pis are in euch grsat distress. I am in hearty
sympathy with the present legislation restrain
ing foreign immigration and favor such oxton*
si in of ths laws as will seeure the United
States from invasion by the debased aid crim
inal class js of the Old World, While we ad
here to the publis policy under which our
country has received groat bodies of honest,
industrious citixens. who have added to the
wealth, progress and power of the country, and
while we welcome to our shores ths well dis
posed and Industrious immigrant who contrib
utes by his energy end intelligence to toe
came of free governmsnt, we want no immi
grants phot do not seek oar shores to bscomo
citixens. We should per,nit none to partici
pate in the advantages of oar clvilsation who j
do not sympathise with our eimi and form of ;
government. We should rsceiva none who !
oome to make war upon oar institutions and j
profit by publlo diiqulst and turmoil. Against
all such, our gates must be tightly closed. !
Soldiers end Bailors.
"The soldiers end sailors of the Union should
nsither be neglected nor forgotten. The gov
ernment which they served so well muit no:
make their lives or condition harder by treat
ing them as supplicants for relief in old age or
di tress, nor regard wit i disdain or .conte npt
the earnest in—.“st one comrade naturally !
mauiteats in t in welfare of r 'Other Denb - j
leae there have boen pension abuses nod frauds !
in ths numerous claims allowed by the govern
ment, but the policy governing the a J ministra
tion of ths pension bureau must always be fair
and liberal. Ao deserving applicant should
ever suffer b i cause of a wrong perpetrated by
or for another. Our soldiers and sailors gave
the government ths beat they had They freely
offered health, strength, limb and .ifa to save
the country in ths time of ila greiteat peril,
an 1 the government must honor them in th Ir
need as in thsir service with the rospsot and
gratitude due to brave, noble and self-eacritio- j
ing men, who are jna.ly entitled to generous
aid la their increasing noiessities j
Merchant Marine and Narjr. r" j
‘The declaration of the R (publican plat! rm
in favor of the upbui din; of oar in ixhmt
marine has my hearty approval. Tho policy of
discriminating duties in farorof oar snipping,
which prevailed in the early years of our h s
tory, should be a;ain promptly adopted by <
con re a and vigorously supported until our
pr**ti;0 and luproraaoy on the seas is fully at
j tained Wo should no longer contributes di»
j rectrty or iadlroctly, to the maintenanc t of the
: colossal marine of to eign countries, but pro.
j vide on efficient and complete mnritio of oar
i own. Now that the American navy is assum
ing a poiiti >n common«uraAo with our impor
tance as a nation, u policy I am gindtoobservo
the Republican platform strongly indorses, wo ,
must bupplomcnt it with u merchant marine |
I that will givoi ui tlu a *vanfca;oa 1.1 both our !
coastwise and foreign trr.de that ne ought
naturally and prop>rlv to enjoy. It should bo
at once a matter of public policy and national
pridi to rjpoas}»s this immense and prospor
out trade.
Civil Service Reform.
“The plo Ige of the Republican natio ml con
vention that our civil service laws shall be
sustained and thoroughly and honestly en
forced, and oxtended wlnrovor practicable,' ia
In keeping with the position of tho party for
the past twenty-four years and will be fai;h
fully obse vo J. Our opponoots decry those re
forms. Thoy appear willing to abandon all tho
. advantages g iiood aftorso many years' agita
S tion and effort. They oncou age a return to
j methods of party favoritism, wh ch both par
• ties have often denounced, that experience
i has condomned, and that the people have rev
! pentedlydi approved. The Republican party
tarnestly opposes this reactionary and entirely
anjustlfiable policy. It will take no backward
itep upon this question. It will seek to im
prove, but never degrade, the public service.
| There are other important and timelv decla
*ations in the platform which 1 cannot here
I discuss I must content myself with saying
• that they have my app-oval. If, as Republi
cans, we have lately addressed our attention,
j with what may seem great stress and earnest
j less. t> the new and unsxpect3d assault upon
I -he financial integrity of the government, we
have done it because the menace is 90 grave as
\o demand especial consideration, and bocauie
we are convinced that if the people are aroused
to the true understanding and meaning of this
lilvar and inflation movement, they will avert
file danger. In doing this, we feel that we
render the best service possible to tho country,
and we appeal to the intelligence, conscience
and patriotism of the people, irrespective of
varty, or section, for their earnest support.
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"W» avoid no Inna. W# maat tha sodden,
Mngeroosand revolutionary aiaanlt upon la*
and order, and npon thoee to whom ia confided
by th.oonatitutlon and law* tha authority to
5,1. whioh our oppoaeata hare made,
with tha tame eouragi that *a have faced
emergency ainoa our organisation aa t
Earty more than forty yaan ago. Government
y law must flrat ba aasurad; everything alaa
’*?, W*‘J". ,p’rl* of lawleainaaa muat ba
ntlngnUhed by tha Area of an anatlfiah and
.■*1 P®trioti’m' B-rary attack upon the public
faith, and every tugged ion of tha repudiation
>fd>bta. puUio and private. muat ba rebuked
hy all man who believe that hineity ia tha beat
policy, or who lore their country and would
praaerra unaulliad her national honor.
Good Government.
“It called by the suffrage of tha people to
taauma tha dutlaaof tha high office of praaidmt
at tha United btatea. I snail connt it a prlvll
tdge to aid, even in tha elighteet degree, in tha
promotion of tha apirit of fraternal regard
which ahuuld animate and govern tha citlaona
at every ee-.tlon, atateor part of tha republic.
After tha lapeoof a century ainci ita. utterance,
let ua at longth and forever hereafter, head the
admonition of Washington: ‘There ahuuld
ba no North, no South, no Beat, no
Went—but a common country ’ It ahall ha
my conatant aim to improve evtry opportun
ity to advance t ia cauaa of good government
by promoting that apirit of forbearance and
Inatioe which ia ao esaeetial to our proa parity
and happineea, by Joining moat heartily in all
propor efforta toreatoro tha relations of broth
trlv raapect and affeotlon which ip our aarly
hl torjr characterlaed all tha people of all the
atata>. I would b > glad to contrinnte toward
binding in indiviaible union the different divia
lona of the country, wh eh, lndee I, now have
every inducement of aympathy and internet to
weld them together more atronglv then
ever. I would rojoiee to eae dem
on* t rated to the world that the North ami
the South and the Bait a> d the Weat are not
separated, or in danger of becoming asperated,
baeauae of aectionat or party dlfferaaeci The
war i* long aince over. ‘We ere not enemiea,
but frionda ’ and a* frienda *1 will faithfully
and cordially co operate, under the approving
tmile of Him who hee thua far*ao algnnlly sue.
tainod ard guided u< to preserve inviolate our
oountry'e name and honor, ita pen re and good
order, nod its continued aaoindanoy nming tin
greatest government* on earth.
'Wniti* Helmut."
A BIG DAY FOH BRYAN.
Made IpmbM m Byracose and Boeh
Mtnr, M. T , and la Erin, Fa.
Keie, Pa., Aug. 27.—William J.
Bryan made speeches yesterday in
three eitiea of two states—Syracuse
and Rochester, N. Y., and Erie, Pa.—
andjncidently traveled several hun
dred mites to meet the thousands who
gathered from the surrounding coun
try to hear him at each place. The day’s
demonstration culminated in Erie,
where the meeting of 330 delegates of
the Democratic societies of' Pennsyl
vania made the presence of the can
didate particularly opportune. Here
Mr. Bryan made three stirring
speeches to as many different audi
ences in the evening being driven
quickly from one ha’l to another.
The first meeting was at Maenuerchor
ball, which held 3,500 persons, to
whom Mr. Bryan appealed to study
the Issue of the campaign and
Vote their convictions. His second
appearance was on the stage
of the Auditorium, where he
faced an audience of equal
size, and the second speech was, like
the first, brief but stirring. Outside
of the Erie opera house thousands
more had waited for a glimpse of the
candidate, and inside were assembled
the delegates to the meeting of the
Democratic societies. When the peo
ple were admitted they filled the
house in five minutes and the doors
were closed upon hundreds.
NO ANARCHY FOR HIM.
Candidate Bryan Tallis Abnl Soma Epi
thets That Are Hurled at Him.
Rome, N. Y., Aug. 2a. —In Hanover
tquare 5,000 people gathered to bear
Mr. Bryan. Mrs. Bryan, exhausted
by the exciting journey of the pre
vious day, remained in her room at
the Yates, for almost the first time in
the campaign failing to hear her hus
band speak. " Mr. bryrn said: “1
thought it might be well for
one who if, accused of being a
candidate' St a body of An
archists to show himself In order that
you may judge whether he looks like
one who is bent upon destroying the
government under which he lives I
believe, my friends, thst there is no
sue in all this laud who is .more in
love with our institutions than I. I
Flory in the liberty of our people and
glory In the opportunities which
sur nation presents to every citizen
and to the children of all who live be
neath the flag”.
FUSION IN MICHIGAN.
Democrats, Populists so l Silverltee Called
Under a Joint Name.,
Bay City, Mich., Aug. 20.—The eon*
(erees appointed by the three cob*
rentiuns yesterday reached an agree*
ment at 11' o’clock this morning.
They decided that the name at the
head of the ticket should be the
■‘Democratic People’s Union Silver
party;” that the Populists should be
■ceorded three electors and have the
nomination sor auditor general, and
that the three conventions should
meet in joint session to nominate the
itate ticket, the Populists and silver
men together to have a representation
tonal to that of the Democrats.
Bryan DS McKinley** Utter.
Brockton, N. Y., Aug. 48.— The
Bryan party left Erip for Buffalo at
12:43 o’clock to-day. * There were few
stops on the way, and then was no
noteworthy demonstration.
1 Mr. Bryan devoted himself to the
perusal of McKinley’s letter of acoept*
ance. Asked if he would give his
views upon the letter, he said: “1
have read the letter. I don’t care to
make any comments upon it I sup
pose it can be considered the golden
text of the Republican lesson.”
Fatal Collision of Bicyclers.
Danville, Ky., Aug. 28.—At Junc
tion City last night Oscar Patterson
of Ewell, Term., and Dr. William B.
Bunn of Shelby City, collided while
riding their bicycles at a high rate of
speed and Patterson received a con
cussion of the brain, which caused his
death at 6 o'clock this morning.
Hunn was knocked senseless, but will
recover, Patterson was about 23
years old and a son of William W,
Patterson, a railroad man.
| * Cordon Out of Polities.
Washington, Aug. 27. — General
lohn B. Gordon, United States Sena
tor from Georgia, declined to-day to
talk on politics or on the financial
issue now before the people, saying
that he was prsetleally out of polities
and would absoHtely retire from
| political life at the end of bis present
as
CALIFORNIA FUSION.
Complete Calm oa Coalman ha
poacd—Traabla far tha Klaetora
San Francisco, A air. 27.—Fusion
committees representing tha Demo»
crsts, Populists anil Bimettslllsta mat
yesterday and appointed a committee
of sixteen to be known as tha
joint congressional committee, to
select congressional eandidatea To
nominate a candidate will require the
rote of four Democrats, four Pope*
lists and two silver men. and the can*
didate reeelvlng such a vote will be
the union nominee of the three par*
ties. Other nominee* must then with*
draw or depend for their support oa
personal followers.
Secretary of State Brown says that
he will refuse to place upon the
tickets the name* of the fusion Den.
ocratic-Populist presidential electors*
on the ground that the election leer
of California requires the names of
the electors to be arranged alphabet*
ieally in groups under their party
designation. He says that as soon an
the fusionists present the names to
him he will dictate a letter to the atr
torney general asking for hie opinion
in the matter.
ILLINOIS GOLD MEN.
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One Thousand DtlipitM la Coinnllw—
General Mask Indi th. Ticket
Chicago, Aug. 28.—The Democratic
fold standard state convention wu
•ailed to order this afternoon by
Chairman C. A. Ewing of the a tat*
•ommlttee, with abont 1.000 delegates
Sresent, representing every county in
le state.
The following tieket was naunft*
nously nominated: Governor, Oan
iral Jdhn C Black; lieutenant gor
irnor, Chester Babcock; attorney gen
iral, William a Forman; state treue*
irer, Edward Qldgely; secretary of
itate, h. J. Kalfeskl; auditor, F. E. W,
Brink; university trustees, A. G Bab*
sock and CJara Uourland. >
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AN ACCIDENT AT UTICA.
rha Platform an Which Bryan Wan
Speaking Gera Way.
Utica, N. Y., Aug. 27.—W. J. Bry*
in’s eventful day ended with an acel
lent which narrowly missed being o
lisaster. One-half of the platfftMO
from which he was addressing the
srowd of several thousand persons ia
the square in front of the Bagga hotel
In Utica, at midnight, fell to the
(round, and although the presidential
candidate escaped Injury, Clinton
Beckwith of Herkimer, a member of
the reception committee, bad an ankle
sprained; John T. Teller * teg
broken and several others were oadly
bruised and cut, but no one wsa”ee*
rlously injured. .
NO CAMPAIGN MONEY*
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Death of J. V. B. KcUblaa
Topkka, Elan., August 87.—J. F. H,
UeEibben, auditor of the Atehiaon>1
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway oom*
•any, who was injured while on a
bunting trip near New Castle, Col.,
lied at 8:30 o’clock yesterday morn*
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■federal Officeholder* Forbidde* tm
or Mako Contributions*
Washington, Ang. 87;—The elvil
service commission has issued Sn order
to federal offlcholders warning all
employes against seeking or making
contributions for campaign purposes.
The order Is sweeping In Us character
and aitecta all branches of the gov*
eminent service. Violators of tho
law will be prosecuted. *
Turkey Must Do Better.
Constantinople, Aug. 87.— United
States Minister Alexander W. Terrell
has notified the Turkish government
that the latter’s answer to the de
mands of the United States for Indent*
nity as a result of the* burning of the
American missions at Kharput and
Marasb la not satisfactory.
LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKETS
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Quotation* From Now Fork, Chicago,
Loot*, Omaha and Elsewhere.
OMAHA.
Butter—Creamery separator.
'lutter—Fair to good country
Sggs—Fresh.
’oultry—Live hens.perh..
print Chickens. g
Lemons—Choice Messina*..... S 00
Honey—Fancy White.. 18
Potatoes—New... 80
Oranges—Per bos .4 SO
Hay—Upland, per ton.4 00
Potatoes—New... 28
Apples—Per bbl.1 SO
SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MABKXT.
Hogs—Light Mixed. 2 TO
Hogs—Heavy Weights.2 SO
Beef—Steers. 2 40
Bulls. ........ 2 05
Milkers and springers. 2 75
Stags. 2 00
Calves. 8 00
Cows ..".. 1 23 (
Heifers.. 180 (
Stockers and Feeders...... 2 75 l
Cattle—Westerns... 2 80 (
Sheep—Native Feeders. 2 85 I
Sheep—Lambs.... 8 00 <
CHICAGO.
Wheat—No. 2 Spring. SO l
Corn—Per bu... 21 I
Oats—Per bu. 15W
Pork.. 5 80 i
Lard.. 8 72 i
Cattle—Stockers and Feeders 2 73
Choice Calves...4 00
Hogs—Medium mixed.... 3 00
Sheep—Lambs. .’8 00
Sheep—Western range..2 40
NEW YORK.
Wheat—No. % Bed Winter. 04
Corn No, 2.. 27
Oats—No. 2,. 20
Pork—.. 7 75
Lard—. .4 10
ST. LOUI&
Wheat—No. 2 red. cash.. 42
Corn—Per bu.* *1
Oats—Per bu. 18
Hogs—Mixed packing. S 00
Cattle— Native Ship’ng Steers. 3 50
KANSAS Cll’Y.
Wheat—No. 2 hard. 81
Corn—No. 2.. 10
Oats—No. 2.
Cattl<—Stockers and feeders.. 2 40
Hogs—Mixed. 3 00
Sheep—Lambs ...3 00
Sheep—Muttons... 2 10
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Gordon Oat ol Politico*
Washington, Aug. >7. —* Qiuml
John 11. Gordon, United Stats* Senas
tor from Georgia, declined to-da/ td
talk on politics or on tbs flnahoial
issue now before the people, Mflsd
that he was practloally out of polltttjff
and would absolutely retire fro Hi
political life at the end of hi* preMnt
term.
Cowherd Nominated,
Odessa., Mo., Aug. 27.—The Deite>
eratic convention of the Fifth dogt
gressional district nominated MW
Mayor W. 8. Cowherd of Kantad 04
for congress on the first ballot*
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