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AUGUST t. 1804.
The Commoner.
11
President Roosevelt is Notified
President Roosevelt was formally
notified of his nomination for the
presidency at Oyster Bay, New York,
July 27.
Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of tbe
house of representatives was chair
man of the notification committee and
he delivered the address of notifica
tion. , , ....
Mr. Roosevelt responded as follows;
"Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of thq
Notification Committee. I am deep
ly sensible of the high honor conferred
upon me by the representatives of the
republican party assembled in conven
tion, and I accept the nomination for
the presidency with solemn realization
of the obligations I assume. I hearti
ly approve the declaration of princi
pals which the republican national
convention has adopted, and at some
futiire. day I shall communicate to
you, Mn Chairman, more at length
and in detail a formal written ac
ceptance of the nomination.
Three years ago I became president
because of the death of my lamented
predecessor. I then stated that it was
my purpose to carry out his principles
and policies for the onor and the in
terest of the country. To the best of
my ability -I have kept the promise
thus made. If next November my
countrymen confirm at the polls the
action of the convention you repre
sent, I shall, under Providence, con
tinue to work with an eye single to
the welfare of all our people.
"A party is of worth only insofar
as it promotes the national interest,
and every official, high or low, can
serve his party best by rendering to
the people the best service of which he
Is capable. Effective government
comes only as the result of the loyal
co-operation of many different per
sons. The members or a legislative
majority, the officers' in the various
departments- of the administration,
and the legislative, ana executive
branches as toward e'ach other must
work together with sunoraination of
self to the common end of successful
government. "We who have been en
trusted with power as public servants
during the last seven years of admin
istration and legislation now .come be
. fore the people content to be judged
by our record of achievement. In the
years that have gone Dy we nave made
the deed square with the word; and if
we are continued in power we snail
unswervingly . follow out the great
lines of public policy which the re
publican party has already laid, down;
a public policy to which we are giving,
and shall give, a united, and therefore
an efficient, support.
"In all of this we are more for
tunate than our opponents, who now
appeal for confidence on tne ground,
which some express and some seek to
have confidentially understood, that if
triumphant they may be trusted to
prove false to every principle which in
the last eight years they have laid
down as vital, and to leave undis-
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turbed those very acts or the admin
istration because of which they ask
that the administration itself be driv
en from power. Seemingly their pres
ent attitude as to their past record is
that some ,of them were mistaken and
.others insincere. We make our ap
peal in a wholly ditorent spirit. "Wo
lare not constrained to keep silent on
any vital question; we arc divided on
no vital question; our policy is con
tinuous, and Is the same for all sec
tions and localities, There Is noth
ing experimental about tnp govern
ment we ask the people to continue In
power, for our performance Jn the
past, our proved governmental effici
ency, is a guarantee as to our prom
ises for the future. Our opponents,
either openly or secro::y according to
their several temperaments, now ask
the people to trust their present prom
ises in consideration of the fact that
they Intend to treat their past prom
ises as null and void. "We know our
own minds and we have kept of the
same mind for a susclent length of
time to give to our policy coherence
and sanity. In sucn a fundamental
matter as the enforcement of the law
we do not have to depend upon prom
ises, but merely to ask that our rec
ord bo taken as an earnest of what
we shall continue to 00. in dealing
with the great prganlzatlons known
as trusts, we do not have to explain
why. the laws were not enforced, but
to point out that they actually have
been enforced and that legislation has
been enacted to increase the effective
ness of their enforcement. "We do not
have to propose to "turn the rascals
out," for we have shown in very deed
Eat whenever by diligent invdstiga
)n a public official can be found who
is betrayed his trust ne will bo pun
ished to the full extent of the law
Without regard to whether he was
appointed under a republican or
a democratic administration. This Is
the efficient way to turn the rascals
out and to keep them out, and it has
the merit of sincerity. Moreover, the
betrayals of trust In the last seven
years have been insignificant in num
ber when compared witn the extent of
the public service. Never has the ad
ministration of the government been
on a cleaner and higher level; never
has the public work of the nation
been done more honestly and efficient
ly. "Aussuredly ft is unwise to change
the policies which have worked so well
and which are now working so well.
Prosperity has come at home. The
national honor and interest have been
upheld abroad. We have placed the
fiinances of the nation upon a sound
gold basis. We have done this with
the aid of many wo were formerly
our opponents, but who would neither
openly support nor silently acquiesce
in the heresy of unsound ftnance, and
we have done it against the convinced
and violent opposition of the mass of
our present opponents wno still refuse
to recant the unsound opinions which
for the moment they think it inex
pedient to assert. We know what we
mean when we speak of an honest and
stable currency. We mean the same
thing from year to year. We do not
.have to avoid a definite and conclu
sive committal on tne most Import
ant issue which has recently been be
fore the people, and which may at any
time in the near future be before them
again. Upon the principles which un
derlie this isgue the convictions of
half of our number do not clash with
those of the other hair. So long as
the republican party Is In power the
gold standard Is settled, not as a mat
ter of temporary political expediency,
not because of shiftwg conditions in
thft nroduction of gold In certain min-
I jng; centers, but in accordance with
what we regard as the fundamental
principles of national morality and
wisdom.
"Under the financial legislation
which wo have enacted thero Is now
ample circulation for every business
need, and every dollar of this circu
lation is worth a dollar in gold. Wo
have reduced the Interest-bearing debt
and In still larger measure the Inter
est on that debt. All of the war taxes
imposed curing tho fapanisn war have
been removed with a view to relievo
the pecp'e and to prevent tho accu
mulation 01 an unnecessary surplus.
Tho result is that hardly ever beforo
have the expenditures ana income of
:he goverrment so closely correspond
ed, in t;ie fiscal year that has Just
closed the excess of income ovei tho
ordinary expenditures was ??9,000,00Q.
This does not take account of $50,
000.000 expended out of the accumu
lated siwpius for the purchase of the
lfatnmian canal. It is 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, wo were able to
make the payment outright, and yet
after it to have in the treasury a sur
plus of $100,000,000. Moreover, wo
were able to pay $50,000,000 out of
hand without causing the slightest
disturbance to business conditions.
"We have enacted a tariff law un
der which during the past few years
the country has attained a height of
material well-being never before
reached., Wages are higher than ever
before. That whenever the need arises
there shquld be readjustment of the
tariff schedules Is unc-jurited; but such
changes can with safety be made only
by those whose devotion to the prin
ciple of a protective tariff Is beyond
question; for otherwise tlio changes
would amount not to readjustment
but to repeal. The readjustment when
made must maintain and not destroy
the protective principle. To the far
mer, the merchant, tho manufacturer
this is vital; but .perhaps no other
man is so much interested as, the wage
worker in the maintenance of our
present economic system, both as re
gards tho finances and tho tariff.
The standard of living of our wage
workers is higher than that of any
other country, and it can not so re
main unless we have a protective tar
iff which shall always Keep as a mini
mum a rate of duty sufficient to cover
the difference between the labor cost
here and abroad. Those who, like our
opponents "denounce protection as a
robbery" thereby explicitly commit
themselves to the proposition that if
they were to revise the tariff no heed
would be paid to the necessity of
meeting this difference betwen the
standards of living for wage workers
here and in other countries; and
therefore on this point this antagon
ism to our position is fundamental.
Here again ve ask that their promises
and ours be judged by what has been
done in the immediate past. We ask
that sober and sensible men compare
the workings of the present taiiff law,
and tho conditions which obtain un
der it, with tho workings of the pre-
ceding tariff law of li$94 and the con
ditions which that tariff of 1S94
helped to bring about.
"We believe In reciprocity with for
eign nations on the terms outlined
In President McKinley's last speech,
which urged the extension or our for
eign markets by reciprocal agree
ments whenever they could be made
without injury to American industry
and labor. It is a singular fact that
the only great reciprocity treaty re
cently adopted that with Cuba was
finally opposed almost aione by the
representatives of tho very party which
now states that it favors reciprocity.
And here again we ask that the worth
of our wordq be judged by comparing
their deeds wjih ourfk On this Cu
ban reciprocity treaty' 'Btere were at
WHICH?
Tubular or
Simple liwl or
Izzers or
Right Kew or
Waist Lew Can or
Sill Ollln or
Wash 3 Minutes or
AH the Crtam or
last Butter or
Tubular Bawl or
iKtkti Bawl?
CawRllaafad? 1
Hasbens7 '
Wert 0ee7
HtjHl Hlth Can?
Oil Yaurself?
Wash Thirty?
Mast All?
Medium Butter?
Butkat Bawl7
WHICH DO YOU WANT?
Tubular are dif
ferent, very dif
ferent. Just one
Tubular the
Sharpies. All
the others make
bucket bowls
can't make Tubu
lars because they
are patented. Ask
for catalog B-228.
m Sharpie! ft, r M. SfctrplM
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tho outset grave differences of opin
ion among ourselves; and tho notable
thing in the negotiation and rati
iicatlon of tho treaty, and in tho leg
islation which carried It into effect,
was tho highly practical manner in,
which without sacrifice of principle
these differences of opinion were rec
onciled. There was no rupture of a
great party, but an excellent practical
outcome, tho result of the harmonious
co-operation of two successive presi
dents and two successive congresses.
This is an illustration of the govern
ing capacity which entitles us to tho
confidence of tho peopre not only in
our purposes but in our practical abil
ity to achieve those purposes. Judg
ing by the history of the last twelve
years, down to this very month, Is
there justification for believing that
under similar circumstances and with
similar initial differences of opinion,
our opponents would have acheved
any practical result?
"We have already shown in actual
fact that our policy is to do fair and
equal justice to all men, paying no
heed to whether a man is rich or poor;
paying no heed to his race, his creed,'
or his birthplace.
"We recognize the organization of
capital and the organization of labor
as natural outcomes or our Industrial
system. Each kind or organization Is
to be favored so long as it acts in a
spirit of Justice and of regard for
the rights of others-. Each is to 'be
granted the full protection of the law,
and each in turn la to be held to a
strict obedience to the law; for no
man Is above it and no man toelow it.
The humblest individual m to aavo
his rights safeguarded as scrupulous
ly as those of the strongest organiza
tion, for each Is to receive justice, no
more and no less. The problems with
which we have to deal in our modern
industrial and social life are manifold;
but the spirit in which it is necessary
to approach their solution is simply
the spirit of honesty, of courage, and
of common sense.
"In inaugurating the great work o
Irrigation In the west the administra
tion has been enabled by -congress to
take ono of the longest strides ever
taken under our government toward
.'
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