® ACCEPTING THE DEMOCRATIC NOM. INATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY, IMPERIALISM PARAMOUNT. Trusts n Great Issue Which Must Be Met and Settled Ry the American Expresses Pride In the Soldiers Sallors of Al Our Wars and Wil Gencrous'y With Them. People und Deal Lincoln. Neb. of Hon. Wm. J. Democratic of the United States It in part as follows: Hon. James D. Richardson, Chairman, and Others of the Notification Committee of the Democratic Na tional Convention Gentlemen In accepting nation tendered by vou on the Democratic party 1 beg to You of my appreciation of the great honor conferred upon me by the dele gates in convention assembled, and by the voters who gave instructions to the delegates. I am sensible of the respon- sibilities which upon the Chief Magistrate of so great a nation and realize the far-reaching effect of the questions involved in the present con- test, In my letter acceptance I made the following pledge “So deeply am I impressed with the magnitude of the power vested by the Constitution in the Chief Executive of the nation and with the enormous in- fluence which he can wield for the benefit or injury of the people, that i wish to enter the office, if elected, free from any personal desire except the desire to prove worthy of the confi- dence of my countrymen Human judgment is fallible enough when un- blased by selfish considerations. and in order that I may not be tempted to use the patronage of the office to ad- vance any personal ambition, I hereby announce, with all the emphasis which words can express, my fixed determina The letter accepting the for President made public. (Special). Bryan nomination is is the nomi- behalf Assure 0) rest yf Of of 1896 campaign results in my election.” Further reflection and constrain me to renew this pledge The platform ad commands my approval. It courageously meets issues now before the country states clearly and without opted at cordial and the and ambiguity considered. Adopted by a convention which assembled on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Inde- pendence, it breathes the spirit of can- dor, Independence and patriotism which characterized those who, phia in 1776, promulgated the creed of the Republic. Having In my notification speech discussed somewhat at length the paramount issue, imperialism, and add- ed some observations on and the Boer war, sufficient at this time to review the remaining planks of the platform. is it Ktands by Platform Pledge. Our plaform, suggesting cer fain specific remedies, pledges the par- ty to an unceasing warfare against pri- vate monopoly in nation, State and eity. I heartily approve of this prom- ise; if elected it shall be my ‘arnest and constant fulfi promise in lett select an Attor without fear or laws; I shall tional legislation fo dissolve f which State of its my after ideavor to ind spirit 1ey-Gener enfin ommend as Very favor red may private does business outside belief amendment | individuals interstats ar corpora commerce, The Finsnclal Plank, platform reiterates the demand contained in Chicago platform for an American financial system made by the American for themselves The purpose of such a system is to re- store and maintain a bimetallic of prices be no unc restoring a i Qe the pe ople evel értainty a= vo the method of bimetallism the specific dec. coinage at the existing ratio of 1, independent of the action of nations, is repeated. The financial law enacted than a year ago contains a concluding sec- tion declaring that the measure not intended to stand in the way of the restoration of bimetllism when- ever it could be done by co-operation with other nations. The platform sub- mitted to the last Republican Conven- tion with the indorsement of the Ad- ministration again suggested the pos- #ibility of securing foreign aid in storing silver. i6 other to less rere Arbitration In Labor Disputes The platform renews the demand fo: arbitration between corporations and their employees. No one who has ob- served the friction which arises be- tween great corporations and their nu- merous employees can doubt the wis. dom of establishing an impartial court for the just and equitable settlement of disputes. The demand for arbitra- tion ought to be supported as heartily by the public, which suffers inconven- fence because of strikes and lockouts. and by the employers themselves as by the employees, The establishment of arbitration will insure friendly relations between labor and capital and render obsolete the growing practice of calling in the army to settle labor troubles, Monroe Doctrine. The doctrine enunciated by Monroe and approved by succeeding Presidents is eseential to the welfare of the United States. The continents of North and South America are dedicated to the de- ——————— am - FIELD OF LABOR. Ohio has 10,928 Inborers, Paper is made from turf. Korea has 15,000 Japanese, There are 222 barbers’ unions. Japan has 3000 union printers, Shanghal has eight cotton mills. Artificial silk ix made of wool fibre, The are 150,000 union dock laborers, Indiana fire insurace agents organ ized. Brooklyn bas a Social League, Japan has schools, Progress women's comercial veiopmoent of free government, One republic after another has been estab- lished until to-day the monarchical idea has barely a foothold in the New World. While country it to of amicable is not the policy interfere where relations exist between countries and their dependencies in America, our people would look with disfavor upon any attempt on the part an unwilling or forcible sovereignty over a people living on this side of the Atlantic Public Extravaguancoe. The Republican party, does enormous campaign drawing as it funds from the hands of the Government, is power less to protect the taxpayers from the attacks of those who profit by la appropriations. A surplus in the Treas ury offers constant temptation to ex iravagance, and extravagance turn compels a resort to new means of taxa tion. This is bein ba until the campaign | Ver fair illustration of which will be attempted when a considerable amount of money in the Treasury. The rehabilitati the merchant marine idable in it made the pretext for expendi of public money for large shipowners and in the of a transportation monopoly Government, being only the agent the people, has no right to from the people taxes beyond the I gitimate needs of a government estly and effectively administered go in Of ReDt imposition there | ia self, is ture Collect hon For an Income Tax. By inadvertence the income tax plank agreed upon the com mittee was omitted wtform as read and adopted. The subject, how- ever the reaffirmnati the Chicago platform, and I take t my belief to underiieg the resointior from the } Oy I covers d by reassert which QCCasion principle fax. Congress should have authorits { levy and collect an fncome tax when i i an amendment to { ever necessary, and | itution Federal Cons authority even * lax unnecessary at this time of danger ernment the citizen; it ought i raft the pocketbook as i IC88 INoney 1s n | we cannot a tection the ally conferring by who may (OV draft to «¢ well ore precious than flord to give greate ncomes of the rich in to the 1 the lives of the poor FParamount, The subjects treated in this portant each may seem do not press so imperatively for ! tion the question which the | form paramount sue in this campaign | Whether we shall adhere to or aba: { don those government whicl have distinguished this nation fr i other nations and given to his {ts peculiar charm a value question the settlement of which not be delayed. No other question approach it in importance: no i question demands such immedi | sideration It tation than to establi nation would find it a long r task to regain its § the nations if, u 1 Imperialism as in as declares to be the ideas of its nd . nts is easier to lose a sh one 0 x i and and woud 1 i ous 0 among naer f ton tation Of tempiation golf -o I. BRYAN CONGER WANTS TROOPS TO REMAIN, Advises Against Fvacuation Until Alter the Arrival of Lj (Special) here hat Mi Government no Pekin arrivai Was s0n to believe hing i nister Congs strongly pis withdraw ps pt nt, but await Earl LI Hung Chang and his conferences with Prince Mr. Conger points th from the the 1 its tro nro to ugg Ch Ld ¢ Earl tirse of & that time original i that i expected to arrive in the ox week, and that a delay until will seriously affect the i program of evacuation, if after his ar- rival and the he makes as i the result of his interviews with Prince { Ching this Government still insiste { withdrawal. The War Department steadfastly maintains ite opposition to permitting | the American troops to remain in i China. Not even the plea that the j troops are necessary to protect the Chi nese converts regarded as a suffi cient cause for holding the troops in China now that the object for their presence is accomplished and the min- ters are rescued. not statements ¥ on in verts is hard, but that the Chinese au- thorities will protect them if they are at all sincere in their expression of an earnest desire for pence, The question of the future rights of the missionaries and of their converts threatens to be one of the most diffi- cult subjects to be adjusted in the peace negotiations, The views of the Chinese Minister in London that the missionaries shall be excluded entirely from the empire are manifestly unacceptable to this coun try. Roadside Tragedy in Goorgia. Covington, Ga. (Special). Col. Usher Thomason, in command of the Second Georgia, shot and perhaps wounded Otto Fowler here. THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Fire burned to the water's edge the steamer War Eagle, of the Eagle Pack- et Company, and the Carrier, of the Joseph Schultz, bill Eagle, was burned to on the deck, and at their docks, clerk of the Wa while axieep James Catlett, colored, after serving ears of a sentence of eight vears for the murder of George Grandstaff, in Winchester, Va was hizx (Fowler's) rother. dence, men is sald to be of long standing. son, Cowardly Deed of Burgin Shamokin, Pa. (Special). Two bur | glars broke into the home of Mra, Leona Kress, at Big Mountain, near here, and upon the woman's refusal to | Klve them money they crushed hor | skull and clubbed her daughter, Myx, Mary Marcinak, so badly that it is tear. ced both women will “dic, | Mary Marcinak, daughter | Marcinak, while handing her | hatehet to defend herself, was also | clubbed until she fell senseless to the i floor. Neighbors scared the burglars jaway. : i i af Mrs. mother a Iudge declining { Powers gave out a statement his appointment by Acting Nebecker, of Utah, to the » he knows vernon cated Howen, a he cannot be boy of 12 years and kicked by boy, in Ship m die from Augustus 1 wy badly beaten Allan Engel, an pensbhburg, Pa... that he his injuries older ny rie y wa on M WwW. Va epard and Masx were their deranged found guilty of Sarah Theodore attempts rs lowers n Martinsburg wife, murdered wn David lewis his Faxboro president of the died at his home were Four jail at HEeETOCS taken from Pontchatoula, La., and lynched Frain service was restored mart in Galves d ton and ial The headquarters o law abrogat issued from the wtnnounced cived grat the dally 1 HE {f ths had re ir ranks miners n Valleys Bet ower colored %* ia, vA on clonlous as fede James Coxen at S Va yh MceGingan rk on thi b OWIing from fA rinien SUP Steel W McKinl from Cant ‘apital The Census Bureau announced population of Fitchburg. Mass. ; Jo win, Pa. and Molden, Mase H. H. Lusk. formerly a Parliament of Zealand, was the Industrial Commission sxplained the system of arbitration New Zealand Mrs. Florence ago of fright ! her husband was arrested and member be He in New re e died in Chi by threat Buehler suicide were pre Buehler superinduced to kill her committed Commemorative sented at Portsmouth, N. H.. for new battleships Kearsarge and Alabama Secretary Long made an address The strike of cigarmakers over and McBherrystown, Pa. ed, the manufacturers conceding demands of their men. Among the Texas towns was High Island, a seaside resort than 400 bodies of victims have found. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company announced that all grades of coal are advanced 25 cents a ton. Simultancous efforts were made in New York to place loans for the Ger. tablets at Han- hae end- the destroyed More been Two lives were lost hy the sinking of a tug In New York harbor, Formal manifestations of sympathy with the people of Galveston in their great affliction continue to come from all parts of the world, James M. Gilbert, a member of the the Industrial Com- mission on the subject of “Labor Diff. t i One of the American Steel and Wire Company's plants at Pittsburg has re- sumed work and another will do so within a week. More men are out in the anthracite coal region and the ranks of the strik« ors showed no break. It i= estimated in Chicago that 1500 riaflroad men on the seven railroads passing through Wilkesbarre are idle in consequence of the strike. A revised list of the dead at Gal veston numbers 4078. It is estimated that about 8000 people have left Gals veston. Crowds are still leaving by every means of convevance, ROOSEVELT LETTER. INTERESTING DOCUMENT. Clearly Outlines the Heal Issues Between the Parties No mount to the Sound. Money Question, Which Vitally Affects the Wellbeing of Every Home in the Land, Issue Can He Paras New York { Special, )—Gov., Theodore Roosevelt's letter accepting the Rs publican nomination for Vice-President made It is part fol lows 18 public in iN Oyster Bay, N. Y Wolcott, Chalrman Notification of Vice To Hon, Edward O Committee on President, Sir 1 accept Vice-President of the United tendered me by the Republican tional Convention, with a very deep sense of the honor conferred upon nu and with an infinitely de sense of the vital Importance country of securing the re President McKinley, The nation's fare is at stake, We must continue work which been so well begun during the Administration We must show being misunderstood can people, at the twentieth century, a calm and have intention or lawlessness to nary material well attained at home mitting r flag abroad { I feel that this on by no | means merely b Repub- licans Democrs have right to appeal te all goo are far lo see Mor the nomination States Na rt per to the whe election has pre Kent n fashion incapable of that the face spit ped serious it 1 they no of folly raordi- they of per- dishonored LIAL being have teat is tween We citizens ane y ni and who | the | wb 1 wWiiat na nrin pris sighted end ; a1 tion hi and the did To put int 1 demand iples embodied platform would the nation reaction and inspeakable of 3 pre sperity o n of the mercan fl Prosperity Unparalleled. The most importa {f all problems ring good material withi Mir OW borders the sg, of cour government wellibeing though tion should even this performance of the McKi od with ¢ 3 inparall BOR ro ¥ Great comes Under dent merchant farms profit above all, worker, has things ed 1 Silver asa Paramount lesae, and primarily the present contest is a contest for the continuance the conditions which have told in favor of our material wel- fare and of our civil and political in- tegrity. If this nation to retain her its well-being or its self-respect it cannot afford to plunge into finan- cial and economic chaos; it cannot af- ford to indorse governmental theories which would unsettle the standard of national honesty and destroy the in tegrity of onir aystem of justice. The policy of the free coinage of sil- ver at a ratio of 16 to 1 is a policy fraught with destruction to every home in the land. It means untold misery to the head of every household, and above all. to the women and children of every home. When our opponents champion free silver at 16 to 1 they are either insincere or sincere in their attitude. If insincere in their cham- pionship they, of course, forfeit all right to belief or support on any ground. If sincere, then they are a mengce to the welfare of the country Whether they shout their sinister pur- pose Or me rely whisper it makes but little difference, save as it reflects the r | own honesty. i No issue can be paramount to the | jssue they thus make, for the para- | mountey of such an issue is to be de- | termined not by the dictum of any | man or body of men, but by the fact | that it vitally affects the well-being of | every home in the land. The finan- cial question is always of such far reaching and tremendous inmportance | to the national welfare that it can | never be raieed In good faith unless | this tremendous importance is not Fundamentally of is Nodies of American Soldiers Washington (8pecial).—Col. Wm, 8. Patten, of the Quartermaster’s depart- | ment, on duty at the War Department, | has completed arrangements for the | free transportation to the United States | of the remains of soldiers and sailors | and civilians whe Jost thelr lives Jud ried In the island possessio it "United States and in China. According to the present plans of the department a burial corps will take on y ort Hancock, passage the transport | heduled leave San Francisco on sthuiy . for the Philippines, | merely conceded, but insisted upon, Men | who are not willing to make such an issue paramount have no possible jus tification for raising it at all, for under | such circumstances thelr annot under any conceivable circums do aught but grave harm. The Nation's Expansion. While paying heed to the necessity Keeping our house in order at home American people can not, if they to retain their self-respect, re. Frain from doing their duty great nation in the world of he nation is in large the hist the nation’s expansion When it Continental Congress met Hall and the thirteen ‘ declared themselves na westward limit of the country ked by Alle IY mountains during the Revolutionary kK iennessee and the g then known the re cong i act « tances of the wish 8a n The hist part ory tory the the War Ken North [Hinols con of expansion went on great as Indian truge treaty of confirme I alien held by an under General Ohio treaties of freed fron le the secured from Natchez and 1803, catest we while inder single ever of his so-called what are now Missouri nesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Nortl South Dakota, Idaho, Montana a Arge part of tab ¥ grids took FChase the Lou Louisiana the Btates of Rae Louisiana, lowa Colorado and was President and wen Jefferson exactly cisely as the Philippines quired by treaty and President McKinley pre al 6,000 PROBABLY PERISHED, Conservative Fatimute of Dead in Hellef Work, vesion Texas of the n (aniveston Sed f A imuber of have been made as ox the nase of wre been i: benes rift. the graves and ongigned to the nder wre and pulled « > For a then me kage 2 lox were cremated another pil mains of tw he gazed ug cast * HIRO ut thee; mi them wn h i flew he Rc watched imed others 11S 000 MEN ARE O11 1. Yery Little Violence Heported Bresc? Keil as Wide ne Ever. Pa « the statement 1 ¢: ’ Mitchell on behalf « ial) issued by Hazleton Bpe of the workers Hazleton Pa Reports our office from Districts Nos. 1, 7 and 8 of the anthracite coal region show that there have been great accessions the ranks of the strikers. In District No. 7 Hazleton region) not less than 1500 mine workers who mined failed to report for work, thus increasing the total number on strike from 10.000 to 11.500 In District forces have mine workers reported. The situation in District No (Lackawanna-Wyoming) is practically the same as the first day of the stri only 200 men remaining at.work. tal number of men idle, 118.000 From every section of the thracite region reports indicate that much dissatisfaction prevails among thoes who have up to this time failed to participate in the strike, and we confidently expect that the number at work will grow Jess with each succeed ing day until the mines shall be com- pletely closed receives fs No. § {Schuylkill been angmented by in addition to the our 450m 0 000 Aan JOHN MITCHELL. President United Mine Workers of America. Contractor's Fatal Fal Winchester, Va. (Special). Intell gence was received here of the death of Wm. J. Towson, one of the contract ors on the Rouss City Haly, thie city Mr. Towson was killed near Harris. burg. Pa. by falling from a building His skull was fractured. Beveral weeks ago Mr. Towson fell from a building ar Harrisburg a distance of 55 feet 10 the ground, landing on his shoulder but escaped unhurt. His fatal fall was 25 feet. ABOUT NOTED PROPLE 14 Hung Chang is said to be aging rapidiy under the strain he has en. dured in the last few years, The new Queen of Servia has many personal attractions, which ought ic endear her to her subjects, notwith. standing the opposition to ber mar. riage. Friends and admirers of the late Colonel De Villebols-Mareuil, who wae a general among the Boers, and was Boshol, have been for some Lreriptions for PRESIDENT McKINLEY TAKES STAND FOR PEACH. REPLIES TO THE POWERS. Action Taken After Meeting Answers Addressed China, Germany and Hussia, Embedy. Ing the Views of the President as to Our Future Steps, # Cab. te Timiportant inet ial. } jet Ana red Adjutant. 10 withdraw from Ps Wash Chaffes General ngton Bp Was Corbis by PY § fal Once directed to leave PATE YiieTy Marines wii which to the which IY Are Ao 0 Minister this determined ! also heen sent URE ANEWEOTeH hat the brigade { guard. Field on arriving at learn that these troops Gisting guard they will t be under on Walderses 1. will and tly a and 1 {ore BLOODSHED IN THE STRIKE. Posse Escorting Miners Fires Into = Crowd. The tragedy nee the l aleq Twelfth » vl oop and i LONeTal pitat- & thers ike Jead- voluntary of the Read- at the re- epi Was pred Company quest Bher nN ugly mood. in the strike region every juiet, although preparations making for an outbreak in the Ha leton district, and armed sheriff's deputies are much In evidence there. The Reading Company has about discontinued the of coal for fu ture delivery Ys! a sale An Asronsuts Fatal all 21. Joseph, Mich. (Special). —Prof. L. J. Kahler, a young balloonist. died from influriex sustained by a fall from his balioon while making an ascension. | The street carnival was in progress, ! and over 5000 people had gathered to witness the ascension, which was one of the features. Kahler is the fourth brother who has met his death through falling from 2a balloon, Anotiter Tragedy in Chieage. Chicago (Special). Fred. B. Clark. a real estate man, Killed his wife and then committed suicide here. Business reverses are supposed to have prompt- ed the act. Elbridge Clark, of Keene, N. H.. is eaid to be the father of the Yiret Snow of the Beason. Elkton, Md. (Special).~The first snow that has fallen in Cecil county this season was Tuesday. At Singerly, two miles north of here, for about ten minutes snow fell quite lively. It was flowed by rain. The falling snow ras witnessed by a large number of people, including Judge Kennard Blake of the Orphans’ Court, who was in Elkton attending the special session of the Orphans’ Court, Murder « ommitted is Yenrs Ago Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Special). — Peter Austin, the Stormville farmor who killed hiz farms hand, Charles Qiower, 14 years ago, and threw the body into an abandoned well, where the skeleton was discovered two wooks ago, was in. dicted for murder in the second Austin has confessed that he killed Brower, but claims that he committed the deed in self-defense, Brower having assaulted him with a knife, i aa A ® Death of Prince Hounry. oh
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