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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,
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Death of Prince Hounry. oh