MR. M'KINLEY'S LETTER
Formal Acceptance of Republic
an Presidential Nomination. !
PRESENTATION OP THE ISSUES.
Tin* Philippine Quewtioii Treated nt
Leiiictli —Self Government to lie
Given the Filipino* IIN Soon IIN
They Are I'reiiareil For It.
Washington. Sept. 10.—The letter of
President McKinley accepting the nomi
nation of the Republican national con
vention for the ollice of president of the j
United States lias been made public.
It is an exhaustive document covering j
in detail the issues of the pending presl- j
dential election from the Republican j
viewpoint.
The question of finance is first present- !
ed at considerable length, regarding
which the letter says:
"The stability of our national currency j
is therefore secure so long as those who !
adhere to this platform are kept in con- 1
trol of the government. In the first bat
tle, that of 180i>, the friends of the gold
standard and of sound currency were tri
umphant, and the country is enjoying the .
fruits of that victory. Our antagonists, j
however, are not satisfied. They compel
lis to a second battle upon the same lines !
on which the first was fought and won.
While regretting the reopening of this
question, which can only disturb the ;
present satisfactory financial condition :
of the government and visit uncertainty
upon our great business enterprises, we ;
accept the issue and again invite the |
sound money forces to join in winning j
another and we hope a permanent tri
umph for an honest financial system
which will continue inviolable the public
fait IT'
The Turin Policy Kciiflirmcil.
Passing to the general policy of the
Republican party, the letter says:
"The Republican party remains faith
ful to its principle of a tariff which sup
plies sufficient revenues for the govern
ment and adequate protection to our en
terprises and producers nml of reciprocity
which opens foreign markets to the fruits
of American labor and furnishes new
channels through which to market the
surplus of American farms. The time
honored principles of protection and roci- i
procity were the first pledges of Repub- j
lican victory to be written into public
law.
"The present congress has given to
Alaska a territorial government for
which it had waited more than n quarter
of a century, has established a repre
sentative government in Hawaii, has on
acted bills for the most liberal treatment
of the pensioners and their widows and
has revived the free homestead policy.
In its great financial law it provided for
the establishment of banks of issue with
a capital of $25,000 for the benefit of
villages and rural communities and bring
ing the opportunity for profitable busi- ;
ness in banking within the reach of mod
crate capital. Many are already avail
ing themselves of this privilege.
Favors iNtliuiimi Waterway.
"A subject of immediate importance to
our country is the completion of a great
waterway of commerce between the At- j
lantic ami Pacific. The construction of a '
maritime canal is now more than ever in- j
dispensable to that intimate and .ready
communication between our eastern and j
western seaports demanded by the nn
ne.\ at ion of the Hawaiian Islands and !
the expansion of our influence and trade
in the Pacific.
"Our national policy more imperatively
than ever calls for its completion and
control by this government, and it is be
lieved that the next session of congress,
after receiving the full report of the
commission appointed under the act ap
proved March 15, 1899, will make provi
sions for the sure accomplishment of this
great work.
"Combinations of capital which control
the market in commodities necessary to |
the general use of the people by sup
pressing natural and ordinary competi
tion, thus enhancing prices to the general
consumer, are obnoxious to the common
law and the public welfare. They are
dangerous conspiracies against the public
good and should be made the subject of
prohibitory or penal legislation. Public
ity will he a helpful influence to check
this evil. Uniformity of legislation in the I
several states should bo secured. Dis
crimination between what is injurious
and what is useful and necessary in busi
ness operations is essential to the wise
and effective treatment of this subject."
(Mir Occupation of Cuba.
Concerning our relations with Culm the
letter says:
"We have been in possession of Cuba
since the Ist of January, 1899. We have
restored order and established domestic
tranquillity. We have fed the starving,
clothed the naked and ministered to tin
sick. Wc have improved the sanitary 1
condition of the island. We have stimu
lated industry, introduced public educa
tion and taken a full and comprehensive
enumeration of the inhabitants. The
qualification of electors has been settled,
and under it officers have been chosen for
all the municipalities of Cuba. These
local governments are now in operation,
administered by the people. Our mili
tary establishment has been reduced from
•115,000 to less than (5,000. An election
has been ordered to he held on the 15th
of September under a fair election law
already tried in the municipal elections
to choose members of a constitutional
convention, and the convention in the
same order is to assemble on the first
Monday of November to frame a consti
tution upon which an independent gov
ernment for the island will rest. All this
is a long step in the fulfillment of our sa
cred guarantees to the people of Cuba.
TIH Government of Porto Rico.
"We hold Porto Rico by the same title
as the Philippines. The treaty of peace
which ceded us the one conveyed to us
the other. Congress has given to this is
land a government in which the inhabit
ants participate, elect their own legisla
ture, enact their own laws, provide their
own system of taxation and in these re
spects have the same power and privi
leges enjoyed by other territories be
longing to the United States and a much
larger measure of self government than
was given to the inhabitants of Louisi
ana under Jefferson. A district court of
the United States for Porto Rico has
been established, and local courts have ;
been inaugurated, all of which are in op
eration. The generous treatment of the
Porto Ricaus accords with the most lib- !
eral thought of our own country ami en
courages the best aspirations of the peo
ple of the island. While they do not
have instant free commercial intercourse !
with the United Suites, congress com- 1
plied with my recommendation l>y re
moving on the first day of May Inst 85
per cent of the duties and provided for
the removal of the remaining 15 per rent
on the Ist of March, 1902, or earlier if
the legislature of Porto Hieo shall pro
vide local revenues for the expenses of
conducting the government."
Mr. McKinley then takes up the Phil
ippine question, which is presented at
considerable length. The events which
led to the acquisition of the Philippine
archipelago are recounted, and the in
stinct ions to and reports from American
officers and commissioners in tfic islands
are presented, showing what has been
and is being done to bring the benefits or
liberty ami good government to these
wards of the nation.
Continuing, Mr. McKinley says:
"The American people are asked by
our opponents to yield the sovereignty of
the Tinted States in the Philippines to a
small fraction of the population, a single
tribe out of 80 or more inhabiting the
archipelago, a fraction which wantonly
attacked the American troops in Manila
while in rightful possession under the
protocol with Spain, awaiting the ratifi
cation of the treaty of pei\ce by the sen
ate and which has since "been in active,
open rebellion against the United States.
Wo are asked to transfer our sovereignty
to a small minority in the islands without
consulting the majority and to abandon
the largest portion of the population,
which has been loyal to us, to the cruel
ties of the guerrilla insurgent hands.
More than this, wo are asked to protect
this minority in establishing a govern
ment and to this end repress all opposi
tion of the majority. We are required to
set up a stable government in the interest
of those who have assailed our sovereign
ty ami fired upon our soldiers and then
maintain it at any cost or sacrifice against
its enemies within and against those
having ambitious designs from without..
"No government can so certainly pre
serve the pence, restore public order, es
tablish law, justice and stable conditions
as ours. Neither congress nor the execu
tive can establish a stable government in
these islands except under our right of
sovereignty, our authority and our ting.
And this we are doing.
Self Government Promised.
"We could not do it as a protectorate
power so completely or so successfully
as we are doing it now. As the sover
eign power we can initiate action and
shape means to ends and guide the Fili
pinos to self development and self gov
ernment. As n protectorate power we
could not initiate action, but would be
compelled to follow and uphold a people
with no capacity yet to be alone. In the
one case we can protect both ourselves
and the Filipinos from being involved
in dangerous complications, in the other
we could not protect even the Filipinos
until after their trouble had come. He
sides, if we cannot establish any govern
ment of our own without the consent of
the governed, as our opponents contend,
then we could not establish a stable gov
ernment for thera or make ours a protecto
rate without the like consent, and neither
the majority of the people nor a minority
of the people have invited us to assume
it. We could not maintain a protectorate
even with the consent of the governed
without giving provocation for conflicts
and possibly costly Avars. Our rights in
tin- Philippines are now free from outside
interference and will continue so in our
present relation. They would not he thus
free in any other relation. We will not
give up our own to guarantee another
sovereignty.
"Our title is good. Our pence commis
sioners believed they were receiving a
good title when they concluded the treaty.
The executive believed it was a good title
when he submitted it to the senate of the
United States for its ratification. The
senate believed it \vas a good title when
they gave it their constitutional assent,
and the congress seems not to have doubt
ed its eofiipleteness when they appropri
ated $20,000,000 provided by the treaty.
If any who fuvored its ratification be
lieved it gave us a bad title, tliey were
not sincere. Our title is practically iden
tical with that under which we hold our
territory acquired since the beginning of
the government and under which we have
exercised full sovereignty and establish
ed government for the inhabitants.
.11 list Accept Olil Itin i ions.
"There were those who two years ago
were rushing us on to war with Spain
who are unwilling now to accept its clear
consequence, as there are those among
us who advocated the ratification of the
treaty of peace, but now protest against
its obligations. Nations which go to war
must he prepared to accept its result nut
obligations aud when they make treaties
must keep them.
"Those who profess to distrust the lib
eral and honorable purposes of the ad
ministration in its treatment of the Phil
ippines are not justified. Imperialism has
no place in its creed or conduct. Free
dom is a rock upon wkich the Republican
party was built and now rests. Liberty
is the great Republican doctrine for
which the people went to war and for
which a million lives were offered and
billions of dollars expended to make it a
lawful legacy to all without the consent
of master or slave. There is a strain of
ill concealed hypocrisy in the anxiety to
extend the constitutional guarantees to
the people of the Philippines while their
nullification is openly advocated at home.
Our opponents may distrust themselves,
but they have no right to uiscredit the
good faith snd patriotism of the majority
of the people who are opposing them.
They may fear the worst form of im
perialism with the helpless Filipinos in
their hands, but if they do it is because
they have parted with the spirit nml
faith of the fathom and have lost the
virility of the founders of the party
which they profess to represent.
"The Republican party does not have
to assert its devotion to the Declaration
of Independence. That immortal instru
ment of the fathers remained unexecut
ed until the people under the lead of the
Republican party in the awful clash of
battle turned its promises into fulfill
ment. It wrote into the constitution the
Amendments guaranteeing political equal
ity to Ain&rican citizenship, and it has
never broken them or counseled others in
breaking them. It will not he guided in
its conduct by one set of principles at
home and another set in the new territory
belonging to the United States."
In conclusion Mr. McKinley says:
"The obliteration of old differences, the
common devotion to the flag and the com
mon sacrifices for its honor so conspicu
ously shown by the men of the north and
south in the Spanish war have so
strengthened the ties of friendship and
mutual respect that nothing can ever
again divide us. The nation faces the
new century gratefully ami hopefully,
with increasing love of country, with firm
faith in its free institutions and with high
resolve thus they 'shall not perish from
the earth.' "
BREVITIES.
Rev. J. T. Griffith, one of the former
pastors of the English Baptist church of
Freeland, has resigned his charge at
Lansford. Next November he will re
move his family to Bethlehem, where
he will make his future home.
Miss Annie Dever, a popular young
lady of town, was received Into the
Order of Sisters of Mercy at Ua/.leton
convent this morning. She will be as
signed, during her novitiate, to St.
Ann's convent at YVoodside.
Thomas Campbell leaves on Wednes
day to resume his studies at Villanova
college.
William Rlnker, of Delano, has been
appointed section foreman by the Le
high Valley Railroad Company to suc
ceed James Gillespie, whose resignation
was necessary on account of ill health.
One of the most successful lawn par
ties ever conducted in town was held on
the lawn of St. John's Reformed church
Saturday evening.
Gentlemen, for hats and caps go to A.
Oswald's, lie has a nice varietv.
True bills have been returned by the
grand jury against Tony Loinbardo and
J. Spalone for murder and against
Michael Decosmas as accessory after
the fact in the case of Joseph Modena,
who was murdered near Drifton last
April.
A little daughter arrived yesterday
morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Burger, North Centre street.
The Butler township property and
farm lands of George and Annie Sauer
wore disposed of at sheriff's sale at
Wilkosbarre on Saturday. The pur
chaser was Mrs. Ilerrman Holland, of
town.
Try Iveiper's ice cream soda.
The Citizens' band, of town, has been
engaged to play for the Ilazleton fire
department on Firemen's Day, Septem
ber 19.
Mrs. Edward Murphy and Misses Rose
Gillespie and Mary McGill and F. 11.
McGroarty enjoyed a drive to Buck
Mountain yesterday.
A labor meeting will be held at Drif
ton tomorrow evening and another at
Highland Thursday evening.
The members of the Upper Lehigh
Valley Pastoral Association are in ses
sion today at the homo of Rev. J. J.
lvuntz, pastor of St. Luke's Lutheran
church.
Miss Jennie Carlton, of Lehigh Tan
nery, formerly of town, will be married
at her home today to John Krail.
Buy your ice cream at Helper's.
The picnic of the Park M. 10. Sunday
school at tiie Public Park on Saturday
gave a number of people an opportunity
to spend a pleasant day at Freeland's
pleasure ground.
A glee club is being organized at the
Y. M. C. A. All singers, whether mem
bers of the association or not, who wish
to try for the club, should leave their
names at the rooms not later than Sat
urday next.
A new fifteen horse-power engine has
been placed in position at the Salmon
Iron Works.
The Junior Mechanics of town will
hold their annual banquet on the 25th
inst.
The Harvest Home services at St.
John's Reformed church attracted many
people yesterday, the attendance in the
evening being especially largo.
Hannah, the fivo-month-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. James Meehan, died on
Friday at the family residence ou
Adams street. The funeral took place
yesterday afternoon. Interment at Si.
Ann's cemetery.
George Shambora, who recently re
tired from the grocery business, is pur
suing a course of studies at the Free
land School of Music and Languages.
Mr. Shambora Is a bright young man
who is destined to make his mark in
one of the professions.
Prominent Republican Dead.
Onconta, N. Y„ Sept. 10. —Mnjor U. P.
Root, n prominent Republican and owner
of 20 butter and cheese factories in this
county and well known to all produce
merchants of New York city, is dead at
his home in Gilhertsville, aged 00. Dur
ing the civil war lie was recruiting offi
cer at Norwich, N. Y., and later com
missioned by Governor Seymour to go to
Vicksburg, Miss., and secure recruits I
among the blacks and disaffected whites. j
His record shows him to have been one j
of the most successful officers in the gov- >
ernment service.
Woman Killed by Train.
Rochester, Sept. 10. Mrs. Nellie
Ilougli, aged .'l2. was struck and instantly
killed by an cast bound freight train on
flie Now York Central at Field's crossing. !
Mrs. Marguerite Guyon, a cousin, who
was crossing the tracks with Mrs. Hough !
at the time, was also struck, hut escaped i
with a broken rib and internal injuries.
Both ladies had been in the city on a
shopping tour jiiul were returning home.
Rochester Coed School.
Rochester, Sept. 10.— I The University of
Rochester henceforth will he a coeduca
tional institution. Susan B. Anthony, j
Mrs. W. A. Montgomery and Mrs. Lewis j
Bigelow appeared before the executive j
committee of the board of trustees yes- [
torday and announced that $50,000 had
been raised for an endowment fund con
ditioned upon women being permitted to
?nter the university.
Weather Forecast.
Fair; temperature moderate; westerly j
jrinds.
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THEATRICAL.
Harry Martell's big southern produc
tion, "South Before the War," will be
tho opening attraction at the Grand
tomorrow evening. This play Is entire
ly different from anything of Its kind
that has been produced. The combina
tion of darkys, big and little, number
ing fifty people; the performance em
bracing a great variety of music, buck
and wing dancing, camp meeting seenes,
superb singing by four quartettes with
a chorus of forty voices; a genuine cake
walk which creates uproarious laugbtVr,
arc some of the features. A carload of
new scenery depicting a cotton field in
full bloom, Frog Island and the old
Mississippi steam-boat, Robert E. Lee,
and several new ones that will be a
surprise, by their true realism, and is a
revelation in the art of stage craft,
making the production the most realistic
and to those of the younger generation
who have often heard what a plantation
was in ante-bellum days, this play will
give a most comprehensive idea. There
is also a parade at noon tomorrow, and
to miss it will be missing a treat.
X X X
Joe W. Spears will present the well
known Irish comedians, Murray Wes
ley, at tho Grand next Thursday even
ing, In their latest success, "The Irish
Pawnbrokers." It is promised full of
color, movement and melody. As farce
comedy stars Murray and Wesley have
been counted among the best, and they
have always been surrounded by a large
and capable company, this season being
no exception to the rule. As in the past
they will introduce many specialties,
both concerted and individual, almost
every member of tho company being a
performer of more or less prominence.
No pains or expense have been spared
to make their now comedy the "hit" of
the season in its line, special attention
having been paid to the scenic and
mechanical effects, adjeunts not usually
found with a farce comedy, but which
work wonders In the way of augmenting
the attractiveness of a play or comedy
of any kind.
ROUND THE REGION.
The Luzerne County Democrat gives
notice in advance that it will not sup
port Judge Woodward If he receives a
renomination, because, as it alleges, he
did not support Bryan in 1890 and has
given no assurauce that he will do so
this year.
To prevent consumption quickly cure throat
and lung trouble with One Minute Cough Cure.
Grover'a City drug store.
J. M. Frink, the iron founder of
Seattle, who is the Republican nominee
for governor in Washington, was born
in Luzerne county in 1855.
The most dainty and effective pills made are
DeWitt's Little Early (Users. They are uncquul
ed for all liver and bowels troubles. Never
gripe. Grover's City drug store.
The Mauch Chunk Coal Gazette and
Dally Times newspaper plant Itas boon
sold by the (). B. Slgley estate to George
E. Gray, of Lehighton.
The emergency bugs sent by ji church society
lo Kansas soldiers in the Philippines contained
among the necessities a box of De Witt's Witch
Hazel Salve, the well known cure for piles, in
juries and skin descases. The ladies took care
to obtain the original DeWitt's Witch Ha/.lc
Salve knowing that all the counterfeits arc
worthless. Grover's City drug store.
The United States recruiting station
at Shenandoah has succeeded in secur
ing only two volunteers in three weeks.
Large sun spots, astronomers say, caused the
extreme heat this suminer, and doctors declare
nearly all the proptrutions were induced by dis
orders of tiie stomal). Good health follows good
digestion. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what
you eat. If you have indigestion or dyspepsia
It will ouickly relieve and permanently cure
you. Grover's City drug store.
Tho census shows Scranton's popula
tion to bo 103,020, au Increase since 1890
of 26,815, or 35.05 per cent.
Poisonous toadstools resembling mushrooms
lm\ e caused frequent ileal hs I bis year. He sure
to use only the genuine. Observe the same cure
when you ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve.
There are poisonous counterfeits. DeWitt's is
the only original Witch Huv.le Salve. It is a
safe and certain cure for piles and ull skin
diseases. Grover's City drug store.
One Fare to Philadelphia and Return
Via the Lehigh Valley Railroad, ac
count State League Republican Club's
meeting, September 17 and 18. Tickets
on sale September 15, 10 and 17 for all
trains except tho Black Diamond ex
press, good for return to September 22
inclusive. For further information con
sult Lehigh Valley ticket agents.
The progressive nations of the world arc the
great food consuming nations. Good food well
digested gives strength. If you cap not digest
all you oat, you need Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It
digests what you eat. Vou need notdiet your
self. It contains all of tho digest ants combined
with the best known rouicsundreconstmctive*.
It will even digest all classes of foods in a bottle.
No other preparation will do this. I' instantly
relieves and quick y cures ail stomach trouble.
Grover's City drug store.
Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure
Digests what you eat.
It, artificially d igests the food and aids
Nature in strengthening and recon
structing the exhausted digestive or
gans. It isthe latestdiscovereddigest
ant and tonic. No other preparation
can approach it in efiiciency. It in
stantly relievesand permanently cures
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea,
Sick Headache, Gastralgia,Cramps and
all other results of imperfect digestion.
Price 50c. and ,1. Largo size contains 2H times
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y|jl quality and low prices. We are now offering hgj
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INSTRUCTION GIVEN IN
Voico Culture. Piano-forte and
Organ Playing, Harmony,
Counterpoint and Composi
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Students Prepared for College in
Greek, Latin, French, Ger
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Choice Broad of All Kinds. Cakes, nud Pas
try. Dully. Fancy und Novelty Cukes Buked
to Order.
MTllffillY ® IE! CREAM
supplied to balls, parties or picnics, with
all necessary adjuncts, at shortest
notice and fairest prices.
Delivery and supply wagons to all parts oj
town and surroundings every day.
Condy 0. Boyle,
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The ffnest brands of Domestic and Imported
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FRESH ROLL BUTTER AND EGGS.
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Latest Hats and Caps.
All kinds of household utensils.
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Hennessy Brandy, Blackberry,
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Ham and BehueiUer Cheese Sandwiches
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