Richmond Palladium (Daily), 27 July 1904 — Page 2

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TWO MOnUOHD DAILY PALLADIUM WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1904.

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ROOSEVELT'S

SPLENDID

ADDRESS

IN RESPONSE TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED.

NOTIFY HIS EXCELLENCY Of the Fact That He Was Nominated For the President of the United States.

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Oyster Bay, N. Y., July 27. After the committee appointed to notify President Roosevelt of his nomination as the candidate of the Republican party for President of the United States, had performed that

duty, the President responded as fol

lows :

Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the Notification Committee: I am deeply sensible of the high honor conferred upon me by the representatives of the Republican party assembled in convention, and I accept the nomination for the Presidency with solemn realization of the obligations I assume. I heartily approve the declaration of principles which the Republican National Convention has adopted, and at some future day I shall communicate to you, Mr. Chair man, more at length and in detail a formal written acceptance 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 honor and the interest 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 represent, I shall, under Providence, continue to work with an eye single to the welfare of all our people. A party is of worth only in so far 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 goyerjiment etTmes only as the result of the loyal co-operation of many different persons. The members of a legislative majority, the officers in the various departments of the administration, and the Legislative and Executive branches as towards each other, must work together with subordination of self to the common end of successful government. In the years that have gone by we made the deed square with the word: and if we are continued in power we shall unswervingly follow out the g reat lines of public policy which the Republican 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 fortun

ate than our opponents, who now appeal for confidence on the 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 undisturb

ed those very acts of the administra

tion because of which they ask that the administration itself be driven

from power. Seemingly their present

attitude as to their past record is that

some of them were mistaken and oth

ers insincere. "We make our appeal

in a wholly different spirit. We are

not constrained to keep silent on any

vital question; we are divided on no

vital question; our policy is continuous, and is the same for all sections and localities. There is nothing experimental about the government we ask the people to continue in power, for our performance in the past, our proved governmental efficiency, is a guarantee as to our promises for the future. Our opponents, either openly or secretly, according to their several tempermaments, now ask the people to trust their present promises in consideration of the fact that they intend to treat their past promises as null and void. "We know our minds and we have kept of the same mind for a sufficient length of time to give to our policy coherence and sanity. In such a fundamental matter as the enforcement of the law we do not have to depend upon promises, but merely to ask that our record be taken as an earnest of what we shall continue to do. In dealing with the great organizations known as trusts, we do not have to explain why the laws were not enforced, but to point out that they actually have been en

forced and that legislation has been enacted to increase the effectiveness

of their enforcement. We do not have to propose to "turn the rascals out," for we have shown in very deed that whenever by diligent investigation a public official can be found who has betrayed his trust he will be punished 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 betrayal of trusts in the last seven years have been insignificant in number when compared with the extent of the pubtration of the government been on a cleaner and higher level; never has the public work of the nation been done more honestly and efficiently. Assuredly it 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 finances of the nation upon a sound gold basis. We have done this with the aid of many who were for

merly our opponents, but who would neither openly nor silently acquiesce in the heresy of unsound finance; and we have done it against the convinced and violent opposition of the mass of our present opponents who still refuse to recant the unsound opinions which for the moment they think it inexpedient 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 conclusive committal on the most important issue which has recently been before the people, and which may at any time in the near future be before them again. Upon the principles which underlie this issue the convictions of half of our number do not clash with those of the other half. So long as the Republican party is in power the gold standard is settled, not as a matter of temporary political expediency, not because of shifting conditions in the production of gold in certain mining centers, but in accordance with what we regard as the fundamental principles of national morality and wisdom. Under the financial legislation which we have enacted there is now ample circulation for every business need; and very dollar of this circulation is worth a dollar in gold. We have reduced the interest-bearing debt and

in still larger measure the interest on that debt. All of the war taxes im

posed during the Spanish war have

been removed with a view to relieve

the people and to prevent the accumu

lation of an unnecessary surplus. The result is that hardly ever before have

the expenditures and income of the

government so closely corresponded.

In the fiscal year that has just closed the excess of income over the ordi

nary expenditures was nine millions

of dollars. This does not take ac

count of the fifty millions expended

out of the accumulated surplus for

the purchase of the Isthmian Canal. It is an extraordinary proof of the

sound financial condition of the na

tion that instead of following the usual course in such matters and throw

ing the burden upon posterity by an issue of bonds, we were able to make the payment outright and yet after it to have in the treasury a surplus of one hundred and sixty millions of dollars out of hand without causing the slightest disturbance to business conditions.

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and our be judged by what has been rights of others. Each is to be grantdone in the immediate past. We ask ed the full protection of the law, and that sober and sensible men compare each in turn is to be held to a strict the workings of the present tariff law, 'obedience to the law; for no man is and the conditions which obtain un- above it and no man below it. The der it, with the workings of the pre- humblest individual is to have his

ceding tariff law of 1894 and the con- . rights safeguarded as scrupulously as

ditions which that tariff if 1894 helped to bring about. We believe in riciprocity with for

eign nations on the terms outlined in

those of the strongest organization, for each is to receive justice, no more no less. The problems with which w-e have to deal in our modern industrial and social life are manifold: but the

President MeKinley's last speech, ,spirit in which it is necessary to apwhich urged the extension of our fo- proach their solution is simply the eign markets by reciprocal agreements ! STirit of honesty, of courage, and of ii 1,1 t :u4-

wnenever uie couiu ue mauc wuuuui ' common sense

injury to American industry and la-

We have enacted a tariff law under 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 should be a readjustment of the tariff schedules is undoubted; but such changes can with safety be made only by those whose devotion to the princi

ple of a protective tariff is beyond question ; for otherwise the changes

would amount not to readjustment but

to repeal. The readjustment when

made must maintain and not destroy

the protective principle. To the farmer, the merchant, the 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

regards the finances and the tariff.

The standard of living of our wageworkers is higher than that of any other country, and it can not so remain unless we have a protective tariff 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 committhemselves to the proposition that if they were to revise the tariff no heed would be paid to the necessity of meeting this difference between the standards of living for wage-workers here and in other countries; and therefore on this point their antagonism to our position is fundamental. Here again we ask that their promises

bor. It is a singular fact that the only great reciprocity .treaty recently adopted that with Cuba was finally opposed almost alone by the representatives of the very party which now states that it favors reciprocity. And here again we ask that the worth of our words be judgedby comparing their deeds with ours. On this Cuban reciprocity treaty there were at the outset grave differences of opinion among ourselves; and the notable thing in the negotiation and ratification of the treaty, and in the legisla

tion which carried it into effect, was the highly practical manner in which without sacrifice of principle these differences of opinion were reconciled.

There was no rupture of a great party but an excellent practical outcome, the result of the harmonious co-operation of two successive presidents and two successive congresses. This is an illustration of the governing capacity which entitles us to the confidence of the people not only in our purposes but in our practical ability to achieve those purposes. Judging 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 achieved any prictical 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 of our industrial system. Each kind of organization is to be favored so long as it acts in a spirit of justice and of regard for the

In inaugurating the great work of irrigation in the West the administration has been enabled by congress to take one of the longest strides ever taken under our government toward utilizing our vast national domain for the settler, the actual home-maker.

Ever since this continent was discovered the need of an Isthmian Canal to connect the Pacific and the Atlantic has been recognized and ever since the birth of our nation such a canal has been planned. At last the dream has become a reality. The Isthmian Canal is now being built by the government of the United States. We conducted the negotiation for its construction with the nicest and most

scrupulous honor, and in a spirit of

the largest generosity toward those through whose territory it was to run. Every sinister effort which could be

devised by the spirit of faction or the spirit of self-interest was made in order to defeat the treaty with Panama and thereby prevent the con

summation of this work. The construction of the canal is now an assured fact; but most certainly it is

unwise to entrust the carrying out of

so momentous a policy to those who have endeavored to defeat the whole undertaking.

Our foreign policy has been so con

ducted that, while not one of our just

claims has been sacrificed, our rela

tions with all foreign nations are now of the most peaceful kind; there is not a cloud on the horizon. The last cause of irritation between us and any

other nation was removed by the set tlement of the Alaskan boundary.,

We earnestl desire friendship with

all the nations of the New and Old

Worlds ; and we endeavor to place our

tility. We hold that the prosperity of each nation is an aid and not a hindrance to the prosperity of other nations. We seek international amity for the same reasons that make us believe in peace within our own borders; and we seek this peace not because we are afraid or unready, but because we think that peace is right as well as advantageous. American interests in the Pacific have rapidly grown. American enterprise has laid a cable across this, the greatest of oceans. We have proved in effective fashion that we wish the Chinese Empire well and desire its integrity and independence. Our fotthold in the Philippines greatly strengthens our position in the competition for the trade of the East ; but we are governing the Philippines

in the interest of the Philippine peo

ple themselves. We have already given them a large share in their government, and our purpose is to increase

this share as rapidly as they give evi

dence of increasing: fitness for the

task. The great majority of the offi

cials of the islands, whether elective

or appointive, are already native Fili

pinos. We are now providing for a legislative assembly. This is the first step to be taken in the future; and it would be eminently unwise to de

clare what our next step will be until this first step has been taken and the results are manifest. To have gone faster than we have already gone in

giving the islanders a constantly in

creasing measure of self-government would have been disastrous. At the present moment to give political inde

pendence to the islands would result in the immediate loss of civil rights, personal liberty and public order, as regards the mass of the Filipinos, for the majority of the islanders have been given these great boons by us, and only keep them because we vigilantly safe-guard and guarantee them.

To withdraw our government from the islands at this time would mean to the

the men and women who are the spiritual heirs of those who upheld the hands of Abraham Lincoln; for we are striving to do our work in the spirit with which Lincoln approached his. During the seven years that have just passed there is no duty, domestic or foreign, which we have shirked; no neeessary task which we have feared to undertake, or which we have not performed with reasonable efficiency. We have never pleaded impotence. We have never sought refuge in criticism and complaint instead of action. We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises ; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.

Saved From Terrible Death. The family of Mrs. M. L. Bobbitt of Bargerton, Tenn., saw her dying and were powerless to save her. The most skillful physicians and every remedy used, failed, while consumption was slowly but surely taking her life. In this terrible hour Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption turned despair into joy. The first hottle brought immediate relief and its continued use 'completely cured her. It's the most certain cure in the world for all throat and lung troubles. Guaranteed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at A. G. Luken & Co. 'a drug store.

A Very Close CalL

1 stuck to my engine, although every joint and every nerve was racked with pain," writes C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa. "I was weak and pale, without any appetite and all run down. As I was about to give np, I got a bottle of Electric Bitters, and after taking it, I felt as well as I ever did in my life." Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor from their use.

average native the loss of his barely- )Tr7 ein; Satisfaction guaranteed

won civil freedom. We have estab- . u ua 06 - Pnce ou ceuw-

lished in the islands a government by Americans assisted by Filipinos.

We are steadily striving to transform I When buying bread, why not buy

this into self-government by the Fil- the best, "Ideal" is in a class by it-

ipinos assisted by Americans. ' self. mi. - ; l I, : !. 1, 1 J

XD3 principles wnicu we upuwu i

should appeal to all our countrymen, ' Nothing but selected raw materials

relations wth them upon a basis of in all portions of our country. Above used in Ideal Bread. "Notice the reciprocal advantage instead of hos-Jall they should give us strength with flavor."

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