Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — FAIRBANKS ON THE ISSUES. [ARTICLE]

FAIRBANKS ON THE ISSUES.

Candidate, in His Letter of Acceptance, Dwells on His Party’s Record. Senator Charles Warren Fairbanks, Republican nominee for Vice President, has formally accepted the honor In a letter addressed to Elibu Root of New York, who Was chairman of the notification committee. The Senator heartily commends the principles of the party as voiced in the platforni adopted at the Chicago convention, and in their order he discusses public economics as illustrated by the expenditures, revenues and retrenchments of the last two administrations; the foreign policy as it relates to the European and Asiatic countries and to the treaties which have been made during the last seven years; of the government's neutral attitude to the belligerents in the Orient; of tariff and tariff revision; of- reciprocity and the treaty consummated with Cuba, and of the efforts made to cement a reciprocal tie with the Dominion of Canada; of the tnist question and of legislation to reduce to a minimum the evils following illegal combinations; of “sound” money; of the Panama canal and the President’s part in negotiating the Panama treaty; of the Philippines, and .finally of irrigation in the arid West and the disappearsectional differences. Concerning the administration’s record In public economy, the Senator says that “we have pursued no parsimonious policy on the one hand nor indulged in extravagance on the other. We have measured the public expense by the public necessity.” He declares the foreign 'policy of the administration “has been conservative, just and firm, and has made for the advancement of peace.” The Senator asserts that, so far as the tariff question is concerned, the difference between the two great parties “is radical and fundamental.” Of tariff revision -he says: “A revision of duties should be made only when conditions have changed so that public interest demands their alteration, and they should be revised so as to preserve and not destroy the protective principle.” The Senator says the President’s course in Panama merits most general approval. A brief history of the negotiations leading to the Panama treaty is given.