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Show would surely follow to the Injury of the wage-earners and all who are now profit-ably profit-ably employed. Uncertainty undermines confidence, and loss of confidence breeds confusion -and -distress In commercial affairs. af-fairs. The convention was wise not only tn its enunciation of party policies, but In Its nomination of a candidate for the Presidency. Presi-dency. During the last three years President Presi-dent Roosevelt has been confronted with large and serious questions. These he has met and solved with high wisdom and courage. The charges made against hhn in the Democratic platform find an Irrefutable Irre-futable answer in his splendid administration, administra-tion, never surpassed in all the history of the Republic, and never equalled by the party who seeks to discredit It. The election elec-tion of the President is Imperatively demanded de-manded by those whose success depends upon the continuance of a safe, conservative conserva-tive and eiffolent administration of public affairs. We have an ample record of deeds done, of beneficent things accomplished in the public interest. Ihe vast business of tbe Government has been well administered. The laws have heen enforced fearlessly and impartially. Tbe treasury has been adequately supplied with revenue, and the financial credit of the Government was never bettej". Our foreign trade balance continues to Increase our national wealth. We have adopted an irrigation policy which will build homes In the arid regions of the West. U-e Panama canal, the hope of centuries, is in course of construction .under the sole protection of the American flag. We have peace and great prosperity at home, and are upon terms of good neighborhood to the entire world. These conditions constitute the strongest possible possi-ble assurance for the -future. Later I shall avail myself of a favorable 1 opportunity to submit to you, and through you. to my f el tow-citizens, a fuller expression expres-sion of my views concerning the question I now in issue. Permit me again to thank j you and to express the belief that we may confidently submit our cause to the candid and patriotic judgment of our country, j men., ..,.. ' r T J I FAIRBANKS TELLS : COMMITTEE THAT . j HE WILL ACCEPT j INDIANAPOLIS. InL. Aug.v 4. Sen-, i ator Fairbanks in reepondlntr to the atddreaa of former Secretary F.oot notl-, notl-, fytng him of bis nomination to be Vice-President," Vice-President," spoke as follows. Senator Fairbanks was given an ovatlqH as he rqae. HeaaM: - ' Mr. Root and Gentlemen of the Committee; Commit-tee; I thank you for the yery generous terms in which you have conveyed tbe official notlflcatkm or my nomination for Vice-President of the United States. The unsolicited and unanimous nomination by . tbe Republican arty is a call to duty , " . which I ant pleased to obey. . , I accept the commission 7hlch you bring - with a profound sense of the dignity and responsibilities of tbe exalted position for . -which I have been nominated. My utmost endeavor, win be to discharge in full meaa- i - .--- - -.'' " ' ure the trust. If the action -of the convention conven-tion ehall - meet the approval of the American peopie. ' i The platform .adopted by the convention is an explicit and emphatic declaration of the principles in entire harmony with those policies of our party which have brought great honor ana prosperity to .our common country, and which, if continued, will bring us like bleaslnga in the future. The monetary and economic policies which have been so forcibly reannounoed lie at the very foundation of our industrial indus-trial life, and are essential- to the fullest development of our national strength. They give vitality to 'our manufactures I end commerce, and if impaired or .overthrown, .over-thrown, there would -Inevitably ensue a period of industrial depression, to tbe seri-cus seri-cus injury of the vast interests of both .la-Lbor .la-Lbor and capital. f The Republican party since -it preserved the integrity of the Republic and gave , freedom to -the -oppreeeed, never rendered 1 a more important service to the country than wbeai It -established the gold standard. stand-ard. Under It we have Increased our our-rency our-rency supply sufficiently to meet the normal nor-mal "requirements af business. ,.11 is grati. fving that the convention made frank and -explicit declaration of the inflexible purpose pur-pose of the, party to maintain the gold standard. It is -essential not only that the standard should be ea good aa the best in the world, but tbat the people should have the aasuranO-, -that it will be so maintained. main-tained. The enemies of sound money were powerful enough lo suppress .mention of - v -; - v the gold standard in -the platform lately adopted by the Democratic national convention. con-vention. The leader of Democracy in two great national campaigns has declared since the adjournment of the convention that. as soon as the election is over, he will undertake to organize -the forces within the Democratic party for the .next national contest, for the purpose of advancing ad-vancing the radical policies for which his element of the party stands. He frankly says that the money question is for the present in abeyance. In view of these palpable facts. It is not the part of wisdom wis-dom to abandon our vigilance in safe, guarding theintegrity of our money system. sys-tem. W e must have .not only a President who ta unalterably committed to the sjold standard, but both .houses of Congress In entire accord with him upon the subject. in Congress, and not with the President, rests the supreme power to determine the standard of our money. Though the Chief Executive should oppose the Congress acting act-ing withtn tts Independent constitutional authority, oould ai any time -overthrow or change the monetary standard. The wisdom of our protective policy finds- complete justification in the industrial indus-trial development of the country. -This foMcy has become a most vital part of our ndustrial system, and must be maintained unimpaired. When altered conditions "make changes in schedules desirable, their modification can be safely Intrusted to the Republican party. If they are to be changed by the enemies of the. system along free trade Unes, uncertainty would take the place of certainty, and a reasUoa- t ' ' i ' 1 -..-.'' - V |