| Show TOWN TOWNE E DEOLIN ES ESTHE THE TE NOMINATION Tails Why He Cannot Act for Thom HIM of ill 1111 hi hulls ll DUluth MinD Miami Au Aug Con maa C A who wu nomi fW fol Vice President b by tb the Pop lIt list convention held beld In Sioux PulP aU In lIat h hu sent nt the following letter leUr to the committee committe o os O cation 0 oft the Ith tb of JulY at Emits I City I hd bd to N calve from you OU tb the nomination of oC your our national for tb the ut of floe Dee ot of Vie Vice President J I requested In III view of the anomalous and md delicate clr In Ur the presidential slum Un lion that YoU permit me to taM tit the i subject under tinder advisement be before I Ito to fore n oulI ln a decision This re II qUilt quest you were pleased to grant nt and od now after mature consideration of all the factors Involved that concern tb the welfare of the tau or of political reform In this country and Dd my own dut duty there thereto to I 1 am constrained to Inform YOU ou in III alt all respect pec that I 1 must mut the nomination tendered m ins b by tM that cort In announcing this concluSion I can cannot cannot not forbear torr to express to you and nd through you to the great whose commission you ou hold huid a as well as asto to that patriotic bOdy of advanced political thought that tour our convention say my deep sense of the honor conferred upon h me b by the maui mou choice ot of that convention for the second III place e imi III the servIce of the na Da nation tion Two however add to this consideration in hi hithe inthe the present I ur Iret the lI i lion n was ft b by mt me and Secondly the convention U Uin In the caw caN so 10 ot U its nominee for tor Ute the President t out of It own OD to candidate MOlT ENCOURAGING To m my JIM hid of the Sioux Falls a nominating for President a ot of the Demo Democratic cratic party part md nd tOl foI Ice a I 1 ot of hi SlIver Silver party It is b most moat and In inspiring spectacles pero In 10 poti 11 tIcs IU its lb b the precedence of oC tb the cause caun t bt hi he people eOple over any n merely partisan ad relied ratted the procedure of that Into tb the serene erene upper sir Ir of trUe civic heroism Prom From such a a a its this 1111 what sit Hr jre what rID can be asked ked in inthe Inthe the name ot of the WHAT W WAS AI EXPECTED Jt It w was of the of OUt our that It II nomination tot for tb the VIce Presidency would prove ar ac to tit the convention of 01 th the Democratic an n Silver Republican parties called to PIt In CIt City on th the Fourth or July The tIte Silver R Re 1330 representing tat Alia ana Territories were wen Indeed ger to name the ticket chosen at t Blo but to the great t DemocratIc convention another corn com mended Itself ACTION AT KANSAS CiTY Tile The name of your nominee was AI pta pre to that ell Un and w was N with demonstrations of approval bF l number of oC dUn and with t the greatest respect by the t geographical eo and tho fact farl that In Lain parts part of 18 UY It was u deemed Wise will to deter to 0 a sentiment that the candidate kI be a mon man already alred identified with the Democratic Ution not ur oy holding its I principles and its Ita cause alili but also allo by byname byname name ao and the selection of Adlai E Stevenson of oC JIll 1111 nul floit S mn man of ul unimpeachable ter and ot of ripe rip pO II as a member of Congress more morl than twenty Was 1111 a Close assistant and laborer of OiD Gu J 3 B Weaver and 01 other treat at laborers bon for tor the reform political movement of those thole days daYI and who as Vice Ioe Pr President from lilt to 1817 1217 distinguished himself by rebelling against u the betrayal of 01 Democratic principles by President Cleveland WUA or HE DUTY When Mr Stevenson was nominated what was u It II my dut duty to do W My name has aa been before the convention alon along with hi and lId I had been beaten Tb nomination Domination had bern mad decisively and with absolute fairness The can chosen wu was positively I hi his loyalty to our our principle e wu was beyond and aDd hIs career bad d dIen been Ien a lOll long of oC them Manifestly U it was U my m duty to support that nomInation Acting upon this con COD conviction I went before the Silver SIler bran and n succeeded In per It sot 1101 to m me aM the vII vice presidential nomination w was finally to the Silver Republican na national commIttee Later this commit committee tee piSceS the name 0 of Mr oil the fur Ioe President This the situ situation as it ii boy that eithEr bit or Mr noose volt ii to be the next Vice President of the United States I am expected to take a laborious part in the campal I shall of course the elect of Bryan sud Stevenson Th Demo Critic before which I was wasa a nominated and The con conVention has nominated yas md naon PHANTOM CANDIDACY In what light should I appear bets the American people if while lag ike of one ticket I should be going through the form of running on Nobody in the United States would thInk I had the slight eat chance of being elected and oby would that I considered as a candidate at the asia Urn be believed me to be absolutely lacking in common sense Whom could sack a phantom candidacy deceive p pct should I deserve indeed It In nob a matter I should attempt to anybody knew party to be of men must cx keen anti in PoliticAl judgment obvious a shim elude their vision ty would resent m Implied tary estimate f lm r they would he justified in on of me could result 0 fl injuring th which it baa thu of my mistaken following to and condor In poe 7 OWn prop 51 to the Peoples party and a retard flu the welfare of the canes in the United an that I respect IU as the honorable I ti I I lIar y to me In lIt 4 t than that which has in i permitted to which the U In 1 Was n Wh feeling the itt party was mu oh hr the 1 Viii t I It I it Chicago in stOop and 0 1 for the 14 by an or by pmt Tho magnificent It have set tied 1 1 I The torn the prin but itt whose force ty aol have flavor l I n a document 4 titi nt presented in the t the trust monopoly and the of the of those sub sublime lime it rights and lib ether and bIU gIry of our count re th cure of the of mankind And again tM rv f carrying the banner of the horn committed to that I tried hand grasp has never which n rr can to U I Ito burden can The 1 if Ryan which could have IL bud flea a n It made memorable an contest It will crown a Imperishable splendor With vIr of and most sincerely CHARLES A TOWNE |
