Mr. Roosevelt's letter accepting nomination as Republican candidate for the
Presidency was published in Monday's papers. After dwelling on the incoherence and inconsistency of Democratic utterances on the issues at stake, Mr. Roosevelt replies at length to the criticisms of his opponents. He defends his foreign policy as hardly less advantageous to the world than to the United States, and justifies the way in which the Navy is used to carry it out, declaring that the Navy is the most potent guarantee of peace, because it is formidable and ready for use. In regard to the Far East, the voice of the United States would now count for nothing if she abandoned the Philippines, and had refused to do what she had done in China. The Monroe doctrine had been strengthened, but American Republics were warned that those seeking equity must come with clean hands and accept responsibilities in the exercise of the rights of liberty.
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