Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-25
MORE OF MIR. ELKINs' DEMAGoGY.


MORE OF MIR. ELKINS' DEMAGOGf.
The story Of the rise and supremacy OF
the Republican party in this country, OF
its lofty purposes, noble endeavors, great
achievements in war and in peace, and the
things il has done in the interest Of human
itv and good government, will be told with
pride as long as popular government lasts,
liberty survives. and man loves his fellow
man In this story material will be iound
for some future Homer, thousands OF years
hence nerhaps in another Iliad, TO sing the
,lories that came 10 the great Republic In
the first century of it's existence. The he
publican party is proud OF the history IL
has made Ii will stand out boldly among
the grandest chapters in the annals OF tlIhe'
-ElkiRs' Speech.
Can it be possible that Mr.. ELKINs
does not know, what every school boy
knows. namely, that the great Democratic
party of JEFFERSON and Jackson gov
erned this country for the first century
of its existence? While this country
was being made what it is to-day the
Republican party was not heard of. If
the country has. continued to grow
since the Republican party have had a
hand in the government it has not been
because of that party'S rule, but
Ia spite of it.
What has the Republican party ever
done. that was distinctly Republican,
since it has had control of the govern
ment, but burden the people with need
less taxation for the benefit of few of
their number. and drive the Stars and
Stripes from the high seas and deprive
as of foreign market? Has the Repub-
lican party ever added a square foot to
the territory of the United States?
We need but to turn to the facts Of
history to show To what political party
the greatness of the United States is
due. We produce that history in brief
but interesting form from contempt
rary:
The first Democratic President, Thomas
JeffersOn-and il is the fashion OF the In
gals and Dalzell brood of statesmen TO
discredit the Father of American Democ-
racv-bv bold stroke of far-seeing and in
spired craftsmanship acquired Louisiana
territory from France, paying for 1t Sl5,-
600 600. This included the vast domain
/ living west of the Mississippi and north of
/ Texas, Mexico and California, and extend
/ ing TO British America, now embracing
/ the States of Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri,
| Louisiana, Oregon, North and South Da-
/ kOta. Montana, Washington and the newly
admitted States of Wyoming and Idaho,
together with the Indian territory. now
/ known as Oklahoma. This great accession
of territory included an area of $4,000
square miles. The original domain OF the
| Union when Jefferson became President
was but So, 800 square miles. His acQuisi-
ton was nearly third greater He was
assaulted with intense bitterness for this,
/ the greatest and wisest act of American
administration by the opposition 10 the
Democratic party Of that day.
The next acquisition of territory was
that of Florida, bought from Spain At a
cost of =, 100000 by the Democratic admin
| istration of James Monroe in 1921 BY this
purchase we gained 10000 square miles of
/ new territory, and secured "a continuous
/ line of seacoast from Maine to the Sabine
river
/ Texas was annexed in 1915, under the
Democratic administration of james X.
ia.
miles. Out of this annexation grew the
/ Mexican war, under the same Democratic
administration in lS41, which ended in the
conquest of the territory now embraced in
part of Arizona, California, Colorado, New
| Mexico. Nevada, Utah, and small parts of
+ Kansas and Wyoming, and having an area
of 6}6. 900 square miles.
/ Under the Democratic administration Of
James X. Polk was negotiated the "Glads-
/ den purchase as ii was called, by which
we acquired an additional $500 square
miles. now included in Arizona.
| The last acquisition of foreign territory
was Alaska, under the administration of
/ Andrew Johnson. We have never heard
Republicans claim his as Republican ad-
ministratiOn. Alaska cost S1,OOOOOO, and
/ included 515, 900 square miles. The principal
use Republican administrations have made
| of Alaska is 10 farm out its resources to a
great corporation, always ready to con-
tribute political Doodle TO corrupt elections.
To sum up, when jefferson became Pres
ident in 1901, and political parties were
/ formed in substantially existing lines, the
whole area of the United States amounted
/ to but 900 square miles. Democratic
/ Presidents from that day TO the
/ Pierce administration, ending in 1851, have
added to the domain of the Republic
/ > 1874. 800 square miles of territory, en-
bracing what is now divided into nineteen
States and four Territories-or, if we in
clude Alaska, the territory added to the
Union by Democratic Presidents is much
more than three times as great as the do
main George Washington forced England
to acknowledge as free and Independent
States And vet Senator ingalls, would
teach the people the Democratic party has
never advanced by u single act the welfare
and power Of the Republic.
The Republican party has never added
an acre TO the territory Of the Union. And
its predecessors and originatOrs, the Fed
eral and Wing parties, opposed with the
utmost bitterness the great acquisitions
made by jefferson, Monroe, Polk and
Pierce that so grandly crown the revolu-
tionary edifce True, Secretary Blaine
has been skylarking with the unbreeched
savages of the South Pacific, and has
leased a coal station at Samoa, under the
Joint protectorate of England, Germany
"a fh, Trrffa1 Sfnfae hnt that il launched