Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-08-24
The Republican Party stands
for honest money and the chance
to earn it by honest toll.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
A POLITICAL PAPER,
And a Good One, Written by DIR. NJ. v.
Hardy of Marietta.
Tnstallment No


FELLOW CITIZENS
The time is at hand when it becomes
the duty of every man, who has voice
in the matter of flaw-making, to inyesti-
gate and consider the political differ
ences between the two great political
Parties of our Nation, that he may
choose between them the one that offers
bim the best political home.
Like all other nations, ours has had
her ups and downs, and when prosper
ity has attended us we have figured out
a cause for it, and when adversity has
overtaken us, we also have tried to
solve the problem.
Careful study reveals the fact, that
when we are working under good and
wholesome laws, properly executed, we
are prosperous and happy; and, on the
other hand when our laws are not
good, adversely will surely follow.
Good and wholesome laws, then, are
the ones we should earnestly covet.
Those laws which we call good and
wholesome, are the ones which extend
the greatest good to the greatest num-
ber of our people, there being no differ
ence what political party enacts them.
The history of our country should be
taken as evidence, indeed the only evil
dence affording US facts regarding our
national prosperity or the opposite, and
it demonstrates the fact that the repub-
ican party has always been dedicated
to the best interests of the people of
our nation.
1t is a party of convictions, and those
convictions have been written in the
history OF our nation, both with the
pen and with the sword.
Our inspiration and our tower of
strength is based upon the great men,
intellectually, that we have given to
our nation and her history those
mighty dead and the illustrious living.
If we carefully follow the paths they
have marked out for us, if we are true
to the principles which they have in
culcated, we will be true to our coun.
trymen.
For many years prior to the advent
of the present democratic administra-
tion we were working under laws en-
acted by the republican party.
Our protective tariff laws and our
currency laws originated with this par
ty, and it is an undisputed fact that
NO country on the face of the globe ever
made such progress and gained in
wealth and power as we did in those
years.
Our protective tariff laws brought us
in revenue sufficient to meet the neces-
sary expenses of administering our
governmental matters, kept our capital
invested profitably, our industries alive,
our labor employed with profit to the
employer and the employe and our
people were prosperous and happy. We
were the amazement of the world. Our
currency was made national and we
were, as we had been for many years,
upon gold standard.
The unprecedented demands for mon
ey, made necessary as the result of our
civil war, was met by a paper currency,
promises to pay, which ultimately be-
came as good as gold, and, after Jan.
list. 1879, every dollar of our currency,
gold silver and paper, was of equal pur-
chasing power all over the world,
made SO and kept SO by the republican
party.
OF course our gold standard which