The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-11-19
GOOD FOR REPUBLICANS.
In All Great Crises the Party Has
Maintained the Credit of
the Nation.

had a greater incentive to work for re-
publican success in any election than
they have this year. BY its great vic.
tory in 1896 the republican party
checked the reputation wave, estab-
lished the gold standard, ended the
financial panic which came in with the
democratic party in 1893, and has
brought to the country greater bust
ness activity and more widely diff
fused prosperity than it had ever be-
fore except Immediately after the re-
sumption of gold payments in 1879,
which the republican party devised
and defended, which the democratic
party opposed when the resumption
bill was in congress, and which it tried
TO obstruct an repeal afterward. a
victory for the democratic party in
the congressional elections few
weeks hence, even though the demo-
Gratis of part of the country have ig-
nored silver, would bring that issue up
in 1900, arouse distrust all over the
country in the interval, send gold out
of the country as in Cleveland's days,
and put an immediate check on busi'
ness expansion.
The nation has arrived at great
landmark in it's career. The old isola'
ton policy suitable for the period of
its feebleness and insecurity must be
discarded, and step onward to larger
activities and greater Influence has to
be taken if the country is to intelli'
gently meet the requirements of its
position and realize its destiny. Prov
idence has placed in our hands to-day
opportunities for national advantage
which may not come again in the life
time of anybody now here, If ever, and
unless we meet them promptly our re-
missness will rise to disturb and hui
initiate us in after years. The United
| States has chance to gain an imme-
diate and important accession OF terri
tory in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pa
cific ocean. The country's wisest
statesmen from the beginning OF the
government have realized and ex-
pressed the importance which pos
session of Cuba and Puerto Rico would
have for the United States. The ac-
QUESTION of the Philippines, which for
tune has now virtually put In our
hands, would be of immense advantage
10 us In the great world-strife for the
trade of Asia.
Only one party has the moral and in
tellectual sanity to deal with these
! great issues wisely. The republican
party saved the union. 1t brought by
the resumption act every dollar in the
country-silver coin, silver certifi
Gates, national bank notes, fractional
currency, and everything else which
has passed as money--up to the golt
line, and has kept it there ever since
despite the assaults Of the democrats
on the national credit. By it's victory
of 1896 the republican, party has made
the gold standard permanent fix
ture of the nations financial system
provided that victory be buttressed by
another republican triumph this year
In all great crises since its foundation
the republican party has been put Of
kept in power. Not in over 40 years
did the people intrust the democracy
with control Of the government save II
1892, and the disaster and discredit
which that act brought ought TO pre-
vent a recurrence Of that costly blum
der. A republican victory this yeal
will bury the silver folly forever, will
insure the possession of the new terri
tory which the country needs, and will
Immediately and immensely increase
United States credit and influence al
over the world.-St. Louis Globe-Dem
ocrat.