Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-25


.nt and future welfare are so vitally
concerned. The voters of this most in
selligent state will not, by them, be de-
ceived. In 1896 they went before the
country contending for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and plead
ing for tariff for revenue only. They
are, in this state, seemingly anxious to
abandon their position taken in the last
campaign. They do not like to have
anything said about free silver or about
free trade. The marvellous and mys-
terious connection which they had 6is-
covered between wheat and silver dis
appeared Immediately after the cleo
tion of Mr.. Mckinley. In thousands of
speeches they cried out that we would
ruin the American farmer by insisting
upon currency founded upon gold
basis. They insisted that when silver
went down in the scale of values that
wheat went with it. That upon the fl
nancial question they We're sort of
Siamese twins. And yet, in this, as in
all things else, they have been mis-
taken. AS soon as it was ascertained
that our currency was to be continued
on a solid basis, wheat began to go up
and silver kept on going down. The
mysterious connection was broken.
There have been times since 1896 when
it would have taken enough silver bull
lion to make three silver dollars to
buy one bushel of wheat.
The Republican party has been in
this state on the right side of all the
great public questions of the last four
decades. Where are the public meas
ureS that our Democratic friends have
originated? They canot be found. In
this state. at least, the Democratic
party has even been like the hind
wheels of a wagon, crawling along In
the rear, keeping just so far behind;
always using as a camping ground the
place occupied by the Republicans in
the years that are gone, always keep
ing just far enough from the front to
be of no service in the settlement of
public questions.
We judge men, and we should judge
political parties, by what they have
done and not by what they promise
to do. You form your opinion as to the
future conduct of your neighbor by an
examination of his past life. Political
parties are composed of individuals,
and what is true of the individual per-
son is true of all political parties, be
they either great or small There is
no allegation against either of the can
didates personally that head the re-
spective state tickets. They are both
worthy citizens. Each represents the
traditions and the principles of his par
ty. And the success of the individual
candidate Will be the triumph of the
party whose representative for the
present he is.
Colonel William A. Stone repr sents
the Republican party, with its glorious
and illuminated history of the past
third of century. He represents par
ty that stands pledged to a financial
policy that will for all time give us
currency which shall be as unchange-
able as the hills and which shall be
good as gold in any land upon which
the sun in heaven shines in makinfi his
daily round. Colonel Stone represents n
party that stands pledged to the main
tenance of our present protective Sys-
tenn, which affords fair and ample re-
lief to America industry; which raises
a sufficient revenue to meet all the de-
mands of the people; which is at all
times able to protect the gold reserve
in the national treasury and which Goes
not compel the government to sell its
bonds by the hundred millions to pay
our running expenses in times of pro-
found peace and general prosperity.
Mr.. jerks and his ticket, so far as
this state is concerned do not represent
anything. His party has not originated
single measure for the benefit of the
people. 1t has contented itself in oppos-
ing Republican measures. and generally
without success. From n national
standpoint Mr.. jerks represents a tar
iff for revenue only and the free Ind
unlimited coinage of ascent dollars.
No Democratic orator during the pend
ing canvass. will deliver a speech adj
vocating either. They dare not here
and now urge the principles of the Chi
cago platform. If they would meet
these issues fairly and squarely on the
stump and advocate the same doc
trines that they put forth at Chicago
in 1896, the majority for Colonel Stone
would be 100000
I'm political parties all cannot, at all
times, have that to which they feel they
are entitled. There always has been
there always will be heart burnings
and bitter personal disappointments.
Republicans should stand by our most
excellent state ticket from the top to
the bottom. There has been, there will
be no allegation against the personal
fitness of a single one from the head to
the foot of the list. They are all good
men and true; We know of their ante
cedents. 1t is vastly important that we
should have a delegation in congress
as nearly our way as possible. dele
cation that will at all times stand by
the financial and revenue measures to
which our party has been so long COM
mitted.
1--WE all understand, if such a thing
were possible. what the election of the
Democratic ticket in November would
stand for. 1t would be said from the
busy Atlantic coast to the golden
shores of the Pacific; from our north
ern lakes to the land of the orange and
the magnolia, that the strongest pro-
tective state in the republic had re-
pudiated it's own idea, and that in mat
ters of finance its people preferred the
theories of William j. Bryan to the
facts, logic and sound principles of
William Mckinley, who today is the
most respected, the most honored and