The Holt County sentinel., 1900-11-02
Issued Every Friday.
Friday. November =, 1900.
Which Party 10 Trust.

Winch Party 10 Trust.
Is the present a proper time for the
people Of the United States to try again
the experiment of intrusting the Demo
cratic party with powers Eight years
ago Democratic President was elected,
and with him was elected a Congress in
both branches in sympathy with the ad-
ministrrtion. All the machinery Of the
government was thus in Democratic
hands. When the Democratic party en-
tered upon the duty of administering
the Affairs Of government, it found the
business Of the country prosperous. the
national treasury full, a revenue law in
effect, which. while extending the nee
e-sary protection to American labor,
produced an income not only sufficient
to meet all the necessary expenses OF
government, but to create a surplus
which WAS being utilized to reduce the
interest bearing indebtedness Of the
country.
There were at the time no foreign or
domestic complications to be dealt with,
and no task was before the Democratic
party save the simple one of administer
ing the affairs Of the country along the
Clearly defined lines in which those af-
fairs had been conducted for a genera
ton. 1t was not called upon to formu-
late new policies to meet or provide for
any extraordinary contingencies, or to
adjust itself to changed conditions,
either in the domestic affairs of the
country or in its relationtions to foreign
countries. In short, the task committed
to the Democratic party was the simp- /,
lest ever psGsented to party on taking |
power.s All that it was called upon to |
do was to keep the affairs of the coun-
try on the same business basis as it |
found it then; to provide for the ordi- !
nary disbursements for ordinary Gov |!
ernment expenses, and to refrain from
doing anything which would check the
prosperity which the people were then
enjoying.
This simple task proved too great for
the Democratic party. 1t could not re-
frain from meddlesome and disasterous
legislation. As result, in two years it
brought the business of the United
States to the verge of ruin, caused suf-
fering and misery to millions Of families
and added hundreds OF millions to the
bonded Indebtedness Of the country at a
time when there were no extraordinary
expenses to meet.
The Republican party, succeeding it,
has brought order out of chaos, restored
the national finances to healthy condi-
ton, and an unparalleled prosperity to
the people, and enormously expanded
tho trade Of our own country and abroad
1t has done this during the most
critical period Of the country's history
since the close Of the cival war, and
when called upon to deal successfully
with problems such as no other admin
istration has had to face. In the one
matter Of domestic legislation alone, the
record it has made is one of which every
American citizen has a right to feel
proud. Add too this the successful con-
duct Of the war with Spain, the suppress
sion Of the insurrection in the Philip
pines, and the commencement of the
work Of setting up American govern
ments in communities at the ends of the
world, and the record of deeds accom-
plished is one which will give to the
present administration of William Nc
Kinley place in American history Sec
ond to none.
With many Of the problems presented
in this administration not as yet COM
pletely solved, but being dealt with In a
mastery manner, the Democratic party
asks the people of the United States to
entrust it with finishing the work which
. Republican party has 30 successfully {
commenced. A party which failed alb
jectly 10 the task OF administering the ,
Government when called upon to do no {
more than to proceed along clearly de- ,
f3ned road from which every obstruction
had been removed by previous Republi- 6
can administrations, now thinks itself 1
to take up the reins of gov 6
ernment at one Of the most critical peri [
DDS Of the country's history. A party {
which has no policy except opposition
and obstructi o, and which failed to leg &.
islate successfully for the people Of the {
United States, with the experiences of 6
. hundred years behind it. aspifes to ,
deal with such problems as are now in [
volved in the establishing Of govern ,
ments for the Philippines and Porto
Rico, and in the present difficulties with s
China, which may involve the dismem- [
Of the Chimes empire. .
The Republican party has dealt sue {
csssfully with every problem which has /
ever been presented to it for solution.
Under no Republican administration {
were the honor or credit OF the United
States ever tarnished, nor did the busi- {
nss interests OF the people ever suffer. ,
Tho Democratic party failed in the sim
plest proposition dealing solely with do ,
mestic affairs. Which should be entrust-
ed to deal with the mighty issues at I
home and abroad now before the {
country? &
Believing thus we ask every voter,
having at heart the welfare of his coun- ,
try, his state, and its peoples to {
See to it that your ballot reads: c
President, VIM. Mckinley
Governor. Joseph Flory. Z
Attorney General, s. F. O'Fallon.
Congress, John Kennish. q