Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-08
Senator Foraker Says It is MoKinley's
Administration.
PEOPLE MUST DECIDE ON THAT
Has It Been Good or Do They
Want Change?
ARRAIGNS THE DEMOCRATS

| YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, September s.
Senator j. B. Foraker made the principal
| speech here today at the opening Of the re-
publican campaign in Ohio.
Senator Foraker spoke follows:
Mr.. Chairman and fellow citizens: The
paramount issue of this campaign Is the
administration of William Mckinley. Shall
IL be indorsed or repudiated? That Is the
| question.
| Money, tariff, trusts and so-called impe-
rialism are, each and all important sub
| jects. but no one of them can be segregated
| from the others and voted upon by itself.
III other words, the democratic party can
not be restored to power as to one propo-
sition and be excluded from power as to
| others. 1t must 60 in foot, horse and
dragons, or not at all.
You cannot adopt it's views as to the
! Philippines without at the same time ac-
cepting free silver. You cannot agree with
it about trusts and differ as to govern
ment by Injunction. The proposition that
1.-The Constitution follows the flag is
coupled with free trade, and their lamenta-
tons about the Declaration of Indepen-
dence and the consent of the brown men
who are to be governed in the far distant
isles of the sea are coupled with defiant
notification of the Constitution, and a bru-
tai denial by violence rapine, blood and
murder of the most sacred rights Of the
negro citizens of the nation who have per-
lied their lives for the flag and with gal
liant heroism honor and renown for
the republic the battle fields of the ma
ton. To make a long story short, you
cannot vote mixed ticket or have a mixed
result. You must choose between republi-
canism on the one hand and democracy on
the other-not democracy in this. that or
the other particular. but democracy in all
particulars. 1t is therefore the duty Of
every voter to survey the whole field and
her viii thsa not in, Ind datn
whether the present administration shall
be continued. 1t should be enough that this
admin !stration is republican.
Our experience with democracy has been
more than unsatisfactory. 1t has been dis
astrous. There are many wise, capable
and patriotic men in that party, but the
party as such somehow lacks capacity for
the successful administration of public af
fairs This is no new thing. Such has been
the since long before the war The
following extract from the annual message
OF President Buchanan shows the deplor
able SKATE to which democratic policies and
incapacity had reduced us in 1857 He
said:
I'VE have possessed all the elements of
material wealth in abundance. and yet. not
withstanding all these advantages our
country III its monetary interests is at the
present moment in a deplorable condition.
In the midst of unsurpassed plenty in all
the productions of agriculture and in all the
elements of national wealth, we find
retarded. our private enterprises of differ
ent kinds abandoned and thousands of use
fui laborers thrown out of employment and
reduced to want.
Disasters Under Cleveland.
We have only to recall the distress that
overlook the country in the last admins
tration of Mr. Cleveland to show that. If
possible. the latest effort of democracy was
even more unfortunate than that of Blu
chanan. Business paralysis, commercial
ruin, idleness and despair, with loss of
credit both public and private. overlook
and almost destroyed because of what
democracy, in its lack of craftsmanship
and general incapacity, undertook 10 do
for the country.
The truth is that the democratic party
has been on the wrong side of every great
question for more than fifty years.
Slavery was abolished, the Union was
preserved. the Constitution was amended
our finances were re-established specie pay
ments were resumed, credit was re-
stored and prosperity was made universal
by the republican party, not only without
the help of the democratic party. but in
spite of its bitter and determined opposi-
ton.
In all these great measures, and through
all these eventful years, the republican par
ty has shown the highest order OF states
manship and a capacity for public Affairs
equal to every emergency. IT has been
constructive and aggressive in all its ppli
cles and purposes, and by "arduous work
done" has gained the confidence of the
country and led US steadily onward as n
people, until today we stand at the very
front of all the nations of the earth
According to familiar principles this rec
ord entities us to preference not only TO
continue approved policies, but also and
more particularly to solve new and diff
cult problems.
Tested by practical arguments and con.
SideratfOnS the same result follows.
nd tic
policies is of the highest importance We
know what the Mckinley administration is
Who knows what Bryan administrator
would be? No one can even intelligently
speculate. Democrats are themselves hope
lessly divided to what would follow
their success in November
Mr. Bryan stated in his indianapolis
speech that. If elected, his first official act
would be to call an extra session of Con-
gress, to carry out his views, and he ask d
for votes on that account; but Mr.. Bourhe
Cochran, in his letter to the Sons of Lib
erty, assembled a few days after Mr. Bry-
ans utterance. in the same city of Indian
apolis. appealed to that body 10 support
Mr.. Bryan on the ground that If elected
he would be powerless, because OF a re-
publican Senate, to secure any legislation
that would embody his heresies and va
carries. Mr.. Cochran is willing to see Mi
Bryan elected because he thinks he cannot
do worse than throw the nation into a
deadlock, and what Mr. Bryan and Mr.
Cochran have thus respectively set forth
fairly represents the differences among
democrats generally. Some want ,ir Bry-
an elected that he may do certain things
and others want him elected upon the the
DRY that he cannot do those things because
a republican Senate will remain t. stand
between the country and the country ;
danger.
The trouble with the democratic party is
that 1t lacks sincerity and harmony of pur-
pose: therefore. when it occasionally gets
into power, 1t necessarily proves incapable
to redeem its own pledges. and as Il result
brings upon the country a distrust that
paralyzes business, robs labor of employ
ment turns trade balances against us and
impairs national credit.
Republican ascendancy means and al
ways has meant, the very opposite This
Is forcibly illustrated by recent events
President MckfnIey's Administration.
President Mckinley was elected four
years ago to do certain specific things that
the republican party thought would bene-
fit the country. He has done them. and
the whole country has profited in conse-
quencc.
His party meant what 1t said when II
made its promises, and the President has
been able to redeem those promises because
he had united and sincere party behind
him.
1t is something to have kept the faith
1t is conclusive to have been indicated by