Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1900-07-05
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

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In taking up his work in con-
nection with the press buresu u Of
the Republican Editorial Asso-
citation in March last, r. w.
Wheelock issued a circular to the
editors Of the state in which,
among other things, he said:
The strength of the republican
position today lies in the following
facts: Prosperity is widespread and
substantial, affecting the agricultural
and laboring classes equally with all
others, as evidenced by the general
rise in the price OF farm products and
in the increase of the opportunities
and the wages OF working men in all
lines of employment.
The enactment of the currency bill
into law has firmly settled monetary
conditions and has not only eliminated
free silver as a vital issue, but has as
sured marked increas in the volume
of good money, as will be seen when
the measure gets into full operation.
Expansion with all its vast CONNER
cial possibilities is an established fact,
and with the democrats themselves di-
vided upon this policy it can never be
lreyersed, no matter what party may
come into power in this country here
after.
The republican party has both the
power and the disposition to solve the
/ trust prohlem4 which involves econo-
mic rather than political consider
|ations and which can be more effectu-
ally reached by constitutional amend
ment or some other form of national
Legislation than through platform de-
nunciation or campaign rhetoric.
The action taken by the ma
tiona1 republican convention IN
Philadelphia in unanimously re-
nominating President Mckinley
and placing Governor Roosevelt
on the ticket with him, equally
unanimously, on a platform
which speaks for itself compre-
lhensively and in no uncertain
tones, renders the republican posi-
tion UNNECESSARILY stronger than
when the circular referred to was
Iseut out,
The campaign may now be
said to be formally opened for il
is a foregone conclusion that the
fusion forces in Kansas City will
nominate Bryan and adopt a
| platform reaA6rming the Chicago
pronuncianentoof four years ago,
supplemented !: 8 sasaeter,stie
i Idenunc1atiion Of eve: e-ees:Fsthing the
irepub1icans have done.si since ..
| propose to do hereafter.
The advantage of position ls
= h. lal1eaus. They point
to a bright record Of promises
fulfilled aud of prediction ifleft
lin marked contrast with the dis
NAL list of prophesies dishororee
and of policies discredited, inso
!. far as the democrats have beer
able to formulate them in con
gressiona1 action. The yer,
mistakes inseparable from th,
t consideration Of new problem
: and the adjustment to new condi
|.tions which the republican hav'
made are working to party ad
5 vantage because they bring on
: the long record of unquestione'
]successful achievements th,
: brighter by contrast.
In the settlement of the Port,
I Rican matter the Judgment of thi
! writer has been vindieated for h
said in the circular above men
: toned that ssthe present disa
greement amoung republican
over the proper method Of pro
viding for the needs Of Port
Rico has been exaggerated by tn
! democratic and nugwump pres
a for obvious purposes, and bid
h fair to to be adjusted very 500
d upon a basis satisfactory to al
r phases of republican sentiment.
9 Above and beyond all thes
Y considerations which operate 70
b republican success Lies the unan
3 answerable and indls sputable argu
!. ment of settled business eondi
: tioi1s. The interests .of the countr
9 whether it,dividualpr aggregated