The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1902-10-09
FACTS ABOUT TINE PARTY.

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"You do not have to guess what the
Republican party will do. The whole
world knows its purposes. 1t ha.
embodied them in law and executed
them in administration"
This was William McKinley's defini
ton of the Republican party before
he was elected president. 1t is true
today by reason of his administration,
which closed with the tragedy at
Buffalo that put the whole world in
grief for the death of one man as never
before known in history.
The Republican party is to-day as it
has been for more than fifty years, the
party Of sturdy American principles,
progressive and conservative, accom-
plishing what it advocates and advo-
eating what best represents the ideals
of the most progressive people in the
whole world.
The Republican party has never
been influenced by hysterical impulse,
but has resisted that tendency i'm its
own ranks and withstood it in the
assaults of its opponents.
1t had its origin not in revolution
AIRY doctrine, but in sober Judgment of
the people of the North, that compro-
mise with slavery was no longer posi-
bic in the great territory of the West
which was soon to be organized into
States and have an equal part in the
Union.
The first Republican president was
from the West, not excepting the
present Chief Executive, who, as the
child of New York, was early adopted
by the West as a cowboy and hunter
to make him as typically western as
any of his predecessors.
The record of the Republican party
is written i'm the amendments to the
Constitution, substantially all the
Federal statutes now i'm force, and the
most remarkable period of progress
the country has ever known.
1t is written also in the commercial
invasion of Europe, in Cuba, where
new flag has appeared as a testimonial
to the fidelity of this party to the
cause of free government, i'm Hawaii,
and Porto Rico, as new territories.
in the Philippines, where civil govern
ment is rapidly succeeding military
rule, and in China, where President
McKinley's policy led and controlled
the armies of the world marching to
the rescue of the besieged legations in
Pekin. These historical indices of
the impress on the world by the Gov
eminent policies and commercial ex-
pansion of the American people may
be fairly claimed as part of the his
tory of the Republican party, because
they represent the purposes of this
party-as "they have been embodied
in law and executed i'm administra-
ton"
1t may appear like strong asser-
ton to say that all the Federal laws
now i'm force are the laws of the Repub-
lican party, but it is true, for by the
codtication and remodeling of old
statutes and the enacting of Others
there is no Federal law now on the
statute books that do not bear the
impress of this party. The home
stead laws, the labor laws, the traffic
laws, and the laws relating to cur
rency are all frcm the Republican
party. 1t is a party that for nearly
half "A century has been responsible for
the administration of the nations
affairs, and throughout its admins
tration there has been progress.
| The one period when progress was
stalled and the wheels appeared to
turn backwards was that four years
from March 4, 1893, to March 4, 1897,
when the Democratic party was in
complete control, with Democratic
President, a Democratic Senate, and
a Democratic House of Representa-
tives.
! In that iour-year period policies and
laws that had proved beneficial were
reversed and repealed and Democratic
frec-trade policies embodied in law and
administration. The effort of the
Republican party has since that time
been to wipe out the effect and the
causes of that mistake. The one great
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repealed. 1t was the Wilson-Gorman
tariff law, and it was repealed by the
Dingley Act on July "A, 1897, at a
special session of Congress, called by
President Mckinley for that express
purpose. 1t is unnecessary to go into
detail as to the work of the Republi-
can party. IL is the work of the
National Government and the pro-
gresS Of the American people i'm the