The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-30
THEIR BLUFF CALLED
Republicans Are Eager to Meet the
Democrats On State Issues.
ARE PROUD OF THEIR RECORD
State Finances Never In Better Condi-
ton and Every Department Of the
State Government Is Managed With
Signal Ability and Economy.
ISnecial Correspondence.l

the Democrats IN the present CANVASS
and announced that they are ready to
meet their spellbinders upon any issue
they may present.
The Democratic state platform was
built entirely upon what were termed
state Issues Owing to the wide diff
ference of opinion among Democrats OF
today as to what the Democratic party
in the nation really stands for, it was
deemed wise to avoid further disrup-
tions in the party by attempting TO
place the Pennsylvania Democratic or
ganization on record upon any Of the
great national questions which divide
the parties.
Never in the history Of the Democ-
racy have their leaders been so much
at sea as they are today.
They are floundering about afraid to
attempt to land anywhere, and they see
the young men of the country just en-
tering into citizenship looking upon
them with expressions of disgust and
contempt and refusing to have any
thing to do with them or their party.
With the presidential campaign TO be
waged next year, the first voters nat
urally have their minds directed 10
fundamental principles of government
and the isues which have divided the
national parties in previous elections,
but when they turn to the Pennsyl-
vania Democracy they discover that
there is no settled or fixed policy with
which the party organization is di.
rected. They are told that national
issues are not being discussed this
year; it is all state issues"
LET STATE ISSUES BE DISCUSSED.
While believing that the campaign
this fall is actually a preliminary Skin
mish OF the national contest next year
and that the returns of the election
in November will have a positive in
fuence in shaping the lines for the
presidential struggle, the Republican
campaign managers in Pennsylvania
have expressed themselves as ready
and eager to meet the Democrats at
their own game. Let state issues be
freely discussed, they say.
The Republican orators in this cam
paign point with pride to the admin
istration of every public trust that has
been committed to the Republican party
and its candidates in Pennsylvania.
The state treasury was never in 4
better condition and the administration
Of Governor Pennypacker meets vlyU
the Endorsement of all fair-mindeG 81
liens who recognize the fact that they
have a thoroughly patriotic and on
scientious executive officer who is ad-
ministering his office in the interest OF
the whole people.
Every branch of the state govern
ment is being managed ably and econ
omically.
CANDIDATE MATHUES' VIEWS
Candidate for State Treasurer Will
liam l.. Mathues, in discussing the po-
litical situation, said:
There are no off years in our or
ganization, nor should there be any at
any time in the Republican party.
Sometimes the Offices in number and
Importance to be voted for are greater
and more exalted, but each year has lis
current duties and responsibilities, and
this year, preceding as it does the ma
tional struggle for president, should be
n in which this grand old common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in which l was
born and in which | live, and which all
of us love and are proud of, should
speak in no uncertain or faltering
tones.
I'm this republic of ours Pennsylva-
mia occupies the most exalted position,
and | am one of those who are of the
opinion that this supremacy of our COM
monwealth is greatly, almost wholly
we may justly contend, due to the SUI
premacy of our party. Under Republic
can control in its principal depart
ments almost continuously since 1860,
we have advanced marvelously in in
dustrial strength and wealth, aug
mented our manufacturing power until
it leads all other states and completes
with foreign plants in the four corners
of the world. Our state finances are
stable, our credit gilt-edged and the
debt comparatively effaced. Our edu-
cational system and its advantages by
reason of the liberality of the state are
unsurpassed and unequaled. Pros
perity abounds, the times are good and
%contentment environs IL people, and
what is better than all, the outlook for
the future is suspicious.
There is no cloud as big as a mans
hand on the horizon, save only the dan
ger of Democratic control-the recur-
renee Of those deplorable Democratic
times WI all recall, some to their sor-
row, when the bitter cry Of those in the
gainful occupations who sought work
and found it not, went up in distress 10
the heavens everywhere over our fair
land. | do not want those times again.
Even many of our Democratic friends
fear them, for they have gotten into a
fashion Ia good many of them of vot-
ing with us and for our candidates and
policy.
LET us take no insane leap in the
dark. Putting on our armor and grid
ing up u political loins this year for
the great battle of 1904, let Pennsyl-
vania declare in most emphatic terms
that she intends to stand resolutely
and confidently by the Mckinley
policy and the policy of our own able.
and aggressive young President Roose-
welt and leave well enough alone"