Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-10-07
FORAKER is HEARD.
Ohio Senator Prominent In Opening
State Campaign.
Makes Telling Speech, Laudatory of
Republican Policies and Con-
demnatOry of Democratic
Principles.


Ohio republicans started machinery
of their state campaign at Chillicothe
Saturday. September 10, with consider
able of flourish. Senator J. B. Foraker
was foremost among the orators of the
occasion and he spoke in his very best
form, attributing to republican policies
the Hnexampled prosperity of the coun-
try and reviewing the disastrous effects
of democratic influence on the country.
The senator said:
I'VE are approaching another election.
It Will be one of great Importance.
We are to elect a governor and other
important state officials, and elect legis-
lature that will choose q United States
senator
ut would be enough 10 make this cleo
tton important, If nothing more were IN
volved than merely a choice of r,ea For
these responsible posts of duty. But more
important by far than the question of what
man shall hold any one of these places
IS the great broad question of choice be-
tween political parties. Is Ohio to go
democratic or republican is what every
body wants to know. not only here, but
all over the country. What we do this
year will Indicate what we are likely to
do next year. A vote for Herrick now
means a vote for Roosevelt then. Her
rick's election will mean that this great
central commonwealth, with its vast in
fuence upon the politics of the country,
approves and supports the policies Of the
republican party now. in the election OF
a governor. and intends to do the same
thing next year IN the election Of a pres
ident
1.-THE situation thus resolves itself into
the question whether We desire to con-
tinue present conditions or change them. If
the question at issue could be voted upon
in this simple form, Col. Herrick would
be elected by we'll nigh unanimous vote,
for. so far as state affairs are concerned,
there Is universal satisfaction.
"Under the administration Of Gov. Nash
the last dollar of our state debt has been
paid. Our public institutions have been
conducted with economy and efficiency,
and our taxes for state purposes have been
reduced to the lowest rate that We have
ever known.
Republican Prosperity.
There may not be the same unanimity
with respect to national affairs, but there
should be, for all must concede that under
republican policies we Nare enjoying the
most satisfactory results. We are hav-
ing unexampled prosperity. We have never
before experienced such universal bust
ness activity. 1t extends to all oceupa-
tdons. 1t perVadeS all sections, and dis
penses its rich rewards to all classes of
people. Our revenues were never SO am
pie, nor ever so little burdensome The
American name was never SO honored
throughout the world Our wealth and our
strength are everywhere acknowledged
and our diplomacy Is everywhere success
full It has commanded the good will and
excited the admiration OF all the peoples
of the earth
1T is not only our privilege, but our
duty, 20 continue all this. And the first
step IN the discharge of this duty is to
keep the democratic party out of power
AS at present organized and inspired, il
ds not fit to be in power.
To be a fit agency for the execution of
the peoples will, a party must have not
only acceptable principles. but also a COM
mon belief and common purpose among
its members. There never was a time when
our democratic friends had acceptable
principles. but there was time when they
had these other attributes. but that time
was a long time ago.
To-day they have no common agree
rlent on any proposition. except only that
they are democrats They cannot tell
why. nor can they even agree what the
term democrat implies. On all impor-
tant subjects and policies they have the
sharpest ard most irreconcilable differ
ences. They are more hostile toward each
other than they are toward the republic
ans. There is no hatred in the politics of
our country like that which fills the hearts
of the free silver and gold democrats to-
ward each other. The free silver men
charge that they were buncOed out of a
victory in 1886 by the detection Of the gold
democrats, and the gold democrats charge
that tneir party was discredited and dis
graceo by the free silver men, who GAINED
control of it in that year.
so long as they are out of power. no
harm is done, but If they should be re-
stored to power, such dissensions would OF
themselves paralyze all their efforts and
visit upon the country again the disastrous
experiences to which we were subjected
IN 1888, when. for the same reason, they
found themselves unable to legislate about
the tariff, and because of that inability
and their laundering errors lost the conf
dence of the business interests and plunged
the whole country into disastrous and
long-continued panic
1t would be much worse now than it was
then. In the first place. our prosperity is
greater, and we have more to lose. But
then there was only the one question of the
: tariff about which they were deadlocked.
while now their irreconcilable differences
embrace not only the tariff, Jbut the. coin
age OF money. the currency. expansion, and
every other question with which we have
portant subject
And yet this paralysis, with its conse-
a ain VI UlSdSleTS, great as they
would be. would yet be far less injurious
to the country than an application of such
principles as are announced In the plat
form recently adopted by the democrats
Of Ohio.
Democratic Principles.
I'm that document they denounce almost
everything connected with the adminstra-
ton of our public affairs, but especially the
tariff. what they term 'colonialism,' and
government by injunction.
"If thew could enforce only these dec ro
tons, we would have at once a free trade
revision Of the duties now levied and col
lected on imports from foreign countries
and abapdonment of Porto Rico and the
Philippines, and the courts would be de-
MED the power to issue the writ of injunc-
. ton. IN open violation of the constitu-
ton.
'Au these propositions are unwise. and
some Of them unpatriotic, and even worse
The best discussion of the tariff is our
practical experience. From the beginning
of our government down to the present
time, We have alternately tried protect ION
and free trade, or tariff for revenue only
policies. and invariably with TIE result
that We have always had prosperity under
protection, and adversely under free trade
any approximation toward free trade
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