The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1904-08-15
REPUBLICAN
CAMP AIGN
REPUBLICAN, CAMPAIGN
TEXT BOOK ISSUED
It Contains In Condensed Form a Lot
Of Official Information and Shows
the Party Has Made Good Pledges
OF 1896 and 1900.

Washington, Aug. i I5.Tarif, pros
perity, labor wages and prices, trusts,
the Panama Canal, Cuba and Cuban
reciprocity, expansion and its results,
the Investigations Of the postal and
land frauds and punishnents Of offend
ers, rural free delivery, irrigation, the
record of the republican party, and the
record of Theodore Roosevelt are the
leading subjects discussed by the re-
publican campaign text book OF 1904,
which is just about to be issued.
The following is a synopsis OF the
book prepared by the republican cam
paign committee:
The four great facts" it says,
(which justified the republican party in
asking the support Of the public in
1900 were: First, that its pledges OF
1896 had been redeemed; second, that
prosperity had come as a result; third,
that developments since 1896 had
shown the fallacy OF the principles up
on which the democracy then appeal
ed for public support; and fourth, the
conditions which had come to other
parts OF the world and their people as
result of promises fulfilled by the re-
publican party in the United States.
These assertions made in the text book
of 1900 have been fully justified by the
added experiences of another four
years. The pledges Of 1896 and those
made in 1900 have been redeemed. The
protective tariff has been restored, the
gold standard made permanent; Cuba
freed and given independence the
Panama Canal assured under the sole
ownership and control of the United
States; department of commerce and
labor established; rural free delivery
given to millions of the agricultural
community; the laws for the proper
regulation of trusts and great corpora
tions strengthened and enforced; pros
lperity established; commerce develop
ed; labor protected and given ample
employment and reward; intelligence,
prosperity and good governments estab-
Ilished in distant islands and the flag
of the United States made the enl-
blem of honor in every part of the
world All of these great accomplish
ments have been the work OF the re-
| publican party. In each of them it has
met the discouragement the opposition
and the hostilities of the democracy
| 1t is upon this additional evidence ofthc
Ipast four years, evidence that the re-
publican party is the party Of progress
and the democracy the party of mac
ton, retardment, and fault finding, that
| the republican party again confidently
appeals for public support in the presi-
dental and congressional elections Of
| 1904. "
Following this introduction, the
book takes up in consecutive order
the tariff, prosperity, trusts and indus
trial combinations, labor, wages and
prices, the advance in prices, the money
question, the record Of Theodore Roose-
welt, the Panama Canal, Cuba and
Cuban reciprocity, expansion and its
results, the record of the republican
party, the work of the departments url-
| der the Mckinley and Roosevelt adj
fninistrations, merchant marine, pen
sion and pension laws, rural free de-
livery, irrigation, public lands, and nu-
incrous other subjects liable to be dis
Icussed during the coming campaign.
The book also contains a sketch OF
1.-THE life and work of President Roose-
! welt and of Senator Fairbanks "a dis
icussion OF conditions in the island ter
ritories of the United States, the
prosperity which has come to them
under our control, the growing coiil7
lnlerce between those islands and the
United States, etc, discussion on
| the remarkable success of our diplo-
macy Iii the east " series Of chapters
on the work Ut each Of the executive
departments during the terms OF Presi4
|derts Mckinley and Roosevelt, and 4
chapter on the investiga gations into the
postal frauds.