The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-12
IN GREAT CRISES
Democrats Patriots Have Come to the
Aid OF the Republican Party.
THEIR NAMES AEE INDUSTRIOUS

BIZ eao '1tstorJ OF the RepEbiic-1hc
Party Hss Received Their Votes Be.
cause 1t Has Deserved to Win
What Republican Leadership Has
Accomplished in a Half Century of
History.
John Hay, secretary of state is an
important figure in American public
lie whose career is of special interest
to lndlanians because he was born in
this state and spent the earlier years
OF his life in Washington county. His
achievements in diplomacy have won
Tor MIN place in the very front rank
OF the great men who have presided
over the State department, and a half
century hence the Importance of his
services to the country will be better
appreciated than it is today.
AT the recent semi-centennial cele-
bration of the Republican party held
at Jackson, Mich, on July 9Th, Secre-
tary Hay was the orator of the day,
his subject being Fifty Years of the
Republican Party" He said, in part:
The Republican party had a noble
origin. 1t sprang directly from an
aroused and indignant national con-
science. Questions Of finance, of pol
itical economy, of orderly administra-
ton, passed out of sight for the mo-
ment, to be taken up and dealt with
later on. But in 1854 the question that
brought the thinking men together was
whether there should be a limit to the
that solemn inquiry turned to one still
more portentious. Should the nation
live or die? The humblest old Repub-
lican in America has the right to be
proud that in the days of his youth
in the presence of these momentous
questions he judged right; and if he
is sleeping in his honored grave his
children may justly be glad of his de-
cision
The Party Of Lincoln.
If there is one thing more than an.
other in which Republicans are en-
titled to legitimate pride it is that
Lincoln was our first president; that
we believed in him, loyalty supported
him while he lived, and that we have
never lost the right to call ourselves
his followers. There is not a principle
avowed by the Republican party today
which is out Of harmony with his
teachings or inconsistent with his
character.
We do not object to our opponents
quoting him, praising him, even claim
ing him as their own. But only those
who believe in human rights and are
willing to make sacrifices to defend
them; who believe in the nation and it's
beneficent power; who believe in the
American system of protection cham
pioned by a long line of our greatest
and best, running back from McKin-
ley to Washington; only those who be-
lieve in equal justice to labor and to
capital; in honest money and the
right to earn it, have any title to name
themselves by the name of Lincoln, or
to claim a moral kinship with that
august and venerated spirit.
Its Capacity to Govern.
The Republican party, in the mass
and in detail, has shown it's capacity
to govern By the homestead law, with
equal generosity and wisdom, it dis
tributed the immense national domain
among the citizens who we're willing
to cultivate it and who have converted
wide stretches of wilderness into smil-
ing homes.
1t built the Pacific railroad, which
has bound the Union together from
east to west by bands of steel and
made the states beyond the mountains
among our most loyal and prosperous
commonwealths.
1t redeemed Our paper currency and
made all our forms of money of exact
ly equal value, and our credit the best
in the world.
By persistent honesty in our finances
in the face of obstacles which might
have daunted the hardest statesmen
it has reduced our interest charges so
that in any mart on earth we can Dor
row money cheaper than any other
people
In the financial revulsions to which
all communities are subject, we are
able, thanks to our laws and our adj
ministrative system, to meet and pass
the most violent crises without lasting
damage to our prosperity.
We have by the patient labor of
years so succeeded in reforming and
regulating oE civil service that pat
ronage has almost ceased to cast it's
deadly blight upon the work of our
public servants. Human nature is
weak and offenses happen: but they