CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-11-03
Great Issues at Stake, but
There Has Been No Fever
ish Excitement.
MINDS OF VOTERS MADE UP
Present Conditions Are Satisfactory.
and The People Will Elect Fair.
banks and Roosevelt and .
RepubiIcan Congress.

There has been. from FIRST 10 last, an
absence OF spectacular features. The
unusual feycrish excitement. the election
year collapse OF business, the general
uncertainty and anxiety which used to
characterize a national campaign are
lacking this year. Yet the issues at
stake. with choice to be made between
the two great parties. are tremendous.
The cause Of the general calm. the
even carrying on OF business. the alb
sence OF public excitement. Is not the
far-fsmed APATHY" of which so much
Is said just nov. The people are not
spnthetic. They are only satisfied. They
have what they want. they havS made
up their minds to keep IL, and they
know they are amply able 10 keep Il
by casting their votes on election day
Republican rule. Republican work. Re
publican prosperity. peace and justice.
that IL what the people OF the United
States have. and that Is what they are
determined TO keep. by the election of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks. and a Republi.
can Congress.
The two great national parties stand
for thu two kinds Of people into which.
broadly speaking. the whole complicated
mass OF human beings may be divided
The people who work. the people who
I've each day for the best that day af-
lords. the people who accomplish things,
these are naturally and inevitably Re
pubiicans- The other kind Of people. the
lookers-on. the critics. the fauit-6nders.
the promisers Of great things and doers
OF nothing. these make up the Demo
cratic party.
The Republican party acts. The Dem
ccratic party protests.
Policies Of the Psrty.
This programme of the Two parties
carried out for many yezrs. has never
been 20 clearly shown as during the dis
cns.ion of national Affairs which has
been rcinx on this year. The Repubii.
can party came before the country.
through President Roosevelt. to give an
account Of its stewardship from the day
wbep President Mckinley took the chair
of Chief Executive In 1897. The FIRST
four years Of the administration of Prcsi-
dent Mckinley must be considered In
connection with the last four years Of
Mckinley and Roosevelt. for the carry
inr out of Republican policy under Re
publican principles during those years
u the basis upon which Republicans ask
for another term OF power.
The Republican platform and Tresi-
d~nt Rooseveit'. speech and letter OF ac-
can party sticks 20 the practical work
of the present. how well /, knows what
the people want. and how surely Il is
planning and moving to carry out the
desires of the people. Upon the money
question the party occupies the same
ground where II stood. under attack, in
1so6 md 1900.
In Its internal policy II stands for pro-
lection, the irrigation of arid lands. the
construction OF the Panama canal. the
regulation of Illegal trusts that run coun-
ter to the Interstate commerc. laws, the
payment OF just pensions to disabled,
honorably discharged veterans Of the
War for the Union. and other measures
and ideas familiar 10 the people The
hopes and labors OF the government have
been 10 bring the Philippines into close
relations with the American people. 10
NJ them for self government. aud to give
them form of self government go
clearly defined as to its future and 80
well set forth that all may see what has
been done since the fortunes and fate OF
war threw upon the United States the
direct responsibility for millions OF fell
low-beings In the Asiatic seas The for
eign policy Is but record OF peace and
good will with all the nations OF the
earth. Prosperity, industry aud hopeful
ness at home. confidence and respect
abroad. such is the brief story of Re-
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