The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-04-25
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III 1T SO EASY TO FORGET.

+ palSna OF Gsi9D+2lNt as SuG" II IL eiAe az
nual addres of William a Smyrh,
president OF the New orks State Re- e
| publican Editorial Association, at the
4 meeting of April 4 5. Rightly Pres
/ ident Smyth adm o1lishes his brother
! editors of the grave and faI--rea ching
/ consequence OF the questions 60 be
! decided this year: rightly he warns
them that Republican editors of the
State must be prepared 70 DO their
share OF the lighting if we are 70
| keep IN. power the party Of Pz,oEec-
| ton. honest money and prosperous
/ times. There is no question Of hon
est money involved in this .ear,s5
/ Struggle The- Democratic party Viii
| not again overload itself TO The sink
ing point with auy &c Go AZ foolish
/ dead. But the ISSUE that IS alive To-
| day, as much alive q $ at any previous
| period in Z the 5country's history. IS
Protection and prosperous times N
! his address President Snayti1 said:
.tThis year. the tifty-fourth ami
| versarE OF the founding of the Bepub-
| lican party, promises to be mem
orable one. During the past year. an
| off-veal' il politics. there has been but
! little work for this association TO DO
| We are now on the threshold OF a
very important campaign, and prob
ably none that have preceded it have
been so important and far-reachins
| to the American people as this prom
| ises TO be.
you can always trust the Demo-
cratic party to have paramount
issue When this association was
| Free-Trade, eight years ago it was
free silver, and four years ago mill
| tarisnl and Imperialism. with free sill
yer as a side issue. This year the
param cunt Issue has not been sharply
defined as yet,but you can rest as
sured that our Democratic friends
will have one.
TT looks now as il the brunt of the
! fight will be in the State OF New
| York; that the two opposing cand1-
dates will be sons of the Empire
united Democracy, though not united
on principle, but simply for the spolls
of Office. 1t will be no easy cam
paign; the battle will be fast and flu
rious, and. the Republican editors OF
1 this state will have to do their share
| of the fighting. The voters, especial
" those in the country districts, Will
| have to be educated and aroused to
the necessity Of keeping the grand
old party in power, the party OF Pro
lection, honest money and prosper
Gus times: Our people forget cas-
| lily. Many of them have already for
gotten the condition in which the Re
publican party found the country sew
en- years ago, when they returned to
power Soup houses were popular
then, but they soon gave way to the
march of good times. The merchant,
the farmer, the manufacturer took on
new courage; the closed 1nanufac-
tories were opened and running on
full time; the promises of the mar
tyred Mckinley were quickly fulfilled,
| and prosperity was again an actual
ity'
True it is that ''our people forget
easily They forget past ills es.
capped from; they forget alike the
| cause of those ills and the means
whereby escape was made possible.
Republican editors, not alone in New
York, but in all the States of the
Union, are exceedingly prone to for
| get. What wonder, then, that their
readers should forget? How many
members of the New York State Re
| publican Editorial Association are
blameless in this regard? How many
] of them have in the past four years,
| for example, steadily" persistently,
faithfully kept in the plain view OF
their readers the principles, the acts,
the conditions, the underlying causes
| of our prosperous times? How many
| have constantly made plain the rea-
sons for our prosperity and the dan
| gers attendant upon any departure
from safe, sound Republican policies?
| Not ten per cent. we venture to say.
They have had other things to think
Of and they have thought and written
of other things far more than they
have thought or written about the ell
ements and causes of prosperous
| times. "Our people forget easily
| Undoubtedly they do. They forget
between elections, because they are
permitted to forget. It is up to Re-
! publican editors to remember all the
time, and not merely for short three