The state herald., 1904-11-04
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 q
Republican Congress.

The Presidential campaign which Is
Just closing has some unique features.
There has been, from first to last, an
absence of spectacular features, The
unusual feverish excitement. the election
year collapse Of business, the general
uncertainty and anxiety which used to
characterize 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-famed APATHY" of which so much
ia said just now. The people are not
apathetic. They are only satisfied. They
have what they want. they have made
up their minds to keep 1t, and they
know they are amply able to keep it
by casting their votes on election day.
Republican rule Republican work. Re
publican prosperity, peace and justice.
that is 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 Republi.
can Congress.
The two great national parties stand
for the 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
live each day for the best that day af-
fords, the people who accomplish things,
these are naturally and inevitably Re
publicans. The other kind OF people. the
lookers-on, the critics. the fault-tinders.
the promisers of great things aud doers
of nothing, these make up the Demo.
cratic party.
The Republican party acts. The Dem.
ocratic party protests.
Policies Of the Party.
This programme of the two parties.
carried out for many years, has never
been so clearly shown as during the dis
cussion of national affairs which has
been going on this year. The Republi.
can party came before the country.
through President Roosevelt, to give an
account of its stewardship from the day
when President Mckinley took the chair
of Chief Executive in 1897. The first
four years of the administration OF Presi-
dent Mckinley must be considered in
connection with the last four years OF
Mckinley and Roosevelt. for the carry
ing out Of Republican policy under Re
publican principles during those years
Is the basis upon which Republicans ask
for another term OF power.
The Republican platform and Presi-
dent Roosevelt's speech and letter OF ac.
ccptance show how closely the Rcpubli-
can party sticks to the practical work
of the present, how well It knows what
the people want. and how surely II IL
planning and moving to carry out the
desires Of the people. Upon the money
question the party occupies the same
ground where il stood, under attack, In
1896 and 1900.
In its internal policy II stands for pro-
lection. the irrigation OF arid land. the
construction OF the Panama canal. the
regulation Of Illegal trusts that run coun-
ter TO the Interstate commerce laws. the
payment OF just pensions 10 disabled.
honorably discharged veterans Of the
War for the Union. and other mca sures
and ideas familiar 10 the people. The
hopes aud labors OF the government have
been to bring the Philippines into close
relations with the American people. to
fit them for self government, and to give
Them form OF self government so
clearly defined as TO its future and no
well set forth that all may see what ha.
been done since the fortunes and fate OF
war threw upon the United States the
direct responsibility for millions OF fei-
low-beings in the Asiaiic seas. The for
eign policy is bu, record OF peace and
good win with all the nations Of the
earth. Prosperity. industry aud hopeful.
ness nt home. confidence and respect
abrond. such ~ the brief story OF Re.
publican rule during the past eight years.
What has the opposition to oiferi
Upon tn. gold standard Its platform is
all o. LAT all.
Bryan In IsoG aud 1900, now firmly de.
clarc- his conversion TO honest money
doctrines. Bryan Is on the stump for
Mr.. Parker, and the mass OF Democrats
to-day arc for free silver. or any kind
OF money that will serve 20 call the liz.
nornnt 90 their standard. Upon all the
questions OF government policy and prac.
tic~ the Democrats are as much at sea
as they are upon finance. Their whole
plan of campaign. NJ far ms any plan
has been developed. il III. world without.
end scheme OF finding fault with every.
body aud every Institution which accom-.
piishes things.
Dswocraey's Weak Pratssss
There are feeble aud more or less In.
trlligcnt protests against protection. Not
daring 20 oppose the Panama canal. the
protertors content with protesting
sgainst everything that has been done.
90 far. 10 make the Panama canal a
real thing. Upon the gigantic trust
evil. which menacrs Individual prosper.
ity. not . word OF sincerity hn. been
spokcn by Democrat. The efforts Of
President Roosevelt 10 apply tho United
States laws TO infrmctions OF the In.
tsrstatc commerce laws by the trusts.
have been ronndly condemned by III.
Democratic candidate and his followers
The payment of disability pensipus to
nrsd veterans Of the civil war has been
bitterly resented by the same candidate,
aud by his political associates.
,ts>s foreign policy, inausuratpJ and