Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1904-09-23
EDITORIALS.
REPUBLICAN PARTY VS.. ALL
OTHER PARTIES.

This year being the national elec-
tion in America, and as there are many
parties with principles and many isnis
without, principles soliciting your vote
and support, all these isms and par
ties seem to center their attack on
the party now in control, or the repub-
lican party. We, as intelligent, rea-
sonable thinking people must first
learn to know that no one party is
perfect nor what they advocate is free
from criticism. because man himself is
not perfect, therefore parties neces-
sarily cannot be perfect. Then again
the acts of few men, or the laws they
sometimes pass, are not always in ac-
cord with it's true principles. Then
again no party is free from error.
Now, with these basic principles fully
before us, the republican party was
born out of urgent necessity just fifty
years ago with the cardinal principle
of truth, justice and freedom as her
motto. She has enslaved a whole race.
1t was this party that gave us our
beneficial homestead laws, where
every man can go out West and take a
claim. She gave us our magnificent
railroad system which forms a net
work over America bearing the prod
ucts to the market. She gave us the
protective tariff which started fac
tories and mills all over the this coun-
try. The republican party is one Of
progress and success, while the demo
cratic party is one Of calamity and de-
struction. The republican party is
proud of her past record, the demo
cratic party is ashamed of her past.
Then there is the populist party, once
formidable and able, but now declin-
ing rapidly Then the prohibition par
ty, which never grapples with the in
tricate commercial or trust problems.
therefore she is on single plank. In
fact, the republican party has done
more for the prohibition cause than
any other party. Then the union la
Dor party, whicn has but single idea
for it's platform, and lastly the ma
tional liberty party, headed by one
Geo. E. Taylor of this state as it's
sponsor and candidate for president
with no platform and but few princi-
pies stated in letter of acceptance.
This party was conceived by demo
Gratis born in democratic national
convention recently held in st. Louis,
operated and called by shrewd demo
cratic leaders using few color
ed men on the committees as
tools. The expenses of this called
meeting, we are informed, was borne
by the national democratic committee:
therefore the colored voter can have
no faith in it.
Granting it to be true that the re-
publican party has not done all it
should, but certainly they have done
we'll with every other national party
arrayed againstit or doing nothing.
Then again the republican party has
done all that has ever been done for
the uplift and progress Of the race.
Whatever political and civil rights that
we have ever received or now hold
have been granted us by the Crane
Old Republican Party. While there
may often be prejudiced and mean
en- in control occasionally, yet the
party as whole and it's basic princi-
pie is for equal opportunities and JUS
tice to all classes, and venture furth-
er that our rights and interests will
be better protected in the hands OF
tried and true republican party, espe-
cially at this time when the race has
such a true and tried friend in our
good and beloved president, Theodore
Roosevelt