Rocky Ford enterprise., 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 closin. has some unique features.
There has been. from hrst 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 q national campaign are
lacking this year. Yet the issues at
stake. with choice to be made between
She two great parties, arc tremendous.
The catfse OF tho general calm, the
even carrying on OF business. the alb
scncs Of public excitement. Is not the
far-fnmed APATHY" of which so much
is said Just now. The people are not
apathetic. They are only satisfied. They
have what they want. they have made
ur their minds 10 keep II. and they
know they are amply able TO keep Il
By casting their votes on election day.
Republican rule. Republican work. Re-
publican prosperity. peace and Justice.
that 10 what the people OF the United
States have. and that IL 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 bs divided.
The people who work. the people who
live each day for the best that day af.
fords, the people who accomplish things.
these arc naturally and inevitably Re
publicans. The other kind of people. the
1cokers-on. tho critics. the fauit.hndcrs.
shs promiscrs of great things and doers
OF nothing. these make up the Demo-
cratic party.
The Republican party acts. The Dem.
ecratic party protests.
Poiicis. OF the rsrty.
This programme of the two parties.
carried out for many years. has never
been 80 clearly shown ne durink the dis.
cussion of national affairs which has
been going on this year. The Rcpubli.
can party came before the country.
through President Roosevelt, to give an
account of Its stewardship from the day
when President Mckinley took tho chair
of Chief Executive In lso1. The first
four years OF the administration Of Prcsi-
dent Mckinley mus, bs 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
u the basis upon which Republicans ask
Tho Republican platform and Presi.
dent Rooscvelt's speech aud letter OF sc-
ccptance show how closely the Rcpubii.
can party sticks TO the practical work
of the present, how well Il knows what
che people want. and how surely Il IL
planning and moving to carry out the
desires Of the people. Upon the money
question the party occupies tho same
ground where II stood. under attack, in
1S0G and 1000.
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.
ser to the Interstate commerce laws. tho
payment of just pensions to disablci.
honorably discharged veterans Of the
War for the Union. aud other measures
and ideas familiar to the people. The
hopes and 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 a form of self government so
clearly defined as to It's future and 30
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 fel.
low-bcinGs In the Asiatic seas. The for
eign policy IL but n record of peace and
good will with all the nations Of the
earth. Prosperity. industry and hopeful
ness at home. confidence md respect
abroad. such is the brief story of Re.
publican rule during the past eight years.
What has the opposition to offcrl
Upon the gold standard its platform Is
silent. Its candidate. who voted for
Bryan in 1896 and 1900. now firmly de-
II. IL. 4.
doctrines. Bryan is on the stump for
Mr.. Parker, and the mass OF Democrats
to-day are for free silver. or any kind
of money that will serve to call the tx.
nornnt TO their standard. Upon all the
questions of government policy and prnc-
tice the Democrats are as much at sea
as they are upon finance. Their whole
plan of campaign. 30 far as any plan
has been developed. Is the world-without.
end scheme OF finding fault with every
body and every institution which accom-.
plishes things.
Democracy's Weak Protects.
There are feeble aud more or less In
tclligcnt protests against protection. Not
daring to oppose the Panama canal, the
protestors content with protesting
against everything that has been done.
so far. to make the Panama canal a
real thing. Upon the gigantic trust
evil. which menaces individual prosper
lty. not word Of sincerity has been
spoken by Democrat. The efforts Of
President Roosevelt to apply the United
Stntcs laws to infractions of the In.
terstate commerce laws by the trusts,
have been roundly condemned by the
Democratic candidate and his followers.
The payment OF disability pensions to
aged veterans of the civil war has been
bitterly resented by the same candidate,
nj hv his nnIitical associafaa