The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-14
FRIDAY. OCTOBER IA. 1904
ATTITUDE OF PARTIES
POSITIONS OF REPUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS.
The Former Stand for Certain FINN
damontnt Ideas, While the Latter
Are Content TO Oppose Everything
offered by Their Rivals.

1t is a common thing to hear 1t said
that there ~ little difference in this cam
paiyn between the position of the Re
publican and the Democratic parties, and
that some people do not much care which
wins. Never was more radical mis-
take made. There il n wide gulf be-
tween the stand OF the two parties.
Cuff No: oceans separate the out
posts OF each from the other.
The Republican party Is planted solid
ly upon certain fundamental ideas, and
the actual working out of those ideas
forms the main rock of its support. II
is Il ombination of men who believe In
action. led by a man of resistless ener-
gy. During the last half century the
Republican party has held together the
American Union and made 1t nation.
1t has abolished slavery forever from
our shores, IL has, through the protec-
tive tariff and other measures. bnilt up
national and individual prosperity. II
has, in very recent years, caused the
American nation TO be respected through
out the world as a frst-class power
debating, to-day. n policy OF justice and
fair dealing in international affairs. in
Europe. Asia and the islands OF the
seas. II has fought out the fight for
the gold standard, putting the nation on
a sound financial footing with the rest
of the world. 1t stands. n9 FOR hu-
man freeiom, equal justice & ~. equal
opportunities to all, withoT O Nsard to
race, creed or color. 1t sta sds for .rOs-
perity at home aud recognition abroad,
for honest money. for national credit, for
practical works of internal improvement.
1t has initiated the digging OF the Pam
anna Canal 1t has begun the irriSa-
.f.
Ii has inaugurated an era of education.
of sanitary reform. of civil and religious
liberty in the new American posses
SONS in the Atlantic and Pacific. The
Republican party is party OF work.
1t does thinssi 1t is alive, progressive.
virile and practical. 1t is, in its very
nature, constructive. 1t Is n living,
growing force. because it is made up OF
the men OF the nation who possess the
power OF taking the initiative in all
forms Of activity.
What About the opp,sItionr
And what about the Democratic party,
the party which some people are saying,
is not far different, at present, from its
rival2
What has the Democratic party said
or done during the last half century?
1t has simply laid its ears back and
kicked! 1t has been the leaden lump
TO lift in all great enterprises under
taken by the country from 1860 on to
the present moment of time. 1t opposed
the war for the Union with all its
strength. In 1864 its National Conven.
ton declared THE WAR \ FAIL
URE." 1t opposed, with heart and soul
the freeing OF the slaves. The district
oera,ica "sIlid south" 1t opposed @ tn tn,
protective tariff. and opposes it still. Ii
adopted the wild craze for free silver
and has never repudiated or disowned
its doctrines of 1896 and 1900. 1t held
back the Panama Canal and would have
defeated IT'S beginning il it had been
able 70 do So 1t has discouraged prac'
teal and humane administration OF ar
fairs in the Philippines. 1t has, at all
-imes, everywhere and anywhere, beeu
wrong. With n certainty which is mar
Nelous it taxes the wrong side % ever
public question.
And now, after the heat and burden OF
work borne by its opponent. this party
ST Ignorance, llziness, procrastiuatiou
aud disaster asks to be given the reins oi
NATIONAL power! 1t claims for itself con
sleration on the ground of perpetua
fault-fndinG with things as they ar,
and as they ought to be!
How can any sane man say that tn,
difference between the two great partie.
is not great? One means health, brains
heart, work. the solving OF hard prob
lens the assisting of the heavily bur
denei, the holding OF n great stroni
nation 10 its grand purpose in the bet
tering OF mankind. The other mean
standing still. looking backward, and go
ing backward. for man or nation standing
ri ia fn
There must be something in the al
which dulls perception when men car
say that they find little difference thi
year between the two great politica
parties. Fatness ald prosperity hHv
caused some people to lose quick percep
ton and Judgment. There would be
rude awakening for them II the Demo
Gratis should win the November elec
lions. The chances are much a;ains
any such catastrophe for the sleep
brethren who don't much care" Ii
a curious Phenomenon. however, the fac
of their existence.