The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-20

humsnit- essentially impaired, justice,
uemand that Immediate effort, n. nd -.
m,t .essation OF hostilities, with a view tn an
oth.r ne convention Of all the States, or
tho asr,,sst M means, to the end that, at
~ ~ restored on the basis Of tho Tsder:I
Union Of the States "e 'o1efa'
Demanded states Rirht.
In another resolution the princin,.~ and
purposes of the Belmonts and Sevmour,
or 1864 were set forth in these troll.
tional terms:
pc mescry.d, That the aim and object of the
J1nIau aug party IL to preserve the Federal
Union and the rights Of the Statas mir
pAlr.d, and they hereby declare that thev
e1t 'Ssrf me administrative usurpation Of
granted by the Constitution. The .nbver.
sioh OF the civil by military law In states
~; ;.ot IN lnsurrection, the arbitrary arrest.
ran o,t,n trial and sentence Of Ameri-
-, eniHehs III states where civil law exists
IN 1uli force, the suppression Of freedom
y. speech and OF the press the denial Of
tne right OF asylum the open and ayOwed
y" Mfs,e ,,i o. state rights. the employment
OF unusual test oaths, and the Interference
WIN ana denial Of the right of the Deonle
10 Dear arms as calculated to prevent a re-
s,ora,ioh OF the Union and the perpetuation
OF government deriving its lust Dowers
from the consent Of the governed
With the omission of a few nhrases
having reference to the then prevailing
CONDITION Of war. there is nothing to dis
uiisulsh these utterances of the Demo
cratic party forty years ago from those
OF the same bourbon party to-day. The
similarity of phraseology used to de-
nounce, to declare and to demand the
invocation of the Constitution to pre-
serve rights and liberties from imaginary
perlls of administrative usurpation. mill
tary subversion and individual invasion.
the fictitious concern over non-existine
financial and industrial burdcns-all 90
to show that the Democratic party of
1904 stands in the same old shoes Of
1874, snarling at the heels of the Re-
publican party which now. as then. ia
doing things for the advancement peace
and prosperity of the people Of the Uni
ted States.
IL Will be observed that in August
1864, the Democratic party assumed to
express the sense of the American peo-
ple' in its arragnment of Lincoln and
the Republican party, an assumption
winch the American people in Novem-
Der promptly repudiated by the follow
ing vote:
Popular Electoral
r, vote. vote.
LINCOLN and Johnson. 2,216.O67 212
Mcclellan and Pendleton 1,SOS,72 u
states not voting ......... 81
Delaware, Kentucky and New Jersey
We're the only States in the slim Demo-
cratic column that year.
Same Old Cry.
Every four years since 1864, the Demo-
cratic party has gone through the same
formula Of arraigning the Republican
party as the party Of unconstitutional
usurpation, fanaticism, sectionalism, ex-
travagance, financial bankruptcy, CEN
trallzation, corruption and abuse Of pow
er-and with two exceptions the Ameri-
can people have returned the same YER
dict they did in 1864. In 1884 and 1892
certain exceptional conditions for which
the Republican party was in nowise re-
sponsible, caused the American people
to lend trusting ear to the reiterated
impeachment of the Republican admins
tration. Clevelands two terms were the
result. both giving conclusive proof of
the incompetence of the Democratic
party to administer the government ex-
cept by adopting every Republican policy
and practice they had denounced.
In Cleveland's second administration
the Democratic party attempted to re-
place the Republican tariff with mon
gre mixture of free trade, class pro-
lection and special bounties, and then
came to pass the very conditions of rev.
enue deficits, social disorder and wide
spread despair and misery of which the
American people had only dreamed under
the spell of Democratic demagogy.
The restoration of Safety and Sanity
in the administration of American af-
fairs came with the election of William
MCKINLEY in 1896. Since tnen the nation |
has experienced a period Of prosperity
unexampled in the history OF the world. |
1t has waged a successful war resulting
in esta blishing liberty and popular
government in Cuba, in extending Ameri- |
can freedom, justice and protection in |
Porto Rico and the Philippines and in |
advancing the United States to a power |
full, almost commanding place, in the |
polity of nations.
Nothing like the national development |
of these eight years has been known in |
the past Of the republic, and with it |
have come worldwide responsibilities
and duties. as we'll as problems of in
The Republican party within the Con-
stitution. without straining any of the |
powers reposed in the Executive or Con-
gress, has met the demands of the hour
with courage, wisdom and success, to
which the chorus of Democratic declama
ton, denunciation and demands pays the
highest tribute.
So to-day in its history, its policies
and it's candidates, the Republican party
appeals to the American people as the
party Of achievement, of resources and
Of the courage to grappe with every
new phase of national life. 1t is the
party of sound principles, safe finance and
sane execution of the laws. The proof
Of it's capacity to govern is written in the
healthy progress of the United States
during the past forty years. The guar
anty Of its fitness to continue in the
execution Of that great trust Is in the
character and experience of its leaders.
Which Will You Trust:
Let the American voter look across
The stage of public life to-day and ask
himself which he would rather trust to
administer any public or private trust
he Republican party under the leader
hip of