The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1904-10-07
THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY.
Our Fifty Years of Greatest Pro-
qress Have all been Re-
publican Years.

years old: during those n1ty years
this nation has made more progress
than any other nation ever made
within like space of time since the
dawn of history. The Japanese
were moving forward in the same
way and at the same time, it is true,
but their advancement was through
imitation, and not by means OF
their own discoveries and invent
ions. They took American print
ing presses and duplicated them,
even to the extent of copying the
trademark and firm name of the
New York manufacturers. Thus
did they appropriate to themselves
what others originated. But in
America, In these United States,
has gone forward the greatest march
of material progress that was ever
the good fortune of people to fall
heir to. Our name is now respect
ed wherever men read. Our power
as a nation is recognized and our
strength in competition with every
other people is widely feared.
From being one of the weakest of
nations we have become the very
strongest, and during this startling
process, leading from success to
success, and from victory to vic
tory, the Republican party has con-
trolled the Government, with the
exception of two years.
1t has been Republican stateman-
ship that has shown the way. 1t
has been Republican policies that
have poured money into the Nat
ional Treasury, without impovish-
ing the people, and made these
things impossible. 1t has been
Republican policies that have en-,
abled the American mechanic to
win his success, commensurate in
every way with those victories won
by our sailors and our soldiers.
Whether in peace or in war, Re-
publican statemanship has led the
nation ever onward and ever up
ward.
But there we're two years when
this progres was halted. Those
two years were when Grover Cleve-
land presided in the White House
and Democratic Congress con-
trolled the law-making branch of
our government. Then the different
factions in the Democratic party
fell to fighting over Tariff schedules,
and the bill that was passed met the
denunciations of even Cleveland
himself, and the country was at
once plunged into financial disaster.
The soap house then adorned the
sections of this city where beautiful
parks are blooming now. Hungry
men, looking for work that was not
to be had, trudged the streets.
Newspapers like the Brooklyn
"Times" opened their columns to
the unfortunates,, that they might
apply for positions, which were
sadly wanting, because Democratic
Tariff tinkerlng had closed many
mills and put out the fires of many
forges. Charity was then the pre-
siding goddess, and labor lost much |
of Its independence. 1t was under
Grover Cleveland that the nation
was forced to sell bonds, that the
gold reserve might be maintained, a
thing that was never forced upon a
Republican President in times of
national quietude. These were the
results of four years of Democratic
control. Contrast them with the
years of plenty under Mckinley and
under Roosevelt, when the National
Treasury has been full and when
labor was never so well employed.
These fifty years of progress have
been Republican years. This one
fact should ring as sweet music in
the heart of every follower of the
grand old party of human rights,
which preserved the integrity of this
nation. While the Democratic
party, torn and broken, sits by the
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