Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-07-13

1nally, instead Of the $4,000, 900 which sup
lect and spend some $7OO, OOO, 900 annually.
| | can only add what Speaker Reed replied
20 20 DSenm 1! statesman who complained
is billion-dollar country
Our u national finances. have never been
SO wisely and successfully administered;
our credit never stood on basis so broad
and so strong. Our protective system,
loyalty and intelligently carried out and
| improved in the last seven years. not only
mis- our treasury with the means of ma
tiona expenditure, but has carried our in
n nrosneta and h our commerce to height Of
or o.. our nelghbors. who are trying to emu
I late our progress; In the relation between
In the letter and the spirit
=. PRESIDENT McKinley's attitude throughout
the IN Boxer troubles, so severely criticized
at the time and so splendidly approved by
the result; the. position President Roose-
g yerd mas ma Isl since held and now holds in re-
ent war-have all been dictated by one con-
slstent policy, Of taking care that our In.
terests receive no detriment In the Pacific.
Abrogation of Clayton ulwer Treaty.
The negotiations begun by Mckinley and
the abrogation of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty. which impeded our freedom Of action
IN building an isthmian canal, was part OF
OF enterprise in those distant regions where
the rar west becomes the far east. In
and friendly spirit by the British govern
ment, as also in the matter of the Alaskan
boundary, which was settled for all time
by high judicial tribunal removing cloud
upon cur title to another great Pacific pos
session; Finally the treaty with Panama,
py which we gained the pathway across
the lsthmus by a perpetual grant, ensuring
the construction Of an American canal I'M
der American control, built primarily for
American needs, but open on equal terms
to all the people Of good will the world
over.
The. war with Spain was carried through
SWiftDeSS
out shadow Of corruption, without a
moral or technical fault. A hundred days
did Its work, and our commissioners brought
nome treaty so just and so beneficial that
against it Cuba and Porto Rico are free
and enjoying degree of prosperity and
happiness never known before In ali their
work done there by Judge TAFT Rpia and his
associates will rank among the highest
sordeI a. OF colonial re-
would be an act of treachery which would
gain us the scorn and reproach of civiiza-
The principles upon which our party is
built are so sound, they have so Irresistible
an attraction to patriotic and fairmnded
men, that whenever time of crisis comes,
when the national welfare is clearly Mt
stake, when voters must decide whether
draw om of6sr or parfes
their best men by thousands. That vast
majority Of Incolns in 1854 would have
Gratis listened to the inward monitor which
said, Choose you this day whom ye will
wen ha 1t ha was ma e
TO repudiate, In whole or in part, the ma
tional debt; or to abolish the system Of
protection to American industries; or to
degrade currency at the demand of
mere Ignorance and greed-ln all these
cases case we saw the proof Of the homsy adage
but may not make him drink
We are not claiming that monopolze
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| know far better men than am who are
Democrats. But we are surely allowed n
love feast Ike this, to talk of what has
been done by the family and at least to
brag a little of the Democrats who have
Helped us. We Invite accessions from the
ranks of our patriotic opponents, and we
shall get them in the future, as we have
In the past whenever we deserve them.
We shall get them this year, because this
year we do deserve them. The record of
fifty years will show whether as party
we are tit 70 govern; the state of our do
mestic and foreign affairs will shew wheth-
er as party we have fallen off; and both
together will show whether we be
trusted for while longer.
Platform Has Been Tested.
Our platform is before the country It's
principles have been tested by eight years
Of splendid success and have received the
approval of the country. 1t Is in line with
all our platforms Of the past. except where
prophecy and promise in those days have
become history In these We stand by the
Even on the narrow issue of President
Roosevelt's personality the Democrats will
Has the President been a good citizen, a
good soldier, a good man in all personal
relations? Is he man of inteei,ligenee. Of
we'll? Does he know the world outsider
Has he studied law. history and politics?
has he improved thea? Is he sound and
strong in mind. body and soul? Is he ac-
eesslble and friendly to all sorts and con,
Of II a 10 % Qn6
the candor, and the God-given ability to
speak to the people and tell them what
he hnk TO al these @ba qestons they M
to him? They Will answer with the parrot
cry, He is unsafe! To the hypocrite and
the humbug, Theodore Roosevelt Is more
than unsafe: he Is positively dangerous
Any may make mistakes; but such
man this will make few, and no grave
ones.
When we proclaimed anew the Monroe
dictrine in the Venezuela case his action
ance of that saving policy which hae ever
come to us from overseas He acted very
swiftly, it is true, in Mississippi, when the
of postmistress for no fault but her color.
He simply said, Very well, gentlemen; you
may, get, your letters somewhere else for
. And as to the merger suits, now that
people have come to their senses, they see
as the equinox. He was informed through
| legal channels that a statute had been vio-
his duty to bring The courts from
the lowest to the highest, sustained his
| action.
Issue Is President Roosevelt
We could desire no better fortune, In the
campaign upon which we are entering, than
that the other side should persist in their
announced intention to make the issue upon
President Roosevelt. What godsend to
our orators! 1t takes some study, some
research, to talk about the tariff, or the
currency, or foreign policy. But to talk
about Roosevelt! 1t Is as easy as to sing
1.-The glory of the Graeme.' OF gentle birth
and breeding, yet a of the people in
the best sense; with the training of
scholar and the breezy accessibility Of
ranchman man of the library and a
man Of the world; athlete and think
err. a soldier and a statesman reader.
writer, and a maker Of history; with the
sensibllity of a poet and the steel nerve
OF rough rider; one who never did, and
never could, turn his back on a. friend or
an enemy. man whose merits are so
great that he could win on his merits alone:
| whose personality is so engaging that you
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