The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-14
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know that in times of doubt and diff.
Guilty the thought oftenest in his heart
is, "What, in such case, would Lin
coin have done?"
1.-THE Republican party, in the mass
and in detail, has shown it's capacity
to govern. History affords no parallel
to the vast and increasing prosperity
which this country has enjoyed under
Republican rule. We are a great peo-
pie, and success is our right; God is
good to those who behave themselves.
We may justly claim that the Re-
publican party has been in power dur
ing these years of marvellous growth,
and we can at least bring proof that
we have not prevented it-and this is
no slight honor for party to claim. "
Following with some statistics show
ing the vast resources of the country
he said 81 can only add what Speak
! er Reed replied to a Democratic states
man who complained of billion
dollar Congress: We'll, this is
| DllllOn-QOllar country.
"Adhering with religious care to the
precepts of Washington and the tradi-
tions of century, and avoiding
all entangling alliances, protesting
friendship to all nations and partial
ity to none Mckinley and Roosevelt
have gone steadily forward protecting
and extending American interests ev-
erywhere and gaining, by deserving it,
the good will of all the world. Their
advice has been constantly sought and
sparinglv given. By constant iteration
their policy has been made plain. "
In the relation between labor and
capital, always a subject of deep con-
Germ in Democratic governments, we
have improved both in letter and spirit.
How could it be otherwise when labor
knows that Mckinley and Roosevelt
have watched over it's interests as q
brother might, and capital knows that
its rights will be sacredly guarded SO
long as 1t is true to it's duties?
1.-The diplomacy of Mckinley and
Roosevelt has been directed princi-
pally to our present and future inter-
ests in the Pacific, on whose wide
shores 50 much of the wor Id s work is
to be done. They have constantly kept
in view the vast Importance of that
opening field of our activities. The
negotiations begun by Mckinley and
successfully completed by Roosevelt
for the abrogation of the Clayton-B l.
wer. treaty, which impeded our free
dom of action in building an isthmian
canal, was part of tie same general
plan of opening field of enterprise in
those distant regions where the far
west becomes the far east.
And to close this record of success
monotonous because gained by appeals
to reason rather than force, without
parade or melodrama-came the treaty
with Panama, by which we finally
gained the pathway across the 18th.
mus by a perpetual grant, insuring the
construction Of all American canal un'
der American control. built primarily
!. for American needs. but open on equal
terms to all the people of good will
the world over
"All the foreign policy. of Mckinley
and Roosevelt has been marked with
the same stamp of honesty and fail
dealing, confessedly in American in
terests, but treating our friends with
equity and consideration. They have
made more treaties than any two pre-
ceding Presidents and the conclu
sion of the whole matter is that W.
stand today in independent thongf
amicsble relations to all the rest O.
the world-without an ally and with
, out an enemy.
"Our platform is before the coun
try. Perhaps it is lacking in novelty
There is certainly nothing sensational