Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-10-04
Appropriating Republican Issues

Appropriatino Republican Issues
portland Oregonian.)
Candidate Parker takes his stand on
the tariff doctrine enunciated by Pres
ident Mckinley at Buffalo. Only three
short years have passed since McKin-l
ley died, and here we have the demo-
cratic candidate for president pointingl
with pride and approval to the utter
ances of q man who was denounced
by the democratic party at that time
as the embodiment Of all that is evil
In American life.
II b precisely SO with the democraticl
attitude toward Lincoln. In his time
he and his policies were resisted and
denounced by the democratic party and
now that party is continually invoking
Lincoln as the exponent OF it's own
ideals It is SO with the pensions and
the arid lands and the gold standard. |
What the republican party has brought |
to pass over democratic protest, the
democratic party now accepts and asks
power to carry on.
Isns't it bad politics for Judge Parker
and his party to approve Lincoln and
Mckinley and the gold standard and
promise service pensions and enforce
ment Of law and the conservation Of
protected interests? Would 1t not be
more becoming in him to point with
pride, If point he must. to the record
and achievements OF his own party. in
stead of to the achievements and rec
ord of the opposition? This might do
for a sample:
We point with pride to the demo-
cratic national platform of 1854, which
declared the war for the union a fall
ure, and to the bitter and determined
hostility shown by the democratic party
toward Lincoln in his lifetime, and to
his policies after his death.
We point with pride to the relent-
less hostility shown consistently
throughout forty years by the demo-
cratic party to every measure designed
| to honor and reward the soldiers of the
union in our civil war.
we point with pride to the record OF
the democratic party In resolutely OPP
lposing Mckinley and "McKinleyism
until three years ago, when, the man
being dead, all danger of his continued
influence passed away. and It became
safe for us to adopt him and his poll
cies as ancient and honorable tradi-
tions OF the democratic party.
We point with pride to the demo
cratic national platforms of 1896 and
1900, pledging the country to a policy
of free silver and free riot.
We point with pride to the deter
mined efforts made by the democratic
party in congress to cripple our army
in the Philippines. and to stamp tina
army as a band of murderous cut
threats.
We point with pride to the names O
:. yallandigham, Altgeld, Bryan and Hill
! az the greatest and most representative
apostles of true democratic principles
It might be possible for the countr,
to be hypnotized into the idea that thu
: democratic party is the true lineal de
: scendant of Lincoln, but when it come
to the gold standard and the McKinle.
doctrines of three years ago the tasl
is apt to prove more difficult SOM
way should be found to prevent tn
democratic party from becoming s.
confused as to its own identity Mex
= we shall be told we ought to put tn
democratic party in power because
fought the war with Spain and nego
tiated for the Panama canal. What tn
= democratic party has done 1t tries I
forget, and what the republican part
has done it tries to appropriate. l
1908 1t will be pointing with pride 7
the high ideals and vigorous achieve
ments of Theodore Roosevelt. Is thl
sort Of performance to be offered seri
ously for a nations approval?
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