The Elbert County tribune., 1904-10-20
CHOICE OF PARTIES.
why Young Men should Vote the Re-
publican Ticket.

my IouuK Stcu Fh'u tu otC eA0 -
publican Ticket.
Ex-President Cleveland, who has de-
clined to make a speech for Judge Par
kerr has found 1t worth while to write
magazine article ON why a Young
Man Should Vote the Democratic
Ticket" With what may be regarded
as the pardonabie egotism of advanc-
ing years. Mr.. Cleveland gives his own
mistake in choosing between Fremont
and Buchanan half n century ago. as
4 sufficient argument why young men
should make the like mistake of ally
ing themselves with the party which has
learned nothing and forgotten nothing
since.
II Mr.. Cleveland had cited his choice
of Buchanan as his political idol and
guide as warning to all young men
tn avoid when making choice of the
party with which they are about to afiiili-
ate his reasoning would have been COM
prehensible. IL may be recalled that
buchanan was the last Democratic Presi-
dent before the war. The party to which
young Cleveland Gage 10I gave hiAN
callow allegiance an 1856 went into de
served eclipse In 1860. from which II did
not fully emerge until 1884, when he was
elected Pre-lent by the Mugwump d.
version of that year.
From 1860 to 1884 the Republican
party successfully administered the gov
ernment of the United States through
the fluctuations of a terrible civil war.
to which the temporizing vaoillation of
Buchanan contributed. and through the
trying period of reconstruction. resump-
ton Of specie payments and wonderful
national expansion.
When Lincoln was first inaugurated
the population of the United States was
81, 443.321; at the time of Cleveland's
first election it was 54.911.OOO. During
the same period the wealth OF the re-
public had risen from SIG, l59.O16.OOO to
about $50 OOO.OOO.
When Lincoln was inaugurated the
national debt was less than S00.O00.OOO;
by the close of the war of secession 1t
had risen to S2.674. S15.S56. By 1884.
when Cleveland was elected. 1t had been
reduced, through Republican financing.
over one billion dollars. to S1.43S.5420o5.
When Buchanan was President, full
filling all the ideals of young Cleveland
of safe and sane" government. the cir
culation of money in the United States
ranged from 1851 DOWN to S13.S5
per capita. During the succeeding
twenty-four years OF Republican admin
istration 1t ranged from $i3.9S UP to
S22.65 per capita.
During Cleyeland's first term the
money in circulation ranged from $23.O2
DOWN to S21.S2 per capita. rising from
| 500. 80 to S24.56 under President Hari-
son, Republican, only to drop again from
$24.O3 DOWN to S21.41 during the sec
ond term OF the sober and conserva-
| tive" Cleveland.
Starting at $21.41 in 1S96-the lowest
| point in sixteen years-the per capita cir
| culatioH OF money in the United States
has risen steadily during the terms OF
Presidents Mckinley and Roosevelt I'M
| til, according to the latest statement OF
the Treasury Department on October /,
| 1904. it was $31.16. estimated on popu-
lation of S2,214.OO0.
The nuctuation of the per capita cir
cuation of money during Republican
and Democratic administrations affords
a representative barometer of the success
or failure OF the conduct of national af-
fairs.
Mr.. Cleveland says he was attracted
| to the Democratic party by its doctrines
and methods" The Republican party
invites and attracts all young Americans
| to its support by the soundness of its
principles and unbroken record of
splendid and substantial results.
Mr.. Cleveland finds "slight resem-
| blance" in and attempts an invidious
comparison between the campaigns and
candidates of 1856 and 1904. He speaks
OF Fremonts nomination as an appeal
| TO the peoples romantic sentiment and
| love for the spectacular" while ON the
other hand ''the Democratic party chal-
lenged the sober and conservative thought
of the country by the nomination of the
| mature, undramatic and experienced
| Buchanan"
| There can be no installing the unwar-
| ranted parallel this is intended to sug-
gest and emphasize. That Roosevelt does
| appeal to the romantic sentiment of the
American people is true, but he appeals
to them because of the singular candor
and genuineness of his nature, the posi-
tiveness and courage of his actions, the
remarkable versatility and resourceful-
ness of his mind To depreciate Mr..
Roosevelt by inferring that he suffers
anything by contrast with Buchanan re-
vived in the person of Judge Parker
as being immature dramatic and mex
perienced is to invite n comparison alto
gether favorable to the Republican can
didate. In age Mr.. Roosevelt is within
two years OF being as mature as Mr..
Cleveland was when he was elected Pres
ident, and in experience he has had
more variety of responsibility than both
Mr.. Cleveland and Judge Parker rolled
into one.
When it comes to choosing between
parties because of their candidates the
young voter will not look beyond Theo-
dore Roosevelt as the best living incar-
nation of the spirit of aggressive manli-
| ness-a duty-loving, duty-doing citizen.
If the choice is between. the records or
the personnel OF the two great parties
the choice is equally easy. The Demo
crazy to-day offers nothing to young men
starting out on careers but WORKOUT
creeds and unfulfilled croakings. 1t only
survives as a brake on the swift adj
vancing wheels of American public life.