Milford chronicle., 1904-11-04
Great Issues at Stake, but
There Has Been No Fever
iSh Excitement.
MINDS OF VOTERS MADE UP
Present Conditions Are Satisfactory,
and the People Will Elect Fair.
banks and Roosevelt and a
Republican Congress.

The Presidential campaign which is
inst closing has some unique features.
There has been. from first to last. an
absence OF spectacular features The
unusual feverish excitement. the election
year collapse Of business. the general
uncertainty and anxiety which used to
characterize a national campaign are
lacking this year. Yet the issues at
stake with choice to be made between
the two great parties. are tremendous.
The cause of the general calm, the
even carrying on of business the alb
sence Of pubic excitement. is not the
far-famcd apathy" OF which SO much
is said just now The people are not
apathetic They are only satisfied They
have what they want they have made
up their minds to keep it, and they
know they are amply able to keep it
by casting their votes on election day
Republican rule Republican work Re
publican prosperity. peace and justice,
that is what the people Of the United
States have. and thar is what they are
determined to keep, by the election of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks, and a Republi-
can Congress.
The two great national parties stand
for the two kinds Of people into which,
broadly speaking. the whole complicated
mass of human beings may be divided.
The people who work. the people who
live each day for the best that day af-
forls, the people who accomplish things,
these are naturally and inevitably Re
pnhlicans The other kind of people. the
lookers-ou the critics, the fault-fnders
the promiserS Of great things and doers
of nothing. these make up the Demo
cratic party.
The Republican party acts The Dem
ocraic party protests.
Policies Of the Party.
This programme Of the two parties, /
carried out for many years, has never |
been SO clearly shown as during the dis
cushion of national affairs which has !
been going on this year. The Republi- |
can party came before the country,
through President Roosevelt. to give an |
account Of its stewardship from the day !
when President Mckinley took the chair |
OF Chief Executive in 1897 The first !
four years OF the administration of PreSi- |
d-lt Mckinley must be considered in |
connection with the last four years Of /
Mckinley and Roosevelt. for the carry |
ils o1It Of Republican policy under Re |
publican principles during those years |
is the basis upon which Republicans ask |
for another term Of power.
The Republican platform and Prcsi- |
dent R0Osevet's speech and letter of ac- |
ccptluce show how closely the Republi- |
Can party sticks to the practical work |
OF the present, how well il knows what |
the people want, and how surely it is |
Planning and moving to carry out the
desires Of the people. Upon the money !
question the party occupies the same
ground where it stood, under attack, in
1896 and 1900.
In its internal policy it stands for pro
lection, the irrigation Of arid lands, the
construction of the Panama canal, the
regulation Of Illegal trusts that run coun-
Ter TO the Interstate commerce laws, the
payment Of just pensions to disabled,
honorlbly discharged veterans of the
War for the Union, and other measures
and ideas familiar to the people. Tho
hopes and labOrS OF the government have
been to bring the Philippines into close
relations with the American people to
h; them for self government, and to give
them form of self government so
clearly defined as to its future and 50
well set forth that all may see what has
been done since the fortunes and fate of
war threw upon the United States the
direct responsibility for millions of fell
low-beings in the Asiatic seas. The for
eisn policy is but a record Of peace and
good will with all the nations of the
earth. Prosperity. industry and hopeful
ness at home. confidence and respect
abroad, such is the brief story of Re
publican rule during the past eight years.
what has the opposition to offer?
Upon the gold standard its platform is
silent. Its candidate. who voted for
Bryan in 1896 and 1900. now firmly de-
clares his conversion to honest money
Doctrines. Bryan is on the stump for
Mr.. Parker, and the mass Of Democrats
'o-iay are for free silver, or any kind
or money that will serve to call the ig-
noraht to their standard. Upon all the
questions of government policy and prac-
uce the Democrats are as much at sea
as they are upon finance Their whole
plan Of campaign, so far as any plan
mas been developed. is the world-without-
enl scheme Of finding fault with every
body and every institution which accom-
pAshes things
- Stu"SFacy'A weak Protests
Il mere are feeble and more or less in
teiisent protests against protection Not
uafing to oppose the Panama canal, the
protestors content with protesting
against everything that has been done,
- Iar, to make the Panama canal a
leai thing Upon the gigantic trust
sv'' which meHaces individual prosper
~ not a word Of sincerity has been
spoken by Democrat. The efforts of
ssresident e. Roosevelt to apply the United
states laws to infractions of the In
tte'state commerce laws by the trusts,
rave been rOundly condemned by the
~, 5DI,emocratic candidate and his followers.
Aue payment of disability pensions to
S.s Sseu veterans Of the civil war has been
utterly resented by the same candidate
eua oy bis political associates.
- foreign policy, inaugurated and