The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-10-18
CHOICE OF PARTIES.
Why Young Men Should Vote the Re-
publican Ticket.

Why Young Men Should Vote the Re-
publican Ticket.
Ex-President Cleveland, who has de-
clined to make speech for Judge Par
ker. has found it worth while to write
magazine article on why a Young
Man Should Vote the Democratic
| Ticket With what may be regarded
as the pardonable egotism of advanc-
ing years, Mr.. Cleveland gives his own
mistake in choosing between Fremont
and Buchanan half a century ago, as
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 a warning to all young men
to avoid when making choice of the
party with which they are about to affiili
ate his reasoning would have been COM
| prehensible. 1t may be recalled that
buchanan was the last Democratic Presi-
dent before the war. The party to which
young Cleveland Gage 49, gave his
callow allegiance in 1856 went into de-
served eclipse in 1860, from which it did
not fully emerge until 1884 when he was
| elected President by the Mugwump di-
version of that year.
From 1860 to 1884 the Republican
party successfully administered the gov
eminent of the United States through
the tribulations of a terrible civil war.
to which the temporizing vacillation of
| buchanan contributed, and through the
| trying period of reconstruction, resump-
ton of specie payments and wonderful
| national expansion.
When Lincoln was first inaugurated
| ,1n+. l. Ty,>st
81, 443,321; at the time of Cleveland's
| first election it was 54,911 900. During
the same period the wealth of the re-
public had risen from SIG, 159, $4,000 to
about 5O,OOO.OOO,0OO.
| When Lincoln was inaugurated the
national debt was less than $9O,OOO,OOO;
| by the close of the war of secession it
had risen to $2,674, S15,S56. By 1884,
| when Cleveland was elected, it had been
reduced, through Republican financing,
over one billion dollars, to 81 ,43S, $40, 995.
| 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
per capita. During the succeeding
twenty four years of Republican admin
istration it ranged from $13.9S UP to
$22.65 per capita.
During Cleveland's first term the
money in circulation ranged from $23.O2
| DOWN to sol 80 per capita, rising from
So. 80 to $24.56 under President HarM-
son, Republican, only to drop again from
$24.O3 DOWN to Spill 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
culation 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 1,
1904, it was $31.16, estimated on a popu-
lation of S2,214,OOO.
The fuctuation of the per capita cir
culation 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 it's doctrines
and methods" The Republican party
invites and attracts all young Americans
to it's support by the soundness Of its
principles and an unbroken record of
splendid and substantial results.
Mr.. Cleveland finds a ''slight resem-
blance" in and attempts an invidious
comparisou between the campaigns and
candidates Of 1856 and 1904 He speaks
of Fremont's nomination as an appeal
ito the peoples romantic sentiment and
love for the spectacular" while on the
other hand 1.-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 mistaking 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 a 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