The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-01
TEXT BOOK IS OUT.
Volume Upon Which Republican Cam
paign Speakers VIII Rely.

The state committee has received
copies of the Republican Campaign
Textbook and now the spellbinders
of Kansas who have been wondering
what to talk about from the stump
will have a book of $50 pages from
which to select.
| Among the articles in the textbook
is the speech of Congressman Charles
F. Scott of Kansas before the house
of representatives on The Democratic
Attitude Toward Free Delivery"
| The foreword in the textbook is as
| follows:
-Four great facts seem to justify
the Republican party in asking the
voters of the United States to con-
| tinue it in control of the affairs of the
| government First, the promptness
with which it has fulfilled the pledges
fully appealed to the people in 1896;
| second, the prosperity which has come
to all classes of our citizens with, and
as a result of, the fulfllment of those
| pledges; third, the evidence which that
prosperity furnishes of the fallacy of
the principles offered by the opposing
parties in 1896, and still supported by
them; and fourth, the advantages to
people in the extension of area, COM
merce, and international influence
| which have Unexpectedly come as an
incident of the fulfllment of one of
the important pledges of the platform
of 1896, and with it the opportunity
for benefiting the people of the terri
tory affected. From the Repub-
lican Campaign Textbook of 1900.
| THE above quotation from the open
ing pages of the Republican Campaign
| Text book of 1900 applies with equal
| force to conditions in the present cam
paign. The four great facts which jus
| titled the party in asking the support
of the public in 1900 were: First that
| it's pledges of 1896 had been redeemed;
second, that prosperity had come is a
result; third, that developments since
/ zI,1 foII - y, v,v.ir,
ciples upon which the Democracy then
appealed for public support; and,
j fourth. the conditions which had come
to other parts of the world and their
people as a result of promises fulfilled
by the Republican party in the United
States. These assertions made in the
| text book of1900have been fully justified
by the added experience of another four
years. The pledges of 1896 and those
made in 1900 have been redeemed. The
protective tariff has been restored; the
| gold standard made permanent; Cuba
freed and given independence; the Pan
anna canal assured under the sole own
ership and control of the United States;
a department of commerce and labor
established; rural free delivery given
to millions of the agricultural commun
ity; the laws for the proper regulation
of trusts and great corporations
strengthened and enforced; prosperity
esta blished; commerce developed; labor
protected and given ample employment
and good government established in
distant islands; and the flag of the
United States made the emblem OF
honor in every part of the world.
''All of these great accomplishments
have been the work of the Republican
party. In each of them it has met the
encouragement, the opposition and the
hostilities of the Democracy. The pro-
tective tariff was fought at every step,
and is today denounced by the plat
form of the Democrats as a robbery.
The act establishing the gold standard
was opposed and the Democratic vote
cast almost soIidly against it, and that
party in it's convention and platform
of 1904 deliberately refused to retract in
the slightest degree its advocacy of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver. In
the war for the freedom of Cuba, the
work of the Republicans was met with
harsh criticism and discouragements at
every step. In the efforts to establish
peace and good government in the new
ly acquired territory, each step met
with opposition and false charges and
the demand that the territory and its
millions of people be abandoned to in
ternal strife or control by a mOnarchial
government. The requirement of the
right to construct the Panama canal
was met with opposition and obstruc-
ton at every point. The enforcement
of law against trusts and other grea
corporations was denounced as ineffec-
tive and designed to deceive the public.
The establishment of rural free delivery
was discoura ged. The splendid prosper
ity which followed the restoration of
the protective tariff was decried and
denounced as fictitious and temporary.
and an attempt made to sow the seeds
of dissatisfaction and discord among
the people by complaints of the higher
cost of food which came as the natural
results of the increased demand accom-
panying general prosperity and high
wages.
1T is upon this additional evidence of
the past four years, evidence that the
Republican party is the party of prog
ress, and the Democratic the party Of
inaction, retardment, and fault-1nding, |
that the Republican party again conf |
IDENTIFY appeals for public support in
the presidential and congressional cleo
ton of 1904"