The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-11-05
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
Republican Congress.

The Presidential campaign which is
1uSt 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 national campaign are
lacking this year. Yet the issues at
stake, with choice to he made between
the two great parties, are tremendous.
The cause of the general calm, the
even carrying on of business, the alb
Seace OF public excitement. is not the
far-famed APATHY" of which 50 much
ia 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 that is what they are
determined to keep. by the election Of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks. and Republic
can Congress
The two great national parties stand
for the two Kinds of people into which,
broadly speaking. the whole complicated
MASS o. human beings may De iN.irh'
The people vino work. the people who
live each day for the best that day af-
foTdS, the people who accomplish things,
these are naturally and inevitably Re
puhli"ans. The other kind Of people. the
loOkcrS-On, the critics, the flult-iulerS,
the prDmScrS of great things and dOerS
OF nothing these maze up the Demo
crai.' party
ne NePH"ArnA party acts. Inc Dem
ocr"ui party protests.
Policies of tile Party.
This programme of the two parties.
carried ont for many years, has never
been 50 clearly So 'wn rs during the dis
cuSS!Dn of uat,o@al affairs which has
been going on this year, The Rnpubli-
can party came before the country,
throarA President No,snvalt, to give an
account of its ~trwor lShip from the day
when President Mckinley took the chair
OF oAief Executive Ia !~o1. The tirSt
four years NJ the administration az HrHSi-
dc"t Mckinley must hr considered in
connection with tn" iaS' tudr years of
Nj = 'a.ay and No,sa,".t for the carry
pull. an principles during those years
is tie basis upon which Republicans ask
foT "urrhr" term of ppwrr.
Tn Republican platform ana Presi-
De-, too>"y"h's speech AaI hotter of ne
c"p'an"N show how closely III" Republic
can party sticks to the practical! work
of the present. how well it knows what
the people want. anl how surely it is
planning and moving to carry ont the
desires If the people. Upon the money
question tn" party occupies The same
ground where it stood, under attack. in
ls9i and 1900.
In ts Internal policy it stands for pro.
lection, the irrigation Of arid lands, the
cons rgurtion of the Panama canal, the
regulation Of Illegal trusts that run conn
ter - the Interstate commerce laws the
payment Of just pensions II disabled.
honogabIy discharged veterans of the
War for the Union. and ether measures
and ideas familiar to the people The
hopes and labors of the government have
been to bring the Philippines into close
relations with the American people, to
fit them for sell government. and to give
them a form of self government 50
clearly defined as to its future and 81
well set forth that all may see what has
been done since the fortunes and fate OF
war threw upon the United States tn"
direct responsibility for millions Of fel-
iow-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 It's platform is
silent. lbs candidate. wh' voted for
Bryan in lS9G and 1909, now firmly dc-
clhras his conversion to honest money
doctrines. Bryan is on the stump fps
Mr.. Parker, and the mass Of Democrat
today are for free silver or any Kind