Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-09-21

the St. Louis candidate backs and Jacks on that question so that To one can tell, not even himself, which side he faces on it. The platform makers at St. Louis dodged silver, and then the candidate, clubbed by the New York press into a pretended devotion to gold, exclaims that the gold standard is established, although he voted and worked for the silver standard in two canvasses, and even
 now dare not say whether he is glad
 or sorry that he and his party were
 beaten in those campaigns.
 All these contortions and evasions
 by the democrats give the president chance to show that he and his fellow
 republicans do not have to guess at
 our own convictions, and then cor
 rect the guess if it seems unpopular.
 The principles which we profess are
 those in which we believe with heart and soul, and strength. The repub
 licans in the future will carry on the government on the same lines on which they conducted it in the past, dealing with new issues courageously,
 honestly and intelligently as they arise. The war with Spain, which was not an issue in the canvass of 1896, was dealt with by the republican government elected in that year in way which the Amer ican people has applauded. Nobody foresaw the Pan anna issue during the campaign of 1900, but the party which carried the country in that year met that issue as it arose and settled it in a manner which instantly won the approval of even of the pa-ty's political enemies. Reckless and interruptions as the democracy is, it did not have the hardihood at St. Louis to demand that the Panama canal negotiations, which the Roosevelt administration and the RooesevIt party had carried to accom- plishment, should be given up.
 The president touches on every is sue which has been dealt with by the administration and refutes every charge which has been made against it by the democrats. Incidentally, he shows that it is only through misrep- resentaation of republican acts that the democratic slanderers can get a hearing. The statement of the re- publicans' record and position on the issues of the present and the recent past, when made trutbfully, wins votes for the republicans, and this is not what the democratic newspapers and politicians are in business for in 1904. The winning of an isthmian canal; the halting of England, Ger many and Italy in their raid on Vene- zuela, and the consequent strengthen ing of the Monroe doctrine; the set clement of the Alaska boundary in favor of the American contention; the creation of an effective army and navy; the extension of American in- fuence throughout Europe and Asia; the advancement of American credit on the worlds bourses, and the es- tablisbment of prosperity throughout the country, are a part of the repub- lican record. A truthful representa- tion of the republican work in accom- plishing these things makes republi- | can votes, as consequence the demo- cIats are forced into falsehood in . dealing with the republican party's . work of the past seven years and in telling what the party intends to do in the coming presidential term. Like everything else of President authorship, his letter ac- cepting the nomination is luminous, honest, thoroughly American utter ance. It will confound his party's enemies and make hundreds of thou sands of votes for his party.'
 The territcrial democratic conven-