The Globe-republican., 1904-11-17
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, II, 1904,
VICTORY AND RESPONSIBILITY.

VICTORY AND RESPONSIBILITY.
1t is well for The Republican party OF
the nation to bear Ia mind that victory
has brought 1t responsibility such as
has confronted no administration in the
United States since Lincoln's. When
the strength and the unscrupulousness OF
the elements of the opposition are borne
in mind the Roosevelt victory Of 1904 is
the most stupendous since Monroe's in
1920, when that President obtained all
thp electoral votes eXNen' one. The ri
umph this year, IN fact, Is more remark.
able, and much more complimentary to
the candidate and the party, than was
that eighty fonr years ago. AT Monroe's
second election there was only one nat
lonal party in existence, thatof Jefferson,
Madison and Monroe. Only one man,
Monroe, was mentioned III connection
with either the candidacy Or the election,
The Federallst party had disappeared
just after lts defeat In 1916, and there
was only one organized political sect in
the country. That was during the So
called era Of good feeling, when many
visionary persons supposed that partisan
division had been abolished permanently,
and thereafter the contests, such As
would come, would be personal rather
than partisan, and would be decided in
congressional caucuses or among cOterles
Of political leaders.
But in the campaign Of 1904 there was
an active and desperate crusade against
the Republican standard bearer and the
Republican party from the start, and the
fact that the party has overwhelmingly
swept away all the opposition may be
calculated to make some of the Republi.
can leaders arrogant, This Is a feeling
which will have to be guarded against
The record Of the party, it must be re-
membered, was an issue in the canvass,
as well as the record and personality of
the candidate. Not only was Roosevelt
deemed by the great mass of the people
to be an immeasurably greater and better
American than Parker, but bis party
was known to have a sanity, a courage
and a progressiveness entirely and con.
%splcuously lacking in the Democracy.
The people of the United States passed
judgment on the deeds of the Republican
party for the past eight years, they gave
them their hearty approval, and they
commissioned The party to manage the
country's affairs for another four years
at least. In controlling the government
the Republicans will have virtually no
opposition. The Democracy has been
signaIly and cOntemptuously trampled
upon, and the Republicans have been
given a free band in managing the coun.
try's political concerns.
By its policy in the next four years the
Republican party must show that 1t de-
serves the verdict Of confidence rendered
in 1t. American expectations are high,
and these the party representing the
American people must meet. The policy
which has brought prosperity and prog
gress at home and prestige abroad must
be continued in the new era which Is
now opened, and under the new con.
ditions which are presenting themselves.
The United States has recently become a
nation Of world influence. The Republi
can party which has won it this power
must continue to maintain and extend l.,
We must push the Panama canal with
all possible vlgor and intelligence, and
at the same time prepare for the new
markets and the new commercial and
financial sway which this waterway will
bring us. Our guardianship over The
Western hemisphere must be maintained,
and 1t must also be exerted In a way
which will disarm any Jealousy or hos
tility which our European enemies may
attempt to incite against US 10 the coun-
tries to the south and the north of us.
Porto Rlco's political aspirations should
receive earnest attention in this country.
To the Filipinos should be given all the
self government which they can stand
with safety to themselves and to the
United States and give 1t to them just as
quickly and In just as large a measure as
they can stand 1t. The advances IN the
strength and the general efficiency of the
army and the navy should be kept up.
Extravagance In the government must be
avoided, and corruption and inef1ciency
wherever they exist, should be punished.
The American people have reduced the
Democratic party to an even more abject
condition Of feebleneSs than they did
when, ID Its national convention Of 1864,
1t urged a cowardly submission to armed
rebellion, but In doing tbls the people
have given the Republican party 10