The La Jara chronicle., 1904-10-21
CHOICE OF PARTIES.
why Young Men Should Vote the Re-
pnblican Ticket.

! keF, mas 1Oulu II worth Wllle 10 write
a magazine article on why 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 century ago,
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 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 he recalled that
| buchanan was the last Democratic Presi-
dent before the war. The party to which
| young Cleveland (age 19) 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
ernment of the United States through
the tribulations of terrible civil war.
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Buchanan contributed. and through the
| trying period of reconstruction, resump-
| tion of specie payments and wonderful
| national expansion.
When Lincoln was first inaugurated
| the population of the United States was
81. .443. .321: at the time of Cleveland's
first election it was 54,911,oOO During
the same period the wealth of the re-
public had risen from SIG, l59,G1G,0OO to
about 0.O0O.OOO,O0o.
When Lincoln was inaugurated the
national debt was less than S9O,OOO,OOO;
by the close of the war OF secession it
had risen to s2.674.sl5,S56 By 1884,
when Cleveland was elected. it had been
| reduced. through Republican financing.
over one billion dollars, TO 81 ABS. .542,995
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
ranged from S15.S1 DOWN to S13.S5
per capita. During the succeeding
twenty-fou years of Republican admin
istration it ranged from $13.9S UP to
SO. SO per capita.
During Cleveland's first term the
money in circulation ranged from S23.O2
DOWN to S21.S2 per capita. rising from
| S22.52 to S24.56 under President Harri-
son. Republican. only to drop again from
S24.O3 DOWN to S2l.4l during the sec
ond term OF the sober and conserva-
tive" Cleveland.
Starting at S21.41 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 un-
til, according to the latest statement of
the Treasury Department on October l,
/ Z. an,
ation of S2,214.OO0.
The huctuntion 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 its doctrines
and methods The Republican party
invites and attracts all young Americans
to its support by the soundness of its
principles and an unbroken record of
| splendid and substantial results.
Mr.. Cleveland finds slight resem-
blance" in and attempts an invidious
comparison between the campaigns and
candidates Of 1856 and 1904. He speaks
Of Fremont's nomination an appeal
ito the peoples romantic sentiment and
love for the spectacular" while on the
other hand 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 mistakng 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
l 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 comparison alto
rrther 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 manll-
ness-n duty-lovng, 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-
cracy to-day offers nothing to young men
starting out on careers but wornout
creeds aud unfulfilled croakings. 1t only
survives as brake on the swift adj
vuncing wheels of American public life.
On the other hand, the Republican
party invites the afiiIiation and support
of young men because of its splendid
achievements and the vitality and viril-
ity of its treatment Of government af-
fairs. 1t stands before the country to-
day as the party of conscience, candor
snd progress as opposed to pretense,
promises and retrogression. 1t is the
party of individual and organized iuitia-
| tive.
IL the young voter wishes to ally him
self with the party which does things
rather than that which does nothing but
sit on its senile launches and snarl at
the present as it whirls by. he will vote
the Republican ticket this November.