Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-21

complicated machinery through which
the S0,000000 people of the United States
govern themselves, answers 20 no sim
GLE Will The composite government de-
ysed by the trainers Of The Consttu-
ton to meet the conditions of national
life more than a century ago, requires
the willing cooperation Of many minds,
the combination of many independent
factors In every forward step for the
general welfare
The president az Washington with his
cabinet, the 30 senators representing
A. sovereign states. the 3S6 representa-
tiVes IN Congress required TO reach
concurrent action upon multitude or
questions involving varied and conflict
Ing interests and requiring investlga-
ton. information, discussion and re-
Cancellation Of Views. From all our vast
territory with its varieties OF climate
and Industry, from all our great popula-
ton active in production and commerce
and social progress and intellectual and
moral life To a degree never before at
tanned by any people--diliicult problems
press upon the national government
BILLS INTRODUCED.
within the past FIVE years more than
go. 600 bills have been introduced in
Congress. Some method Of selection
must be followed. There must be some
preliminary process to ascertain the
general tenor OF public judgment upon
the principles to be applied in govern
ment, and some Organization ana rec
ognitlon Of leadership which shall bring
legislative majority and the executive
into accord I'm the practical Application
OF those principles; or effective govern
ment becomes impossible.
THE GOVERNING INSTINCT.
The practical governing instinct OF
our people has adapted the machinery
devised In the eighteenth 20 the condl-
lions of the twentieth century by the
organization of national political par
ties. In them men Join for the promo
ton of few cardinal principles upon
which they agree. For the sake "
those principles and to carry on the
government In accordance with them,
they present 10 the people candidates
whose competency and loyalty they APP
prove The people by their choice Of
candidates indicate the principles and
meii eds viii N they wish Followed IN
the Clnduct " their government They
do not merely choose between men
they choose between parties-be-
methods they follow, the trustWorthi-
ness of their professions the differences
to be drawn from the records of their
past. the general weisht Of character Of
the body Of men who will be brought
into participation IN government by
their ascendency
REPUBLICAN ADMINISTRATIONS.
When the course Of the next adminis-
trntion H. but half done the Republican
party will have completed the iirst halt
century Of It's national life, or the IL
administrations since the first election
Of Abraham Lincolp nine-oovering a
period of IS years-haVe been under
Republican presidents, For the greater
part OF that time, the majority I'm each
house Of Congress has been Republican,
History affords no parallel In any age
or country for the growth I'm national
greatness and power and honor, the
wide diffusion of the comforts Of life,
the Up Ting Of the great mass of the
people above the hard conditions of
poverty. ttc common opportunity for
education and individual Advancement
the universal possession ~ civil and
religious 'htrty. the protection of prop
erty and security for the rewards OF IN
dustry and enterprise, the cultivation
OF national morality, respect for re-
llgion, sympathy with humanity and
love OF liberty and justice, which have
marked the life Of the American people
during this long period Of Republican
control
CONFIDENCE Asked,
With the platform and The candidates
Of this convention, we are about 10 ask
a rtrewed expression Of popular conn
| dcrce In the Republican party.
We shall ask II because the principles
20 which we declare our adherence are
r,sht. and the best interests Of our
| country require that they should be fol-
| lowed In It's government
We shall ask It because the unbroken
record OF the Republican party In the
past Is an assurance of the sincerity 81
our declarations and the fidelity win
which we shall give them effect, Be