The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-28

IL promotes the national interest. and
every official high or low can serv.
! his party best by rendering to the PEG.
| pie the best service of which he is ca
| pablo Effective government comes
| only as the result of the loyal coon
Grafton of many different persons. The
/ members OF legislative majority. the
omcers in the various departments of
the administration, and the Legisla-
tive and Executive branches as towards
each other, must work together with
suoordination of self to the common
end of successful Government. We
VINO have been entrusted with power
| as public servants during the past sew
| en- years of administration and Iegis-
lation now come before the people con-
tent to be Judged by our record of
achievement. In the years that have
gone by we have made the deed square
with the word; and If we are continued
| in power we shall unswervingly follow
out the great lines of public policy
which the Republican party has already
laid down; public policy to which we
are giving, and shall give, a united
and, therefore, an efficient. support.
More Fortunate Than Opponents.
In all of this we are more fortunate
than our opponents, who now appeal
Tor confidence on the ground which
some express and some seek to have
confidently understood. that If trium-
| plant they may be trusted to prove
false to every principle which in the
| last eight years they have laid down
as vital, and to leave undisturbed those
| very acts OF the administration because
of which they ask that the administra-
tion itself be driven from power
Seemingly their present attitude as 10
| their past record is that some of them
were mistaken and others insincere
| We make our appeal in wholly diff.
ferent spirit. We are not constrained
to keep silent on any vital question: We
are divided on no vital question; on,
policy Is continuous. and Is the same
for all sections and localities There
is nothing experimental about the gov.
eminent we ask the people to continue
in power for our performance In the
past our proved governmental ef1cicn.
cy, is a guarantee as to our promise,
| for the future. Our opponents. either
| openly or secretly. according to theiI
several Compartments, now ask the
people to trust their present promise,
| In consideration of the fact that the,
intend to treat their past promises as
null and void We know our owr
minds and we hS'e kept of the sam,
mind for a sufficient length of time &c
| give 10 our poIlcN conference and san.
| ity. In such a fundamental matter d:
the enforcement of the law. we do MOI
have to depend upon promises. but
merely to ask that our record be takcr
| as an earnest of what we shall con
| tinue to do. In dealing with the greaI
organizations known as trusts. we dC
| not have to explain why the laws wer,
not enforced, but 10 point out that they
actually have been enforced and that
| legislation has been enacted 70 in
crease the effectiveness Of their en-
forcement. We do not have to propose
to turn the rascals out" for we have
shown in every deed that whenever by
diligent investigation a public oficia
can be found who has betrayed his
trust. he will be punished to the full
| extent OF the law without regard tc
whether he was appointed under a Re.