Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-08-04
rAE REspoNsInLE PARrY

THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY.
The Republican party is so years
old. Dring those so years this ma
ton has made more progress than any
other nation ever made within a like
space of time since the dawn Of his
tory. says an exchange. The Japanese
were moving forward in the same way
and at the same time, 1t is true, but
their advancement was through imi.
tation. and not by means of their
own discoveries and inventions. They
took American printing presses and
duplicated them, even to the extent
of copying the trade mark and firm
name of the New York city manufac'
turers. Thus did they appropriate
to themselves what others originated.
But in America, in the United States,
has gone forward the greatest march
of material progress that was ever
the good fortune OF people to fall
heir to. Our name is now respected
wherever men read Our power as a
nation is recognized and our strength
in competition with every other peo.
pie is widely feared. Even being one
OF the weakest Of nations we nave be-
come the very strongest, and during
this startling process. leading from
success to success, and from victory
to victory, the Republican party has
controlled the government, with the
exception of two years.
1t has been Republican statesman
ship that has shown the way. 1t has
been Republican policies that have
poured money into the national treas
ury, without impOyerishing the people,
and made these things possible. 1t
has been Republican policies that have
enabled the American mechanic to win
his success, commensurate in every
way with those victories won by our
sailors and our soldiers. Whether in
peace or in war, Republican states
manship has led the nation ever on.
ward and ever upward
But there were two years when
this progress was halted Those two
years were when Grover Cleveland
presided in the White House and a
Democratic congress controlled the
law-making branch of our government.
Then the different factions in the
Democratic party fell to fighting over
tariff schedules, and the bill that was
passed met the denunciations of even
Cleveland himself and the country
was at once plunged into financial dis.
aster. The soup house then adorned
the sections OF this city where beauti.
ful parks are blooming now. Hungry
men, looking for work. that was not
to be had, trudged the streets. News.
papers like the Brooklyn Times"
opened their columns to the unfortu-
mates, that they might apply for posi-.
uons, which were sadly wanting. be.
cause Democratic tariff tinkering had
closed many mills and put out the
fires of many forges. Charity was
then the presiding goddess, and labor
lost much OF its independence. 1t
was under Grover Cleveland that the
nation was forced to sell bonds. that
the gold reserve might be maintained
a thing that was never forced upon
a Republican President in times Of ma.
tional quietude. These were tae re.
suits OF four years of Democratic con.
troll Contrast them with the years
OF plenty under Mckinley and under
Roosevelt, when the national treasury
has been fun and when labor was
never SO well employed.
These 30 years OF progress have
been Republican years. This ono fact
should ring as sweet music in the
heart Of every follower OF the grand
old party OF human rigats, which pre-.
served the integrity OF this nation.
While the Democratic party, torn ami
broken, sits by The graves OF those
who died before the present greatness
OF the nation was born. striving to
learn what they would do We're they
alive the Republican party. stronger
than ever in is leaders, embracing
more than ever the real intelligence
OF The country. enters upon the pre-.
sent campaign fun Of hope, conscious
OF how the nation should progress and
able TO carry on It's great work as
faithfully as il has done ever since
| the civil war