, 1906-09-12
THE REPUBLICAN SIDE OF IT.

A Washington dispatch a y the re-
publican campaign text book has been
issued. In speaking of the congress
sional elections It says there lis every
reason to believe that a substantial
working republican majority will be
elected next November"
During the past ten years, II is stat
ed, I'VE have made a greater advance
as a nation and a people than was eyer
made before in Il generation, and in
many respects greater than during our
whole previous history. There cannot
then be the least doubt of republican
success IL the voters study carefully
the record of the two parties
There will be thousands and thou
sands" the book says, who will vote
for the first time in November, who
were mere children when the demo
Gratis last had a majority in the house
of representatives, and they do not all
vIvidly remember the awful times and
conditions brought on the country by
that congress.
They were not born when the only
democratic president since the civil
war was first elected. They were babes
in arms when Grover Cleveland sent
his famous, or infamous, free trade
message to congress, and when, a year
after the Ubiquitous Mills bill was
framed n ~passeduby the democratic
house Of representatives of the Fiftieth
congress. But fortunately there was
then republican senate to prevent the
enactment of a free trade law, and dis
aster and calamity was for the time
averted. But In 1898, the democrats
had the presidency as well as both
senate and house, and the work of that
single Fifty-third congress cost the in
dustries and people many billions OF
dollars and incalculable suffering.
These facts should be weighed with
the record OF the republican party be-
fore since. and especially should
the record of the present congress be
studied, for though its workis not yet
finished, more has already peer done
In n session than by any previous
congress since the war of the rebel
Hon."
Only democratic success. 1t is de
clared, can prevent the giving to the
people OF the country new records in
every phase of our industrial life. The
book then continues.
Republicans have a right to claim
that our financial, commercial and in
dustrial advancement is due to the
laws enacted and executed by their
party leaders, The party came into
power when the government and the
people We're practically bankrupt and
without credit. A disrupted union was
restored, the vast expenses of wal pro.
vided, specie payment resumed, a pro,
tective tariff amended from time to
time and the development of the coun
try continued until the democratic
check came in 1894"
But, it is stated, the people were
quick to see their mistake and at the
first opportunity restored the republi,
can party to full power, and no party
change has BEEN made since during a
period of ten years"
The Industrial situation is claimed to
be unparalleled in the annals of the ma,
ton. Our volume OF employment
the statement continues, "our rewards
of labor, u enjoyments of life were
never before eqraled, and, best of all,
there is no sign of abatement or sig
nal of retreat. There is prospect of
still greater and grander results and
only the rankest pessimist can see a
cloud on our national material hori.