The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-10
REPUBLICAN TEXT BOOK Campaign Doctrine Is Published. STAND PAT IDEA DOMINANT Goes After Democratic Administra- ton Under Cleveland. Puts Little Candy in Mouth of Negro Voter by Calling Attention to Consultations of south
 ern staes.
 
STAND PAT IDEA DOMINANT

Washington, Sept s.-Thc RepublI- can Party. its achievements for a half century and particularly it's record in the present Congress is commended to the voters in the campaign text book given out today by the Republican Congressional Gomnittee
 The book is replete with Republican doctrine, embracing practically every conceivable subject upon which infor- nation may be desired. Radicalism or conservatism. 1t is declared. never are matters of concern to Republicans, but 1t Is said they are content with prac- tieal and progressive ideas and matur- t ing Of those ideasa Into positive per
 Every statement made and all figures presented are declared to be official or authoritative. The foreword concludes:
 The truth is the highest exempIifi- cation of Republican doctrines and pol ieies and party record the best plea that can be made for continuation in power.
 In discussing the campaign issues or l9O6, the book calls attention to the fact that since the termination of the third Congress in 1895 the House Of Representatives has been RepublI- can and adds that there Is every req son to expect that a substantial work ing Republican majority will be elec- ted next November
 During those ten years, it Is said. we have made a greatr eadvance as nation and people than was ever made before In generation and in many respects greater than during our whole previous history. There cannot then be the least doupr of Republican success Of the voters study carefully the record of the tive parties.
 There will be thousands and hun dreds of thousands found," the book says, "who will vote for the first time in November, who were mere children when the Democrats had a majority of Representatives and they do not all remember vividly the awful times and conditions brought or the country by that Congress
 Roast for Cleveland.
 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 insidious bills passed by the Democratic house of the fiftieth Com gress. But fortunately there was then Republican Senate to prevent the enactment of a free trade law and disaster and calamity was for the time aVerted.
 But, in 1893 the Democrats had the Presidency as well as both Senate and House of Representatives and the work of that single Fifty-third Con- gress cost the industries and people of the country many millions O. dol lars and incalculable sufferings These facts should be weighed with the re- cord of the Republican party before and since, and especially should the record of the present Congress be studied, for those it's work is not yet finished, more has already been done iR one session than by any previous Congress since the war of the re- bellion.
 The fiscal year which closed June 30 and the calendar year so far gave, and is giving us new records in every phase of our industrial life and only Democratic success can prevent In any way it's continuance"
 Only Democratic success, 1t is de- ciared, can prevent the giving to the people of the country new recors@ in every phase of our industrial life
 Regarding the negro in politics, the statement is made that Mere mention of the facts well known to every ob- server will suffice to indicate the rela- tive attitude of the two great political parties toward tGe colored citizens"
 The Republican party, 1t is said. be- lieves in the political equality of all men without reference to Tace or na- while the Democratic party believes in restricting the privileges of citizenship to particular class and has written her opinions Into the statutes, constitutions and practices of every Southern State where that party is dominant.
 After quoting the letter of President Roosevelt of August IS. last to Rep resentatiVe Watson of Indiana, the bool closes with a quotation from what is given as Speaker Cannons New Platform" Put none but home made cake in the pantry"