The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-21
SOME PARTY CONSIDERATIONS.

SOME PARTY CONSIDERATIONS.
The republican state executive COM
mittee is in session at Fargo today.
Plans are being laid to carry the state
for the republican ticket and preserve
the integrity of the party for the fu-
ture.
The principles of the republican
party are founded in the eternal JUS
1ice of man. and they will stand so
long as there are free governments.
Under other names it has come down
from the founding of the nation it.
self. and in fact. had it's first baptism
at Runnymede.
Its principles had their grandest eX-
position in the words and conduct Of
the great Lincoln. and it was he who
forever established the doctrine that
the voice of the majority in a free
government is the voice of authority.
Since he came into power in spite of
the jealousies and slanderings of his
enemies and set fidelity to principles
far above the qualification of personal
ambition. the history of the party has
been the history of the nations pros
perity.
Born amid the throes OF civil war.
and nurtured amid the blood and car
mage of the greatest strife for prin-
ciple the world has ever witnessed,
it met every demand of civilization.
and when the fury of the combatants
had spent itself in the bloody fray, it
faced the task Of reuniting a divided
country with unfaltering courage.
Long before the last bugle call had
sounded for the dead of those who
fought that the nation might not fall
the wisdom of the republican party
had healed the wounds of the van
quished south, and the willow became
as sacred to the lovers OF liberty as
the laurel.
The stupendous debts of this war
have been long since paid and there
remains nothing to indicate the bit
terness of the strife.
But out of the new conditions have
arisen new party boasting an old
name, yet regulating everything thai
that party had once held sacred.
With the longing of ambitious men
for the advantages of directing the
policies of the government, and the
desire for change in the minds of
those who knew not the evils which
they sought to bring about, the nation
turned upon its trusted servants and
placed the government partially in
the hands of the political aliens.
The party was held in check by the
republican majority in the senate, and
the policy of destruction that would
otherwise have swept the country with
rum was stayed.
The people returned somewhat to
their first love, but in 1892 false
prophets had 80 diverted the public
that the democratic party was swept
into power.
There was no restraining hand now,
every branch of the government being
In their control.
The leaders at once legislated the
party platform upon the statute books,
and a period of business calamity,
and misery followed that appalled, the
civilized world.
Seeking to avoid the results of
miserable failure. the party appealed
10 the people with another panacea.
Bat the memory of the last Cleveland
administration was too vivid to be
blotted out, and the party was swept
to hamiliating defeat.
Today the party and its matchless
and fearless leader have the confidence
of the people as never before. The
party is SO strongly intrenched in the
hearts of the American people that
though false leader with a tongue
Of fire should cry out against it, they
would remain true.
But the party is not without its
dangers. Having failed to receive the
confidence of the party themselves,
men with selfish ambitions who would
make the party the means Of accom-
plishing their evil designs, have at
tempted by dividing the party. to turn
the control of the government over
to those who have by their failures
proven their inability to administer
its affairs.
lake the insignificant break in the
dyks that holds back the floods Of an
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