The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-09-10
Claim Credit Of Progress and
Prosperity Of Times
EXPECT TO REMAIN IN POWER
"Put None but Homemade Cake In
the Pantry" Is Quoted az
Speaker cannon's
"NeW Platform"

Washington, September 9.-The republi-
can party, its achievements for half
century, and particularly its record in
the present Congress. is commended to
the voters in the campaign text book
given out today by the republican con-
gressional committee.
The book is replete with republican doc
trine. embracing practically every con-
eeivable subject upon which information
may be desired Radicalism or conservat-
ism it Is declared never are matters of
concern to republicans, but 1t is said
they are content with practical and pro-
gressive ideas and the maturing of those
ideas into positive performance"
Every statement made and all iguers
presented are declared to be official or
authoritative. The foreword concludes:
Truth is the highest exemplihcaton of
republican doctrines, and policies and
party record the best plea that can be
made for continuation in power
In discussing the campaign issues of
1906 the book calls attention to the fact
that since the termination of the Fifty
third Congress, In 1895. the House of Rep
resentatives has been republican, and
adds:
There is every reason to expect a sub
stantial working republican majority will
be elected next November"
Nation Has Advanced.
During these ten years it is said, we
have made a greater advance as nation.
and a people than was ever made before
in a generation, and In many respects
greater than during our whole previous
history. There cannot then be the least
doubt of republican success If the voters
study carefully the record Of the two
parties"
There will be thousands and hundreds
of thousands found" the book says, who
will vote for the first time in November.
who were mere children when the demo-
Gratis had a majority of representatives.
and they do not all remember vividly tho
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 tho
insiduous bills passed by the democratic
house of the Fiftieth Congress. But for
tunately there was then a republican Sem
ate to prevent the enactment of free
trade law, and disaster and calamity were
for the time averted. But In 1888 the DEM
ocrats had the presidency as we'll as both
Senate and House of Represen tatives and
the work of that single Fifty-thlrd Con-
gress cost the industries and people Of
the country many millions of dollars, and
incalculabe suffering. These facts should
be weighed with the record of the repub-
| liean party before and since, and especial-
ly should the record of the present Con-
gress be studied, for though its work is
not yet finished. more has already been
done In one session than by any previous
| Congress since the war of the rebellion.
New Records Made.
1.-THE fiscal year which closed June 20
and the calendar year so far, gives and is
giving us new records In every phase Of
our Industrial life, and only democratic
success can prevent In any way its con-
tinuance."
Only democratic success, 1t Is declared.
can prevent the giving to the people of
the country new records in every phase
of our Industrial life.
Regarding the negro in politics the
statement is made that more mention OF
the facts well known to every observer
will suffice to indicate the relative at
titude of the two great political parties
toward the colored citizens"
The republican party, It Is said, believes
In the political equality of all men with
out reference to race or nationality, while
the democratic party believe In restrict
ing the privileges of citizenship to n par-
tieular class, and has written her opin-
ions into the statutes, constitutions and
practices of nearly every southern state
where that party is dominant.
After quoting the letter OF President
Roosevelt of August Is last to Represen-
tative Watson of Indiana, the book closes
with n quotation from what Is given as
Speaker Cannon's New Platform"
Put none but homemade cake in the
Dantry 4"