Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1908-09-02
1.-THE PARTY OF EXPANSIONS.

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1.-THE PARTY OF EXPANSION.
The republican party was founded upon
the principle that this government was
established to protect for all times the
rights and opportunities of every individ-
ual from abridgment. That principle it
has successfully maintained. Through
the Civil war it consecrated reunited
country to free and equal American citi-
zenship. 1t has kept the channels OF in
terstate commerce open for all and,
through the national banking system, the
refunding OF the national debt, resump-
tion OF specie payments, the gold stand
ard and the emergency currency law, has
sustained the life current of national in
tegrity.
As trustee OF the national wealth, it has
investigated mineral regions, surveyed
soils, developed waterways, including the
Panama canal, irrigated desert, conserved
watersheds, and husbanded the public
lands. Protecting American labor by
regulating immigration and by taking at
the custom house, to pay American taxes,
foreign capitals advantage from low
dustries the home market of eighty mil
lions OF the worlds greatest consumers
and so laid the surest basis for American
competition in foreign markets. Uniting
capital and labor, thus. in common pros
perity and common source of increased
reward, 1t has created opportunities, i'm
proved conditions of employment, brought
about higher standard of living, and
more widespread distribution of wealth
and we'll being, and made expansion
moral as well as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions, it
has brought them peace and progress, and
provided for the extension and protection
OF American trade, for the national de-
tense, and for the honorable discharge of
the responsibilities Of world greatness.
Maintaining peace at home, with foreign
nations and among them, it has given
American rights and American oppor-
tunities new meaning Throughout the
nation and throughout the world.
1.-THE PARTY OF PROGRESS AND PROS
PERITY.
Promising progress aud prosperity, it
has been politically sincere. It has never
had candidate OF section, prejudice or
class, nor platform of negation, scheme
OF reputation, program of scuttle, or doc
trine OF despair. It has never lent itself
to demand for revolution, to be followed
by reaction and retrogression, it has stood
firm for evolution by constant, steady and
enduring progress. Finding trusts, giant
born, furnishing under supposed conflict
of state and national law, the double pro-
their development, it has never, in an at
tempt to destroy trusts, withdrawn, in
state or nation, the protection OF law from
property, but has, through executive in
vestigation and resort to the courts, re-
solved the conflict which had silenced
law and given trusts existence.
, 1t has never proposed to advance Ameri-
can workingmen and American institu-
tions by banishing American industries
and building up those OF other lands, and
scorned to insult labor with an illusorv
promise Of immunity from law. Yet it
passed the pure food law and the~em-
ployers' liability law, secured equal ac-
commodations ON railroads, aided agricul-
ture, created the civil service, established
free rural mail delivery, reduced foreign
postage, and increased pensions. Con-
tihuing naturally marked-out progress. it
will keep its pledges of tariff read Justine at
currency reform and development of the
merchant marine, and make the United
States the financial centre as il has made
it the industrial centre of the world.
m.-THE CONSTRUCTIVE PARrY-IT Or
CANNES THE NATIONAL WILL.
In the evolution by which party govern
method OF securing responsibility to the
people, the republican party has become
their traditional representative and the
democratic party the organized aspiration
OF individuals for power without RESPONSE
bility. Fairly tried, from 1893 to 1895, the
two democratic Houses and the democratic
President were ''wild team" and help
less driver. Democracy agitates local diff
ferences, republicanism organizes the
national idea. In 1868 the people were
committed to the cause Of human liberty;
the idea of "liberty and union expanded
for the first time into the reality of the
American nation.
basis; specie was at once, until 1898, no
longer sought, and government bonds
went to premium at the reduced rate OF
interest. In 1896 business men were again
committed to confidence; before single
statute was enacted prosperity set in and
in tea years bank deposits almost trebled
"a permanent gain which the recent
panic, a estate OF mind" now completely
dispelled, scarcely touched. In 1906 bust
ness was committed to fair methods;
without compulsion violations largely
ceased.
The republican party, at each period,
sounded the public conscience, felt the
national pulse, framed it's policies in re-
Spouse, and realized in law the dominant
RAmerican idea. Its constructive past as
sures its constructive future. 1t is to-day
as it always has been, ''the party fit to
govern"
Iv.-THE PARTY OF STATESMEN.
The party of craftsmanship, it has been
the training school of statesmen. It's
policies have been forged in the heat of
public discussion, tempered in the deliber-
alton and shaped in the conflict of many
trained minds, and drawn and finely
wrought for the country's welfare. Domi-
mating its members through principles,
it assures unity in government; its
staunchest partlzans have made the great
est contri buttons to national progress.
The roster of its leaders is the national
roll of honor of public service.
V.-TAFT AND SHERMAN CONSTRUCTIVE
CANDIDATEs-A CONSTRUCTIVE PLAT
FORM.
Republicanism stands to-day for pro-
gressive policies in safe hands. By solving
the constructive problems of world power
in the last two administrations, William
H. Taft taught the world our capacity and
us his own. In all constructive legislation
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