The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-10-10
FOUR GREAT FACTS.
Justify Republican Party in Asking
Voters to Keep Ii in Control.
Redeemed Platform Pledges; Main
tanned Prosperity; Developed
Commerce; Protected Labor.

-Four great facts seem to justify the
Republican party in asking the voters
Of the United States to continue it in
control of the affairs Of the government.
First, the promptness with which 1t has
ful6Iled the pledges of it's platform
upon which it successfully appealed to
tbe people in 1885, second, the pros
nerity which has come to all classes
If our citizens with, and as result
Of the fulfllment of those pledges
third. the evidence which that pros
perity furnishes Of the faIlacy Of tine
principles offered by the opposing par
ties in 1896. and still supported by
Them; and, fourth, the advantages to
our country our commerce, and our
peope in the extension of area, com
merce and international influence
which have Unexpectedly come as an
incident of the fultillment of one of
the important pledges of the platform
of 1896. and with it the opportunity for
beneftng the people of the territory |
affected" From the Republican Cam
pagu Textbook of 1900.
The above quotation from the open
ing pages of the Republican Campaign
Text Book Of 1900 applies with equal
force to conditions in the present cam
paign. The four great facts which
Justified the party in asking the sup
port Of the public in 1900 were: First,
that its pledges of 1896 had been re
deemed second, that prosperity had
come as a result; third, that develop
mpnts since 1896 had shown the fallacy
of the principles upon which the Dem
oeracy then appealed for public sup
port: and, fourth, the conditions which
had come to other parts of the world
and their people as a result of promises
fulfilled by the Republican party in
the United States. These assertions
made in the Textbook of 1900 have
been fully justified by the added ex-
periences of another eight years. The
pledges of 1896 and those made in 1900
and 1904 have been redeemed The
protective tariff has been restored /;
the gold standard made permanent ;
Cuba freed, given independence, pro-
teCted from internal troubles and about
to be again made a republic; the Pan
ANA Canal assured under the sole
ownership and control of the United
States Department of Commerce and
Labor established rural free delivery
given to millions Of the agricultural
community; the laws for the proper
regulation of trusts and great corpora
tons strengthened and enforced: pros
perity established; commerce deveI
oped; labor protected and given ample
employment and reward; intelligence
prosperity and good government estab
lished in distant islands; and the fae
of the United States made the emblem
Opposed by Democracy.
All of these great accomplishments
have been the work Of the Republican
party. In each Of them it has me
the Encouragement, the opposition, anC
the hostilities Of the Democracy. Thu
protective tariff was fought at ever.
STEP and denounced by the platform o
the Democrats as robbery" The &C
establishing the gold standard was op
posed and the Democratic vote cast al
most solidly against it, and that part
in its conventions and platforms o
1904 and 1908 deliberately refused t
retract in the slightest degree its ad
yocacy of the free and unlimited coiI
age Of silver. In the war for the free
dom of Cuba, the work of the Republ
cans was met with harsh criticism.
the efforts to establish peace and goo
government in the newly acquired tel
rtory, each step met with oppositio
and false charges and with the deman
that the territory and its millions {
people be abandoned to internal strif
or control by monarchial government
The requirement of the right TO col
struct the Panama Canal was met wit
opposition and obstruction. The el
torcement of law against trusts an
other great corporations was denouncf
as Ineffective and designed to deceiN
the public. The establishment OF rur
free delivery was discouraged. II
splendid prosperity which followed IL
restoration of the protective tariff wa
decried and denounced as fictitious ar
temporary, and an attempt made
sow the seeds Of dissatisfaction AZ
discord among the people by complain
of the higher cost Of food which can
as the natural results of the increase
demand accompanying general pre-
perity and high wages
1t is upon the evidence of the pa
twelve years, evidence that the Repre-
can party is party of progress, al
The Democracy a party of inaction,
tardment, and fault-fnding, that t
Republican party again confidently a
peah for public support in the Pre-
Dental and Congressional elections
1905