The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-18

keep its pledges of tariff REIMBURSEMENT,
currency reform and development of
the merchant marine, and make the
United States the financial center as
it has made it the industrial center
of the world
II.-The Constructive Party-It Or
ganizes the National Will.
In the evolution by which party gov
eminent has become the extra-constitu-
tional 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 responsibility. Fairly tried,
from 1898 to 1895, the two Democratic
houses and the Democratic President
were a wild team" and a helpless
driver. Democracy agitates local diff
ferences, Republicanism organizes the
national idea. In 1868 the people were
committed to the cause of human lib
erty the idea of Liberty and Union
expanded for the first time into the
reality of the American nation.
In 1879 money was committed to a
specie basis; specie was at once, until
1898, no longer sought, and government
bonds went to premium at the re-
duced rate of interest. In 1896 bust
ness men were again committed to con-
fidence; before a single statute was en-
acted prosperity set in and in ten years
bank deposits almost trebled-a per-
manent gain which the recent panic, a
estate of mind now completely dis
PEELED, 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 its policies in
response, and realized in law the domi-
nant American idea Its constructive
past assures 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.
Its policies have been forged in the
heat of public discussion, tempered in
the elaboration and shaped in the con-
fict of many trained minds, and drawn
and finally wrought for the country's
welfare. Dominating it's members
through principles, it assures unity in
government; its staunchest partisans
have made the greatest contributions 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
Platform.
Republicanism stands to-day for pro-
gressive policies in safe hands. By
solving the constructive problems of
world power in the last two admins
trations, William II. Taft taught the
world our capacity and us his own. In
all constructive legislation for twenty
years James S. Sherman has been a
leader. In the records Of the Repub-
lican candidates as well as in the plat
form are written the story of the ma
tons progress and the reliance of the
| future.
A Democratic President or Demo
cratic house would turn back those
pages; thereafter Organism would re-
cord OBSTRUCTION" This the Republi-
| can Senate could not prevent Under
Taft and Sherman and Republican
Congress the great progress of the past
| will be held and the greater progress of
| the future will be assured.
David L. Hill has pledged his sup