Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-08-27
Why the Republican Party Should
Be Successful at Polls Next November

In response to the offer made by
the Republican congressional commit
| tee June l, TO award $3.50 for the best
article on: ''Why the Republican Par
| ty Should be Successful Next Novem-
ber?" several thousand manuscripts
were received, each and all OF which
was given careful consideration.
| In accordance with a unanimous
decision the award is made to Frank
Hendric5, rs East SD street, New
York city.
The following was awarded $3.50 by
| the Republican congressional commit
tee as the best article submitted on
the subject by Frank Hendrick:
1. The Party of Expansion.
| The Republican party was founded
upon the principle that this govern
ment was established to protect for all
times the rights and opportunities OF
every individual from Arrangement.
! That principle it has successfully main
| tanned. Through the civil war 1t con-
secrated a reunited country to free
and equal American citizenship. 1t
has kept the channels of interstate
commerce open for all and, through
the national banking system, the re-
funding OF the national debt, resump'
ton OF specie payments, the gold
standard and the emergency currency
law, has sustained the life current OF
national integrity.
AS trustee of the national wealth 1t
has investigated mineral regions, sur
veyed soils, developed waterways, in.
| Guiding the Panama canal, irrigated
J deserts, conserved watersheds and
| husbanded the public lands Protect
ing American labor by regulating i'm
migration and by taking at the custom
house, to pay American taxes, foreign
| capitals advantage from low wages,
it has preserved to American indus,
| tries the home market of eighty mil,
lions of the worlds greatest consum
ers and SO laid the surest basis for
American competition in foreign mar
kets. Uniting capital and labor, thus
in a common prosperity, and common
source of increased reward, it has ere
ated opportunities, improved condi
lions of employment, brought about
highter standard of living, and more
widespread distribution of wealth and
well-being and made expansion moral
as well as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions
it has brought them peace and pro
gress, and provided for the extension
and protection of American trade
for the national defense, and for the
honorable discharge Of the responsible
tiles Of world greatness. Maintaining
peace at home, with foreign nations
and among them, it has given Ameri
can rights and American opportunities
new meaning throughout the nation
and throughout the world.
II. The Party of Progress and Pros
perity.
Promising progress and prosperity
it has been politically sincere. 1t has
prejudice or class, nor a platform Of
ncgation, scheme of reputation, pro
gram of scuttle or doctrine of despair
1t has never lent itself to demand
for revolution, to be followed by reac
ton and retrogression, 1t has stood
firm for evolution by constant, steady
and enduring progress. Finding trusts
giant-born, fourishing under supposed
conflict Of state and national law, the
double prohibition Of existence serv
| ing but to foster their development, i
! has never. in an attempt to destroy
trusts, withdrawn, in state or nation
the protection Of law from property
but has, through executive investiga
ton and resort to the courts, resolved
the conflict which has silenced law
and given trusts existence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
institutions by banishing American III
dustries and building up those Of Other