The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-10-17
Justify Republican Party in Asking
Voters to Keep 1t in Control.
hsdeemed Platform Pledges; Main
tained Prosperity; Developed
Commerce; Protected Labor.

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First. the promptness with which it has
fulfilled the pledges Of its platform
upon which it successfully appealed to
the people in 1896; second, the pros
perity which has come to all classes
Of our citizens with, and as result
Of, the fuifillment of those pledges
third, the evidence which that pros
perity furnishes of the fallacy Of the
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
people In the extension Of area, com
merce, and international influence
which have unexpectedly come as an
incident of the fulfillment of one of
the important pledges of the platform
Of 1896. and with it the opportunity for
benefiting the people of the territory
affected" From the Republican CAM
paign Textbook of 1900.
The above quotation from the open
ing pages of the Republican Campaign
Textbook 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 r.--
deemed; second. that prosperity had
come as a result; third. that develop
ments since 1896 had shown the fallacy
of the principles upon which the Dem
-ocracy 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 i'll
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
anna Canal assured under the sole
ownership and control Of the United
States; Department of Commerce and
Labor established; rural free delivery
,siveA to millions Of the agricultural
community: the laws for the proper
regulation of trusts and great corpora
uons strengthened and enforced; pros
perlty established; commerce devel-
oped labor protected and given ample
employment and reward; intelligence.
prosperity and good government estab-
lished In distant islands; and the flag
of the United States made the emblem
Of honor in every part Of the world.
Opposed BY Democracy.
An Of these great accomplishments
have been the work of the Republican
the discouragement, the opposition, and
the hostilities of the Democracy. The
protective tariff was fought at every
step, and denounced by the platform Of
the Democrats as robbery" The act
establishing the gold standard was op-
posed and the Democratic vote cast al
most solidiy against it, and that party
in its conventions and platforms of
1904 and 1908 deliberately refused to
retract In the slightest degree Its ad-
vocacy Of the free and unlimited coin
age Of silver. In the war for the free
dom of Cuba, the work of the Republi
cans was met with harsh criticism. In
the efforts to establish peace and good
government In the newly acquired ter
ritory, each step met with opposition
and false charges and with the demand
that the territory and its millions of
people be abandoned to internal strife
or control by monarchial government.
The requirement of the right to con-
struct the Panama Canal was met with
opposition and obstruction. The en-
forcement of law against trusts and
ether great corporations was denounced
as ineffective and designed to deceive
the public The establishment of rural
free delivery was discouraged. The
splendid prosperity which followed the
restoration of the protective tariff was
decried and denounced as fictitious and
temporary, and an attempt made to
SOW the seeds of dissatisfaction and
discord among the people by complaints
Of the higher cost of food which came
as the natural results Of the increased
demand accompanying general pros
perity and high wages.
It is upon the evidence of the past
twelve years, evidence that the Repr5lf-
can party is party OF progress. and
the Democracy a party Of inaction, re-
tardment, and fault-inding, that the
Republican party again confidently MP
peals for public support in the Presi-
Dental and Congressional elections Of
1908.
xsntfmeut That WIN Live.
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