Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1908-09-10

glant-born fiourishing under supposed
conflict of state and national law, the
double prohibition of existence serv-
ing but to foster their DEVELOPMENT. it
has never, in an attempt to destroy
trusts, withdrawn, in state or nation,
the protection of law from prosperity,
but has, through executive tnvestiga.
ton and resort to the courts, resolved
the conflict which had silenced law and
given trusts existence
ut has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
institutions by banishing American in
dustries and building up those of other
lands, and scorned to insult labor with
an illusionary promise of immunity
from law. Yet it passed the pure food
law and the employers liability law.
secured equal accommodations on rail
roads. aided agriculture, created the
civil service, established free rural
mail delivery, reduced foreign postage,
and increased pensions. Continuing
naturally marked-out progress, lit will
keep its pledges of tariff readjust.
ment, currency reform and develop
make the United States the financial
centre as it has made it the industrial
centre of the world.
in the evolution by which party
eovernment has become the extra
constitutional method of securing re-
sponsibility to the people. the Republi-
can party has become their traditional
representative and the Democratic
party the organized aspiration of indi-
viduals for power without responsible
ity. Fairly tried, from 1893 to 1895, the
two Democratic houses and the Demo
cratic president were wild team and
a helpless driver. Democracy agitates
local differences, Republicanism or
ganiZes the national idea In 1863 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 ma
lion.
In 1879 money was committed to a
specie basis; specie was at once, until
1898. no longer sought, and govern
ment bonds went to q premium at the
reduced rate Of interest In 1896 busi-
ness men were again committed to con.
fidence; before a single statute was
enacted prosperity set in and In ten
years bank deposits almost trebled-a
permanent gain which the recent
panic, state Of mind now completely
dispelled, scarcely touched In 1906
business was committed to fair meth
DDS: without compulsion violations
largely ceased.
The Republican party, at each
period sounded the public conscience,
felt the national pulse. framed it's poll
cies in response, and realized in law
the dominant American idea. Its con.
structive past assures its constructive
future. 1t is today as 1t always has
been, The Party Fit to Govern
The Party of Statesmen.
"The party of craftsmanship. 1t has
been the training school of statesmen.
It's policies have been forged in the
heat of public discussion, tempered In
the deliberation and shaped in the con-
fict of many trained minds, and drawn
and finally wrought for the country's
welfare. Dominating its members
through principles, II assures unity in
government; its staunchest partisans
have made the greatest contributions
to national progress. The roster OF it's
leaders is the national roll of honor Of
public service.
"Republicanism stands today for
progressive policies in safe hands BY
solving the constructive problems of
world power in the last two admins
trations, William H. 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 Republ-
can candidates as we'll is in the plat.
form are written the story of the ma
tion's progress and the reliance of the
future.
"A Democratic president or Demo
cratic house would turn back those
pages; thereafter Organism would re-
cord Destruction This the Republican
senate could not prevent. Under Taft
and Sherman and Republican con-
gress the great progress OF the past
will be held and the greater progress
of the future will be assured"