The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-06-17

icies urged by the president has been
SO emphatic that 1t has been made
clear, once for all, that the govern
ment of the United States is never to
be dominated by money and financial
interests and that the political party
which permits itself to be ruled by
them Is thereby doomed to defeat.
The policy of the Republican party,
in dealing with these new and formid-
able questions which have taken con
crete form in enormous combinations
OF capital and in great public service
corporations, has been formulated and
determined. That policy is to use gov
eminent regulation and supervision for
the control OF corporations and COM
binations so that these great and nee
essary instruments of commerce and
business may be preserved as us eful
servants and not destroyed because
they have threatened to become dan
gerOus masters
This policy Is the absolute opposite
OF government owners hip and all like
measures, advocated by our opponents,
which tend directly to socialism and TO
all Its attendant miseries and evils.
1T Is in pursuance of this policy,
shaped and settled during the past
few years, that old laws have been
enforced and new ones enacted.
The president has enforced the
laws as he found them on the statute
book. Fer this performance of his
sworn duty he has been bitterly at
tackled. 1t was to be expected. Vested
abuses and profitable wrongs cry out
loudly when their Entertainments are
carried and some one is sure to be
hurt when the bayenets of the law are
pushed home. In the great American
electorate money has few votes, but it
can command many voices and cause
many birds to sing. The result is that
the president is the best abused and
the most popular man in the United
States today.
But the work has not ceased with
the enforcement of existing laws. A
Republican congress and Republican
president have placed new laws upon
the statute books, designed to carry
out the Republican policy of govern
ment regulation in a safe, reasonable
and effective manner The Elkins law.
aimed at preferential rebates, which
! have been the curse of our transporta.
ton and our business; the railroad
rate law, which made the supervision
OF railroads more effective, and the
pure food law, which has been in the
highest degree benefeent to the
masses Of our people, are all monu-
ments of the policy and the labors of
the Republican party.
The president, who has led his
party and the people in this great
work, retires, by his own determine
t1on, from his high Office on the 4th Of
March next. His refusal of a nomina.
t1on, dictated by the loftiest motives
and by noble loyalty to American
traditions, is final and irrevocable.
Any one who attempts to use his name
as candidate for the presidency i'm
pugns both his sincerity and his good
faith, two of the presidents greatest
and most conspicuous qualities, upon
which no shadow has ever been cast.
That man is no friend to Theodore
Roosevelt and does not cherish his
name and fame who now, from any
motive, seeks to urge him as a candi-
date for the great Office which he has
finally declined.
But, although the president retires,
he leaves his policies behind him. To
those policies the Republican party
stands pledged. We must carry them
out as we have begun, regardless alike
OF the radicals of reaction and the
radicals of revolution. We must hold
fast to that which is good while we
make the advances which the times
demand
I'VE ask for the confidence and sup
port Of the American people because
we have met the problems of the day
and have tried patiently to solve
them. We appeal for votes and for
the power they confer because we up
hold the presidents policies and shall
continue to sustain them We make
our appeal with confidence because
we have well defined policy and are
not, like our opponents, fumbling in
the dark to find some opinion on some.
thing.
1--WE believe In the maintenance Of
law and order and In the support of
the courts in all their rights and dig
nifty. We believe In equal rights for
all men and are opposed to special
privileges for any man, or any class
OF men, high or low, rich or poor. We.
who established the gold standard are
pledged to the cause of sound finance.
We stand for protection to American
industry and American labor and we
will resist all the assaults of free
trade under whatever name it comes
disguised. We will see to the defense
OF the country. We mean to have a
navy worthy Of the American name.
We seek peace and friendship with
all the nations, but alliance with none.
Yet We have. no intention of being
hermit nation The great services of
the president to the worlds peace,
will be continued by the party which
he has led. We are party fit to rule
and govern, to legislate and admins.
ter, and not fortuitous collection Of
atoms whose only form of thought or
motion is to oppose. Above all, we
are true to our traditions and to our
past. True now, as we were in the
days of Lincoln
In this spirit we must prevail-by