The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-08-28
WHY The REPUBLICAN PARTY
SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL in
NOVEMBER.

SHOULD BE SUCCESSFUL in
! NOVEMBER.
The republican congressional
committee some time ago offered
a prize of $3.50 for the best arti
Gle on .'Why the Republican
Party Should be Successful
Next November Several
thousand manuscripts were
submitted. and these were all Ell.
minated but %, which were sub.
mitted to the judges, consisting
of Hon. Ellis H Roberts, ex-
treasurer of the United States,
John A. Sleicher, editor OF Les.
he's Weekly, Henry L. Stoddard.
editor of the New York Evening
Mail. The following article was
selected. 1t was written by
Frank Hendrick, New York
City:
TT 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 abridgment.
That principle it has successfully
maintained. Through the civil war it
consecrated 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 Curren-
cy law, has sustained the life current
of national integrity.
AS trustee of the National wealth,
it has investig ated mineral regions,
surveyed oils, developed waterways,
including the Panama Canal. irrigat-
ed deserts, conserved watersheds and
husbanded the public lands. Protect.
ing American labor by regulating i'm
migration and by taking at the Gus
tom House, pay to American taxes,
foreign capitals advantage from low
wages. it has preserved to American
industries the home market of eighty
millions of the worlds greatest con-
sumers and so laid the surest basis for
American competition in foreign mar
kets. Uniting capital and labor, thus,
in q common prosperity and common
source of increased reward, it has
created opportunities improved con-
ditions of employment, brought about
a higher standard of living and more
widespread distribution of wealth and
well-being and made expansion moral
as we'll as material.
Entrusted with Insular possessions.
1t has brought them peace and prog
ress, and provided for the extension
and protection of American trade, for
the National defense and for the hon
orable discharge of the responsible
ties of world greatness. Maintaining
peace at home, with foreign nations
and among them. it has given Ameri-
can rights and American opportuni'
ties new meaning throughout the ma
ton and throughout the world.
1.-THE PARTY OF PROGRESS AND
PROSPERITY
Promising progress and prosperity
it has been politically sincere. 1t has
never had q candidate of a section,
prejudice, or class. nor q platform of
nagation, scheme of Reputation. pro-
gram of scuttle OF doctrine of des-
pair. It has never lent itself to a de
mand for revolution, to be followed
by reaction and retrogression, it has
stood firm for evolution by constant,
steady and enduring progress. Find
ing trusts, giant born. 1Ourishing un-
der supposed conflict of state and
national law, the double prohibition
OF existence serving but to foster
their development, it has never, in an
attempt to destroy lrusts Withdrawn
in state or nation the protection Of
law from property but has, through
executive investig alton and resOrt to
the courts, resolved the conflict which
had silenced law and given trusts ex.
istence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American w%orkingmen and American
institutions by banishing American
industries and b. Hiding up those of
other lands, and scorned to insult Ia
Dor with an illusory promise of inn
munity from law. Yet it passed the
Pure Food law and the Employers
Liability law, secured equal accomo-
dations on railroads, aided agricul-
ture, created the civil service. estab-
lished free rural mail delivery. re-
duced foreign postage and increased
pensions. Continuing naturally
marked-out progress, it will keep it's
pledges of tariff readlustment. curren-
cy reform and development of the
Merchant Marine, and make the Unit
ed States the financial center as it has
made it the industrial center of the
world.
uI.--THE CONSTRUCTIVE PARTY--1T
ORGANIZES THE NATIONAL WILL
In the evolution by which party
government has become the extra.
constitutional method of securing res.
possibility to the people, the republic
can party has become their tradition.
al representative and the democratic
party the organized aspiration of in.
dividusls for power without spo
sibility. Fairly tried, from 1893 to
1895, the two democratic houses and
the democratic president we're a "wild
team" and = helpless driver. Demo-
cracy agitates local differences, re-
~publicanism organizes the national