The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-08-27
THE PRIZE ESSAY.
Why the Republican Party Should
BE Successful I'm Noyember-The
Constructive Party With Construc-
tive Candidates

some weeks ago the Republican
Congressional Committee offered a
prize of $50 for the best article
on Why the Republican Party
Should Be Successful Next Novem-
ber." There were many competitors
for the prize, but II was awarded
to Frank Hendrick, of New York.
who submitted the following as to
why the party should be successful
in November:
The Republican party was found
ed On the principle that this govern
ment was established to protect for
all times the rights and opportuni-
ties OF every individual from abridy-
ment. That principle 1t has success
fully maintained. Through the
Civil War 1t consecrated a reunited
country to free and equal citizenship.
1t has kept the channels of Inter-
state Commerce open for all and
through the National Banking Sys-
tenn, the refunding of specie pay
ments, the Gold Standard and the
Emergency Currency law, has sus-
tanned the life current of national
integrity.
AS trustee of the national wealth
has investigated mineral regions,
surveyed soils, developed waterways,
including the Panama Canal, con-
served watersheds, and ,husbanded
the public lands. Protecting Ameri-
can labor by regulating immigra-
ion and by taking at the Custom
House, to pay American taxes, for
eign capitals advantage from low
wages, it has preserved to American
industries the home market of
eighty millions of the worlds great
est consumers and SO laid the surest
basis for American competition in
foreign markets. Uniting capital and
labor, thus, in common prosperity
and commons source of increased re-
ward, it has created opportunities,
improved conditions of employment,
brought about a higher standard of
living, and more widespread distri-
button of wealth and well-being, and
made expansion moral as we'll as
material.
IHLl uoISu Will uldl
it has brought them peace and prog
ress, and provided for the extension
of American trade, for the National
defense, and for the honorable dis
charge of the responsibilities of
world greatness. Maintaining peace
at home, with foreign nations and
among them, it has given American
rights and American opportunities
new meaning throughout the nation
and throughout the world. --,.-
The Party of Progress and Prosper
ity.
Promising progress and prosper
ity, it has been politically sincere.
1t has never had a candidate OF
section, prejudice, or class, nor
platform of negation, scheme Of re-
pudiation, program of scuttle, or
doctrine of despair. 1t has never
lent itself to a demand for revolu-
ton, to be followed by reaction and
retrogression, it has stood firm for
evolution by constant, steady and
enduring progress. Finding trusts,
giant-born, flourishing under sup
posed conflict of State and National
law, the double prohibition of ex-
istence serving but to fostertheir de-
velopment, it has never, in an at
tempt to destroy trusts, withdrawn,
| in Safe or Nation, the protection OF
law from property, but has, through
Executive investigation and resort to
the courts, resolved the conflict
which had silenced law and given
| trusts existence.
It has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
institutions by banishing American
industries and building up those OF
other lands, and scorned to insult
labor with illusory promise of i'm
munity from law Yet it passed the
Pure Food Law and the Employers
Liability Law, secured equal accom-
modations on railroads, aided agri-
culture, created the Civil Service, es-
tablished Free Rural Mail Delivery
reduced foreign postage, and increas-
ed pensions. Continuing naturally
marked-out progress, it will keep its
pledges of Tariff readjustment, Cur
rency Reform and development o
the Merchant Marine, and make the
United States the financial centre al
| It has made it the industrial centre
. of the world.
The Constructive Party-It Organ
, ICES the National Will.
{ In the evolution by which part,
government has become the extra
constitutional method of securing re
| sponsibility of the people, the Repub
lican party has become their tradl
tional representative and the Dem
locratic party the organized asplra
7 ton of individuals for power Win
, out responsibility. Fairly tried 1foi
,l1893 to 1895, the two Democratl
Houses and the Democratic Pres
t dent we're a "wild team" and hell
,. less driver. Democracy agltate
4 local differences, Republicanism OF
ganizes the National idea. In 100
. the people were committed to tn
q cause of human liberty; the idea
Liberty and Union" expanded fe
the first time into the reality
Il the American nation.
In 1879 money was committed
q specie basis; specie was at one
Ie until 1893, no longer sought, an
ID government bonds went to prem
" nm Of tho reduced rate of interes