Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-09-23
A SPLENDID ESSAY
ON REPUBLICANISM
Why the Party Should be Sue
cessful Next November.
A Contribution Which Won for Michigan
Man High Commentator from Re-
publican National Committee.

C0lle IlIllS ago the NdIlUud1 4eC-
publican Congressional Committee
offered a prize for the best short essay
upon the subject "Whv the Republic
can Party Should be Successful Next
November Many contributions were
submitted, one of which was by Hon.
Perry f. Powers, ex-Auditor General
of Michigan, who is editor of the
Cadillac News and one OF the promi-
nent leaders in the party in Michigan.
While Mr. Powers did not win the
prize his essay was, in the opinion of
the judges. among the best submitted
and was among those particularly
commended in their report.
1t is a eloquent, pointed and alto
gether praiseworthy contribution,
both from a political and literary
standpoint, and reads as follows:
THE republican party should be
successful next November because the
message that announced its victory to
the American people would contain
more of the assurance that would add
to national and individual courage
and hope and gladness than would
come from any other source. 1t
would be an assurance that would be-
come a happy factor in plans for the
future, discussed by Preside groups
in millions of American homes, and
to farm and factory and shop and
mine it would come as a gladdening
call in directions that have made ouI
country unique for progress among the
people o. the world.
1.-THE success of the republican par
ty at the coming election would be a
national declaration that the American
people will hold to the ideals and the
standards that have made the history
of our country and our party splendid;
that the common obligation of every
citizen to be honest and fair would be
enforced from high and low and rich
and poor, because upon its enforce
ment will the very strength and the
perpetuity of our republic depend. 1t
would make known to all that not
foot of the ground gained by President
Roosevelt in his brave contest for JUS
tice and right would be conceded or
deserted; that conscience and courage
in public position and in, private life
Will be held as the cardinal principles
and that privilege and favoritism
will be contended against as directly
opposed to the existence and the aspir-
ations of a self governing people.
THE success of the republican
party in November will be fortunate
for the American people because it
will include the election of William
II. Taft as president; it will place at
the head of our government a man
whose ways and his work they know;
a man whom they have tested and
trusted, and a man whom experience
recommends and pleads for. The
election of William FL. Taft would
give to our country a leader of whom
it could be truly said, that his cour-
age and his kindness, his good sense
and mis- good humor have created for
him fellowship and a friendship
with every citizen who for his coun-
try wishes we'll.
1.-THE republican party should be
successful next November because that
success will include a republican ma
iority in congress. No halting in the
movements of a nation Will come
through question or fear as to what
the majority will do. Every vote
cast for a republican candidate for
congress in any district or any section
of our common country will be inter-
preted as a direct appeal in behalf
of the policies and the Legislation to
which that party is sacredy pledged.
It will be an appeal for affirmative,
united action; for larger national
and individual opportunity, and for
further progress in paths that always
have led to national safety and nation
al advancement. Every vote for re-
publican candidate for congress will
be an appeal in directions that will
make for confidence and contentment.
a call that will give impetus to indus
try and encouragement to those who
honestly plan and toll and strive in
any field of worthy occupation
THE success of the republican
party in November will insure adher
ence to the American protective tariff
policy, which has done much to make
our country what it is; that policy
which has done more to increase the
rewards of labor and to enlarge its
opportunities than any other enact
ment on the statute books Of our ma
ton. The success of the republican
party VIII provide for tariff revision
that will sock to improve its opera