The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-05-15
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Resolutions Adopted at the Republican
County Convention, held at White
fish, Mont, on May IL, 1908.
With record of patriotic achievement
and true, loyalty to American institutions,
the Republican party enters the campaign
of 1908 asking for a continuance of con-
troll. Proud of nearly half century of
almost continuous favor, from the admin
istration of the beloved and martyred
Lincoln, the great soldier patriots, Hayes,
Garfield and Grant, the soldier, states
man, and martyred president, Mckinley,
down to the dauntless Roosevelt. A
period pregnant with the greatest indus
trial and national development known to
the history of the world. A period dom
mated by the patriotic achievement of
the republican party in the great congress
OF the United States, to which every loyal
republican can refer with just pride.
During all this half century of great ma
tional prosperity, only one dark spot ap-
pears upon our fair escutcheon; only one
period of lethargy and pessimistic weak
ness, and that during the faltering admin
istration of democrat.
The democratic party by system Of
petty larceny has stolen, piece by piece,
the political raiment that once decorated
the emanciated form of the populist party.
The false prophecies of VIM. Jennings
Bryan through period of nearly score
of years will go down into history as the
vaporings of an active, but weak, agita-
tor, promising but never fulfilling. Driven
from his populistic position for free silver
in 1896, to imperialism in 1900, to trust
regulation in 1904, and no one knows
where and what in 1908.
While weak and vacillating democracy
has viewed with alarm the conditions Of
our country since its birth, the republi-
can party meets each succeeding cam
paign with optimistic composure, and
points with pride to past achievements,
and with progressive ideas promises to
meet the great demands of the future.
One great cardinal principle-the pro-
lection of American industries and Amer
lean fabor-has ever dominated the coun-
ellis of the republican party. As time
grows apace the tariff has been ad-
justed to meet conditions, the republi-
can party ever jealousy guarding the
principle that the tariff should be re-
gulated by its friends, and not its enemies.
Under no flag OF any country does
mankind receive as great reward for
its labor. In no land do the toiling
masses enjoy as many of the blessings Of
life. In no land do we find as many
homes owned by the people as in our
own.
Through the initiative and. genius of
republican craftsmanship we have for
ever established safe and sound none
tary credit. Our promises as to admins
tration of the isles of Cuba have been full
filled, divesting her people of monarchial
misrule and oppression, and placing in
her hands the priceless privilege Of pop
ular sovereignty.
To the Philippines we have made plain
the road to constitutional sclf-government,
and through the American public school
system are making themselves strong
enough to enjoy the fruits of ultimate
free government.
The democratic Wilson tariff law re-
mains only as a political nightmare in
the memory of men, while the benefcent
effects of the Dingley tariff is felt through
out our land, restoring confidence, OPEN
ing factory doors and making thousands
of spindlcs and looms manufacture the
raw material of our land into fabrics for
the people of all lands.
We have enlarged the powers of our
interstate railroad commission, and en-
acted railroad rate bills to meet condi-
tions as they arise. The Sherman anti
trust law, allowed to lie dormant through
Cleveland's democratic reign has been
vigorously enforced by the most active
executive known to the worlds history,
Theodore Roosevelt.
The most cordial relations have been
built up with our South American sister
republics, and the great Panama canal,
through which shall flow the commerce
of the east and west, will soon stand to
our credit as another party achievement
Also true to the great principle of inter-
nal improvements, one of the first which
dominated our party platforms, the re-
publican party favors the deepening of
our rivers from the lakes to the Gulf, un-
til the fruits and grains, and all products
of our inland possessions may be borne
in American ships on the waters of the
Mississippi to the countless millions of
the Orient.
We favor an employers liability law
that will meet the rightful demands of
labor.
We favor the building up and fostering