The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-09-08
Founded Upon Principle This
Government Was Estab-
Iished to Protect Rights of
Every Individual.
PARTY OF PROGRESS AND
ALSO MEANS PROSPERITY
Organizes National Will and Is
Constructive Party as Rep
resented by Issues 1t Has
Supported.

The following was awarded $3.50 by
the Republican Congressional commit
tee as the best article submitted on the
subject. 1t was written by Frank
Hendrick, of New York city.
1.-THE 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 abridgement.
That principal it has successfully
maintained. Through the civil war it
consecrated 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 currency
law. has sustained the life current of
national integrity.
AS trustee of the national wealth, it
has investigated mineral regions, sur
veyed soils, developed waterways, in
Guiding the Panama canal, irrigated
deserts, conserved watersheds, and
husbanded the public lands Protect
ing American labor by regulating i'm
migration and by taking at the custom
house, to pay American taxes, foreign
capitals advantage from low wages,
it has preserved to American indus;
tries the home market of eighty mil
lions Of the worlds greatest consum-
ers and so laid the surest basis for
American competition in foreign mar
kets. Uniting capital and labor, thus,
in common prosperity and common
source of increased reward, it has Gre
lions of employment, brought about
higher standard of living, and more
widespread distribution of wealth and
we'll 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
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 opportunities
new meaning throughout the nation
and throughout the word.
1.-THE Party Of Progress and Pros
perty.
Promising progress and prosperity,
it has been politically sincere. 1t has
never had a candidate of a section,
negation, scheme of reputation, pro-
gram of scuttle, or doctrine of despair.
1t has never lent itself to demand for
revolution, to be followed by reaction
and retrogression, it has stood firm
for evolution by constant, steady en-
during progress. Finding trusts, gt-
ant born. flourishing under supposed
conflict of state and national law, the
double prohibition of existence serv-
| ing but to foster their development, it
has never. in an attempt to destroy
trusts, withdrawn, in state or nation,
the protection of law from property,
but has, through executive investiga-
ton and resort to the courts. resolved
the conflict which had silenced law
and given trusts existence.
1t has never proposed to advance
American workingmen and American
institutions by banishing American in
dustries and building up those of 9th
er lands, and scorned to insult labor
with an illusory promise of immunity
from law. Yet it passed the Pure Food
law and the Employers Liability law,
secured equal accommodations on rail-
| roads, aided agriculture, created the
| Civil Service, established Free Rural
Mail Delivery, reduced foreign postage
and increased pensions. Continuing
naturally marked-out progress, it will
keep its pledges of tariff readjustment
currency reform and development of
| the merchant marine, and make the
| United States the financial center as
it has made it the industrial center of
the world
Iil.-The Constructive Party-it Or
| sanizes the National Will.
In the evolution by which party gov
| eminent mas DtCOLuS the eAlTd-GOuSll-
tutional method of securing RESPONSE
| bility to the people, the republican par
ty has become their traditional repre-
sentative and the democratic party the
organized aspiration of individuals for
power without responsibility. Fairly
tried, from 1898 to 1895, the two
democratic houses and the democratic
president were wild team" and a
| helpless driver. Democracy agitates
local differences, republicanism organ
ICES the national idea. In 1868 the
people were committed to the cause of
human liberty; the idea of Liberty
and Union" expanded for the first time
into the reality of the American ma
ton.
In 1879 money was committed to a
specie basis: specie was at once, until
1898. no longer sought. and govern,
ment bonds went to a premium at the
reduced rate of interest. In 1896 bus
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