Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-08-27
Why the Republican Party Should
Be Successful in November.
BY Frank Hendrick, of New York City.
1.-THE PARTY OF EXPANSION.

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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 main
tanned. Through the Civil War it con-
secrated reunited country to free and
equal American citizenship. 1t has
kept the channels OF Interstate Com
merce open for all and, though the Ma
tional Banking System, the refunding
of the National Debt, Resumption of
specie payments, the Gold Standard
and the Emergency Currency Law,
has sustained the life current ofnation-
al 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 industries
the home market of eighty millions of
the worlds greatest consumers and so
laid the surest basis for American COM
petition in foreign markets. Uniting
aanitol op1 labor tbnc in npn1o1pn
prosperity and common source of in
creased reward, it has created oppor-
tunities, improved conditions of en-
ployment, brought about Il higher
standard of living, and more wide
spread distribution of wealth and we'll
being, and made expansion moral as
we'll as material.
Intrusted with insular possessions,
it has brought them peace and progress,
and provided for the extension and
protection of American trade, for the
National defense, and for the honor
able discharge 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.
1.-THE PARTY OF PROGRESS AND PROS
PERITY.
Promising progress and prosperity,
it has been politically sincere. 1t has
never had a candidate of section,
prejudice, or class, nor a platform of
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 and en-
during progress. Finding trusts,
giant-born, flourishing under supposed
conflict of State and National law, the
double prohibition ofexistence serving
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 investigation
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 other
lands, and scorned to insult labor with
an ilusory 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 post
age, and increased pensions. Continu-
ing naturally marked.out progress, it
will keep its pledge of Tariff readjust-
ment, Currency Reform and develop
ment Of the Merchant Marine, and
make the United States the financial
centre as it has made it the industrial
centre of the world.
IlI-THE CONSTRUCTIVE PARTY-IT
ORGANIZES THE NATIONAL WILL.
In the evolution by which party
government has become the extra-con-
stitutional method of securing respon-
sibity to the people, the Republican
Party has become their traditional rep
resentative and the Democratic Party
the organized aspiration of individuals
Tor power without responsibility.
Fairly tried, from 1893 to 1895, the two
Democratic Houses and the Democratic
PRESIDENT were "wild team" and a
heipless driver. Democracy agitates
local differences, Republicanism or
ganizes the National idea Tn 1853 the
people were committed to the cause of
human liberty, the idea of ''Libertv and
UniOnD expanded for tba O.