The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-08-21

| Tue loilOWlng was awarded $3.50
by the Republican congressional com
mittee as the best article submitted
on the subject: why Should the
Republican Party BE Successful IN
November" by Frank Hendrlck. OF
New York City:
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 abrldgment
That principe Il has successfully
maintained. Through the civil war;
Il consecrated a reunited country TO
free and equal American citizenship.
IL has kept the channels OF Interstate
commerce open for all and. through
the national banking system. the ~
funding OF the national debt. resump-
ton of specie payments. the gold
standard and the emergency currencyl
law- has sustained the life current OF
national integrity.
As trustee OF the national wealth.
10 has investigated mineral regions.
surveyed soils, developed waterways. /
including the Panama canal. irrigated
deserts. conserved watersheds and hasl
handed the public lands. PROTECTING
American labor by regulating immi-
grafton and by taking at the custom
house. 20 pay American taxes. for
clgn capitals advantage from low
wages. Il has preserved 20 American I
Industries the home market OF e.ghty
milllcns q the words greatest con- |
sumers and 20 laid tts suscs, haslsl
fer American competition In foreign
markets. un,tlng capital and labor. !
thus. In common prosperity and
common source OF Increased reward. |
Il has created opportunities. improved
conditions OF employment. brought
about a higher standard OF living. and
more widespread distribution Of
wealth and weli-being. ana made ex-
pansion moral as well az material
Entrusted with lnsular possessions !
!, has brought them peace and pro- I,
gross. and prbylded for ne extension
and prot eci,oa OF American trade. for
the national defense. and for the hor- /,
orabie discharge OF the responsible
ties Of world creatures Maintaining
peace AZ home. with foreign nations
and among them. II has given Amsri-
can rights and American opportuni-
ties new meaning throughout the ma
ton and throughout the world.
1.-THE Party of Progress and Pros
perity.
Promising progress and prosperity.
Il has been politically sincere. u has
never had a candidate Of a section.
prejudice. or class. nor platform OF
negation, scheme OF repudlation. pro-
gram OF scnttle. or doctrine OF despair
II has never lent Itself TO a demand
for revolution. TO be followed BY re-
action and retrogresslon. Il has stood
Arm for evolution by constant. steady !,
and enduring progress. Finding trusts.
giant-bora. nouHshing under supposed
conflict OF state and national iaw. the
double prohibition of existence serv-
ing but to foster their development
Il has never, In an attempt to destroy
trusts, withdrawn. IN state o. nation.
the protection OF law from property,
but has. through executive investiga-
ton and resort TO the courts. resolved
the conflict which had sllenced law
and given trusts existence.
10 has never proposed 70 advance
American wo-klngmen and American
institutions BY banlshlng American
Industries and building up those OF
other lands. and tcorned TO Insult
labor with an illnsory promise OF i'm
munity from law. Yet Il passed tbe
pare food law and the employers la
hdlty law. secured equal accommoda-
tbns on railroads. aided agriculture.
created the civil service. established
free rural mail delivery. reduced for
eign postage. and Increased pensions. 4
Continuing naturally marked-out pro-
gress. II will keep It's Pledges OF tariff
readjustment currency reform and
development OF the merchant marine,
and make the United States the fnan-
cial center as II has made II the in
dustrlal center of the world.
UI.-The Constructive Party--It Or
ganizcs the National VIII.
In the evolution by which party
government has become the extra /
constitutional method of securing re-
sporsibility to the pecp,e, the Re
publican party has become their ira
dltional representative and the Demo- :
cratic party the organized aspiration
q individuals for power without re-
sponsibi'hy. Fairly tried. from 1898
4 10 1895, the two Democratic houses
and the Democratic president were
Wild team and helpless driver.
Democracy agtates local differences,