The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-05-22


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 self-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 political nightmare in
the memory of men, while the beneiiccnt
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 haze enlarged the powers of our
interstate railroad commission, and en-
acted railroad rate bills to meet ccndi-
tions as they arise. The Sherman anti
trust law, allowed to lie dormant through
Clevcland'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 Ct
the Orient.
We favor an employers liability law
that will meet the rightful demands of
labor.
We favor the building up and fostering
of a great merchant marine, in keeping
with tie commercial supremacy OF our
country.
We endorse the action of our chief cx-
ecutive in sending our navy into the
waters of the Pacific. Every ship that
bathes her prov in the friendly waters
of our western harbors, has been met
with generous reclamation of Joy and
reverence.
We endorse the patriotic interest our
chief executive has manifested in raising
our navy to world power in the short
space OF one decade.
We favor tie revision of the tariff by
congress which understands and believes
in the principles of protection to Ameri
can labor.
We favor wise and just regulation o.
the public utilities which have become
national public servants, and VIC oppose
the dangerous and un-American doctrine
of government ownership of such utilities
We stand for the policies which have
made the present administration great
and demand that these policies shall pre-
vail and their objects he accomplished
BY natural gifts and special training
and by wide and uncommon experience
and representing the policies of the pre-
sent administration, we favor the nomin
alton OF VIM. II. Taft of Ohio for presi
dent of the United States, and we hercb.
instruct the delegates OF Flathcad count
to the republican state convention G
Montana to vote and use all honorabl
means to secure an instructed delegatio
for him to the republican national con
vention at Chicago.
We enter the campaign with IL
apologies for the past, hopeful of a brigh
and fruitful future, such as has character
lied the career of our party from the day
of our beloved and martyred Lincoln
those Of the great and fearless Roosevelt