Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-09-10
Special Correspondence


New York, Sept. s.
In meeting the issue why the Re
publican party should be successful
next November" the Republican con
gressional committee sought the
brightest literary minds in the country
to present the case in a brief and for
cible manner, and from among 200
articles upon the subject submitted,
that written by Frank Hendrick, OF
New York city. was awarded the first
prize of $3.50.
This is what Mr.. Hendrick wrote:
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 abridgment.
That principle it has successfully main.
tanned. Through the Civil War it con
secrated a reunited country to free and
equal American citizenship. 1t has kept
the channels of interstate commerce
open for ALL through the national bank
ing system, the refunding of the ma
tional debt, resumption of specie pay
ments, 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,
surveyed soils, developed waterways,
including the Panama canal, irrigated
deserts, conserved watersheds, and
husbanded the public lands. Protecting
American labor by regulating immi-
grafton 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
capital and labor thus, in a common
prosperity and common source of in
creased reward, it has created oppor-
tunities, improved conditions of en-
ployment, brought about higher
standard of living, and more wide.
spread distribution Of wealth and we'll
being, and made expansion moral as
well as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions,
1t has brought them peace and pro-
gress, and provided for the extension
and protection of American trade, for
the national defense, and for the hon
orable 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.
The Party of Progress and Prosperity.
promising progress and prosperity.
it has been politically sincere 1t has
never had a candidate of a section,
prejudice, or class, nor platform of
negation, scheme of reputation. pro-
gram of scuttle or doctrine of despair
It has never lent itself to a demand for
revolution, to be followed by reaction
and Tetrogression, il has stood firm
for evolution by constant steady and
enduring progress. Finding trusts.
giant-born, hourishing 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 prosperity.
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 other
Qands, and scorned to insult labor with
an illusionary promise of immunity
from law Yet it passed the pure food
1aw 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 readmst-
ment, currency reform and deve!op.
ment Of the merchant marine. ana
make the United States the financial
centre as it has made il the industrial
centre of the world
In the evolution by which party
government has become the extra.
constitutional method of securing re-
SpOlSlUlllty " lut people. tue ReDuDIl-
can party has become their traditional
representative and the Democratic
party the organized aspiration of indi-
viduals for power without responsible
ity. Fairly tried, from 1893 to 1895 the
two Democratic houses and the Demo
cratic president were wild team and
a helpless driver. Democracy agitates
local differences, Republicanism or
ganizes the national idea. In 1863 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.
3 tion
"In 1879 money was committed to a
specie basis; specie was at once, until
1893, no longer sought, and govern
ment bonds went to premium at the
reduced rate OF interest. In 1896 busi-
ness men were again committed to con-