Arizona republican., 1908-06-17
MAKING OF A PRESIDENT
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ferent states are to be chosen. The result. involving as it does the control of both the executive and legislative branches of the national government, with the opportunity for a change of parties and policies. is of transcendent importance and far-reaching conse- quences, involving the states and the nation.
 -Four years ago the republican party in national convention submitted the record of it's achievements to the Am erican people,, announced its policies for the future and, invoking continu- ance of public favor, placed in nomin- ation for the office of president and Vice-president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt and Charles w. Fairbanks. who were elcted and the platform approved by a popular vote of 7,623,4S5, a record unexampled in the history of political parties since the foundation of the government, re- ceiviRg the indOrsenent of thirty-two states out of the forty-five, with but thirteen in opposition.
 Tn view of this endorsement, it be-
  comes pertinent and opportune to in quire, What has the republican, party done in the last four years of govern mental control-in many respects the most remarkable and brilliant in the history of the party and the country to forfeit pubhc confidence or create distrust ps1ts capacity for future ad- ministration?' Although some unto-
 
 beset the republic during the last four years. yet these have been met and overcome with alacrity and courage and the country has marched steadily onward in its matchless course of in- dustrial triumphs. The wise and bene- ficent legislation of the republican party during the long years of it's as tendency and administration of nation al affairs laid the foundation for the public veal so securely that no dis Quieting condition, not even a tempo rary panic, which necessarily touches the handspring of all industrial life could arrest the country's resistless advance"
 Chairman Burrows described the growth of the country since the fast na- tiOnal convention of the republican party, the increase of population, the production of the shops, fields and mines, the accumulation of wealth in the banks, the shipping and the com merce, foreign and domestic of the country.
 He also went over the achievements of the nine great departments of the government through which the execu- tive of the nation speaks.
 Concerning our insular policy the chairman said:
 The management of our outlying possessions under republican adminis- tratiOn has been attended with remark able success. Under American occu- patton and control the commerce of the island of Porto Rico, which in the most prosperous days of Spanish rule aggregated but twenty-two million dollars, was, in 1907, fifty-siX millions. The production of sugar has advanced from 109,0OO tons to 2O4,00O'ton val ued at fifteen million dollars.
 When we took possession of the is land there was but one school building owned by the government. Now there are over eighty, built and under con
 
 the public schools is 10000. Peace and order prevail throughout the island, and a representtive is accorded to the United States.
 In the Philippine Islands the people have been given a legislative body, the full power of conducting their own municipal and provincial governments, the establishment of their own tariff system, the direction of the postal service, and indeed greater rights and powers than those possessed by any other people subject to our sovereignty. sound and reliable currency system has been established, schools so enlarg- ed that the number of primary schools now aggregate between 5000 and 4,000 with total enrolment in March last Of 479,97S. Postoffices have been es- tablished throughout the archipelago, a free delivery service in the city of Manila. practically 10000 miles of tel egraph and cable lines are in operation and several hundred miles of new rail- way are under construction or con tract while less than 10 per cent of the government employees and munich pal officers are Americans. and of the police and constabulary force 9S per cent are FiliDlnos.
 The work of civilizing and uplifting the inhabitants of the Philippine Is lands has gone forward with remarka- ble progress. The president of the United States aptly summarizes the whole matter as follows:
 ''No great civilized power has ever managed with such wisdom and disin- terestedness the affairs of a people committed by the accident of war to its hands If we had followed the ad vice of the misguided persons who wished to turn the islands loose and let them suffer whatever fate might befall them, they would have already