The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-09-23
Able Presentation Of Issue at
Outset Of Campaign.
PROUD RECORD OF GREAT PARTY
1t Stands For Expansion, For Progress
and Prosperity, Is Constructive, It
Organizes the National Will, Is a
Party of Statesmen, and With Taft
and Sherman AS Its Standard.
Bearers Is Bound to Be Successful
at the Election to Be Held In No.
vember.
Especial Correspondence
Nou Xorly Sant

new 1Ork, sept. o.
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 brief and for
chile 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 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 a higher
standard of living, and more wide
spread distribution of wealth and we'll
being, and made expansion moral as
well as material.
"Intrusted with insular possessions,
it 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. It has
never had a candidate of a section,
prejudice, Of class, nor 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
enduring progress. Finding trusts,
giant-born, flourishing 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,
hoc
tion and resort to the courts, resolved
the conflict which had silenced law and
given trusts existence.
at 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 illusionary promise of immunity
from law. Yet it passed the pure food
law and the employers liability law,
secured equal accommodation on rail
roads, aided agriculture, created the
civil service, established free rural
mail delivery reduced foreign postage,
and increased pensions. Continuing
Idlul any DlO6ltSH, II Will
keep its pledges of tariff readiust.
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
"In the evolution by which party
government has become the extra.
constitutional method of securing re-
sponsbility to the people, the Repuhli-
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 1898 to 1895, the
two Democratic houses and the Demo
cratic president were a wild team and
a helpless driver Democracy agitates
local differences Republicanism or
ganizes the national idea. In 1868 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
tion.