Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-13
FIVE CONVINCING REASONS
why the Republican Party Should
Be Successful in November
PRIZE PAPER ON THE SUBJECT
Constructive Progress in the Past an
Assurance of Greater Progress
in Future Under Repub-
Iiean Rule.

article of 1900 words or less on why the
Republican Party Should BE Successful in
November" has been awarded Frank Hen
drick Of New York City.
Several thousand manuscripts were sub
mitted in the competition. one reading re-
duced the number to 200, and out Of this
number twenty were chosen for submits
sion to the judges-Ellls II. Roberts, ex-
treasurer Of the United States: John A.
slelcher, editor Of Leslie's Weekly. and
Henry L. stoddard, editor Of the New York
Evening Mail. A unanimous decision in
favor of Mr.. Hendrick was rendered by the
judges.
Mr.. Hendrick is a graduate Of Harvard
college, a member of the New York Union
League club and a lawyer. He has been
active in politics in the Twenty-ninth as
sembly district and was the candidate of
the Independence league for congress in
the Thirteenth district in 1906.
The prize-winning paper follows:
THE Party of Expansion.
The republican party was founded upon
the principle that this government was
established to protect for all times the
rights and opportunities of every indi-
vidual from abridgment. That principle
it has successfully maintained. Through
the civel war it consecrated a reunited
country to-frss and equal American citizen
ship. 1t has kept the channels Of inter
state IN open for all, and, through
the national banking system, the refund
ing of the national debt, resumption OF
specie payments, 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
immigration and by taking at the custom
house, to pay American taxes, foreign cap
tails advantage from low wages, it has
preserved to American industries the home
market of $4,000, 600 of the worlds greatest
consumers and so laid the surest basis
for American competition in foreign mar
kets. Uniting capital and labor, thus, in a
common prosperity and common source OF
increased reward, it has created oppor-
t%untties, improved conditions of employ
ment, brought about a higher standard of.
living and more widespread distribution Of
wealth and well-belng, and made expansion
moral as we'll as material.
Entrusted with insular possessions, it
has brought them peace and progress, and
provided for the extension and protection
u american lTdue, LOT the national ueEenSe
and for the honorable discharge of the
responsibilities OF world greatness. Main
tanning peace at home, with foreign ma
tons and among them, It has given Ameri-
can rights and American opportunities new
meaning throughout the nation and
throughout the world.
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 a platform of negation, scheme or re-
pudiatiOn, program OF %scuttle, or doctrine
! of despair. 1t has never lent itself to a de-
mand for revolution, to be followed by re-
action and retrogression, it has stood firm
for evolution by constant, steady and en-
during progress. Finding trusts, giant
born, flourishing under supposed conflict
Of state and national law, the double pro-
hibition OF existence serving but to foster
I their development, It has never, in an at
tempt to destroy trusts, withdrawn, in
S state or nation, the protection of law from
property, but has. through executive in
n vestigation and resort to the courts, re-
solved the conflict which had silenced law
and given trusts existence.
Il has never proposed to advance Ameri-
can workingman and American institutions
by banishing American industries and
DulldlnB up those or Otner landS, ana
t soorned to insult labor with an illusory
. promise of immunity from law. Yet it
= passed the pure food law and the en-
ployers' liability law, secured equal accom-
d modatlons on railroads, aided agrl-
culture, created the civil service, estab-
, llsEed free rural mail delivery, reduced
foreign postage, and increased pensions.
5 Continuing naturally marked-out progress,
1t Will keep its pledges Of tariff r~eadjust-
5 ment, currency reform and development of
the merchant marine, and make the United
Il States the financial center as it has made
20 it the industrial center Of the world.
/ - Constructive Party.
e In the evolution by which party govern
e ment has become the extra-constitutional
method OF securing responsibility to the
people, the republican party has become
= their traditional representative and the
democratic party the organized aspiration
of individuals for power without response
bility. Fairly tried, from 1898 to 1896, the
81 two democratic houses and the democratic
n president were a wild team and a help
less driver. Democracy a~gitates local diff
ferences. repuhlicanism organizes the ma
tlonal idea. In 1863 the people were COM
mitted to the cause of human liberty; the
idea of liberty and union expanded for
= the first time into the reality Of the Ameri,
p can ndllOn'
In 1879 money was committed to a specie
! basis; specie was at once, until 1898, M
longer sought, and government bonds
ID went to a premium at the reduced rate OIL
i interest. In 1895 business men were agair
committed to confidence; before a single
I'd statute was enacted prosperity set in anC
in ten years bank deposits almost trebleC
"a permanent gain which the recent
J. panic. a state Of mind" now completely
IN dispeIled. scarcely touched. In 1905 bust
,h ness was committed to fair methods; with
out compulsion violations largely ceased
lg The republican party, at each period
sounded the public orscicnce, felt TIL
IL national pulse, framed its policies II
response, and realized in law the dominap
tn American idea. Its constructive past as
A. sures its constructive future. 1t is toda,
as It always has been, The Party Fit 1
= Govern"
IN-The Party of Statesmen.
- The party Of craftsmanship, il has bee
at the training school OF statesmen. II
"a policies have been forged In the heat o
public discussion, tempeIed in the delhi
eraticn and shaped in the conflict o
many trained minds, and drawn an
an finally wrought for the country's welfar,
at Dominating its members through prin