Arizona republican., 1908-08-27

editor of Leslie's Weekly, and Henry L.. Stoddard, editor of the New York Evening Mail. The prize was awarded to Frank Hendrick of New York City. Ten other contestants were given hon orabfe mention, among them S. c. Price of Atwood, Kas. This was the essay that won:
 1.-The Party of Expansion.
 The republican party was founded upon the principle that the govern ment was established to protect for all times the rights and opportunities of every individual from abridgement. That principle it has successfully maintained. Through the civil war it consecrated a reunited country to free and equal American citizenship. It has kept the channels of interstate commerce open for all and, through the national banking systef, the re- funding of the national debt, resump- tion of specie payments, the gold stan dard and the emergency currency law, has sustainted the life current of na- tiOnal integrity.
 As trustee of the national wealth. it has investigated mineral regions, sur
  cluding the Panama canal. irrigated deserts, conserved Watersheds, and husbanded the public lands. Protect ing American labor by regulating im- migration 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 s0,000, ,000 of the worlds greatest consumers and so laid the surest basis for American competi- tion in foreign markets. Uniting cap ital and labor, thus in common pros- perity and common source of increased reward, it has created opportunities, improved conditions of employment, brought about a higher standard of living, and more widespread distribu- tion of wealth and well-being, and made expansion moral as well as ma terial
 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
 1.-The Party of Progress and Pros perIty.
 Promising progress and prosperity, it has been politically sincere It has never had a candidate of section, prejudice, or class, nor a platform of negation, scheme of repudiation. pro- gramme of scuttle, or doctrine of des- pair. It has never lent itself to a de- mand 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 1 has never, in an attempt to destroy I trusts. withdrawn, in state or nation. lthe protection of law from property, 1 but has. through executive investiga- | tion and resort to the courts. resolved 1 the conflict which had silenced law and given trusts existence.
 | It has never proposed to advance American workingmen and American institutions by banishing American in dustries and building up those of Oth-