Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-29
IT you are an American Citizen, 60 to the Polls next Tuesday and VOTE.

The country has experimental with the Democratic party,
II gave !: iull power, in 1892. in every department of the govern
'nent. And the bread lines and bread riots. the silent mills and
Smokeess chlmneys OF the four years of black disaster that follow
cd still tell the story of Democratic ineffciency and inaptn,,ie.
n country has Just passed through the most remarkable panic OF
=" mS'o'y-a pane OF overrrosperiy. A decade of good times
had led to a furious period OF over-capitalzation. over-production.
"Ner-reachIng. and the end OF it came with a crash that rocked the
financial world. But t was only a money manic. The nuo, w.
in wise and steady hands,
There were no fundamental evils of legislation o government.
The basic business of America. agriculture. a undsturbed. Ey-
'ert in isolated places the farmer did not feel the panic. There
was nothing wrong but the moncy-mainess of Wall street and other
great financial centers. And today business is rapidly gaining its
norma iooting. Mills and factories and mines are turning busy
everywhere. With the election of Judge Taft and the complete
restoration of confidence the country will continue in it's halfway
ct splendid and uncquaed prosperity.
Against that promise, that certainty. there stands the proposoI
I" the Democratic party to make OF the nation a clinic-to subject
the interests of the capitalist, the workingman and the farmer to
series OF weird experiments. The party of Bryan. hay ing had the
leisure within the last twelve years Ito see visions and dream
reahH comes a-begglng OF the American people. asking them to
take OF. the lid OF the Democratic Pandora's box of governmental
theories and turn them loose on the workshop chimncysa and corn
e"S IL tlks OF the tariff and guaranteed deposits, does the
Democratic party. just as it talked OF the universal remedy OF anti
imperialism in 1900 and the h]cavcn-born ratio of 10 to | in 1890.
1t IS Just as certain that it can save the country o as il was in
1000 and 1890. And it is just as certain to wreck the country nov
Is 1t was IN those days. II by any evil chance it should triumph at
inc P'"S. Inc country Is IN no mood tor experiments. Its fnan-
riaI nerves. it, commercial system. are no, in condition for the Jar
'N' 'h"pg oun uIlnP. DISASTER would ISt 4 : SurcN
follow Pryan's triumph in November as it followed Clevelanl',
election in 1899.
there aren't any two ways about that. That is certainty.
and the man who would vote for busy mills and good market,
Tor Irosperiy-mu,t vote for William Howard Taft. And will.
80 ir as the other promise of the Taft campaign goes. there
is no shadow of doubt that it will be fulfilled. In the last fpur
years OF Republican administration more progress has been made,
towards national righteousness. more victories have been won Tor
the cause OF American deccncy. than have ever even been promised
IN All the Democratic stump speeches and campaign slogans ever
sounded. Theodore Roosevelt has turned the heavy hand of an
aroused people against evildoers. high and low. He has brouoht
'nt" the fierce white light of public knowledge and denunciation
lniIunty IN whatever places he has found it. He has inauplroted
campaign against corruption that will make for good for all the
years t" come. And William Howard Taft stands pledged and
ready to continue those policies. He has fought. a brilliant field
marshal, IN the splendid Rooscveltian battle for better things. Hr
has been enlisted. heart and soul, in the struggle for national uuIi,
He has sat in the Roosevelt councils and led in the Roosevelt, nm
slaughts. And he is fitted. better than any other man. tn TAX. ~,
the great tasks which the President must leave SO soon.
Is there any choice. then. for the American husband and
father. the American patriot, in this campaigno Is there anv
question as to how YOU must cast your ballot if you would c,,
1t Tor material prosperity and national righteousness? Is there
any doubt as to what YOU are going to do on election dav,-
Toledo Blade.