Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-08-27

ton, TO insure to persons and property
every proper safeguard. and all necessary
strengthening of administrative methods
will be provided TO furnish efficient in
spection and supervision. and prompt
righting of every injustice, discrimination
and wrong.
l have not touched upon every plank of
our splendid platform, but l reiterate my
full and unqualified approval of its every
promise.
Opposes Fostering Class Hatred.
l emphasize as my party's creed and
my faith that in legislation and admins
tration favor should be extended TO no
class. no sect, no race, no section as op-
posed to another. To foster.class hatred.
to foster discomfort, is un-Republican and
un-American. Our party stands on the
declaration that all men are created with
equal rights, and IT will have no part in
the enactment or execution of any law
that does not apply alike to all good
American citizens, whatever their calling
or wherever they live. 1t will allow no
man in our land to have advantage in
law over any other man. 1t offers no
safeguard to capital that is not guaran-
teed to labor; no protection to the work
man that is not insured to his employer.
1t would offer to each and to both in
pursuit of health end happiness and pros.
| perity every poss- de advantage.
The work that has been given the Re
| publican party to do has been of immense
| Importance. Much of that work has been
| fully accomplished some has yet
TO be completed Republican declara-
tons once in our platform and no longer
there are omitted because they have be-
come accomplished facts. On the other
| hand, Democratic declarations have been
| abandoned because the voters have pro-
nounced them to be unwise and unsafe
and unsuited to our times and our coun-
| try.
"ShaII People Ruler No Issue.
'Shall the people rule?" is declared by
| the Democratic platform and candidate
| to be ''the overshadowing issue
now under discussion 1t is no issue.
| Surely the people shall rule, surely the
people have ruled; surely the people do
rule. No party rules. The party, COM
missioned by the people, is simply the
| instrument to execute the peoples will,
| and from that party which does not obey
their expressed will, or which lacks the
wisdom to lead successfully, the people
will withdraw their commission.
| For half a century. with but two ex-
| ceptions, the people have commissioned
the Republican party to administer the
national government, because its declared
| principles appealed to their best judg-
| ment because the common sense of the
American people scented danger in Dem
| ocratic policies. Ours always has been,
| always must be. a government of the
people. That party will, after March 4
next execute old laws and enact new ones
as in November it is commissioned by
| the people to do. That commission will
| be from an untrammeled American cleo
| torate. Shame on the party which, shame
| on the candidate who. insults the Ameri-
| can people by the suggestion or declara-
| ton that a majority of its electorate is
venal! The American voter, with rare
exception. in casting his ballot is guided
| by his best judgment. by his desire to con-
serve his own and the public veal.
The overshadowing issue of the cam
paign really is: Shall the administration
! of President Roosevelt be approved; shall
| a party of demonstrated capacity in adj
minist, alive affairs be continued in pow
err; shall the reins of government be plac-
ed in experienced hands, or do the people
prefer to trust their destines to an aggre-
CATION of experimental malcontents and
theorists, whose only claim to a history
| is party name they pilfered?
With a record of four decades of wise
legislation. two score years of faithful
administration. Offering its fulfilled
pledges as a guaranty of its promises for
the future. the Republican party appeals
to the people and, with full confidence in
their wisdom and patriotism, awaits the
| rendition of the November verdict.