Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-12
Record of Accomplishment Blank on
Its Good Side,
WHAT REPUBLICANS HAVE DONE
Public Good Conserved bv the Party
While in Power.
PARTY OF PEOPLE AT ALL TIMES
ProsperIty Follows Laws Enacted ny
Republicans in Pursuance of the
Folicy by which Party ..'--
Exists.

Old Washington hall tesouuded Saturday
night while ebullitions OK the kind of en-
thuslasm that used to characterize the re-
publican meetings in the fighting days OF
Ions ago. II vas filled with citizens, not
all republicans by any means, desrous of
hearing United States senator Burkett dis
cuss the matters of political interest now
urgent in the public mind.
Senator Burkett was, in good trim and
made an earnest, cogent and impressive
speech, lie had the close attention OF his
audience all through, Their good will for
the speaker himself was no less evident
than their enjoyment OF his eloquent argu-
ment and keen analysis OF the conditions
prevailing in the country today. He took
for the republican party the credit to
which 1t is entitled on the record, and
directed particular attention 10 the fact
that, as always, the democratic party to-
day is banking on negative acts; ON carp
ing, faultfinding, irresponsible damnins
and gratuitous denunciation for success;
that it has no achievement of positive
character to appeal to for support, but
stands on the ground that the strict con-
struction OF the constitution will not per-
nit the congress the president or the
nation to take one single forward step
along any approved line of progress.
No Bread Line Now.
I'VE never have had and we never will
have. bread line in this country while
prices are high" said the senator, and that
thought was the keynote OF his utterances.
He lauded the full dinner bucket as being
pI sferable at any time to the travelling
armies of tramps that made famous the
democratic era of the Wilson bill, and in
sisted it is much better that many people
should be aole to ride in automobiles and
luxury rather than in hayracks and
despair.
In his opening remarks, after being in,
troduced by T, w. Mccullough, the senator
expressed himself as slaAl 10 soc 20 much
republican enthusiasm in Ofnahai for out
in the state" said he, ''the democrats are
endeavoring TO create the impression that
Omaha republicans are getting ready to
scuttle the snip and desert the flag" He
thought the charge Of traitor against Omaha
republicans that was being circulated SO
persistenty by the democracy ought to be
branded as a malicious libel.
The democrats are trying to make US
believe that Omaha republicans are not as
true to their principles as republicans are
| in other parts of the state and that Omaha
people somehow are different than the rest
of the people of the state. II ever lost
| faith in your republicanism, l want to
apologize for 1t tonight after this display OF
! enthusiasm and loyalty The reflection that
! your republicanism is only Of the selfish.
sordid kind, that II Is warped and controlled
! by your local personal interests, is an old
democratic trick 1t is libel on your po-
tical integrity, and ought to be hurled
| I haita
republicans of Omaha are progressive, that
the people here have high ideals, and want
the party to be progressive and stand for
! high ideals. The people always expect the
| republican party TO be square-toed and un-
equivocating, high minded and progressive.
The republican party must shrink from nc
duty, shirk no responsibility and must
stand for clean men and clean methods,
good laws and the highest possible political
integrity.
Difference Between Parties.
II believe in the republican party because
have faith in the men who make up its
councils. l believe in the policies of tho
| republican party, first, because they are
right. and second, because when written In
| the statute books they produce good
suits; while democratic policies are wrong,
and produce disaster when enacted into
law. The democrats may deny that repub-
| lican policies are right, but no man on
earth can deny that they produce good re-
suits. II there is anyone inclined to criti-
cize the republican party, let him go back
over these thirteen years since 1897 when
the republican party supplanted the de-
\ mocracy, and contemplate what has been
4 achieved. Then let him ask himself the
question, What more could the democrats
have done?
"Who can point TO any dozen years when
so much has been accomplished? Where
are the mistakes? When were the people
ever SO prosperous or the government so
glorious as today? Let some democratic
speaker tell us how the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver without the aid or con-
sent Of any nation on earth, would have
bettered conditions; tell us, II he can. II
his free trade doctrine OF buying anywhere
on earth and selling wherever we can,
could possibly have made us more pros
} porous than we are today. Let him explain
to us in what particulars the democrats
would have been more successful in the
Philippines and Cuba and Porto Rico than
the republicans have been. want him to
tell our people of Nebraska il he thinks
corn would have been higher. or wheat
or cattle or hogs.
Record of Twelve years.
II have been member OF congress for
twelve years and each session has enacted
more legislation than It's predecessor The
last session enacted more good, wholesome.
up-to-date, progressive legislation than any
two of It's predecessors. Inspired by the
splrit OF Roosevelt and driven forward by
President Taft In the flesh, every pledge
4 has been redeemed and every expectation
| rpk
be depended upon 10 do things. For fifty
years II has kept legislation abreast OF the
B times. 1t has been responsive 70 the ideals
} Of the people ana Progress has always
been its watchword."
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