Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-03
Facts for the Voter to Consider.

| ing appeal to the voters of the United
States:
-Four great facts seem to justify the
Republican party in asking the voters
Of the United States to continue it in
the control of the affairs of the gov
eminent. First, the promptness with
which it has fulfilled the pledges of the
platform upon which it successfully
appealed to the people in 1896. Sec
ond, the prosperity which has come to
all classes of our citizens with and as
a result of the fulflment of those
pledges Third, the evidence which
that prosperity furnishes of the fallacy
of the principles offered by the oppos-
ling party in 1896, and still supported
by them. And, fourth. the advantages
of our country, our commerce and our
people in the extension of area. COM
Imerce and international influence
which have unexpectedly come as an
incident of the fulfilment of one of the
important pledges of the platform in
|1s96. and with it the opportunity for
benefitting the people of the territory
affected"
The above quotation is just as true
today as it was in 1900 or in 1904 or
l19O8. Pledges have been redeemed:
prosperity has come as a result; de-
velopments have shown the fallacy OF
the principles on which the Democ-
racy then appealed for support. and
conditions which have come to other
parts of the world and their people as
result of the promises fulfilled by the
Republican party are of worldwide
comment.
Among some of the accomplishments
/ of the past IA years are the restoration
of the protective tariff; the making
permanent of the gold standard: the
| independence of Cuba the rapid con-
struction of the Panama canal. which
will be under the sole control and
ownership of the United States; the
Department of Commerce and Labor
| has been established; rural free de-
Livery has been given to millions of the
AGRICULTURAL community, and laws for
| the proper regulation of trusts and
great corporations have been strength
ened and enforced. Prosperity has
been established upon such firm
basis that onl, such calamity as the
turning over of the government to
reckless Democracy can throw it seri-
ously out of balance.
Today old Glory is the emblem of
honor and intelligence in every part of
the world.
President Taft asked the last Con-
gress for important constructive legis-
lation according to the promises made
by the party in the presidential cam
paign. These promises have been full
filled with regard to railroads and 9TH
er public utility corporations, to pub
lie savings banks. to employers liabil-
lily, to the land Withdrawals in the in
terest of conservation policies, to the
creation of tariff board, to protection
of miners, to more effective suppress
sion of the white slave traffic. In
Ifact. the whole administration pro-
gram, with the exception of the in
junction bill. was actually carried
through by the insistence and kindly
but firm hand of the President. The
Iinjunctions bill failed because there
was no public sentiment behind it, and
II died a natural DEATH
The important and difficult questions
that the Sixty first Congress left un-
settled were questions that could not
have been settled with the best of will
| in the world. They are of such wide
spread Importance that they require
further discussion and thorough in
vestigaton by united party This is
true of the currency and banking
problem, of further tariff revision
downward. of trust law revision. of
postal reform. of conservation. of i'm
migration. and of merchant marine
proach in elaboration. caution and Sc
lection by the great leaders of the Re-
publican party.
All of the great. accomplishments
which we have noted and many which
We have omitted have been the work
of the administrations of Mckinley, of
Roosevelt, and last. but not least. of
President William H. Taft and the
great Republican party behind these
leaders. Each of them has met with
the opposition and
| the hostility of the Democracy. The
protective tariff was fought at every
step. and denounced by the platform
of the Democrats as robbery The
Act which established the gold stan
dard was opposed and the Democratic
vote cast almost solidly against it: and
that party in it conventions and plat
forms of 1904 and 1908 deliberately re-
fused to retract in the slightest degree
Ii its advocacy of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. In the war for the
freedom of Cuba, the work of the Re-
publicans met with harsh criticisms: in