The Republican journal., 1910-09-22
The National Campaign.

NEW YORK, September 10th. AS the
campaign progresses one principal issue
STANDS out prominently issue so
clearly stated by President Taft in his
ietter to Chairman Mckinley that:
Inc question will not be what COM
Plexlon OF Republicanism one prefers.
put whether 1t is better for the country
70 nave the Republican party control the
tsglsiation for the next two years and
TURNER redeem its promises, or to enable
democratic majority in the House
either 70 lnterpose veto to Republican
measures or to formulate and pass bills
TO carry out Democratic principles.
And happily Republicans throughout
tne country are recognizing the impor-
lance of not losing sight of this one
great issue, which includes all the other
issues of this campaign. Candidates are
everywhere laying aside personal predi-
lectlons as to details and mi thods in a
grand rally around the standard of Re-
publicanism. The nominations have
nearly all been made, the inter- party
contests are over and now but one large
contest remains-to determine whether
the next House of Representatives shall
be Republican or Democratic.
The unprecedented demand for litera-
ture from all parts of the country shows
that the voters are determined to cast
their ballots inteligently, and this
should mean a great Republican victory.
AS the President says:
eff the voters become impressed by
the party record with the difference in
governmental efficiency and capacity of
the Republican and Democratic parties,
they will enroll themselves with the
party of construction and progress rath
er than with the party of obstruction
and pegation, and the resulting legisla-
ton of the Sixty-second Congress will
vindicate their choice"
A Republican House, of Representa-
tives means constructive legislation; 1t
means taking up the unfinished business
OF the present Congress and the fulfill
ment of all pledges belonging to this ad-
ministration; it means merchant ma
rine; it means further laws in the inter-
est of labor; it means the enactment into
law of measures looking to the more COM
plete conservation of our natural re-
sources; it means a just and capable re-
apportionment of congressional districts
better provision for the health Of the ma
ton; it means such monetary legislation
as will further the elasticity as we'll as
the stability of our currency and the
credit of our government; it means
further inquiry into and regulation of in
terstate commerce business, and it
means that if it is thought best to revise
the tariff it shall be done wisely and in
accordance with the American policy of
protecting our labor and industries.
On the other hand, Democratic
House of Representatives means obstruc-
ton if not destruction; it means tariff
bill that will strike blow at American
labor, measure that would not be
enacted into law because of Republican
Senate and President, but nevertheless
rest and curtailment of industry and
consequent loss of labor and wages. A
Democratic House in the sixty second
Congress means a play for position in
the campaign of 1912. 1t means no
good to the country in any way.
These are not idle statements, they
are borne out by the facts. The Repub-
lican Congresses of recent years in the
constructive laws placed on the statute
books have shown the voters of the coun-
try what may be expected. And So too,
has the attitude of the Democratic min
GRITTY in its hostility to progressive legis-
lation shown what can be expected if
that party be given power.
The great issue, then, which includes
but does not obscure the lesser issues is
whether we shall go on with the good
work so well begun by the present Con-
gress and round out the administration
of President Taft with a rich fulillment
of all promises made and implied, or
whether we shall stop work on the grand
structure of nationality and nullify the
work already done. But few weeks now
remain, and the duty of every Republi-
can is apparent. Let US lay aside pet
ty differences and get together in one
grand earnest effort to keep the govern
ment of this, the greatest nation on
earth, in the hands of those who have
made it such and who have at heart the
welfare Of the people.