The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-03

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campaign. draw towaTds The cIoslpg
week 0ue6Face t5.nd5 out prominently
And becomes the pafaIneuut issue es
me day Reduced to . single ideas
me elections OF NOV. 8 throughout
the congressional districts Of the
colintry WIN Determine whether tho
splendid record of the Republican
party Is to be Endorsed, and also the
fuIther program. or whether the PEG
pie VIM nuuify Republican policies,
BON accomplished and promised, and
adopt the tenets Of the Democratic
party.
The record Of the Republican party
for the past 50 years, and Tor partit
IIlaTly the past 10 years, with especial
references to the work Of the last se5
sion, has been repeated again nn1
again, and Is familiar or should be-
10 every votsr in the country. And
now we must look to the future rath-
q. than to the past The Republican
pFolram has been we'll stated by
President Tart. Should the Reppbal
cans be successful in conttnutng their
majority in the next house Of repre-
SehtatiYes, there Is no doubt that
tl4Afe VIII be tariff legislation OF some
sort, provided It can be shown thar
the present law can be revised VITA
BENEFIT to the people OF this country.
It Is quite possible, TOO, that some
law win be enacted looking to the re
OF the merchant marine. |
1t = understood that the president
JTfli urge some such measure 20
strongly that his views will be adopt. |
cd Undonbtsd1y, too, there VIII be |
some leGfslation embodytng the beat
practice In the issuing Of sinjunettons,
doing away with muck representation !
and no little class feeling Thersi
viii b further legislation provi1inEssi
for franc agreements between inter-
j5tak6 railways, and there win aIso bel
further legislation providing for add.
ttonal Safsty appliances.
Conservation measures Will also be
taken up and the various projects
win Be given the attention they del
SeFEe.
Again, the sfxty-second congress, II i
me house should be Republican.
would undoubtedly undertake thet
SlininAtIon OF the defects in our
banling and currency system, based :,
on the report of the monetary conf
mission. There are various other laws
OF greater or less importance looking
to q new government for Alaska and I
the strengthening OF the antitrust !.
law and possibly closer commercial
relations with Canada.
TFnIy, as=President Taft said in hts !
New York speech of October L.
mo one can read the list of meas 4
ure6 actually passed and thoae pro 4
ISosed by the national Republican par !.
ty and not admit that the party Is
in the highest degree. II
is 4as4ESt to be proud of. The extra
ordinary achievements OF this con-
gDess may fairly be said to be part OF
4 great Republican movement It Is
not the work OF the executive alone, .
or OF congress alone. 1t is not the !.
work of one man, or OF one faction. y
AZ all shared in the work SO we all
must share in the satisfaction Of ac- 4
It Is the work of the. 1
Republicans. It marks the rising tide !:
of progress that began at the end OF !
4 Democratic panic when William Nc
ESinley was our leader and that con, !.
tinued throughout the two administers
lions of Theodore Roosevelt
at Is peculiarly a Republican dis