Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-10-01
FIRST YEAR VOTERS
They Should Vote With Repub-
llCal Party.
II Has Stood for Progressive Policies
Within Sane Lines and Has Given
the Country UnexampIed
Prosperity.


Between three and four million
young men in the United States will
this year cast their first vote. Every
one of them should vote for President
Taft and the Republican party.
In choosing his political affiliation
the first voter should thoroughly
study the platforms, principles and
records Of the great political parties,
before allying himself with either. If
he goes into the record of facts i'm
partially, he cannot escape the con-
viction that his choice must be with
the Republican party. From Lincoln
to Taft, with one single exception,
every president of the. United States
has accepted the inspiring Repub-
lican doctrine. The Republican party
preserved the Union, abolished slav-
cry, freed Cuba, rescued the Phillip
pines and Porto Rico from three cen
turtles of Spanish tyranny, secured the
open door of trade in China and is
building the Panama canal-making
the old world dream of centuries
come true and readjusrlng the worlds
highways of commerce. In addition
to all this, its beneficent policies and
wise administration have resulted In
the progress of the nation, with COM
mercial development and national
wealth rearhing a point almost be-
yond Imagination.
Democrats Are Destructive.
On the other hand, the first voter
will find that the Democratic party
has always been an obstructive and
destructive party instead of construc-
tive: that when in power it has al
ways brought disaster to the country
not only because Of its incapacity
and inoompetency, but also because
It has invariably destroyed manufac-
turing interests by attempting to foist
free trade upon the American people.
1t has always been on the wrong
side of everything, and If it could
have had its way would have de-
stroyed the credit of the nation with
the free coinage of silver. In the last
Democratic administration the ma
tional debt increased and distrust and
panic paralyzed the great Industrial
system of the country. The value of
farm products decreased $500, 100000,
banks closed, business firms failed,
| factories were silent and three million
ablebodied men were begging for work
These things happened during the
short administration of the Demo
cratic party, which has done nothing
for progress, nothing for the cause of
liberty and freedom, and nothing for
the glory Of our common country, for
more than half a century.
Republican Party VIII Live.
The first voter will not be deceived
by the attack now made upon the Re-
publican party by men who are smart
ing under the sting Of disappointed
ambition. This is not the first year
in which the Republican party has
} been subjected to similar experiences.
There was the bolt of the Liberal Re-
) publicans to Horace Greeley in 1872
the defections in the early 90's to the
Farmers Alliance. Greenback and
Populist parties and the withdrawal
Of the Silver Republicans in 1896.
Republican residents-Lincoln, Grant
and McKinley-have been loaded with
the vilest abuse by their contempora-
} ries just as President Taft is assailed
today. But the Republican party has
} survived all these experiences just as
IL will survive the present attempt to
} bring about its destruction.
The men who left the Republican
party in the past have gone down to
political oblivion. Those who have re-
mained with the Republican party
have, on the contrary, proudly par
ticipated in its great achievements.
The Republican party offers to the
first voter the splendid record of its
past and the glorious promise of its
future,