The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-10-31
DEMOCRATIC FALlACY

ing since in the summer. One man will
be elected to the Presidency of the IN
tied States on that day, while some 9TH
ers will necessarily begin their journey
up the proverbial Salt River. Just who
the lucky man will be political critics
have been unable to decide and until
late on election night the matter will re-
main in doubt. In the closing days of
the fight many things are being claimed
and some of the candidates are bidding
for votes on issues which only a short
time ago they did not favor, and some
are not averse to befogging the voter
on the real differences in the parties.
With our Democratic friends it has
been anything to win and just now they
are using every means within their
power to cover up the real and essen
tial issues and to win the voter on
something else. But the Democratic
party always has stood for certain
things.and it should and does stand for
those things today.
1t stands for free trade. The mem
bers of the Democratic party contend
that tariff for anything else than reve-
nue. is unconstitutional and should not
be maintained. Governor Wilson may
declare that if elected he will not seek
an immediate revision of tire tariff
but will bring it about gradual
ly and not harm business condition.
Grover Cleveland once made a promise
such as that and the American people
took him at his word. He couldn't keep
it simply because his Democratic breth-
rem made that impossible and a free
trade bill was soon adopted You know
the result. Surely no one wants to re-
peat the bad times of 1893-94. Wood
row Wilson and his promises may be
all right and you may be inclined to
vote for the Governor, but before you
do that think twice and remember that
a Democratic House may run away
with all of his good intentions and
bring panic and ruin to the country
again. This is not all tomfoolery as
the Democratic leaders would have you
believe; it is vital truth deduced from
the history of that party. 1t stands
for free trade and with this as its domi-
nant principle legislation along that
line must inevitably follow should they
once more get into power. If you vote
for Wilson for President and Lewis for
Congressman, that is what you will be
voting for and you will be unmindful
of where your interests lie. Protection,
and not free trade, has built up our in
dustries, has made possible high wage
scale and high standard of living, has
created market for products wherein
high prices may be obtained, and has
brought to the farmer, as well as to
those in other lines of work, the very
highest degree of prosperity. The Dem
ocratic party does not believe in this,
but believes in removing the tariff and
IN making you compete with the low
paid and half-starved producers of Eu-
rope. Do you want to compete with
them? If not, do not vote for the Dem
ocratic nominees but remain with the
Republican party and help to make sure
four more years Of this unprecedented
prosperity. A vote against Wilson and
Lewis means continuation of "good
times. 1t means good wages, good
prices for your products. plenty of
work, the American standard of living;
1t means prosperity and not poverty.
The Democratic party stands for
States Rights. 1t would take away
from the National government powers
that are rightly vested therein and
would seek to tring about a chaotic
state of things by making the State
supreme. Things that are essentially
national in scope should according to
Democratic doctrine be localized and put
under the control of individual states.
The doctrine has been tried at various
times and has never worked. Business
conditions are too complex for that to-
day and the nation is too closely knit to
ever permit again of such supervision.
Only under the Republican doctrine of
national affairs has prosperity come to
the nation and a settled condition in our
business affairs. Under 1t we have
secured efficient supervision and reg
ulat ion along all lines, and to vote now
for Democratic administration means
to disrupt this and cause disturbance
and disaster to our industries and gov
ernmental functions.
Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic
party stand for State control of the
trust and big business. They contend
for an impossibility. In times past the
various States have tried to deal with
this problem and failure has always
been the result. Today New Jersey
and Delaware may rightly be claimed
the home of the trusts. Chartered
under their laws, corporations go out
into every state in the nation to carry
on the business, and to say that those
states can control something essentially