The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-01

that in the change something bench cial, underlined, will take place. The Republican party believes in progress along the lines upon which we have at tained progress already.
 The president then devoted some time to a review of what has been ac complished during his administration including warm defense of the Payne tariff bill. In conclusion he said:
 can not think that the American people, after the scrutiny and educa- tion of three-months' campaign, dur ing which they will be able to see through the fog of misrepresentation and demagoguery, will fail to recog- nize that the two great issues which are here presented to them are, first, whether we shall retain, on a sound and permanent basis, our popular con- stitutional representative form of gov ernment. with the independence of the judiciary as a necessary key to the preservation of those liberties that are the inheritance of 1000 years, and, second, whether we shall welcome prosperity which is just at our door by maintaining our present economic business basis and by the encourage ment of business expansion and prog ress through legitimate use of cap ital.
 Appeal to All Conservatives.
 I know that in this wide country there are many who call themselves Democrats, who view, with the same aversion that we Republicans do, the radical propositions of change in our form of government that are reckless ly advanced to satisfy what Is sup posed to be popular clamor. They are men who revere the constitution and the institutions of their government with all the love and respect that we could possibly have, men who depre- cate disturbance in business condi- tions, and are yearning for that quiet from demagogic agitation which is essential to the enjoyment by the whole people of the great prosperity which the good crops and the present conditions ought to bring to us To them l appeal, as to all Republicans, to join us in an earnest effort to avert the political and economic rev olution and business paralysis which Republican defeat will bring about. Such misfortune will fall most heav- fly on the wage earner. May we not hope that he will see what his real in terest is, understand the shallowness Of attacks upon existing institutions and deceitful promises of undefned benefits by undefned changes?
 May we not hope that the great ma jority of voters will be able te dis tinguish between the substance of performance and the fustian of prom ise; that they may be able to see that those who would deliberately stir up dIscontent and create hostility toward those who are conducting legitimate business enterprises, and who repre- sent the business progress of the coun- try, are sowing dragons teeth? Who are the people? They are not alone the unfortunate and the weak; they are the weak and the strong, the poor and the rich, and the many who are neither, the wage earner and the cap- italist, the farmer and the professional man. the merchant and the manufac- tUrer, the storekeeper and the clerk, the railroad manager and the employe they all make up the people and they all contribute to the running of the government, and they have not any of them given into the hands of anyone the mandate to speak for them as peculiarly the peoples representa- tive. Especially does not he represent them who, assuming that the people are the unfortunate and discontented would stir them up against the re. mainder of those whose government alike this is In other campaigns be- fore this, the American people have been confused and misled and diverted from the truth and from a clear per. Ception of their welfare by spacious appeals to their prejudices and their misunderstanding, but the clarifying effect of a campaign of education, the pricking of the bubble of demOgogic promise which the discussions of a campaign made possible have brought the people to a clear perception of their own interests and to rejection Of the injurious nOstrums that in the beginning of the campaign, it was then feared, they might embrace and aGopt So may We not expect in the issues which are now before us that the ballots cast In November shall show a prevailing majority in favor oi sound progress, great prosperity upon a protective basis, and under true con stitutional and representative rule by thn nnnnll2