The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-09-03
THE KEYNOTE
SPEECH.

he State Democratic convention
Mr.. Roberts laid stress on
he following:
For 16 years, since the close of
the second term of the Cleveland
administration, the Republican par
ty has been in complete control OF
the government of the United
States, in all its branches and de-
partments, with the exception that
two years ago a Democratic house
was elected, the vote of the people
there changing a Republican house
majority Of sc to Democratic
house majority of AZ. It is fair,
therefore, to conclude that whatev.
er good or bad conditions exist in
respect of our governmental affairs
are chargeable to the Republican
party.
"In this connection 1t should be
observed as a factor in the situa-
tion that 16 years of Republican
rule have been years fruitful in ma.
lures bounties. There has not been
a single failure in our immense har
vests in any one Of the varied pro-
ducts of the soil, in any one of the
16 years. The mines uninterrup-
tedly have yielded their varied
stores in mineral wealth, in a con.
stantly increasing volume; the
sheep and cattle on ten thousand
times ten thousand pastured hills
have fourished and increased be-
yond measure. The seas have been
fruitful of their products. No gen.
eral calamity has smitten our peo-
pie; no plague has desolated our
cities-the period has been one of
uninterrupted general health. Not
even war has been calamitous in IT,
self; for our little war with Spain
brought us few casualties and no
disasters in loss of battles on land
or sea. God through bounteous ma
ture and in the fortunes of war has
been good to our country.
But at the end of these is boun-
teaus years through which has run
Republican rule, what are the con-
ditions respecting economic and
governmental affairs? Political
undest; dissatisfaction with pre-.
vailing industrial conditions among
the people generally well nigh to
the point OF threatening revolution
political disruption of the party SC
long entrusted with the administra
ton of government.
At the close of the last paragraph
Mr.. Roberts should have added thai
the chief cause of all this unrest ant
threatened Industrial Revolution IL
the fear that the people have of an
other Cleveland administration, ant
really is not the thoughts of such {
thing sufficient to cause one to grow
Sick at heart"
AS to the above, the Republican,
accept the situation as Mr.. Robert
states 1t and are proud of the record
1t is true the Republican party tool
the shattered, depleted, struggling
starving United States of America OF
the hands of the Democratic party a
the close of the Cleveland ADMINISTERS
ton. Then labor was in rags an
without sufficient food to properl
keep life and limb together. Tn
wheels of the factories were stille(
and the hum of machinery was a son
that was not sung. The industries c
our country were in such a horribl
depleted condition that revolution, G
war with all It's chain Of horrors, conf
not have brought much worse col
ditlon. There was not one failur
"in our immense harvests in any on
Of the varied products OF the soil
in any one OF those dreadful Dem
cratic years, and yet the price we
so small that the farmers were almo
ashamed to work the soil. Thirty Gel
wheat is still nightmare to the ia
mers of the country, and the splen
did record of sixteen years of Repu
lican administration as compared
those good old Democratic days
presents a picture that the farme
of the country will be loath to chang
No sooner had the wires clicked G
the election of a Republican Presidel
following Grover Cleveland than Il
thousands OF laborers in the land b
gan to sing the song OF hope. I'll
doors of the factories were opent
and the strong arm OF the laborer b
gan to clean the rust from the i'd
wheels, the accumulation OF Democri
l. lule, and industry at once bega
to feed the hungry and provide fc
the wants of millions OF toIlers. TIL
nation triumphed over Democratic Il