The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-09-26

nailzed The administrations OF these
rulers called to high station by the
voice of their countrymen. With
steady tread and unfaltering step, the
naticn has gone sturdily forward in
the grand march Of progress.
Momenteus Questions.
Grave questions in statecraft
were met and solved. Growing
cut of the war of the Sixties,
problems momentous, and for the
time of overmastering import,
were faced with a courage un-
exampled ir the affairs of man.
kind The Republican leaders, giants
in their day and generation, not only
saved the life Of the Republic, but
paved the way to reconciliation be-
tween warning sections, stilhng
strife and promoting brotherly affec-
tion in a rehabilitated national struc-
ture, which remains a marvel in the
eyes of all the civilized nations of
the whole earth A vast war debt
weighed heavily upon the commercial
and industrial energies of the coun-
try With a steady purpose to
deal uprightly with the creditors
Of the once imperiled nation, the
men who risked their fortunes
and they who bore arms in de-
Tense of the constitution and the flag,
the Republican party by it's execu-
tive and legislators, upheld the honor
of the people they so well served,
But why repeat the history of the
past? The splendid story of ma
tional integrity and good faith, is
part of our unfading history. That
same spirit Of loyalty to the right,
that same unchanging determination
to deal justly, is the language of each
Republican national platform from
the first Chicago convention in 1860,
to the last deliverance of principles
written in that same marvellous city
of the great West a few weeks ago.
With the passing of years, new ques-
tions. and conditions have challenged
public thought The fundamentals
on which rest the. basic elements of
national life remain unchanged, how
ever much modern reformers would
have lis believe that old things have
passed away.
President Taft, in concluding his
speech of acceptance at the White
House, August 1st, used these terse
sentences
In other campaigns before this,
the American people have been con-
fused and miSled and diverted from
The truth and from a clear percep-
ton of their welfare by specious ap-
peals to their prejudices and their
misunderstanding, but the clarifying
eHCct OF campaign of education,
the pricking OF the bubbles of dema-
gogIc promise which the discussions
Of campaign made possible, have
brought the people to clear percep-
zion of their interests and to q rejec-
tlon Of the injurious nostrums that in
the beginning of the campaign, it was
then feared they might embrace and
adopt. SO may we not expect in the
issues which are now before US that
the ballots cast in November shall
show il prevailing majority in favor
of sound progress, great prosperity
upon a protective basis, and under
true constitutional and representative
rule by the people?"
The Republican party enters this
campaign upon its record of accom-
pIiShment in the past, and solemn
pledges as expressed in it's platforms
for the future. A long list of legisla-
tive enactments bear eloquent testi-
mOny to its capacity for sane govern
ment, and to decent regard for the
rights of all classes OF citizens.
kecnly alive to the modern change
in the view of government toward the
people" the Republican party has
consistently wrought reforms in our
civic life and held to true course,
in the enforcement of law Misrep-
resentation, and the eXaggeration of
defects, have played a vicious part in
strife and discomfort
among our people. The present ma
tiOnal administration has steadily
kept in view the high purpose OF our
government under the constitution,
10 protect the defenseless, promote
The general welfare, and to deal tust-
iy with all classes whatever be their
lot in life.
OVershadowing Issues.
We must not close our eyes
to existing conditions, and I call upon
my fellow-Republicans to sQuarely
face the one overshadowing issue
shall we continue in the well-beaten
path of national growth and prosper
lty, or shall we surrender to policies
We have professed to believe make
Tor a long train of political and in
dustrial ills? Granting that cond-
tions are not Just what we most de,
sire, shall We repeat the experiences
Of 1893 to 1897? A majority of the
voters of the country ventured upon
q change in the policies of national
administration and the cost was
greater than that of the war of the
Sixties. The unrest and discomfort
Of those fateful years form one of the
darkest pictures in our history Then
il was not sentiment, but gnawing
hunger and widespread disaster. Now,
in the midst Of unexampled abund-
ance and universal prosperity, from
ocean to ocean, evil minoded proph-
cts of alleged impending disaster
seek to mislead and deceive the un-
wary by the arts Of the demagogue
and SpeciouS pleas for a leadership.
thoughtful men must distrust Ohio,
in the main, has been true to high
ideals in government Her citizen
ship stands for integrity and fair
lealing. False theories and political
lostrums find but little favor with
our people. 1t will be so this year. |
have faith to believe that, upon a
'ree and fair discussion in the forum
If public debate, the mists will be
jispelled and the voice of the cleo. |
crate of the Buckeye State be found.
Is In the half century which lies be- |
lind us, true to the principles which |
nave controlled and insured Republi-
2an victories at each presidential |
election from 1860 to 1908.
Glorious News
from DR.. J. T. CurtiSs, |