The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1912-10-02
FIRST YEAR VOTERS
They Should Vote With Repub.
Iican Party.
k Has Stood for Progressive Policies
Within Sane Lines and Has Given
the Country Unexampled
Prosperity.

Between three and four million
young men in the United States will
this year cast their first vote. Every
enc of them should vote for President
Taft and the Republican party.
In choosing his political a~ffiliation
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
oome true and readjustlng the worlds
highways of commerce. In addition
to all this, it's 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 It's i~ncapacity
and in~competency, 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 coul'
have had it's 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, 900, 900,
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 Will 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 hrst 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 OBJECTIONS in the early COS to the
Farmers Alliance. Gre4nback and
Populist parties and the withdrawal
Of the Silver Republicans in 1896
Republican presidents-Lincoln, Gran,
and McKinley-have been loaded with
the vilest abuse by their contempora.
ries just a. President Taft is a~ssailed
today. But the Republican party has
survived all these experiences just az
It will survive the present attempt tt
bring about it's destruction.
The men who left the Republican
party in the past have gone down tt
political oblivion. Those who have re.
manned with the Republican patty
have, on the contrary, proudly par.
ticipated in its great achievements.
The Republican party offers to tn;
first voter the splendid record of it,
past and the glorious promise of IL
future. q