Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-15
Confidence fer Coming Contests.

splendid harvest of new endeavors.
Confidence fer Coming Contests.
The Republican party will approach
/ the next Congressional election conf.
| dent that the people of the United
+ States have renewed faith in the truly
/ progressive character of its fundamen-
| tai principles, and it can be relied upon
to meet the great economic questions
/ pressing forward upon the people for
solution. free from sectional interests
j or the fads of few men. The Ameri-
can people look fer the forward move
ment in administering government to
be accomplished through adherence to
the laws and in a steady and orderly
manner as an aroused public con-
science shall command, and not through
the whims of one man or any particu-
/ lar set of men. All political parties and
all men should be not only forward
looking but forward moving"
The watchword of the Republican
party today, as in the day of Abraham
/ Lincoln, is Forward 1t looks back
upon the record of progress and
achievement, not as an argument for
its restoration to power but as an in
spira ton to determine to continue it's
policy of liberal progress.
Party Is instrument of People.
It was the desire among the people
/ for the protection of human rights, for
equal opportunity, for better citizen
j ship, for equitable government, and
+ for a greater nation that gave the Re-
publican party birth. The people have
used the Republican party as an Ill
strIlment to carry out these great re-
forms. They will continue to use this
same agency in the perfecting of gov
eminent, for the protection of the in
dividual citizen. whether at home or
/ abroad, for the protection OF capital
/ and labor, and for the preservation of
! integrity and manhood in business. The
| whole historyoof the Republican party
/ shows that in it's legislation and adj
/ ministra ton its movements have been
/ forward and not backward. 1t IS this
j unfailing forward march of the past
/ fifty years that gives Us the firm faith
/ in the destiny of the Republican party.
! There may have been cessations or
! progress, but the grand and final re-
/ suit has been great advancement. The
i Republican party is determined not to
/ be responsible for the liabilities other
/ PARTIES have incurred by reason of
+ faulty legislation and mlsrepresenta-
/ ton of great questions; for the reason
that It is a party of affirmation, not
negation 1t will neither discourage
nor encourage personal ambition in
matters of public policy which vitality
| affect the interests of all the people.
The Republican party of today stands
! r,,,h1icity in hnGinPSS and
politics, but also, what is equally If
not more important, for publicity dur
/ ing legislation in the making. 1t Is OPP
posed to the system of legislating sec
/ reilly in caucus and behind closed doors,
and has already pledged itself to the
overthrow of this system. There should
be no secrecy as to the origin or meth
| cd Of legislation, to the end that all
proposed measures may be considered
ard discussed by the people so that
they can intelligently advise their rep
resentatiyes IN Congress.
Believe Right Must Prevail.
1t is the purpose of the National Re-
| publican Congressional Committee 10
enter on a campaign for the welfare
| of the people as a nation, rather than
a selfish struggle for restoration to po-
Itical power And it enters the cam
paign in both hope and assurance of
/ ultimate success Not that the MEM
bers of the committee, individually or
collectively, underestimate the magni-
tude of their task in undertaking to
overcome the tremendous majority
against them in Congress, especially in
| the House of Representatives, but they.
! Ill; ID artU has fhh
right On its side and this soon must
| prevail.
/ For the first time in it's glorious his
/ tory. the Republican party last year
suffered disruption somewhat similar
to that which divided the Democratic
party in 1896, and which kept that
l party divided until 1912, when har-
mony was compelled by pressure. rath-
er than brought about by agreement
upon principles. Far more fortunate
! than it's rival political organization the
| Republican party already is reconciling
it's differing elements and will be large
/ ~ reunited and enthusiastic before the
next Congressional election. The dlvis-
ion of the rank and file Of the Demo-
/ cratic party was based on fundamental
| principles; the difference in the rank
and file of the Republican party arose
ever its own methods or organization.
I which in the passing Of years it had
i outgrown. And to the effort to achieve
! the program of advancement of the
Republican party, which now actuates
4 and inspires it's membership, the Con-
y eressional Committee will give its
hearty assistance. In the committee
| will be found many men of many
views, but all of liberal tendencies,
and all intent on the same achievement
/ 1.-The restoration of the party to the
enbounded confidence of the people and
Its consequent return to power in the
nation as party of all the people,
knowing neither Glasses nor
masses"
I Originating at mass meeting In
Pittsburgh. February, 1856, the organ