Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-05-14
The Alma Record
Published Thursday Afternoon By
The Alma Record Company
c. j. BROWN, Business Manager.
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HARMONY PREDICTED
Former congressman F. o.
Lowden of Illinois
TELLS CITIZENS OF PEORIA
That Moose-Repablican Reunion Is
Inevitable---States His
Reasons
TELLS CITIZENS OF PEORIA

Prediction of harmony in the Republic
can ranks at the next national election
was made recently by former Con-
gresham Frank O. Lowden in address
? ing large audience at Peoria, Ill. He
said in part:
IF experience has taught anything, il
has taught that in a self-governing coun-
try such as ours efficient government is
only possible through party. 1t follows
from that that the indispensable condi-
ton of successful self-government is the
existence of two parties SO nearly equal
that each must inevitably act as a correc-
tive of the other
1T is an insult to the intelligence Of
Republicans and Progressives alike to
suppose for a moment that they will con-
tinue to fritter away their strength.
Then around which Of the two banners
will they meet? 1t has seemed to me all
along that this depends upon the lead
ing issue or issues of the next cam
paign,
IF l can read the signs of the times
Alright, the old questions upon which the
Republican party has always won are
again swinging to the fore: An hon
est and efficient administration OF the
great business of government at home !;
the maintenance of representative and
constitutional government the wise con-
duct of affairs abroad. and the return TO
those economic principles which will re-
store our waning prosperity.
Chief among these is the Republican
doctrine of protection; that is. to levy
a duty upon all importations into this
country of articles which we either pro-
duce in sufficient quantities for our own
use or are capable of producing in such
quantities Upon the question of tariff
the Republican party and the Progress
sive party substantially agree. Both
parties believe in a protective tariff.
y in fact, it IS hard to conceive of any
issue being the supreme issue in the next
campaign, but one upon which both the
Republican party and the Progressive
party agreed in the last campaign. If |
am right~in this. the natural logical, in
evitable thing will be a reunited Repub-
lican party under the old banner.
I'VE are in the midst of troublous
, times. A few years ago all was we'll
with the American nation and the Am
erican people. We were happy and pros
porous and contented at home. We were
the envy and admiration of the world.
The American flag hoated in every
breeze, harbinger of hope, as our faith
ers wished, a symbol of liberty under
the law. How different now! Discord
and discomfort at home; idle men and
silent mills upon the increase. And how
fare we abroad? AT war with Mexico
all Latin-America suspicious and watch
full; Russia estranged-Russiaw who, even
in our darkest hour. was our friend
almost our only friend all Europe a
cynical but not unhappy witness of our
woes; Japan, whom we first reused from
her long sleep to gratitude now held in
leash only by troubles of her own at
home. The united wisdom and patriot
ism of all Republicans, under whatever
banner they may have found themselves
in 1912, is needed now as ii never was
reeded before"