Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-06-09

we shall make America greater or dis
appoint a world. A mighty people,
yea, and nations beyond the seas await
our verdict. We are not gathered to
pluck the fragrant. flowers of elo-
quence, to indulge in fulsome self
glorification or to engage in unhappy
factional contest. A reunited, deter
mined, forward-looking Republican
party demands that mere personal am
bitions and pride of opinion shall give
way to the welfare of the party and
the country. The faces of the mighty
dead look down upon us and inspire
US to achievement worthy of their
heroic example. Omitted, we win;
divided, the Democrats win and the
country loses"
The Republican party this year
means business, and it expects us to
transact that business patriotieally,
unseltishly and with an eye single to
the nations veal.
The fires of hatred and faetional
strife have burned out. Let no man
sitting among the ashes sieze a fast
dying ember of discord and wave it
above his head as battle-signal; the
battle of 1912 is over-no apologies
should be asked or given by any man
for honest differences of opinion in
that con1ict-1912 is behind us, 1916
is upon us-the question is not
What did you do them" but "What
are you going to do now?" We face
the future confident in the ability of
the Republican party to sense the vast
problems of the day, diagnose our ma
tional indisposition and provide cure
no matter how the vitality of the
patient may have been sapped by four
years of Democratic experimentation
nor how radical or far-reaching the
treatment required.
Nearly two generations ago and al
most on this very spot the Republi-
can party began to make national his
tory in the famous wigwam. When
it came into being. it found treasury
bankrupt business PROSTATE, the
country divided and overloaded with
impending civil war. Like the mighty
Hamilton, "It touched the corpse Of
public credit and it sprang upon it's
feet" 1t supported on its strong pro-
tecting arm the frail and fainting in
dustries of the Republic and brought
them back to life; it kept all the
stars in the flag, their glory unfair
nished and their luster undimmed; and
it elected and reelected to the Presi-
dency the first great Republican, the
emancipation of race, the most in
spring soul in all our western world,
Abraham Lincoln.
Thus brought into being in the
travail of war, the Republican party
has written all there is worth reading
of American history in the last five
decades. 1t is but natural that Re
publican should take delight in recit-
ing his country history, for that is
the history of his party; and by the
marked aversion for history and gives
wider field of prophecy.
The Republican party takes pride
in its past. eagerly grapples with the
problems of the present and faces the
dawn with confidence and high pur.
pose; our Democratic friends would
like to forget their party's past, they
are not certain of its present attitude
on any great national question anC
for the future they are thinking Of
"Molasses to catch flies" at the mex
election.
We are proud of what we have con
tributed to history, but our past per
} formances are not our only assets
We must not sit serene in self
satisfied contemplation of the work al
ready done; but inspired by an heroic
past and chastened by the fires of de
feat, let us gird up our loins to NEE
new conditions and fight new battles
Lexington and Yorktown had beel
failures but for Gettysburg and, Ap
: pomattox. Each generation has it
battles to fight its problems t
solve. No party can win on pride o
ancestry or richness of inheritanc
it must be willing and able to do tn
worlds work now; it cannot stan
still or turn back-it must go ahead
The Republican party deserves to liv
and to win, because it has its fac
. to the future, all aglow, in the cor
sciousness of capacity for service i
the solution of the problems of toda
) and of the experience and ptariotisr
to guide the ship of state on the un
tried, tempest-tossed seas of tomo1
row.
The monumental folly and meddlin
), officiousness of the present nations
administration have needlessly com
plicated the problems of the presen