The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-01
WHAT HAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ACCOMPLISHED?

PARTY ACCOMPLISHED?
 The best guarantee of an individ- -uaIs or an organizations capacity for honest and efficient service, is found in the record of that individuals or that organizations achievements.
 Any individual or organization can make promises. Not all individuals and organizations can furnish a rec ord of service that makes the promise worthy of belief
 The best evidence of what it may be possible for the Republican party to do, if returned to power in this re- public by the people at the national election now six months away, is ad- duced from what the Republican party actually. did do during more than a half century of almost uninterrupted Republican control. For only two years prior to the election of Wood row Wilson as president in 1912 was the Democratic party in complete con- trol of both legislative and executive branches of the federal government. The story of the nation from 1861 to 1913, is in effect, the story of the Re- publican party.
 What did the Republican party ac- eomplish in the national behalf during that fifty years?
 It established once and for all the principle that the United States is a nation, an indissoluble Union, and not a loose confederacy of petty states.
 It abolished human slavery; made American democracy a reality rather than a theory.
 It elected Abraham Lincoln presi- dent of the United States, and upheld his hands through the four long, bloody years which made his name inn mortal and the Union eternal.
 It paid the gigantic debt created by the nations greatest war, preserved the national credit, created a banking system under which the American peo- pie achieved prosperity unexamDled in human history, resumed specie pay ment, and defeated repeated efforts to debase the national currency.
 It threw open the great West to de- VelOpment through the homestead pol icy of free land for the landless, the pacif1catiOn of savage tribes, the en- couragement of transcontinental rail roads, and the policy of internal inn proVement which brought the strength of the nation to the accomplishment of tasks beyond the power of individual effort to perform.
 It established and maintained al most uninterruptedIy for more than a half century the American policy of protection, under which the American standard. of wages and living was kept at the highest level known in history; under which the domestic and foreign trade of the United States attained proportion unprecedented in this or any other nation, and made this coun- try the richest of this or any other period in history; under which the American masses enjoyed diffused prosperity, a range of opportunity, an intelligence and an initiative prevalent among "the common people" of no ether nation that ever existed; under which labor ceased to be the fixed which there was no slave, no peon, no peasant, no coolie; a nation which be- came to such degree the hope and admiration of the world that there rushed into it during the half cen tury of Republican control the great est current of immigration that ever swept upon a nations shores. Under Republican policies and Republican commercial prosperity and political stability this mighty army of aliens was absorbed into the great body of the American people without conflict or disturbance. The alien was being lifted up toward the American level rather than the American being low cred to the alien standard
 It fulfilled the pledge of Lincoln to