, 1922-09-05
DeUelopment Under Republican Rule

UHEN NOT IN POWER a political party is
w mtrely a society for the propagation of its
ideas. When in power the party is the government
Its winning candidate for president is the chief
executive who chooses the heads of the various
government departments. Its winning candidates
for the congress dominate the legislative branch Of
the government Between the executive and the
legislative branches the party's policies are enact
cd into law and become tho policies OF the nation.
II a party runs TO such doctrines as "statt
rights fiat money "sixteento-one,' "paternal-
ISM foreign entanglements," etc, and it is ele-
waited 10 power, those doctrines are imposed upon
the people and become a part Of the nations pol
icies.
Because the people OF the United States fully
realize this they have placed the Democratic party
in power but sixteen years since 1860. During the
period Of %sixty-two years there have been but two
Democratic presidents Cleveland and Wilson.
Both are what are known as minority" presidents
that is, they did not receive a majority of the
popular vote cast.
during the administrations OF both Democratic
presidents there were put into practice Democratic
doctrines affecting the economic, industrial. com
merciaI and agricultural life of the country. In
and their application brought the economic life OF
the United States 10 the brink of disaster. in both
instances the administration Of these Democratic
presidents closed with the nation in the midst Of
a panic, the administration of public affairs mark
ed by extravaganza and incompetence. the wage
earners of the country unemployed by the millions
the failure Of business concerns running into the
thousands. In addition, the close of the Wilson
administration Of eight years found the nation
in poor repute abroad. it foreign policy the laugh
ing stock Of strong nations and the object OF con
tempt by the weak ones.
Practically the entire internal development Of
the United Sattes has taken place under Republi-
can administrations and by reason and virtue of
Republican policies. Under the direction Of Re
publican administrations the agricultural west
was settled and developed. the transportation svs-
tens of tbe country were built and expanded: the
NATIONS industries were established and extended
until it became the greatest industrial producing
country of the world.
Nor has it been in material things alone that
the nation has developed under Republican rule
in the the last sixty-two years. The ethical, the
human side of things has been equally the concern
of the Republican party. Free popular education
the Republican party, p~ractlced in Republican
states where there is the least iIliteracy of any
section of the United States, humanitarian laws for
those who labor, laws for the protection of the
weak and the helpless, laws which work for the up.
l;ftment and betterment of those who toll. laws
which restrain the greedy and selfish, laws which
make for social justice. These have all been the
first concern of the Republican party. The re-
suit is that under the control and direction of the
policies, America has grown to a mighty nation.
richest most intelligent, freest, and most progress
i've on earth.
things in determining the political party with
which they will align. They should think which
party it has been that has made this county a de
sirable place for the erection of the American home
and the rearing of families. for it is the security
and the certainty of home life and of the economic
life which rests upon home life that the nation de
ponds eventually. Sixty-two years of history which
have been made and cannot be erased or altered
demonstrate beyond cayil and doubt the American
home and all its environment and needful protec.
tion is safest under the administration of the Re
publican party.