The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-11-06

under republican guidance that speak louder
than words and with more eloquence than that
possessed by the greatest stump spellbinders
in support of the party in control.
If any administration ever has proved itself
deserving of the celebrates continuing support.
the Harding administration has done so, as its
record of service witnesses And realization
of this should carry with it realization of the
advisability of returning a republican. congress
sional majority. to the end that the nation may
have the advantage of its continuing service.
unhampered by partisan opposition. This does
not mean that the republican party's claims to
support in the congressional election rest solely
on the administrations record. and the promise
held by that record, but that it is strengthened
by it. On its own legislative account the ma
lority party in congress has established con-
vincing title to the celebrates support-partis-
an critics to the contrary notwithstanding While
the sixty-seventh congress might have done
more, it accomplished much in the way of pro-
noting achievement, or rather nonachievement,
under Democratic control the credits of the Re
publican party in congress impressvely stand
out urging its claims TO favorable verdict at
the polls
As all America knows. the situation that
confronted the Republican party on its acces-
sion to power on March 4, 1921, was difficult
Ae result of the Democratic regime, misnan-
agement and uneconomic and unbusnesslike d.
rection of public affairs the nation was strug-
Cling under a depression that threatened basic
industries with disaster and its interests with
serious injury. Wild extravaganza in govern
ment had imposed on the country's taxpayers
burdens that were crushing. Unemployment
was menacing problem and agriculture was in
a dangerous situation as result of the ill-ad-
vised plan of postwar adjustment that was pur-
sued by the Wilson administration.
The problem that awaited the Republican
party on its coming into control was to salvage
the nation to save from the wreckage what
could be saved and get Americas steps in paths
leading to recovery and to prosperity. This it
promptly set about doing, as the record shows.
The electorate can see for itself the turn of con-
ditions for the better that has taken place I'M
der Republican administration and can see for
itself the promise of continuing improvement
held by the permanent tariff, which is ernpha-
sized by the promotion Of national interests IN
der the emergency tariff, and by other con-
structive legislation. These facts Of record and
the manifest betterment Of national conditions
can not be disposed by the Democrats win part
isan arguments.
The American voters remember the condi-
tons under which the nation was struggling
, twenty months ago-conditions for which the
Democratic party was largely responsible-and
remembering this can not fail to conclude that
the party which has led the nation upward tc
prosperity deserves support. Truly party's
| actions-its achievements in government and the
benefits that it works in behalf of the nation
speaks louder than partisan words and the record
of the Republican party along this line speaks
in trumpet tones.
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