Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-01
REPUBLICANS BRINGING COUNTRY
 BACK TO PEACE TIME PROSPERITY


 liar methods"
 "Fhere remains much yet to be done by the administration now in power 1 Senator Edge declared in concluding. Tt will take time to clear away such a tan gted wreck as the republicans inherited. But with the progress already made, with our nation leading the world. tlfere is no disposition today to turn the manage ment of the government over to those who were responsible for the problems that are pow being so successfully solved"
 Senator Edge drew bursts of applause as he spoke of the achievements of the administration and his closing words were the signal for further applause.
 Chancellor Hill Refers to Lincoln
 Chancellor Hill was introduced by Mir Gallup as the next speaker.
 Dr. Hill made a stirring asd eloquent speech, with frequent touches of humor. and began by referring to the fact that Abraham Lincoln had delivered repub- lican speech in this city 62 years ago. Dr. Hill said that he had been delighted to find in Norwich one man who had heard that speech, John T. Clark, who had a seat on the platform at the rally Tuesday night and had been one of those who was entertained until o'clock in the morning by Lincoln, the master of wit
 and anecdote. Dr. Hill also told of an interview that Dr. John Putnam Gulliver, a prominent Norwich clergyman had with Lincoln in which the Norwich clergyman was told of Lincoln's early struggles. Clos ing the reference to this important event l in the history of Norwich, the speaker said: Yours is a city of sacred tradi- l tlons. It is rich in historic ancestors and events, but nothing in all your great past iris more replete with honor and historic ! significance than the coming of the death I less Emancipator to your Norwich whpn he doubtless discussed the very principles \ upon which rest his enduring fame" Among other things, Dr. Hill said, The republican party is the embodi-
 ment of the spirit of progress. Progress
 is the sign of life; it is the difference
 between mummy and living organ
 ism. The republican party is the vii talking, driving power of American civ
 lIlzatio1 Its progress is steady, delib- crate and constructive. Progress is not mere motion. The little fellow Sn his hobby-horse in a nursery imagines he is making & 2.10 record, when he is only wearing out the carpet. That is not progress; it is friction. Progress is neither reactionary nor revolutionary The reactionary would worship the devi on account of .his antiquity; the revolu
 tiOnary wearies of the Almighty on ac count of His eternity. The reactionar, resort to the ancestral argument; hi slogan is nothing beyond and there i . a death-knell in that. Complacency i the synonym of satisfaction; satisfac F tion results in stagnation and stagna tion is the last station on this side o
 damnatfon. Hurry up" is the slogan o |, the revolutionary who excels in exceed \ ing the speed limit. Socialism is jo riding in the dark. The red flag as Theo II dore Roosevelt said lis the synonym c all attacks upon liberty, government an civilization. We are confronted wit d just such @ conspiracy at the presen time. BolSheYiSm comes on apace. T took root under the American flag dul ing the Wilson administration, an ad
 ministration which drifted from const n tutional government into government a bureaus and commissions. Bureaucrac e and autocracy are twins; bolshevism si the uiplet; it is autocracy turned uI t side doyn-hell with the lid off it e Ia conglomeration of the geological il l. stinct of socialism. the I. W. W. an a anarchy. BolsheEism is socialism o r exhibition. If you would know the swee
 iof it's autocracy, take a good look
 Russia where Fapine, murder and starv: tion are riding upon the wild waste , r animalism. Bolshevism is socialism C l. exhibition. Lenine is Karl Marx with e rife in his hand.
 # Republicans Guard Constitutional Go l. ernment.
 The republican party is the heaven-il D spired guardian and custodian of Const ' tutional government. It stands for ii
 erty under law, equal opportunity for a 'r special privilege to none, the constit e ton without multilation, prosperity wit
 out, abuse, protection without monopel l. the protection of the individual al 'f minority against oppression of the m e jority, and the protection of the majol t ty against the caprice of the minorit l. It stands for progress without revol o tion. Daniel Webster once declare n government by tumlltuous assembly 1f impossible" The republican party stan al for government of the people, for a, le by the people. The democratic par le through eight years of pillage, plund IF and mal-administration stands for go m ernment of the bureaucrats and for t la I reaucrats, and administration le which the individual citizen was driv et and bedeyiled by a horde of petty, poll a- cal taskmasters, an administration,
 iyou please, which without constitution Eo warrant, resorted to espionage, intimi n tion and terrorism, enforcing the edic = of the usurping executives, substituti o1 strangulation for regulation and pros : tuting every function and agency of t lgoyeFnment in g. wild orgy of usurp "a and wanten prohigacy. There was not 'I ing progressive in that administratiC at 1t was rectionary; 8 relapse of cons @ tutienal government intp autocracy. m The republican party stands midway l n- tween the extremes which threaten co .w stitutional government and human pl ss igress. It stands today where LineC ee lsteod in his day. The reactionaries , a- iclared Lincoln was going too fast wll
 the radicals insisted he was entirely 1 OF slow. Charles A. Dana declared beft ro the Historical Society at Hartford, Con
 Lincoln was never step too slow I , 3 step too fast" he was not a sta1 " batter: he was sure stopper The ,,. publican party is still following in se pathway of it's father and founder, q
 :. isure stopper of American history" IT .v,t the republican party is the party of. D H. gress Is credentialized by the mary S' ous achievements of the present adm
 lsTation. The greatest task ever co Ve mitted to a party or nation was ma
 Iupon the republican party upon it's T fy toFation to power on the 4th ( he of March, 1921. The world was toy ry ituFVey; chaos h6Fered over the face 1.-the earth problems complicated, ae
 land titanic, foreign and domestic eme " led from the greatest military eonfus cts known to history. catastrophy rest tic ing in the loss or permanent disabIl he or SO.oOo'ooV human beings and an la tdehtedness aggregatiug s4o0, ,000, ,80o, ( he of which unthinkable sum the Unit rsr States was burdened with an indebt
 ness of $2s,o0e,o0o, 900, the annual Iterest5 of which amounted to S1,1O0, s; er- fs4s2. z of RepHblicaHs Inherited Wreck.