The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-06-11
NECESSITY OF
PARTY RULE is
HELD EVIDENT
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ling and wise adjustment of i'm
portant and weighty domestic and
international questions and prob
lens. Diligent in the nations bust
ness, wise in public counsel, honest
and courageous in action, he gave
himself unreservedly, mind and
body, heart and soul, to the nation.
and became as truly martyr to
patriotic service as any soldier
stricken on the field of battle.
Glow we'll he fitted and became
the great office to which he was
chosen! History will write his
| name high on the roll of able and
efficient executives, but we who
| knew and loved him best will cher
ish most the recollection of his
great and kindly heart, his tender
and sympathetic soul. The nation
mourned him as one mourns a
| brother, beloved and enshrined him
| in the only enduring hall of fame
the loyal hearts of a grateful people.
Confidence Keynote
confidence was the keynote of
the sentiment which inspired the
nomination of Calvin Coolidge at
| Chicago four years ago. That con-
| fidence grew as he modestly per-
| formed the duties of the position to
which he was elected, and strength
ened prodigiously as he met and
| handled in thoughtful, sympathetic
| and courageous fashion the many
| difficult and trying proplems pre-
sented to him in the presidential
| office.
"Confidence in President Coolidge
is the most important and outstand-
ing factor in the political situation
today, and, in the presence of in
evitable differences of opinions on
! questions Of moment, this confidence
is as fine compliment to the Am
erican people as it is to the pres
| ident; spontaneous tribute to
sincere faith, high courage, and
| honest and unselfish purpose.
"Never was an administration con-
fronted with more difficult and per
picking problems than those present
ed to the Republican administration
| and Congress elected four years
ago, and the marvellous record of
| Legislative and administrative accom-
plishment which followed is without
| parallel in the annals of govern
ment.
"The orgy of reckless and eXtrava-
CANT expenditure, which had been
checked by the preceding Republican
congress, was succeeded by an econ
| omical and business-ike conduct of
public affairs under a budget sys-
! tenn wisely drawn and faithfully ad-
| hered to. The burden of taxation
was greatly reduced. The public
debt was steadily diminished. The
| armies of the unemployed, more
numerous than the hosts that the
| nation marshalled in the world war,
| were soon absorbed in the ranks of
| industry, as wise legislation and
| sound administration relieved the
nation and it's people from the hand
| leap of democratic policies.
Need For MajOrities
"Never before in our history has
the need and the necessity of de-
pendable party majorities and of
definite party responsibility been so
clearly demonstrated as in the very
recent past. Legislative control by
shifting and changing combinations,
| resulting in majorities having no
common faith and recognizing no
united responsibility cannot, in the
nature of things, produce legislative
| results beneficial or satisfactory to
the people of the country. The in
evitable effect Of such legislative
control is confusion and paralysis
and a legislative product satisfac-
| tory to no one.
Every serious fault of recent leg
| islation and every failure to COM
plete and round out satisfactory
legislative program could and would
have been avoided had there been
dependable Republican majorities in
the congress. The one certain and
assured remedy for such condition
is the election of Congress, Re-
publican, by goodly majority, both
| in name and in principle.
"This is the open. season for weird
claim and wild assertion on the part
| of our friends, the political enemy.
| Only recently emerged from beneath
| the political landslide of four years
ago they attempt to appear as con-
fident as they. were just before be-
| ing engulfed in that overwhelming
catastrophe.
Gin the moments they can spare
from their fierce family feuds and
rivalries they make pretense of
assuming to believe that they have
successfully laid down smoke
screen through which their trans
parent partisan purposes shall not
| be discovered, and in the contem-
plation of which all Of their sins Of
omission and commission, of dis
credited policies and of discreditable
administration shall be overlooked
and forgotten.
IF the American people were pre-
pared to forget-as the Democrats
| themselves endeavor to do-the
wholly iDdefensible record of the
Democratic party in earlier days,
| they certainly could not overlook
the fact that the most recent record
of that party is one devoid of
single redeeming feature; of scan
dalous mismanagement, of unwise
and indefensible policy when in con-
troll and utter lack of fixed and
definite principle or policy, save that
of muck racking and obstruction,
when in minority.
Seeks Inspiration
"As we proceed to the nomination
of our candidates and the drafting
of our platform we may find in
! spiration in the fact that ours is the
. only national party in America that