The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-08
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GOING CONCERN BY
SEC'Y OF WAR GOOD
Cabinet Member Tells How Or
uanization Was Born Of
People IS Years Ago
STOOD FOR POPULAR RIGHT
From This Trunk Branches Of
Tariff, Sound Money. Budget
and Homesteads Grew

0TVts WOIt0ys ONu6V
and Homesteads Grew
Ripon. Wis, June 8.-(P)-The Re-
publican party. born of people who
brushed aside the pettiness of par
tisanship and the selfishness Of per-
sonal ambitions, will continue to ad-
vance human welfare so that the
comfort and joys of American life
may become the common enjoyment
of all. James w. Good. secretary OF
war. said today In a speech comment
Grating the seventy-fifth anniversary
of the founding Of the Republican
party.
Recounting the growth Of the Re-
publican party, Secretary Good
sought to put at rest the claims OF
various cities to the birthplace of the
party by quoting a publication issued
by the Republican National commit
tee in 1924. which gave Ripon credit
for harboring the men who gave the
party its name and who first merged
the old political faiths. The work OF
Major Alvan Earle Bovay. a resident
OF Ripon, in fusing the anti-slavery
parties in the North into n organi-
cation in 1854 and naming the re-
sultant party Republican, was the
first systematic effort in that direc-
ton. the national committee found.
Major Bovay fixed his claim to fu-
ture distinction by being the chair
mar of q caucus and by suggesting
the name of the new party, Secretary
Good said. It was a tremendously
important contribution land we may
safely dismiss the claims Of some
equally enthusiastic localities and ac-
cord the credit to him as the found
er and to Ripon as the birthplace OF
the Republican Party"
Sprang From People
The party sprang from the people
and not from any one man, however,
the secretary asserted.
while we can trace our party'S an
cestry through the Wing and Free
Soil parties, the abolition agitation
and a number Of lesser political
movements, nowhere do we find a
great nationally known leader as the
founder Of the Republican party.
Truly that party sprang from the
people"
The name given the party was ex-
actly descriptive OF the organization
that was wanted. the speaker OBJ
served. From the day 1t wa adopted.
to the present, 1t has maintained.
without fear or reproach. the honor
OF a good name Not only was the
name appropriate, but the ideals and
men which the new party organiza-
ton selected were the best Of that
HETEROGENEOUS a r. compo-
nent parts were Wings. Democrats.
Free Sellers, Know Nothings and
AbolitiOniStS.
It was not without a struggle that
the party forced recognition. the war
department head declared. When the
new organization thrust itself into
the political battlefield it found pros
perity firmly entrenched in the ma
ton. Commerce was at high tide and
the national treasury was overflow
ing, but the affirmation Of a faith
in the doctrine of equal rights for all
brought the party before the eyes Of
the nation.
THAT party" said the speaker.
has espoused other principles but
they have always been based on the
doctrine of equal rights. That doc
trine has been the mast from which
have been flown minor banners; 1t
has been the trunk from which has
grown smaller branches, but in all the
IS years of the party'S magnificent
history. that doctrine has been the
touchstone of Republican legislation
and Republican administration"
Lincoln Its First Victor
In the years that followed its birth,
the party gathered strength and in
1860 won its first national victory
with the immortal Abraham Lincoln
as its leader. Throughout the stirring
times Of the civil war, Secretary Good
declared, the Republican party main
tanned its early preceptS and through
its leadership the country reached its
present state of prosperity. content
ment and well-being.
Secretary Good enumerated the po-
litical principles for which the party
stood. calling attention especially to
its accomplishments in the field Of
government finance.
VCROUAAO04 0A4A4AAAAoVAo tAOAAS AA0NO
stood unflinchingly for the cause of
sound money" the speaker said. The
party established ~ monetary Sys-
TEN on . firm and sound basis and
gave u Q currency absolutely good
and equal in every part of Dur ex-
tended country. It took . determined
stand for the maintenance Of the old
eold standard and 1t placed on the
statute books Of the nation . national
BUDGET system that has stood the test
Of postwar reconstruction"
Protection It, Beacon
In the beginning the party pro-
claimed its faith in the policy Of pro-
lection and from that day 70 this. .
protective tariff policy has been our
beacon light, guiding the nation to
an industrial supremacy that has
been the wonder and admiration Of
the world. That policy Is responsible
1oe the high standards Of living en-
joyod b. our wage earners and for Z
far return on capital invested In In
dllgtxial pursuits."
The homestead Law, opening up the
WootoFn ledefnl domain for the farm
.. ~ I'D given ~ the federal gov
arnnnont which pgoduce0 . network
r. rational railroads, the eDpOusql Of
- couGo q agriculture and the legis-
1ntion aiming to safeguard labor. all
u IT, eneFou of the Republican
GortY. til speaker declared.
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