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Show EACTS ABOUT THE PARTY. "You do not have to guess what the Republican party will do. The whole world knows Its purposes. It has embodied them In law and executed them In ndministratlon."i This was William McKlnlcy's definition defini-tion of the Republican party before he was elected president. It Is true today by reason of his administration, which closed with the tragedy at Buffalo that put the whole world In grief for the death of one man as never before known In history. The Republican party Is to-day as It has been for more than fifty )fars, the party of sturdy American principles, progressive and conservative, accomplishing accom-plishing what it advocates and advocating advo-cating what best represents the Ideals of the most progressive people in the whole world. The Republican party has never been Influenced by hysterical impulse, but has resisted that tendency in its own ranks and withstood it in the assaults of Its opponents. It had its origin not In revolutionary revolution-ary doctrine, but in sober judgmentof the people of the North, that compromise compro-mise with slavery was no longer possible possi-ble In the great territory of the West which was soon to be organized into States and have an equal part in the Union. The first Republican president was from the West, not excepting the present Chief Executive, who, as the child of New York, was early adopted by the West as a cowboy and hunter to make him as typically western as any of hl predecessors. The record of the Republican party is written in the amendments to the Constitution, substantially) all the Federal statutes now in force, and the most remaikable period of piogiess the country has ever known. It is wiittcn also in the commercial invasion of Euiope, in Cuba, wheic a new flag has appealed as a testimonial to the fidelity of this paity to the cause of ficc government, in"Huwall, and Porto Rico, as new teiiitoitlcs, in the Philippines, where civil government govern-ment Is rapidly succeeding military rule, and in China, wheic President McKinle)'s policy led and contiolled the armies of the world marching to the rescue of the besieged legations in Pekln. These historical Indices of the Impicsson the world by the Government Gov-ernment policies and commercial expansion ex-pansion of the American people may be fairly claimed as a part of the hls-toiy hls-toiy of the Republican paity, because they leprcsent the purposes of this paity as "they have been embodied in law and executed in administration." administra-tion." It may appear like a strong assertion asser-tion to say that all the Fedcial laws now in foiccaiethelawsoftlic Republican Repub-lican party, but It is true, for by the codification and leinodcling of old statutes and the enacting of others there is no Federal law now on the statute books that do not bear the impiess of this paity. The homestead home-stead laws, the labor laws, the trallic laws, and the laws relating to currency cur-rency aie all frcm the Republican paity. It Is a paity that for neaily half a ccntur) has been responsible for the administration of the nation's affairs, and throughout Its administration adminis-tration theie has been progicss. The one pel iod when progiess was stalled and the wheels appealed to turn backvvaids was that four )cais fiom Match I, 180.1, to Match I, 1807, when the Democratic party was In complete contiol, with a Democratic Piesldent, a Demociatlc Senate, and a Demociatlc House of Repiesenta-tlves. Repiesenta-tlves. in that foui-)car period policies and laws that had piovcd beneficial were icveiscd and repealed and Demociatlc fiee-trade policies embodied Inlaw and administration. The effort of the Republican part) has since that time been to wipe out the effect and the causes of that mistake. Theonegieat Demociatlc law then enacted has been lepealcd. It was the Wilson-Goiiiian tariff law, and It was repealed by the DlngleyAct on July 24, 1807, at a special session of Congiess, called by Piesldent McKinle) for that express purpose. It Is unnecessaiy to go into detail as to the woik of the. Republican Republi-can paity. It is tlu work of the National Government and the pio-gressofthe pio-gressofthe Ameilcan people in tho last foity ) ears the per'od of modern ludustiial development at home and commercial expansion abroad. |