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Show IK, , RESTS ON REPUBLICANS, r ! - Jj , Government Has Been Wisely Ad- I dj' ' ministered by the Grand jVlj ;!, Old Party. I ' ' j tW HE responsibility of government '' 1 , I rests upon the Republican party, j' 1 i' B The complicated machinery' through ' , 1 1 which tho SO.000,000 people of the , United States govern themselvos, answers to no single will. Tho composite govcrn- (! j', mcnt devised by tho Trainers of the Con- Ijj i' , stltutlori to meet the conditions of natlon- , ' ' 1 ', ' al life more than a century ago, requires ' j ,k ' ' the willing co-operation, of many minds, jiif the combination of mony Independent fac- jj'll' 1 tors, In every forward step for the gen- (V 'I oral welfare, j ; T , The President at Washington with his , 1 r Cabinet, the ninety Senators, representing C I , 'I i forty-five sovereign States, tho aSC Roprc- i J.U sontntlves In Congress are required to j H . ' roach concurrent action upon a multitude ' r' ' i' of questions Involving varlod and conlllct- i, i lng Interests and requiring Investigation, i ', Information, discussion and reconciliation 1 of views. From ull our vast territory with ' i 1 (I Its varieties of climate and Industry, from ( 1) j all our great population active in produc- i '', Hon and commerce and social progress j , and Intellectual and moral ilfo to a degree j ,. , never beforo attained by any people dlf- Ih'iiI . J llcult problems press upon the national h, t Government. tnSio'i Within tho past flvo years more than "m' ' sixty-six thousand bills nave been Introduced Intro-duced In Congress. Somo method ot ,se- ' , , 1 lection must be followed. There must bo ( some preliminary process to ascertain tho I r general tenor,of public Judgment upon the ' principles to" bo applied ;n government, ' I i und somo organization and recognition of I I ' if leadership which shall bring a legislative i I, majority and tho executive into accord In J ' the practical application of those prlncl- ' I y , pies; or effective government becomes lm- . I ,f v( I possible. t 1 , I Tho practical governing instinct of our f;i'fi ' people has adapted the machinery devised I m In the eighteenth to the conditions of fhe I twentloth century by the organisation of national political parties. In them men I Join for tho promotion of a few cardinal 4 , principles upon which they agree. For lho I ' sako of those principles they- lay aside ! j their differences upon less Important qucs- ! 1 1 Hons. To represent those principles and ; . .to carry on the government In accordance I with them, they present to tho people can- " ill dldatea whoso competency and lovaltv 1 I . they approve. The people by thch choice I t of candidates indicate the principles and 1 1 methods which they wish followed In' the conduct of their Government. Thev do iy r I not merely choose between men; "they m f I chooso between parlies between the prln- V i clples they profess, the methods thev fol- , low, tho trustworthiness of their protes-slons, protes-slons, the Inferences to be drawn from the ' records of their past, tho general weight of character of the body of men who will l be brought Into participation In govcrn- i mcnt by thelrascendcncy. |