| Show fI TilE THE E PARTY OF 01 PERFORMANCE CE Cripple Creek Times There Thero is much food for Cor thought In the speech made by Secretary Taft TaCt be before before he- he fore the North Carolina de delegates Monday night on the thc eve of tho the Republican Re Re- publican state convention In advising them to lo stay with wih the Republican party In the nation naton the secretary called cled attention at- at to th the fact that tho the Republican party Is the tho only one that has ever enacted a national law tending to lo curb the trusts and monopolies and und that however free Democrats may be he in promise the party has never yet yel placed placeda it a single corporation anti anti statute on the books On the several occasions when a Democratic majority controlled legislation legis legis- lation laton In congress and when there was wasa a Democratic president In tho the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House the tho party made no attempt along the lines followed by Republican makers law-makers and which Democratic leaders of late lato have havo complacently claimed were covered b by Democratic lelen letters patent As a matter mater of fact tact the laws passed by the ninth Fifty congress but carry out declarations contained In recent Republican platforms platforms plat plat- forms and are the fulfillment o of ante ante- election electon promises Secretary Taft might have gone gono on still sti further In his statement and kept kepl well wel within the truth He Hc might havo have a ad added added ad- ad ded that all al the beneficial legislation of the tho past twenty five years ears has ha been Republican In origin and enactment He lie 10 might have said sli and and actual conditions con eon bear hear out tho the truth of or tho ho statement state state- ment that ment-that that tho the wonderful prosperity of tho the nation is foun founded ed on the tho wisdom om naton of laws Jaws prepared pa passed e and executed b by Republicans leans an and that In the tho one Instance when a Democratic tariff bill bi became law disaster in the form of a financial panic and general business depression followed close on its s heels There are numerous truths In this 1118 COnnection connection con con- necton upon which the tho secretary of war might havo have enlarged had ho he been so disposed The plain fact Is that Democracy has done lone nothing nothing- of of advantage ad to the country at large for almost hlf half a century century cen cen- tury tur and at tho the present tm time the promises and policies of 01 tho the party part of of- of el nothing to benefit that Is not nol moro mor ful fully guaranteed by Republican n platforms platforms platforms plat plat- forms and Republican performances What Is I true trite lUO of or the tho nation naton Is to a deglee de de- de- de grce glee true of each state stale and county count 1 In Inthe inthe the nation Almost without exception Democratic rule lule has brought facton faction turbulence and disaster an anthis and this Is true whether applied local locally o or generally In tho the main tho the policy poley of the Demo Demo- cratie party Is la to lo oppose whatever ex exists exIsts ex- ex In the wa way of law and custom without offering In return anything more than untried experiment or Impractical Im mi- practical reforms To say sy that Democracy Democracy Demo Demo- cracy Is IR agin agla the tho government Is a crude clude wa way to express Us its Is policy of opposition op em position hut but it I Is not far from the truth There aro are able men In tho the Democratic Demo Demo- cratic parly no party no one questioned the ability of President Cleveland but bu there thero arc few ew even en e amon among those thos of oe hi his own party part to 10 uphold or ur excuse the lie mistakes of his n administration administration mis mis mistakes takes tales which cost this country count y dearly and which were only rectified by the lie return of or public confidence with wih the election electon o of a Republican successor |
