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Show PRIZE ESSAY, Why the Republican Party Should Be Successful In No vember. By Fuank Hkndjuck, of New York Clty.1 The following was awarded 1160 by the Republican Congressional committee com-mittee a tho best article submitted on the subject: I. The Party of Expansien. The Republican party was founded upon the principle that this government govern-ment was established to protect for all time tho rights and opportunities of every Individual from abridgment. That principle It has successfully maintained, Through the Civil War It consecrated a reunited country to free and equal American citizenship. It has kent the channels of Interstate Commerce open for all and, through the national Ranking System, the refunding of the National Debt, resumption of specie payments, the Gold Standard and the Emergency Currency Law, has sustained the life current of national Integrity. As trustee of the National wealth, It has Investigated mineral regions, surveyed soils, developed waterways, Including the Panama Canal, Irrigated Irrigat-ed deserts, conserved watersheds, and husbanded the public lands. Protecting Protect-ing American labor by regulating Immigration and by taking at the Custom House, to pay American taxes, foreign capital's advantage from law wages, It has preserved to American Industries the home market of eighty millions of the world's greatest consumers con-sumers and so laid the surest basis for American commorlcal competition In foreign markets. Uniting capital and muur, uius, in u cuiuinun prosperity and common source of Increased reward, re-ward, It has created opportunities, Improved conditions of employment, brought about a higher standaid of liing, and more wide spread distribution distribu-tion of wealth and well-being and made expansion moral as well as material. Intrusted with insular possessions, It J has brought them peace and progress, and provided for the extension and protection of American trade, for the Natloal defense, and for tho honorable discharge of the responsibilities of world greatness. Maintaining peace at home, with foreign nations and among them, It has given American rights and American opportunities new meaning throughout the nation and throughout the world. 1 The Party of Progress and Prosperity. Promising progress and prosperity, It has been politically sincere. It has never had a candidate of a section, prejudice, or class, nor a platform of negation, scheme of repudiation, program pro-gram of scuttle, or doctrine of despair. It has never lent itself to a demand for revolution, to be followed by reaction reac-tion and retrogression, it has stood firm for evolution by constant, steady and enduring progress. Finding trusts, giant-born, flourishing under supposed conflict of State and National Na-tional law, tho double prohibition of existence serving but to foster their development, It has never, in an attempt at-tempt to destroy trusts, withdrawn, in State or Nation, the protection of law from property, but has, through Executive Investigation and resort to the courts, resolved the conflict which had silenced law and given trusts existence. It has never proposed to advance American worklngtrten and American Institutions by banishing American industries and building up those of other lands, and scorned to insult labor with an illusory promise of immunity im-munity from law- Yet it passed the Pure Food Law and the Emp!oers' Liability Law, secured equal accommodations accom-modations on railroads, aided agriculture, agricul-ture, created the Civil Service, established estab-lished Free Rural Mall Dellvry, re-duocd re-duocd foreign postage, and Increased pensions. Continuing naturally mark-edout mark-edout progress, It will keep Its pledg-esof pledg-esof Tariff rcadJustment.Currenoy Reform Re-form and development of tho Merchant Marine, and mako the United States I the financial centre as It has made It tho Industrial coutro of the world. 3. The Constructive Party-It Organizes Or-ganizes the National Will. In the evolution by which party government has become the extra-constitutional extra-constitutional method of securing responsibility re-sponsibility to the people, the Republican Re-publican Party has become their traditional representative and the Democratic Party the organized aspiration as-piration or Individuals for power without responsibility. Fairly tried, from 1803 to 1895, the two Democratlo Douses and the Democratlo President were a "wild team" and a helpless driver. Democracy agitates local dlf. ferences, Republicanism organizes the National Idea. In 1864 tho. people were committed to the cause of human hu-man liberty; the Idea of "Liberty and Union" expanded for the first time Into the reality of the American nation. In 1870 money was committed to a specie basis; specie was at once, until 1893, no longer sought, and govern-ment govern-ment bonds went to a premium at the reduced rate of Interest. In 1800 businessmen were again committed to confidence, before a single statute was enacted prosperity set In and in ten years bank deposits almost trebl-ed-a permanent gain which the recent panic, a "state of mind" now completely dispelled, scarcely touch-ed. touch-ed. In 1000 business was committed to fair methods: without compulsion violations largely ceased. Tho Republican Party, at each period, sounded the public conscience, felt the National pulse, framed Its policies In response, and realized in law the drmlnent American Idea. Its constructive past assures Its con-structlve con-structlve future. It Is today as it always has been, "The Party lit to Govern." 4. The Party of Statesmen. The party of Statesmaushln. it hn been tne training school of states-men. states-men. Its policies have been forged In the heat of public llscusslon, tempered in the deliberation and shaped in the conflict of many trained train-ed minds, and drawn and finally wrought for the country's welfare. Dominating its members through principles, It assures unity in Government; Govern-ment; its staunchest partisans have mado the greatest contributions to National progress The roster of Its leaders Is the national roll of honor or public service. 5. Taft and Sherman Constructive Candidates A Constructive Platform. Republicanism stands today for progressive policies in safe hands. By solving the constructive problems of world power In the last two administrations, ad-ministrations, William II. Taft taught the world our capacity -and us his own. In all constructive legislation for twenty years James S. Sherman has been a leader. In the records or the Republican candidates as well as In the platform are written the story of the the nation's progress and the Continued on Page 8 PRIZE ESSAY. Continued from Page 4 reliance of thefuture. A Democratic President or a Democratic Demo-cratic House would turn back those pages; thereafter Bryaotsm would record re-cord "Destruction." This the Republican Re-publican Senate could not prevent. Under Tatt and Sherman and a Republican Re-publican Congress the great progress ot the past will be held and the greater great-er progress of the future will be assured. |