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tract from the use of these phrases in argument against the practical control of great questions thrust upon the government. The record of accomplishment in the line of general principles is a better criterion than the phrases of men or parties.

In presenting the Republican side of the issues of this campaign the writer has therefore gone to the record of results as better guidance for the honest voter, than to the declarations which have been made. Phrase making is as easy as lying. The nation has marched forward under Republican control until it stands to-day in the front rank of the world powers. It stands first in its record of development in industrial, financial, military and moral achievements. It stands first in the contest for industrial development, able to hold its own in the markets of the world. It stands first in its financial achievements in raising loans from its own people, and in selling the lowest interest-bearing bonds at par. It stands first in its military achievements and without a standing army. Its militarism is patriotism, and it has its illustration in the achievements of American patriots from Bunker Hill to Yorktown; from Fort Sumter to Appomattox; from Santiago to Manila Bay; and from Manila to Tien-Tsin. These are all the achievements of a citizen soldiery, the only militarism ever known under the United States flag. There never has been a standing army that equaled one soldier to one thousand inhabitants, and there never has been an army fighting under the American flag for a selfish purpose. Our appeals to arms have been in the cause of great moral and human principles. It is well for the voter to go to the record rather than to the catch phrase, invented to create sectional and partisan hatred in such matters.

The campaign now begun is on great principles of government control-issues that affect every man in every walk of life. The issues in the campaign should therefore be considered in calm judgment and not in partisan passion. A campaign book for all the voters of the country should therefore be a calm and dispassionate discussion of these issues. The writer of the following pages has sought to follow this rule, and while discussing the issues of the campaign, recognize that he is writing for Democrat and Populist readers as well as Republicans. It is easier to follow this rule in this campaign than it would have been in some of the preceding national campaigns for two reasons: First, the issues are partisan only in the principles which the different parties have embodied in their platform, and Republicans, Democrats, and Pop

ulists in the past will at the coming election vote as they believe in these principles, rather than because they are bound by partisanship to follow the party flag they have followed in the past. Second, because the Republican candidate, President McKinley, has in all his public life followed this rule of discussing principles rather than men. He has never uttered a word of partisan hatred in all his public expressions and in his social life has held men of all parties as his most devoted personal friends. His life has been given to public affairs with such devotion to what he believed to be the best interests of the whole people, that he has always been invulnerable against personal attack and freer from personal criticism than any other man in public life. The record of Mr. Roosevelt, the Republican candidate for Vice-President, has been one of work almost wholly beyond partisan lines, and without partisan hatred. With these two men as leaders, and the platform on which they stand in this campaign, it is more appropriate and a more pleasant task to follow their example and discuss the issues before the people, without passion or partisanship in its narrow sense.

The writer has sought to appeal to reason without rhetoric.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 1.

L. W. B.

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CHAPTER I.

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY—THE PARTY OF PATRIOTIC PRINCIPLES, NOT HYSTERICAL IMPULSES

The Republican party is to-day as it has been for forty years the party of sturdy American principles, progressive and conservative, accomplishing what it advocated and advocating what it believed to be the best ideals of government for a great people loving liberty and restrained by a national conscience. It has not been influenced by hysterical impulse, but has for years resisted that tendency in its own ranks and withstood it in the assaults of its opponents. It has triumphed over other parties since its organization because of its courage to fight for the principles which were formulated by the conscience of the people without regard to party affiliations, and at the same time it has been governed by a conservatism which checked revolutionary tendencies.

The Republican party had its origin not in revolutionary doctrine, but in the sober judgment of the people of the North that compromise with slavery was no longer possible in the development of the great territory of the West which was soon to be organized into States and have an equal part in the Union. It was in accord with the scriptural truth that a house divided against itself could not stand that the nation could not live part slave and part free.

The first Republican President was a man of the people coming from the West where the strains of the Puritan and the cavalier met to form the best type of American independence. All the Republican Presidents have come from that same great section of the country, the Mississippi Valley, the newer New England, which has become the center of political thought as well as the center of population.

The record of the Republican party is written in the amendments of the Constitution, and in the Statutes, but it is also written in the most remarkable period of development of the United States. This record is also written in the position this government now holds among the great powers of the world. Its record is one of sturdy Americanism, good business management and wise diplomacy. What more can be asked of a political party inviting the support of the voters of the country?

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