Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — What Republican Success Means. [ARTICLE]

What Republican Success Means.

JPeople become members of one or the other of the political parties of the country from choice of the principles advocated by the party. The platform 1 of the party of their choosing, contains some cardinal idea or policy that meets their views of the policy of government, and they ally themselves with it in accordance with this especial idea. The long existence of the\republican party shows that the principles enunciated by it are in consonance with the people’s ideas in political progtess, or it would not have been continued in power. Protection and reciprocity are the cardinal ideas of the party at tha> present time, and will be the rallying cry of the coming campaign. The representative man of protection to labor and American industries now leads all the reßt as the probable standard bearer of the republican party at the national republican convention which convenes at St. Louis the 16th of June. Coupled with the grand idea of protection, the idea of reciprocity, as enunciated by the brainy Jas. Gs. Blaine, is rapidily being understood, by our people, and where it

is so understood, becomes a part of their political creed. The principle of reciprocity is where another country has some article we want and we may have one they may want, to allow tariff to be taken off or materially lessened, to the building up of foreign trade, but where ko special benefits secure to this country, the great idea of a protective tariff is to be main-* 4 tained. It is for this lack cff foresight in the passage of the Wilson tariff law, that the country is now nearly §300,000,000 in debt si nee the present administration went into power,-and itT will continue .to involve the country deeper in debt as long as the suicidal, policy' of the present democratic administration is continued. With the restoration of the protective tariff the government will receive enough revenue to meet all the legislative expenses of government, economically administered, and have a round balance each quarter in the treasury to meet the constantly maturing interest obligations of the government, that at present can only be provided for by the issuance of new. or long time bonds. These specific ideas, which are thoroughly American, will be clearly arid succinctly set forth in the coming platform of the republican party, which, if led by wisely chosen men to champion them in the coming campaign, as it now appears that they may be, the people will flock to the support of the republican party and its principles, as they have never done before, and victory will crown our efforts in the coming election, and the country will enter upon a new era of prosperity and industrial progress.