Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — THE ISSUE AND PARTY RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE ISSUE AND PARTY RECORD.

Will the People Trant Experimentalist! and Theorists? (From Sherman’s Speech of Acceptance.) ■- The overshadowing issue of the campaign really is: Shall the administration of President Roosevelt be approved, shall a party of demonstrated capacity in administrative affairs be continued in power, shall the reins of government be placed in experienced hands, or do the people prefer to trust their destinies to an aggregation of experimental malcontents and theor.ists, whose only claim to a history is a party name they pilfered? With a record of four decades of wise legislation; two score years of faithful administration; offering its fulfilled pledges as a guaranty of its promises for the future, the Republican party appeals to the people and, with full confidence in their wisdom and patriotism, awaits the rendition of the November verdict