Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — WE HAVE GROWN. [ARTICLE]

WE HAVE GROWN.

The Republican party of today is not the Republican party of Lincoln’s day, says Thomas Riley Marshall, the Democratic candidate for governor. What a sapient remark, how erudite! Is Tom Marshall the same man today he was flve-and-forty years Ago? Parties grow like men. The grown man is not what he was in youth or adolescence. We boast of our growth as a party. We revere its leaders of the long ago. We follow their principles, act on their maxims and adapt them to our changed needs, but our methods of today must needs be different from theirs as our problems are different.

The Democratic party of today Is riot the party of Jefferson, not by a long sight, and the relterant references to that good gentleman and bls beliefs by Bryan or Kern or Marshall make us smile. Far Indeed from Jefferaonlsm la Bryanism, which even shows no trace of kinship with the telling Democracy of Samuel J. Tilden and Grover i Cleveland. The Republican party, however, Is doing things today just as It did In Lincoln’s day, In Grant’s, 1 tn Harrison’s, in McKinley’s, and all actions are Inspired with earnest ! Intent to do the people's will. That is how the people rule. Can Tom Mar-