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SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1920
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For President—
WARREN G. HARDING.
For Vice President—
CALVIN COOLIDGE.
For Delegate to Congress—
DAN SUTHERLAND.
For Attorney General—
JOHN RUSTGARD
For Senator—
E. E. CHAMBERLAIN.
For Representatives—
A. E. LATHROP
JOS. H. MURPHY
R. E. ELSNER
A. H. FRAME.
For Road Commissioner—
GUST JOHNSON
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND
THE WINNING OF THE WEST
Familiar is the phrase, and more
so since Roosevelt chose it for the
title of a popular history, but the fact
is greater than phrases or narrations.
What the Republican party has done
to open the farms to settlement, to
feed the cattle on a thousand hills, to
bring the mines close to the markets,
to bear the soldiers of the sxities
from one conquest to another, this
makes a great chapter in our na
tion’s annals- Our country moves so
rapidly, our developments flash so
like the pictures on the screen that
even the mature half forget and
many of the juniors never hear what
wondrous things have been.
The longing for land was one of
the great motives for colonization. A
settler might die in a snowdrift or
fall never to rise from a sunstroke;
he might be slain by a wildcat or
tomahawked by an Indian, but if he
escaped these perils he had excellent
prospects of getting land of his own.
This might mean only a sustenance
for himself and family, the nearest
market might be an impassable dis
tance, his life might be one of hard
ship, still the sense of being a landed
proprietor, of gathering his crops with
no baron or factor to rule him. of
shooting down wild- beasts with nc
gamekeeper’s scowl before his eyes
was alluring to many a pioneer. In
the colonial days the crown gave land
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lutionary forefathers followed the
plan. Settlers wended their way over
the mountains, pitching their tents
■wherever their will directed them and
conditions permitted. As the steam
boats began to ascend and descend
the Mississippi river, the westward
wave grew stronger. Every commer
cial panic drove some of the losers
to seek their fortune anew in the
West. Coming events were foreshad
owed when Irving traveled across
the prairies and Cooper told ol
Leather Stocking, steadily moving
deeper into the wilderness.
The Mexican war and the gold
mines of California quickened the
pace of the immigrants. One of the
most interesting landmarks of oun
political history is that in 1856 botl
parties declared for a railroad to th<
Pacific. But the Republican part]
gave to our national life something
better than words, words, words. Ii
sought to open the new lands to the
free settler, and when James Buchan
an’s veto blocked the way it waited
for a more favorable hour, and passed
the famous Homestead bill. During
the terrible four years of civi
strife the surveys for the Pacific
railroad went on though the areas
were wide and the red man lurkec
in Ahe ravines. Lincoln’s exultam
message, “the father of waters agair
goes unvexed to the sea,” echoed anc
re-echoed in the determination thal
rails should join the oceans. Let us
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“March On, Suffragists, the Victory Is
Yours. Be Joyful Today, Rejoice!”
By MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, Women’s Suffrage Leader.
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The enemies of progress and liberty never surrender and never die.
Ever since the days of cave men they have stood ready with their sledge
hammers to strike any liberal idea on the head whenever it appeared.
They are still active, hysterically active, over our amendment, still imagin
ing, as their progenitors for thousands of years have done, that a fly sit
ting on the wheel of progress may command it to revolve no more and
that it will obey.
They are running about from state to state, a few women and a few
paid men. They dash to Washington to hold hurried consultations with
their senatorial friends and away to carry out their instructions.
Probably they'have given up hope of defeating ratification, although
so incomprehensible is the stupidity of the opposition to inevitable justice
that they may still hope to persuade thirteen states not to ratify. At any
rate, they do publish the fact that they still dream of cheating women of
the vote for a period by delay in ratification and by a legal filibuster after
ward. It does not matter.
Suffragists were never dismayed when they were a tiny group and all
the world against them. What care they now when all the world is with
them? March on, suffragists—the victory is yours.
The trail has been long and winding, the struggle has been tedious
and wearying, you have made sacrifices and received many hard knocks.
Be joyful today, rejoice!
now be generous enough to own that
one of the first and boldest of those
who urged free lands for free settlers
was Andrew Johnson. Bitterly did he
pay for his blunders and his obstin
acy; let us now remember that when
the slaveholders were at the height
of their power he stood up for grants
that would “scatter plenty o’er a smil
ing land.”
It is significant that the first Re
publican candidate for the presidency
was called “the Pathfinder.” It is a
striking coincidence that the first Re
publican president was a surveyor,
and that he had sought to be com
missioner of the land office- Nor is
it without significance that the second
Republican president had been the
most resolute champion of the poor
whites of the south. When at last
the rails out to the Pacific were in
working order our chief magistrate
was Ulysses S. Grant, who had travel
ed over the country from the Hud
son to the western ocean, and who had
known the life of a boy on the farm.
Are not these facts logically as im
portant as the far more frequently
mentioned facts about the four Vir
ginia planters who in earlier days
reached the presidency.
Our countrymen have laughed over
Mark Twain’s western adventures,
the have admired Bret Harte’s min
ing camp stories, they have quoted
Joaquin Miller’s poetry, they are now
reading John C. Van Dyke’s descrip
tion of the glories of Colorado, but
the development of these lands is far
more wonderful than anyone can say
of it. Long ago one of the most pow
erful of our writers, Albert D. Rich
ardson, well entitled his narrative
“Beyond the Mississippi.” How the
surveys were made and the tracks
were built, how town answered town
even as deep called unto deep, how
the ranchers fed their flocks, and the
mines yielded their treasures, and
all in so short a time, rivals the pal
ace of Aladdin. It used to be consid
ered a triumph of mathematics to
find the distance of an object beyond
an impassable river. The aggressive
settlers who came after the civil war
would not belieA'e that river or moun
tain, that dense forest or sandy plain,
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“There go the engineers,” said Ben
ton, as he pointed to the drove of
bison. Where the rushing beasts
could find a way man could go, and
man did go. What this development
meant to the soldiers of the civil war
none of us can tell. We are too near
the mighty movement to see it in
the true perspective. It may be that
we Americans take it too much as a
matter of course. Perhaps some fu
i ture De Tocqueville or Bryce must
: come here to write the world’s perma
; nent account of the growth between
the Mississippi and the Pacific. It
may be that some new Humboldt will
make it one of the noblest chapters of
his “Cosmos.”
Pensions were paid to soldiers, to
the widow and to the orphan, yet no
pension system could have done for
the veterans what the opening of the
West did for them. The forty years
between Grant’s beginning as a presi
dent and the inauguration of Taft are
to the lands beyond the Mississippi
more wonderful than the four hundred
years that preceded, them. From the
fallen heroes of Custer’s band to the
[ rising walls of Leland Stanford Uni
versity, from the surveys of Dodge
to the Lick telescope, from the bar
ren sands of a few years past to the
irrigated harvest fields of today,
l what development in the world is like
this? To those who believe that
; Providence guides the moderan races
i as surely as He guided the Israelites
every pioneer seems a new Abraham,
going out, knowing not whither he
went. Not lightly but with the deep
est reverence may it be said that the
crossing of the Mississippi has a fas
cination like that of the crossing of
the Jordan.
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