Excerpt from Speech of Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania: At a Mass Meeting Held in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Held Under the Auspices of the Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia, Saturday Evening, October First 1904 The great quadrennial period has arrived when the American people review their affairs and condi tion and determine through constitutional methods the personnel of their chief servants, the President and vice-president, and the governmental policies under which they are to proceed during an equal period for the future. The two great political parties have presented platforms of principles, and candidates who are pledged, if elected, to administer the affairs of the Government in conformity thereto, and the people are now engaged in the solemn business of considering where they shall choose. It is indeed a solemn and important business and when decided will either advance or retard our prog ress, for it is impossible that so momentous a thing as the continuance or reversal of the fiscal, economic, foreign and domestic policies of the American people should have a neutral effect. The parties stand in very different attitudes to wards the contest. The Republican party having administered the affairs of the Government almost continuously fornearly a half century, must be judged by its perform ances Of the past and its promises for the future. Its prospects of success depend upon the people's satis faction with that past and belief in the party's intention and ability to continue to administer the public affairs wisely and honestly. The platform of the Republican party very lucidly recapitulates its most notable recent achievements and concisely and without equivocation restates the policies by which it has been and will be guided in executing the people's will. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.