Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — TO FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

TO FARMERS.

[From the Albany Argaa.] For many years your votes have kept the Republican party in nower Tbe policy of that party has enriched and protected tbe monopolies of the country but has it improved your condition? While the Goulds, Blaines, Dorseys, Elkins, Millers, Bradvs Cornells and other monopolies have become millionaires by the use they have «>f your votes, have you, too, been growing rich? While your votes have brought princely incomes of hundreds and thousands of dollars a day to them, bow has your daily income increased ? Four tears ago y«.u weie appealed to by these monopolies who have captured the Republican party, on the tariff scare, and you were told that ruin and devastation would follow Democratic success, and that prosperity and plenty would re* suit from Republican victory. You voted for the policy of the sharks who run the'Republicun party and how have you been benefited ? Gould and Blaine and Elkins and Warner Miller and the monopolists in your own vicinity have grown rich but

how is it rilh you? Is your farm worth more to day than it was then? Is it easier to meet vour payments and your interests to-day than it was then ? Do you get more for your butter, cl.eese, grain, pork, and other produce than then? Do you get your clothing, groceries, tools and what you have to buy cheaper than then? Have your taxes been reduced and expenses lightened? Does your daily toil do much more than barely support you and your family? 4 re th? times good with you? if not, is it not time for you to think of your own interests and vote tor your own benefit than that of Mr. Gould and Mr. Millionaire Blaine? Your own experience ougH to prove to you that something is at Washingtor. The policy of the past is at fault .Extravagance and porffigacy and careless methods have too long prevailed. The rich thrive and the poor barely live. A bait is necessary. Tbe farmers of New York know Grover (’leveland and they know he is the man to bring back the govern rent at Washington to simpler methods. A poor man himself, his .sympathies and his belief lead him to enfoiCv. strict economy in public administration. »iWith him every dollar is weighed as so mueh from the proceeds of the toil of

the people. The farmers of New Yor know that when its thira city was suffering trom the results of extravagance in its affairs, Grover Cleveland was called by his fel-low-citizens. irrespective of parly, to correct the abu e. The/ know that so marked was his fidelity to tit t charge that the people of the estate at the next election made him itsexecutiveby 194,000 majority ana the Republican paper at his home said ‘Buffalo loses the best mayor it ever had? They know that with general accord before he was nominated for president the people of this State, and the newspapers of all parties said ‘Cleveland is a good governor J They know that his appointments and bis vetoes have received the praise of ail men. They know that he has had the courage of bis convictions and his convictions have been right. They know that every meas ure promising aid to the farmers has received his cordial support. They know that he approved the bill to prevent the sale of bogus butter and he is forcing elomargeanne out of competition with dairy interests- They know that, in every position, he has been honest and true to the people, and that, under his guidance the management of affairs of the city ox Buffalo was transformed fiom corruption and extravagance to honesty and economy, and his administration of the great state of New York has won the praise of all the people.