Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1884 — THE DRUMMERS. [ARTICLE]

THE DRUMMERS.

Points from Joe Mulhatton’s Letter ot Acceptance. The committee appointed by the Drummers’ National Convention waited upon the Hon. Joseph Mulhatton, at Louisville, Ky., and notified him officially of his nomination for President of the United States. Mr. Mulhatton’* letter of acceptance was placed in the hand* of the committee. The principal points of interest in it are that the uprisingof the drummer fraternity means a. new era, when business men shall prevent professional politicians and the lower class from ruling the business interests of the country. It favors prohibition, because no drummer or business man can drink intoxicating liquor* and be su’ccessful. It opposes convict latter, because it is a pernicious system of slavery, unconstitutional, and interferes with honest workingmen; it is brutal and cruel and a relic of barbarism. It favors retrenchment, reform, abolition of war taxes; the’ surplus in the treasury to be applied at once to liquidating the public debt and tor public improvement.