Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — ANDERSON’S HOT SHOT. [ARTICLE]

ANDERSON’S HOT SHOT.

lowa's Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Opens the Campaign with a Speech at Knoxville. Particular Attention Paid to the Itspublican Position on the Tariff and Prohibition. [Knoxville (Iowa) cot. Chicago Times, i This is the residence of Major T. J. Andeisou, Democratic nominee for Governor. It is also the residence of ex-Governor William M. Stone, hence Knoxville fetls considerable dignity as having been twice thus honored. Major Anderson, who opened his campaign here last week, is very popular in thiß county. The Major is a native of Fulton County, Illinois, but came with his parents to Marion County when he was about 18 years old. Since then, like so many successful Western men, his occupations have been farming, teaching school, studying law, editing a Democratic paper, and practicing law. The meeting was a home approval of which any man oould be proud, a good many Republicans turning out and showing friendly attention. The Greenbackers here are to a man supporting him, and they vied with his Democratic neighbors in the enthusiastic applause. Major Anderson said: Mb. Chairman and Fellow-Citizens : Having been honored by the Democracy of this state with the nomination as its candidate for the offloe of Governor, I appear before you this evening for the purpose of discussing the issues involved in the present contest. It would be impossible in one evening or in a single speech to discuss all of these questions as fully as I should like to do, and hence will be compelled to select those which seem to me of greatest importance, and omit, wholly or partly, those in which the people ore not so directly interested. Our Republican friends ore attempting, as usual, to make the present campaign one of sectional feeling and hatred, and to ignore as far as possible the real questions of practical interests whioh should engage your atteutlon. The statistics of the elections in the south show the utter falsity of the assertion concerning the alleged suppression of votes. THE TARIFF. The resolution of the Republican Convention on the subject of the tariff shows how completely that party is under the control of tariff monopolists. The claim of the Republican party is that a high protective tariff enables the manufacturers to sell their products to us for enough more than they otherwise oould do to enable them to pay their employes good wages, which they say they oould not do If they had to compete in the open market, and also to furnish a home market to the former at a good profit for the products of his form. In other words, if the Government will shut out foreign competition and give our manufacturers a monopoly in supplying the consumers of the country by what they call protection, the manufacturers will protect the laborer by giving him good wages, and the farmer by giving him food prices. However plausible this may be in heory, the facts, as shown by experience, are that the protection the manufacturer gives the farmer and laborer is like the protection tho wolf gives the lamb. There is but one proper course to pursue, and that Is to revise the tariff as the Democrats propose, and reduce it so that the profits of manufacturers will bear some reasonable relation to the profits of other legitimate industries. With the farmer taxed by the tariff to support every manufacturing industry, and nobody taxed for his benefit, is it any wonder farming no longer pays, and that the farmers are becoming restive under the unequal burdens laid upon them by the Republican party? PENSIONS. Our Republican friends say this administration has discriminated against Union soldiers la appointments to office, and that it has been unjust to them in the matter of pensions. I say just the reverse of this is true. From July 1, 1883, to July 1, 1885, inclusive, there was disbursed on account of pensions #122,967,243.46. From July 1, 1885, to July 1, 1887, inclusive, a period of two years under Democratic rule, there was disbursed on account of pensions #139,584,270.45, being a gain of #16,617,026.99 in the amount paid on account of pensions during the first two years under Democratic rule over the last two years of Republican rule. This Bhowing is the answer we now make to the campaign cry of 1884 that if Cleveland should be elected no more pensions would be granted or paid. A curious feature of this pension business is the fact that the Republican party never knew that it had failed to do justice to the soldiers in the matter of pensions until after it was put out of power. THE LAND QUESTION. The Republican party inaugurated the policy of granting lands to railroads and corporations, and kept it up until there was granted in all about 200.000,000 acres of the public domain. Such an extent of territory was never before given by any government to corporations or to individuals. It is more than twice as large in extent as Great Britain and Ireland, and more than five times as large as tho State of lowa. Some of the railroad corporations to which the grants were made never built their roads, and others failed to do so within the time prescribed in their grants. When the Democratic party got possession of the House of Representatives it set to work at once to reclaim for the use of actual settlers all these unearned grxnts of land, as the party had pledged itsolf to do. The Democrats have succeeded in passing bills reclaiming and forfeiting 50,482,240 acres, or 78,878 square miles of land. Bills have also passed the Democratic House of Representatives forfeiting and reclaiming 38,430,991 acres more, but so far the Republican Senate has refused to pass them. A Clean and Statesmanlike Administration. It should be a matter of sincere congratulation to every thoughtful and patriotic citizen that the partisan critics of President Cleveland’s administration find so little just ground for their complaints against it. They can point to no violation of trust; to no positive dereliction of duty. The President has discharged his responsibilities courageously and intelligently. The honesty and disinterestedness of the man are almost universally conceded. He has tried to elevate the standard of official integrity and give the people a clean and statesmanlike administration of their governmental affairs. How well he has succeeded in these patriotic purposes is shown by a perusal of the Chicago News of October 5, which prints three pages of letters from some of the most distinguished publicists and representative business men of the country, giving their views in regard to the results of his first two years’ occupancy of the Presidency. —Lansing Journal. A Boston paper says: “The Republicans of New York have nominated James J. Belden, a notorious corruptionist, for Congress. It is within the memory of many in this generation that a Congressman of this same party, and not far from the same region, was expelled from Congress for taking a bribe.” With its leadership of Tom Platt, and its nominations of this kind, the Republican party of New York may be pat down as solid for Blaine. The President’s journey through the West makes the great Blaine circus of 1884 an insignificant affair by comparison. Blaine is fortunate if he is where he cannot hear the details. The story of tne President’s remarkably cordial and enthusiastic weloome would fall upon his ears like the knell of his political hopes. Chicago Times.