Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1888 — Cleveland and the Land Grabbers. [ARTICLE]

Cleveland and the Land Grabbers.

The commissiorer of the general land office has completed an official tabulated statement showing that the total amount of lands actually returned to the public domain and opened to entry and set tlement since the 4th day of March, 1885, when Grcver Cleveland was inaugurated President, is 80,690,720 acres. This land was illegally held by corporations, syndicates, alien companies and cattle kings. The total area of the States of New York Pennsylvania is 60,406,400 acres. So that this recovered l«nd exceeds in area by 20,000,000 acres the two greatest States of the Union with their 11,(MX),000 population. 14 is safe to say that if James G. Blaine had been eleeted President instead of Grover Cleveland, not an acre of these lands would have been reclaimed by the government; and, on the other hand, knowing his close affiliation with corporations, their holdings would have been largely increased.— Blaine was precisely that sort of man, and the same may be said of all the Republican leaders.