Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — B-NH-NACCEPTS. [ARTICLE]

B -NH -NACCEPTS.

Free Whisky and Boodj.e the Republican Watchwords. The Hon * * * Bute., 'ind the Committees: Gentlemen- Mv breast swells with pride to know that I have been chosen to carry the banner of the g. o. p., and reform the broken lines made in it by Grover Cleveland in 1884. I beg to say— as grandpa said in 1840 —that 1 am fully sensible of the high honor conferred upon me. In accepting the nomination, be - fore I discuss the issues made, I feel it my duty to publicly express my gratitude to the gentlemen who formed the admirable combination in the convention to defeat the upstart and pretender whe sought the nomination as the friend of the laborer. The similarity of grandpa’s campaign in 1840 and that of mine in 1888 will be very striking. In 1840 hard cider was the motto. In 1888, free whisky. Now, like then, the barrel will be the device on oar shi Ids. My barrel will stimulate the brain and Mor - ton’s the body As I have said iu nearly all my speeches, “1 do not intend to discuss the tariff at this time,” though I will ask the question of the country: How can the poor laborer pay such enormous prices for the necessities of this life when whisky is 15 cents a drink? There are a good many •hings 1 admire. Borne I admire more than others —but now I am forcibly reminded, liow deserving are the laborers of our land, and how much thsy are in need of your admiration and mine too. - The high elevation to which ihave been raised permits me for the first time to give publicity to my views on this sub ject. Likewise on the subject of foreign contract labor, I hasten to give my unqualified approval to iis'Lgid restriction. If I could have conceived that the g. o. p. would nave selected me as their Btandard-bearer in 1888, I would have then taken this unqualified stand for home labor and voted against Chinese immigration. The moral plank in the platform is in keeping with my ideas; sobriety, temperance and good morals are necessary for the stability of any government. 1 would deal more at length with, this subject, and sav a word to the frier ds of temperance, but my letter must necessarily be i rief on account of my hand being weary with shaking it with the visiting patriots who were so outrageously turned nut of office four years ago by the rebels. 1 cannot refrain from saying I am in favor of civii service reform .

No man should be allowed to hold an office of profit unless he was a friend of the government when our party was running it. I am in favor of a free ballot and a fair count. The colored man’s vote in ike southern states should be counted repu! lie in. Gur party wade him a f i ee man. He lias no moral rignt to ce rt it for any other ters n than the nominee our party; therefore I most emphatically declare that the abolishment of the returning board system was a blow at the vital parts of the governmen., as conceived by the eminent leaders of our party. Inasmuch as I am your standard bearer, I must say, aud say it with as much emphasis as 1 can, 1 am opp ed to -ll trusts—l do not mean public office—but I do mean those wicked combinations that threaten our freedom and oppress lubcr. <4/>titJome'j of the conwni ton, you have done your work well.— .You l; v. denominated the mug - wumps deserters. A more apt term could not have been chosen to %eep them out of our party, thereby r r.£ to il purity, good cqr .e'' 1 ?nd morals. in conclusion, I congrat .'bite the! r : n t > 1 its high aim, :.;idsinc> ly hope the tidal wave will return

us to the places from ■whence we were swept by it in 1884. Sincerely hoping that graudua’s spirit will be with us in the coming conflict, I am yours, magnetically. B * * N H ****** N.