Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1888 — Campaign Lies. [ARTICLE]

Campaign Lies.

[Now York telegram.] In spite of the absolute proof which has been brought to the knowledge of the National Republican Committee that the extracts praising the President for his “free-trade acts” purporting to have been taken from various English papers Ore forgeries, Senator Quay and his associates still continue to send them out with all the weight of their sanction as genuine editorial ex-

pressions. One of the most recent of thes documents 1s < ntitled ‘A Question of Wages an Bread.” of which 1.500.U0J have been issued Among other thing-s, it contains excerpts frou. th i Republican uational platforms of 1878. 1880, and 1881, disingenuously made so as to conceal the fact that each of the platforms recognized the propriety, if not the necessity, of readjusting the tariff on a lower scale of duties. By these extracts an attempt is made to cause the reader t ■ believe that the Republican platforms of 1876, 1880, and 1884 were as rigid for high protection and as unalterably opposed to changiug one jot or tittle of the tariff as is the platform of 1888. The Democratic platform of 1881 is also garbled.