Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1888 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE OWEN-BABB LETTER.

House of Representatives,) W oshington, D. C. > (Dictated). Dec. 13, 1887. ) W. H. Shaw, Esq., Remington, Ind. Dear Sir: I have seen the Examiner regarding the Babb claim; he will give you a report in a very few days; it ought to hnvc been allowed long ago. The sessian will no doubt be a very stormy one. The probabili ties are that we will have to cut down the revenue.. in some way, but I think it can be done so as to redound to our advantage. Truly Yours, W. D. OWEN. Of course there can be but one construction of the above letter. — There is the confession that “we will have to cut down the revenues in some way,” and the policy will be to ob £ tract every proposition to that end conning from the Democracy, no matter how wortby ; and, if possible, secure the adoption of some measure of their own, even to dropping the tax from whisky, tobacco, opium, etc. The letter was unworthy as Mr. Owen, and his friend) well know it. Democratic Rally!—Oct. 24th.

' ——i»- mm ... Misrepresentation in the Republican Text Book. Alta California: The Republican managers seem determined that this shall be a campaign of misrepresentations. In “The Republican Campaign Text Book for 1888,” “published for the Republican National Committee,” a table purporting to show the number of private pension bills passed by Congress and the action taken thereon by the President, says that during his administration, three year) and six months, there were passed by Congress 1084 bills, of which 668 were approved and 416 dirapDrovei. This is a deliberate misstatement. The official pension report shows that during the three and one-half years 1369 special pension Acts became laws, and only 191 wpre vetoed. The number of private pension Acts that became laws during three and onehalf years of Mr. Cleveland’s administration v as 1369, against 1529 for the sixteen years of the adminiatration) of Presidents Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. Of the bills vetoed by President Cleveland, 66 of the clai s had been rejected by Republican Commissioners, 42 by Commissioner Dudley, dow Treasurer o£ the Republican National Committee, the publishers of the Text Book above mentioned. These pension bills have been passed by the “log-roll-ing” process. Two or three months ago nearly 140 were passed by the Senate in one afternoon, at the rate of om for every twenty-three seconds. Seven of the President’s vetoes were because the applicants were already on the rolls; seven more because if the bills had become laws tin? beneficiaries would have received smaller pensions than they were then drawing. Many others were vetoed for reasons sufficient to all fair-mind-ed men. Facts the Same hut the Man Has Changed Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer.) Secretary Radelyffe,of the Home Market Club, an adjunct of the Republican campaign, declares that he was naturalized a number of years ago, but when asked whether he voted in 1884, replied: “That’s something I don’t want to say anything about.” Nor does he like to tall: about his course in 1878 when, as editor of the Boston Journal of Commerce, he advocaiecl what he now opposes, viz., free wool, as fol.ows: Free wool means the emancipation of the wool manufacturing interests. Free wool means cheap clothing, woolens, cloths, &c., for all people. “Free wool means an export trade in woolen goo Is in the near future. Free wool means a revival of American commerce and a large increase of trade with countries that have that as a principal product to pay for imports. Free wool means the prosperity of all—consumers, farmers and manufacturers. All of which is true now as it was then. The facts have not h anged, although Mr. Radelyffe as.