Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Harrison’s Pettifogging Letter. [ARTICLE]

Harrison’s Pettifogging Letter.

Mr. Harrison seems to think that it is at once cunning and fair for want of sufficient argument to make wry faces at the opposing counsel. A couple of instances will suffice to show his temper, and we refer our readers to the letter for the rest. He deliberately talks about “the alliance between the Welsh producers and the Democratic party for the destruction" of tin-plate industry. He knows that such an “alliance" does not exist, that it has never been thought of, and that it would be Impfadtioabie. That does not prevent h 4 it upon the majority of hie feilow-oitizens, who by every possible test are as patriotic and -as incapable

of plotting injury to their country, at least, as he is. In the second place he accuses the Democratic party of advocating the repeal of the tax on State bank notes, “with a view* of causing “a flood of local bank issues* of the kind that we had thirty-five years ago. Mr. Harrison knows very little about banking, as he has sometimes confessed, but he can hardly be so densely ignorant as to think that the bank issues of 1859 can ever be revived in this country, and he knows that tieir revival was never within the “view” of the Democratic party.—New York Times.