Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1892 — Porter and Fishback. [ARTICLE]
Porter and Fishback.
The Republican state committee has billed Governor Porter and W. P, Fishback to speak together. They are former law partners of President Harrison and have doubtless been instructed by him as to the kind of plea they must make for him. Governor Porter is to present to the farmers the great blessings of the McKinley bill in protecting them from foreign competition on hay, straw, beans, cabbage, etc., and will claim that his former law partner conferred a great favor upon them by signing the h»i r What Fishback will talk about has not entered into the head of any one to even conceive. He may read his free trade letters published in the lndutnaplis News or he may make a protection speech. He should do the latter while he is supporting a protection candidate for the presidency, but as he is never consistent, he will probably not do so. One thing is certain, the firm of Porter & Fishback will use a large amount of soft soap and spread it on with a large brush.
THERE ARE THIRTY-TWO CANDIDATES TO BE VOTED FOR ON THE BALLOT CONTAINING THE NATIONAL AND STATE TICKETS—FIFTEEN ELECTORS AND ALL THE STATE OFFICERS. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO VOTE A BTRAIGHT TICKET YOU WILL HAVE TO STAMP THIRTY-TWO TIMI&S—ONCE FOR EACH ELECTOR AND ONCE FOR EACH CANDIDATE FOR STATE OFFICE, BUT YOU MUST NOT STAMP THE LARGE SQU ARE. ; General Sickles lost a leg in battle fighting for the Union. He says that every private pension bill vetoed by Mr. Cleveland was a fraud; that Mr. Cleveland only did his duty in vetoing these bills, and that he (Sickles) if president would have done the same thing. Recent Republican certificates to General ’Sickles' patriotism give special emphasis to this endorsement by him of Mr. Cleveland’s pension vetoes.
vote ight Democratic tik stamp within the square enclosing t»s rooster at the top of the ballot, andnjwhere else. If any other square is stem* « ed in addition to the laige square lbs ballot will be thrown out. After stamping fold the ballot so as to leave the initials of the poll-clerk on the outside an I hand to the election offioers.
