People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — DELUDED DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

DELUDED DEMOCRATS.

They Have Elected Grover Cleveland ta Carry Oat the Policy of Benjamin Hevriaon. For the benefit of those poor deluded brethren who, through the treachery of J. F. Tillman, were induced to vote for the high priest of plutocracy, Grover Cleveland, we print the following items: AU the Farmers' AlUaaos members of congress favor the moat radical cutting of the tariff. On this question they will vote with the democrats every time, and thus there will be a pretty good- sited majority even in the senate for tariff reduction Yet extreme measures are not likely to be resorted to. The cooler heads of the democracy know that a savage onslaught on tariff duties all along the line would bring on a popular reaction and put their party out of power at the next election. No radical and sweeping cut in customs wiU be made by the congress which has just been elected.—GlobeDe tn oo rat. [N. B.—The Globe-Democrat while ostensibly, a republican paper, is owned and edited by democrats and is in sympathy with the democratic policy]. From the Chicago Inter Ocean we clip as follows: Is the republican party stUl master of the situation! Is it to be republican policy that sits inside the coach of state and orders the driver how and whither to drive! Has the recent election merely resulted tn a change of servants? Is the whole sum and the substance of the matter just this-that servants dressed in democratic livery will receive wages from the public purse, while the unpaid, unoffloered, unconquered sptrlt of republicanism dictates the motion of public affairs! Woarenroved to these questions by the following utterance of the New York Times, which as may he remembered, has acted in bringing about what it called a “democratic victory:" "Undoubtedly the distinctive features of the revision to be accomplished by congress will be the removal of the existing duties on many raw materials and s very considerable reduction of the duties upon the goods in the manufacture of which these raw materials are used. In determining the duties to be Imposed on those goods the party of revision will not, us a rule, we think, go beyond the limits marked by the Minneapolis platform of the republican party. That platform declared that the duties should be equal to the difference between wages here and abroad.” So "the Minneapolis platform of the republican party" is to tlx the democratic policy concerning tariff. What has this campaign been waged for, anyhow! It is early to make confession that the democratic platform was a lie uttered with intent to deceive, but the New York Times makes open acknowledgment of its complicity in a fraud upon the intelligence of the people. The democratic platform specifically said: "Republican protection is robbery." The New York Times, as a democratic organ, specifically declares the immediate policy of the democratic party to be based upon "republican protection, "as set forth "in the Minneapolis platform of the republican party. ” What do the wild free traders of the solid south think of this first crack of the whip of the democratic ‘ eastern nabobs!" What do the Weaverites think of it! What is the opinion of the Henry George men concerning It! What will Mr. Watterson say about It! What will our own Chicago Herald do in the matter!