People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Chase and the “Lower Classes.” [ARTICLE]

Chase and the “Lower Classes.”

Parson Chase thinks he knows exactly what caused the recent Republican Waterloo. In a recent interview he said: “The Democrats went among the lower classes and told them that if the Republicans came into power they would deprive them of their suffrages.” What language is this to come from the governor of Indiana? Who are the “lower classes” pray? He should be more specific. Dees he regard all -working men and women of the lower classes? Such language as this might go in the despotisms of Europe but here in free America the supposition was that there were no divisions into higher, lower or middle classes. Chase, with the stupidity that characterized his whole campaign, let the Republican cat out of the bag. The party to which he belongs has held power so long that it had got to regarding itself as a superior class.* It only contact with the “lower classes” was ■when it wanted to buy their votes or force them in other ways to do its bidding. The party had become so intolerably insolent. It boasted of having all the intelligence and virture in its own rank. All other parties were composed of the riffraff and “lower classes.” In olden times it was the slaveholders who regarded themselves as the salt of the earth, and talked of “poor white trash” as the lower classes. Republicans more sensible then than now, contended that a man was a man “for a’ that.” They held that si man must be measured by , his merit rather than his money and that his birthright was that of a freeman. In these degenerate days their lordly Depews ride through the west and address, the “lower classes” from the rear end a palace car. Who can wonder that a party led by such aristocratic asses and pretentious humbugs should be swept from the face of the earth?—Non Conformist. Success in everything depends largely upon good health. De Witt’s Little Early Risers are Tittle health producing pills. : See the point then take an' “Early Riser.” A. F. Long & Co.