People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — Common Sense. [ARTICLE]

Common Sense.

Once more we want to say, that we regard the great body of the plain people, Republicans and Democrats, as honest and sincere in their political convictions, that they desire good government. The error for which we fault them, is not found’in their wish or intentions, but in the means they adopt to secure their wants. We will note two or three Qf their palpable errors. In 1888 the Republicans in national platform declared for both gold and silver as money, which meant free coinage if it meant anything. And upon that the Republicans carried the silver states. Now why should anyone have been deceived by that declaration. Hadn’t the Republican party demonetized silver and hadn’t they for fifteen years refused to remonetize it? And did not the same forces, purposes and men control the party in 1888 that controled it in 1873, then why should any free coinage man have been deluded into voting the Republican ticket in 1888 to be betrayed in 1890? Another case, we are justified, we believe, in saying that ninety-five per cent, of Indiana Democrats want free coinage. Yet these same free coinage Democrats have been hood-winked by a juggling resolution in their national platform into voting for Grover Cleveland, a sworn foe to free coinage. Once more, we believe that the same percentage of Democrats of Indiana desire the repeal of the national bank law and the substitution of greenbacks, want government control and ownership of all public necessities, a graduated income tax and a radical change in our land system, and yet, year after year, these same Democrats keep those two old whangdoodles, Voorhes and Turpie, in the senate, who profess to believe in these things, yet like dumb dogs they make no effort to secure these things. Now Democrats and Republicans herein is found your faults. You accept and act on the pledges and professions of your party when you ought and could know better. You will stay with yo.ur party and vote for Wall street when you ought to be working and voting for yourselves. Say,

Democrat and Republican, when do you expect to get what you want by voting and working for what you don’t want. Act in politics a: you would in any other busit c- tier. In buyiDg ahorse farm, you would not be - d by pivdjudise or ha p :uid you believe a ma. • deceived you a dozen Die. me h senseand Ip- youi p Pics.