People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — BYNUM'S FALSE PRETENSES. [ARTICLE]

BYNUM'S FALSE PRETENSES.

Farmer Stanley’s Proposed Suit Against the Congressman. Chicago Mail. Farmer Stanley, of Indiana, has struck the right plan. He is talking of suing Congressman Bynum for damages caused by the failure of the Congressman’s promise that under Democratic administration his wheat should bring $1.25 a bushel. Taking stock in this promise, Farmer Stanley sowed plentifully and voted the Democratic ticket. He got as high as sixty cents for some of his wheat last year, but this year he had to be content with finding a market at 45 cents. In his proposed suit for false pretenses Bynum is merely the nominal defendant. The real culprit is the Democratic party. The farmers were receiving a pretty fair price for their wheat in 1892, but the Democrats made them believe it would command a great deal more if the Republicans were turned out of office. Wheat at $1.25 was only of the many boons promised under a Democratic administration. In In 1892 no laborer had to seek employment. Wages were good and work was steady. The Democratic party promised that both should be better if it was intrusted with the administration of the government. Business was stable and prosperous. The Democratic party promised greater stability and more prosperity if it ' should be put in charge of national affairs. In its wild crusade to regain power Democracy appealed to passion, prejudice, falsehood and worse. Every man who had saved enough to find means of employing other men was a plutocrat and an oppressor of labor. Every man whose capital was engaged in industrial enterprises was a robber and an outlaw and so on. All these things were to be changed by putting the Democratic party in power. The country was fooled. It sowed the wind and it has reaped the whirlwind. The coming suit of the Indiana farmer will meet its hearty sympathy. The country itself would bring suit but for the knowledge that no damages could be recovered. Bankrupt in principle, with nothing but incompetency behind it, the assets of the Democratic party are noncollectable. Judgment was long ago entered without the formality of a trial. The jury was the whole American people, and their verdict will not be changed by any plea that is hereafter made.