Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1884 — THE DRUMMERS. [ARTICLE]

THE DRUMMERS.

Points from Joe Mulhatton’a Letter of Acceptance. The committee appointed by the Drummers’ National Convention waited upon the Hon. Joseph Mulhatton, at Louisville, Ky., and notified him officially of his nomination for President of the United Scales. Mr. Mulhatton’a letter ot acceptance was placed in the hands„ of the committee. The principal points of interest in it are that the uprising of the drummer fraternity means a new era, when business men shall prevent professional politicians and the lower class from ruling the business interests of the country. It favors prohibition, because no drummer or business man can drink intoxicating liquors and be successful, it opposes convict labor, I ecausc it is a pernicious system of slavery, unconstitutional, and interferes with honest workingmen; it is brutal and cruel and a relic of barbarism. It favors retrenchment, reform, abolition ot war taxes; the surplus in the treasury to be a; plied at once to liquidating the public debt and lor public improvement.