Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — Republican Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Republican Ticket.

For President, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Indiana. For Vice President, EEVI P. MORTON, of New York. For Governor ' ' ALVIN V. HOVE* } For Llsutcnnnt Govmu>r. 4 IK A )1. CHASE. for ■!«%««» of the Sunrcroe Court, 17 >S. I*. COFFEY, JOHN Vi. BKttKSHiUE, v WALTER OLDS, for Ue|>orter of the Supreme Court. JOHN L. GRIFFITHS'. For Auditor ot State, IiKCCK l AUK. For Treasurer of State, J Cl. lUS A LKMCKE For Seeretary of State, 7 t'UAS. F GKtVFIN. For Attorney General. I.EVTI? T. MI( HKNEK For Sin erinteuileui of Public ImlHlttlWh IIAKVEY M l. v FOKI.ETTH. 7 For Prosecuting Attorney, 30th Judicial Circuit, RALPH W. MARSHALL. For Uepftisentntive, Jasper and NewUm counties, JOHN F. JOHNSON. For County Treasurer, ISUAEL B. WASHBCUN. Tor Comity Sheriff. PHILIP BLUE.' tor County Coroner, RIAL T. BENJAMIN. For < Y>un t y Surveyor, JAMES C THRAWLS. For County Commissioner. First District, I'KEsroN M QUKMtY. For Cbttutv Commissioner, Second District. JAMES F WATSON. For County Commissioner. Third District. OUVEK l\ TABOB.

.JAMES G. BLAINE. -THE JSSCK OF PROTECTION IS INCA ECULABLY STRONG-. ER AND UKEAI KK THAN AN V MAN. KOK IT CONCERNS THE PROSPERITY OF THE PRESENT AM) OF GENERATIONS TFT TO COME WERE it POSSIBLE FOR EVERY VOTER OF THE RKITKEIC TO SEE KOK HIMSELF THE CONDITION AND RECOMPENSE OF LABOR IN KI'UOPETHK PARTY OF FREE TRADE IN.TIIE UNITED STATES WOULB NOT RECEIVE THE SI ITORT OF ONE WAGE-WORKER BETWEEN THE TWO OCEANS. IT MAY NOT l!E DIRECTLY IN OCR POWER AS PHILANTHROPISTS TO ELEVATE THE EUROPEAN LABORER. BUT IT WILL BE A EASTING STIGMA UPON OCR STATESMANSHIP IF WE PERMIT THE AMERICAN LABORER TO BE FORCES! HOWS TO THE EUROPEAN LEVEI.. AND IN TDK END THE REWARDS OF LABOR EVERYWHERE WILL BE ADVANCE!) IF WE STEADILY REFCsE TO LOW ER THE STAN DARI> AT HOME Thp sJjupLi Jhi£ls. mmiuMimiis. are mule and soil uo:c ioo cheap, fw' 1 hold it to U‘ true that whenever the market price is so low that the mail or woman who makes it cannot act a fair living out of if, it is too /('.'.■."."—BENJAMIN HARRISON.

Because it is iny deliberate judgnunl jimt tlae prosperity of America is mainly Hue to Its system of protective laws, I ureelliat Germany lias now readied th:>< point where it is necessary to imitate. Hie tariff system ol tlie United States Bismarck to d" 7? : hstag. May !4.1-SSYi

Prohibitionists, Democrats and Mugwumps tv Lo charge that the Republican platform favors free whisky, never quote the plank which favors it, when they make the charge. They sometimes dishonestly quote garbled portions of the plank, leaving out all the qualifying and conditional parts, thus giving it a force and meaning which does not belong to it; but tiiey never quote the whole plank. They dare not do it, for the plank itself is indubitable proof of the falseness of the charge. Rev. John A. Brooks; the Prohibition candidate for the VicePresidency, while a student in Bethany College, Ya, in ISSo, was a ring-leader in mobbing a preacher, named Burns, who was an anti-slavery student in that college, in 1855. Ten of the antislavery students had to leave the school on account of the persecm tions of Brooks and his fellows, r. a. *« an extreme pro*elaver !

i maja and, a most bitter rebel, and J served in the Confederate army , during the war. He lias never repeated, button the contrary, openly glories in the fact that he was a rebel and a slaveholder. The Southern enemies of Northern prosperity who have prepared j the Mills bill, put a hundred arti-! cleg on the free list and raade extensive reductions in the tariff on -j SCOTCS'IS? Ut her arilHes JJmt put j high duties ou certain favored j products of Southern aiiddoubtful states. They then figure up the average tariff on the dutiable - list, taking no account of what was put ou the free list, amt 'then they triumphantly exclaim, “\\e have only reduced the tariff from 47 to 40 per cent. Does that look like Free Trade?” They might have further applied the same principle and, with equal honesty, have taken the tariff oil of every thing except sugar - and rice, and then would had an average tariff of 8-1 per cent, instead of 47 per cent. Then they could have shouted, “Look here, we’ve actually increased the tariff from an average of 47 per cent, to an average of 84 per cent. Does that look like free trade?”

And the chorus of Northern dough-faces would have answered back: No free trade about that, and those who say there is are liars! liars! LIAllS! The claim made by the Democrats that the Mills bill does no more than to make a reduction of tariff duties from an average of 47

per cent, to 40 per cent., is an intentional ami most shameful deception. There are, for. instance, over one hundred articles, now paying a heavy duty, which the Mills bill places on the free list. In counting up. their fraudulent average reduction no account is’ taken of the reduction made in placing these articles on the free list, but the average is computed on only those articles upon which the bill still levies a duty. By this method of procedure the makers of the bill might have destroyed the entire tariff system, except say .the duties on the twp favored Southern productions, lice and sugar, and still had as truthful grounds as they now have for claiming that they were not making a free trade tariff.’ In fact, if! only the. duties on rice and sugar had been spared, they might then have claimed that they had actually increased the tariff instead of lowering it; because with only the (38 per cent, duty on sugar and the 100 hat pml rlnfp nnnn rifp nr>nn 1 OY. Vt V* V J 1 J a which to compute the average tariff. the result would be that the average would be 84 per cent., instead of 47 per cent., as it now is. These facts show how easy a matter it has been for the t subtle free ■ - •” ~ - trade schemers in Congress to prepare and pass a measure which, while actually striking a death j blow at the protective tariff system, can still be imposed upon the ignorant and unthinking as a bill which makes but a comparatively eligh t reduction in the tariff. The American manufacturer of lumber pays state, county, township, town and school taxes on all the machinery used in his business amL upon the buildings in which the work is done, and upon the laud from which the trees for

the lpmber is cut, upon all the logs after they are cut and upon the lumber after it is made. In the same way the American manufacturer o£ salt pays taxes iu this country on all that he uses in his business and all that he possesses. The Canadian manufacturer of lumber and the British manufacturer of salt, pay no taxes in this all, and yet the infamous Mills bill says that the Canadian lumberman and the British salt maker, who pay no taxes, may have the same privileges iu selling their goods, as the American who does pay faxes. The American woof-grower pays taxes upon bis sheep and upon the laud upon which hiß sheep are maintained and upon the grain and bay be feeds them in winter. The Mills

bill says that the Australian and, South American wool grower?, who pay no taxes ot all in this ■country, and mighty little in any. 1 either, are to. receive as a free gift the privlege of the market for which the American pays so much. In the same way. the American farmer pays i:i the shape of taxes, j a high price for the privilege of selling beans, peas, potatoes, <fec,. r in foreigner] ; is to have the same privilege, and ! “not cost him a cent. J These instances might be indefi-j mtely extended, bu.t tiro facts al-j ! ready stated are sufficient to prove ! that the Democrats are trying to impose upon the country a policy ! which, practically, says that a for-, eigner is notr only as good as an American but a good deal better. Shame on such an unpatriotic aud ufi-AnieYrcaii policy. *

A number of our democratic contemporaries, including the Sentinel of this town, have lately published on their inside pages a large] cartoon representing Grover Cleveland, in the guise of a gory warrior, leading a charging column into the very cannon mouths of the enemy. His usually obese and rotund corporosity has, apparently, been greatly reduced in dimensions—-perhaps because the unfeeling enemy has cut off his pipe-line connections with the Buffalo breweries. Just what symbolical moving the democratic editors expect to convey tfy this picture, Is not wholly clear. It is likely, however, that they wish to show what a fearless and ferocious warrior Cleveland would have been, in the late war, .had he not mercifully restrained his thirst for gore and sent a substitute. The picture is also probably intended to be prophetic and portentious in it's imagery, as well as retrospective andconvey to Grover’s enemies the understanding, since his former substitute has died in a poor-house, that, when the next war comes, he will no longer restrain his propensities for carriage; but that he will deal out, death and destruction in person, hereafter; instead of by proxy. In this _ remarkable picture Old Bandana Thurman, who wrote the “War a Failure” plank in the Copperhead platform of 1864, follows close after the valiant Grover. In strong contrast to tlie fierce and .beer-bereft expression ou Cleveland’s countenance, the Okl Homan’s features bear such a blandly benificent expression as we may suppose they wore when at tlie coiner .ofiliadopoLnear Camp Chase, m war times, and slyly gave his blessing and God-speed to the exchanged rebel prisoners, as they filed past, on their way to rejoin the Confederate army and to kill more Yankee soldiers. The picture is a great production, and we hope our Democratic brethren will publish some more of the same sort.