Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — Sounding Keynotes. [ARTICLE]

Sounding Keynotes.

Mi;. Blaine, for his party, sounded last week very skillfully the keynote which will echo throughout thy, country for the next three months, and, on the accept-, mice of whieli, Republican, speyesn depends. Thy. Democratic answer to it, coming from a high and authoritative source, should ring put equally lirm and clear. —New York Sun. What's the matter with the keynotes already sounded by President Cleveland, Henry Watterson, Roger Q. Mills, and Senator Vest. Mills said: “I desire free trade, and I will not help to perfect any law that stands in the way of free trade.” Wattersoji remarked that “the Democratic party, except in the persons of imbeciles hardly worth is not oh the fence: it is the free trade party.” The New York World declared that “no protectionist Can lx? a Democrat,” and Senator Vest insists (bat President Cleveland lias challenged the protected industries of the country to a fight of extermination. These keynotes are explicit enough to show where the Democrats stand.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.