Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — IT’S THE “GAIN" THAT DOES IT. [ARTICLE]

IT’S THE “GAIN" THAT DOES IT.

Ron* L’rohlbMlon Ula||P» That Will Not Stand a Little Examination. No political organization ever banked do extensively on its -immense gains” os the I’roliibition party. In its fourth Sresuh*itial campaign (1884) its candia(e received 150,940, or about one in seventy of the votes gast that year. Two years later, an off year, summing up al! the odds and ends that.might be counted in its favor, it claimed 294,853 Tliis was heralded ;u> “immenstt gains," and tin- party started out with new vigor, oiplirring thus: ff 150,000 Ixvonies 300,000 in two years, it will lx* 000,000 in four years, and 1.200,000 in six years, and. 2,400.000 in eight years, and 4.800,000 in ten years, and 9,000,000 in twelve years; and then we are there. But the year 1887 (tad some elections which make some. modifications of these figures, yet they cry “immense gains” from sheer habit. At their convention in this city, they fixed their figures as the 600,000 due, from the above arithmetic, apportioning tip* vpU* among the states with wijjp discrimination. But in ten, states there were elections last year, and there have been three this year, whose tigures would stagger ordinary men. hut our third jmrty friends never mjnd it, hut go on all the same crying ‘‘immense gains.” for convenience"we give the figures of these thirt(*en states for 1886, and 1887 and the estimate for 1888: , :~J

1886, 1887, Estimated. 1888. lowa (18811 1,405, 111 1000. Maryland 7. lift 4,272 15,000. Nebraska 8.175 6.500 IC, 000 New JeX.ey 10,SOM 12,1100 30.000 Pennsylvania 32,458 18,471 35,000 Kentueky (JSBS) 38.912 8.300 20,000 MassaclmsetU 8,251 10.702 12,000 Ohio 28.082 t 20,700 35.000 New York $,437 40,996 75,000 It will lie seen that in these states all hyt three greatly declined, and that the aggregate “gains” in these three large states' was only 7,788. or less than onefourth the loss in Kentucky alone, and only about one-half the loss in Pennsylvania. There have lxmn three elections this year. In all these this party luis sjx*nt men and money, and womeVg'too, with a lavish hand. Oregon, was canvassed by St. John and Mrs. Malloy, Maine by Fisk and Miss Willard, and g hundred others, male and female. Sjieakijag of the Maine campaign, tlie candidate fdr governor, said; two weeks ago: “We have raised nigre mopey than ever liefore, We. will poll from 5,900 to 7,000," and The Voice a month ago claimed at least 10,000 for Vermont. The elections are over now, and; we ap|x*nd flje result: 1886. 1888. Estmated ' . ■ - _ 18H8. Orcprnn 2.753 1,074 5,000 Vermont 1,511 1,387* 25.000 Maine . : ... . . 8:873 goon* - 7,000 These are the. “immense gains” on which the mendacious party is making appeals to honest men for support. Urtsus|x*cting men ary led to believe that at the rate of “immense gains” the party is making, it will bury the Republican party this year, then the Democratic party in 1892, or at the furthest in 1890. so that 1900 will find it alone in its glory, and master of the situation. And some preachers repeat tips story! Preachers, even as politicians, ought to tell the truth. There has been no election in Indiana ' since 1880. except municipal and township elections: but these tell the same story of "immense gains” that is told in the figures above. Thus, in the Indiana|M>lis city election the 153 of 1886 was reduced to 91k the Center township vote ( o£ 206 of 1886 was reduced to 148; the Warnsi township vote of 37 was reduced to 20. In Hendricks county the aggregate vote of 265 of 1886 was reduced to 95. and so on: and there has lx*en uo Indication of any change in this trend, yet the orators of that liarty cry •‘immense gains.”—lndianapolis Journal. ~~