Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1888 — IT IS TOO LATE, MR. CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

IT IS TOO LATE , MR. CLEVELAND.

‘We liq\( entered upon So Crusade Tor Free Trade.”— Front the Jh letter o f aceept(nice, given ouiTteatig 100 day* dJTer hi* nominethm. - Well, Mr. President, if what you say is tun*, what shall we do vfith tho following testimony 7 of your friends? “We are entering upon a most fearful presidential contest, the most important since that of 1860. Mr. Cleveland, by his message, lor which I mo3t sincerely honor him, has challe qged the protected industriea_of the country to a light of ixterminatidn.”—Senator VtkH. _ ' - ..-' ■ The Democratic Party is a FreeTrade party, or it is nothing. The Democratic Party will make a FreeTrade tight in 1884. If it loses, it will OtAke another ia 1888. The conflict between Free-Trade and Protection is irrepressible aud must be fought out to the bitter end.” - Henry Watterson. “I desire Free Trade and k will not help to perfect any law that stands in the way of Free Trade.*'—Roger Q. Mills.

“All trade should b,e its free as possible.”— Speakev Carlisle. • Mi. Cleveland has burned his ships; he stands before the country as the champion of Free-Trade against Protection. If he is re-elected, Protection wifi have received its death blow.”— JJenry George. 4 “I am a free trader. The Mills bill is a step in that direction. The only fault is that the step is not long enough. We will carry on an aggressive campaign. All our efforts will be directed to convince the voters that the Bill itself is not Free Trade. We’ve got to do this or be defeated.”-Congressman Breckenridge. of Arkansas. “If this Bill means anything it means a long step toward Free-Trade, because it has pvt many of our leading productions on tho free list.”—Congressman Campbell (Dem i, Ohio., * Add to the free list as many articles as possible. Reduce duties upon every dutiable article to the lowest point possible.”—Secretary Fairchild. “It would be a glorious consummation of this debate could we only have gentlemen on the other side join in this invo- • cation to paper and to type and to the hearts of honost m?n, to clear the way for British Cobden Free-Trade ”—S. S. Cox. “I am for Grover Cleveland, because lam a Free-Trader. We propose to elect Grover Cleveland, because at last he has elevate 1 the Democratic standard against the robber and fraud, Protection”—Henry George. which President Cleveland urges are those which Cobden used to employ 45 years ago. and which any free trader could employ now.”—London Timos. “For American party purposes, the President feels compelled to character ize the attempt to brand him as a Free Trader, as a deception of his ene flict now in progress is a conflict between Free-Trade and Protection, and » nothing less.”— Daily News, July 6. “President Cleveland’s message to Congress will not fail to attract the attention which it deserves. It marks the beginning of. a serious movement in the direction of Free trade. * * * The doctrines of Free-Trade have been preached to the Americans in vain hitherto. We seem at length about to witness a new departure- —Manchester Examiner and Times. “The message must be taken to prove that the President and the democratic leaders have finally decided that they have nothing to gain by keeping measures with the Protectionists. They have from whatever motive resolved to adopt a Free-Trade policy.”—Saturday Review. ' (Li. ~

“It would hardly Jbe possible to put the Free-Trade case more clearly or more strongly, and yet such is the force of the words that President Cleveland shrinks from Jbe use of the term Free Trade- in fact, he declares that those who taunt him with being a Free-Trad-er are wrong. " —LonddnsTimes, July 6.

The Republican county ticket is one of the best that has ever been presented for the suffrages of the voters of Jasper .county. There is not a weak place in it or a doubt of the high character and qualifications of the men who compose it. ■<' The “cheaper clotting” demanded by the Clevelandites is that which is worn by people who are not satisfied with American manufactures, and for whom ithe American ten or twenty dollar suit or overcoat are not good enough. American goods of these qualities are sold cheaper than foreign goods of similar grades, but the dudes and plutocrats of the Cleve-1 fond party don't want to pay taxes'

tyto th.j National treasury for their foreign finery. fiance they demand free wool, knpyving that free wool will soon be followed by free woolen goodjf with lower prices to th6m and higher prices to the American people.

» recent reunion of the 87th K«gin*e&t, Pennsylvania Volunteers, at York, Pa., they sent warm greetings to Gen. R. H. Milroy, formerly of this place, now a resident of Washington Territory. The Olympia, W. T., Partisan says: “General Milroy gave tha best part of his life to the service of his country, leaving his health and strength upon the battle field. Under a Republican administration the right of the battle-scarred, health-wrecked veteran was recognized, and he was cared for by having the position of Indian agent given him. Upon tho advent of the present administration he was singled out for sacrifice, and was removed early, to;mdke room fiist, for a sympathizer with thp effort to destroy the Union, and later on tor one who was actively engaged in thn-afniggle to overthrow the government.”

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An administration that would remove au old Union soldier like Gen. Milroy to make room for an ex-rebel, ought not to receive the vote of a single old soldier in Indiana and will not receive the vote of one in whom love of country is a stronger sentiment than party prejudice or hope of personal gain.