Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — Page 4

TH& KE PUBLICAN T ** [' i I ~ i ' i ' -rTrnrasDAyTijoVEMBER 1,1888.

National Ticket.

of Indiana. > For Vice President, LEVI p. MORTON, of New York.

IT IS TOO LATE, MR. CLEVELAND.

‘fWe haver entered ppon So Crusade for Free Trade”.— Ftom the Pretiltenft letter o f acceptance , giron out nearly 100 days after his nomination. Well. Mr. President, if what you say >3 true, what shall wo do with tho following testimony of your (rietjjls? “We are entering upon a most fearful Presidential contest, the most important since that of 1860. Mr. Cleveland, by his message, for which I most sincerely honor him, has challenged the protected industries of tho country to a light of extermination.”—Senator Vest. : The Democratic Party is a FreeTrade party, or it is nothing. The Democratic Party will make a FreeTrade light iu 1884. If it loses, it will make another ia 1888. The conflict between Free-Trade and Protection is irrepressible and must be fought out to the bitter end.” - Henry Watterson. “I desire Free Trade and I will not help to perfect any law that stands in the way of Free Trade.” —Roger Q. Mills. “All trade should be as free as possible.”— Speaker Carlisle. “Mr. Cleveland has burned hisships; he stands before the country as the champion of Free-Trade against Protection. If he is re-elected, Protection will have received its death blow. ’ — Henry George. “I am a free trader. The Mills bill is a step in that direction. The only fault is tb.at the step is not long enough. We will carry on an aggressive campaign. All our efforts will be directed j to convince the voters that the Bill jlself is not Free-Trade. We've got to do this or be defeated.”—Congressman Breckenridge, of Arkansas.

AN AUDACIOUS FORCERY

BE WARDED AGAINST IT. The Indianapolis Sentinel of yesterday printed what purported to be a sac-simile of a confidential letter by Col. W. AV. Dudley, treasurer of the Republican NatTonal Committee to a county chairman in Indiana, The letter is, unquestionably, an audacious forgery. The letter was also published in the Sun and Times, of New York. CoL Dudley pronounces it a forgery and announces his intention to prosecute all papers which publish it,-InJthe.forgerw the letterhead is totally unlike——that, actually used, this year, by the National Comjnittee, and the signiture of Col. Dudley is a fair imitation of the engraved stamp he nsed when Commissioner of pensions, but Jjuite different from his Written signiture, as written at this Time. This dirty and contemptible trick will surely recoil upon the heads of those who originated it. ’

The full text of the British minister’s letter, endorsing Cleveland, may be found on an inside page. ■ No true Republican should deem it possible that he could do too much for the party from now until the last vote is cast next Tuesday evening. Cleveland, before his election declared against a second term and after his election worked all the time to get it Vote against him next Tuesday. Only three working days more, after to-day, before the election. They should be days of hard and faithful work by every earnest Republican, Free whisky and beer has been on tap, for the floaters, at Hildebrand’s saloon, for a long time past. The Democratic corruption fund pays for it, of course; The Democracy 4b prepared to circulate all soiteof desperate lies and spring all sorts of desperate

schemes between now and election day. Republicans, be on your guard 1 \ SBSSEKSSSBSjBBH!.’. James T. Antrim, as deputy has discharged the duties of Becorder, to the complete satisfack tion of everyone, and is, withal an accommodating* faithful and genial official. RepublicanslioUld stand by him, to a man. Bepublicans, be on your guard. From th;? time until the close of the election all sorts of desperate schemes will be put forth for your deception. Some of these will be very artful and ingenious, “calculated to deceive the very elect.” Look out for them. ; In one of the out townships, the other day, two Democrats who proposed going out of the county to husk com, were paid ten dollars each to stay at home until after the election. That’s the way the boodle goes, but they’ve got got lots of it. A prominent democrat in Cass county lately confided to a friend the fact that a job had been put up on Mr. Owen which would be sprung at the last moment, and would defeat him. Look put for it. The defeat of such a man as Mr. Owen by such another man as Mr. Zimmerman would be a calamity and a disgrace, too great to be contemplated. The Democrats have nominated James W. McEwen for County Eecorder. The evident intention for bestowing this valueless honor on Neighbor McEwen is to console his wounded spirit for haying carried a torch, last Wednesday night, in the .tail end of the procession, at the head of which rode H. E. James, in nodding plumes and sashes gay, grand high chief of the whole outfit. No issue of the Democratic Sen - tinel was got out last week and the issue for this week will be delayed until the last possible moment. Our neighbor is, of course, up to his old tricks and getting ready to unload a whole cart-load of political diit, just at the last minute, and too late to be corrected. The people of this county are “on to” that little game, however, too well for it to have any influence,

The Mills bill puts salt on the free list, which would be a saving of three cents a year to every inhabitant of this country. The Senate bill reduces the sugar duty one-half, thereby saving to every man, woman and child in the land fifty cents a year. Which measuse is the more adyantagious to the workingman? Which gives him the greater reduction on “one of the prime necessities of life ?” Mr. Zimmerman, the democratic candidate for congress, has, this week, sent a letter in German to every German Republican in this district, pleading for their votes ion the grounds of race pride &c. An old German gave Zimmerman a fitting rebuke on this dodge, the other day when he said : “Race pride goes a good ways with me, but when I vote for a man for Congress on race pride, I want him to l?e a man the race is proud of.” The°management of tlie office of County Treasurer by Dr. Washburn and his most excellent deputy, Mr. E. L. Clark, has been simply perfect. Every interest of the county has been faithfully looked after, while every possible courtesy and accommodation has been extended to the people. No man ever better deserved, a triumphant re-election, and the party owes it to itself and to him to give him its full vote, without a single scratch. No better man than Philip Blue, Republican candidate for Sheriff was ever nominated for the office. He han honorable, upright gentleman. in every sense of the term. Is respected and liked by everybody; Was a patriotic Soldier in the time of was Mid a just man and law-abiding tffid iudusthms oitinee in titee bf penee. He is admirably qualified iu every way

for the office * and will discharge its duties to the satisfaction of the people. He is entil tied to the unanimous vote of his party. - . . 4 The Democrats are just now industrially peddliug’a sham address “To the. Republicans oflndiana.” It is gotten up with the intention of being taken for a geuuine Republican address. Its head line, in big black.-jitters is STAND FIRM; and the same catch-wordjis repeated at the beginning of every paragraph. A prominent 1 ' Democrat in Rensselaer has a big pile of the precious documents and. is sending them over the county, broadcast. Look out for them, they are a villainous fraud. i The following suggestive paragraph is from the Cincinnati Com-mercial-Gazette. Every Republican reader should cut it’ out, paste it in his hat, and refer to it every morning at the conclusion of family devotional services, from now on until November 6: “The Republicans are winners in the Presidential race if they hold their ground, but they are not to be carried to heaven “on -flowery beds of ease.” The Democrats are the best disciplined partisans in the world, except the British Tories, and they will make terrible assaults upon the Republican lines within the next two weeks.” The democrats, the other day, paid the railroad fares of four persons. a man, a woman and two children, from Rensselaer to Chicago, in order to get the man out of the county so that he woqld not vote the Republican ticket. They thus spent at least ten dollars* to keep a man from voting the Republican That is only equivalent to half a vote for the Democrats. Ten dollars for half a vote is twenty dollars fora Whole. They are ready to pay big prices, evidently, but, as they say themselves, they have “GOT JUST ALL THE MONEY THEY WANT.” Among"’the other desperate schemes now being worked by the Democrats in this county, is the attempt to influence supposed doubtful Republicans, in some of the out townships, by stating that prominent Republicans in other parts of the county are intending to vote for Cleveland. Among others whose names have thus been used are Alfred McCoy, Addison Parkison and A. Leopold, all of Rensselaer. Of course there is not a word of truth in any of these charges. These men were never more firmly convinced of the righteousness of the Republican. cause than they are at this minute. - i The article from the Chicago Times in regard to the “Grand Army beggars” should be read by every Union soldier, and especially by every one oflhem wdio meditates so preposterous a thing as voting for Grover Cleveland. The authenticity of the article is beyond dispute. Indeed, no well informed person ventures to dispute its genuiness. It was widely reprinted, all over the country, at the time of its appearance in the Times, and there are scores of jaeople right here in Renseelaei'j who remember well havingreadthearti- • ele in the Times, itself. We ask every patriotic democrat who sees | this paper, to read the article carefully before deciding to vote for the man whose veto of a pension bill it was written in praise of. Here is President Cleveland’s civil-service reform record, as stated by Governor Foiaker, in his great speech at Richmond: “He has appointed to office 13? who have been indicted and .convicted of crime. Two of them were murderers, five of them were , duelists, seven of them were forgers, three of them were rioters, a number of them were keepers of houses of ill fame, a number of them had Comniitted frauds on the revenue service} a number of them hadfbeen guilty of pettit lahJeny-j ohe of them had been in the Work htnme for stealing a dbg; a innate of them had Bese utamefed of rtibbfog the ahd pte-dtea, and co# of them wm appointed io

tafee charge of/ a post-office whifo yet in jail for having robbed i£ Almost every crime known to the law’ is named in the list of crimes committed by these appointees.” The boodle with which the Democrats are boasting that they will carry the state, is being distributed with lavish hands. . More than once have reputable Demociats in Rensselaer been heard to remark that “they had all the money they wanted.” The statement may be an exaggeration, but it certainly is not an idle»boast. All along they have given evidence of possessing an abundance of boodle, and a full confidence in plenty more where that came from. That this confidence was not misplaced is evidenced by the fact that on Monday last John S. Williams, of Lafayette, third auditor of the U. 8. Treasury, came up to Rensselaer, and delivered over to the local bosses a wad of not less than 8600 or SBOO. This sum only represents about one-half of the share which the Jasper county Democracy will receive out of the quarter of a million corruption fund sent into this state by the Democratic National Committee.

In a speech to tfie ivorkingmen who engaged in the Labor Day demonstration, at Indianapolis, last Saturday, General Harrison, for the first time in a public address, took occasion to emphatically denounce the miserable dollar-a-day lie put in • circulation by the wretched creature know as Rd. Gould. Referring to this silly campaign lie, Mr. Harrison said: “I have only once, in all the addresses I have made to my fellowcitizens,, alluded to these malicious and scandalous stories; but nowin the presence of this great gathering' of workingmen, I do pronounce them to be utterly false. The story that I ever said that one dollar a day was enough for a workingman, with all its accompaniments and appendages is not a. perversion of anything I ever said—it is a false’creation. I will not follow 7 in detail this long catalogue of campaign 'slanders, but will only add that it is equally false .that anywhere, or at any time, I ever spoke disparagingly of my fellow-citizens of Irish natiyity ■or decent. Many of them are, now enrolling themselves on the side of protection of American labor —this created the necessity for the story. Everybody that knows anything at all, now knows that Cleveland is the unanimous choice of the British nation, but because the British minister at Washington, Sack-ville-West has written a letter to a supposed fellow Britton, in California, warmly indorsing Clevelandanctjthe Democratic party, Cleveland has demanded his recall, by the British Government. OF course it is not the simple fact of the writing of the letter but the fact that it has been made public that has stirred Grover’s wrath. But the letter was .written in good faith with the honest purpose of helping to secure Cleveland’s election, and the fact that the unforeseen accident of of publicity has befallen the letter, does not excuse Cleveland’s ingratitude in rudely turning upon the man who tried to serve him. But Cleveland is a selfish boor ■who would sacrifize the dearest friends on earth, if his personal ends would thereby be advanced. .• Several timeslately Democrats have been heard to boast/ that a scheme was being worked which was sure to give Indiana to the Democrats. It is' now becoming apparent that the scheme they referred to was one first discovered in Delphi, last Thursday. It is a promise to give a pension to every soldier who will vote the democratic ticket. Organizations are to be effected in every county, and the soldiers are to swear to Vote for Cleveland and Thurman; Matson and Myers, and to sign tbeir oath or promise. The men are told that this paper will be sent to Washington and each man who signs it will get a pension for his vote.; This is a most infamous scheme; Of cotifse the mail who Votes tinder a Written contract to get & pewiott for fete vote, would aevir dart to kick whea the pen-

sion office refuses his {claim. Of j course they can not fulfill their ! contract to give the pensions, but long as they get the votes, that is all they care>. for. It is a villainous, a damnable and an ingenious scheme; but it cannot be that it will succeed. The men who are working it do not know the stuff that Union soldjers are made of. If Jasper County had $20,000 pf idle surplus in the county treasury, it would be very nearly the same amount of surplus in proportion to the population as there is jn the National Treasury, at Washington ; and if two years ago, without warrant of law, the Republican county commissioners had caused to foe deposited in one or two chosen banks $15,000 of this $20,000, had left it there ever since and charged no interest for it, but this year- had collected from the officers of these banks a Republican county campaign fund of about 81,000, it would have been exactly what the democratic administration has done with the surplus in the National Treasury. The analogy would not be complete, however, unless Jasper county, with its supposed surplus of twenty thousand dollars, drawing interest for a Republican campaign fund, had an interest bearing debt of $2,000,000, and in payment of part of which the $20,000 surplus could and should have been used, and which though not immediately due and payable at.its face value, could, at any time be paid on terms that would save to the county at least half of the future interest to be paid. To sum up what would the taxpayers of Jasper county think, if the county whs paying SIO,OOO interest every year on a debt of $200,000, while at the same time, $20,000 of idle surplus was owned by the ceunty and two-thirds of it loaned to private banks, with no return to the county for the use of the loan, but immense sums collected from these banks for a campaign corruption fund Ito keep the party which thus misused their trust, fiFpaweE^-----——_ Will the people of this country coiirmit so preposterous, so inexcusable an act as to vote to contiue in power a party which so shamefully abuses the trust the people have reposed in them? We think not.

A PROHIBITIONIST EXPOSED.

The Indianapolis Journal of yesterday publishes a letter written -by.-He-len.3L Gougar Qir. Jb.e 6th of last July, a month before the Republican state convention, which exposes her motive throughout the campaign. The Journal vouches for the genuiness of the letter and says that the original is in their possession and anyone who wishes is at liberty to see it. The letter, as publishes by the Journal, leaves" out only the purely personal matters, and is as follows: “AT HOME, July 6, ’BB. '••■--.“My Dear * * “You may see me rest until Sept. 1, when I roll my sleeves clear to the shoulders for Fisk and Brooks. ,k * * * WE CAN CAI&Y INDIANA AND NEW YORK FOR the 1 DEMOCRATS, and teach the hypocritical Republicans a lesson. lam completely disgusted, and am out of the ranks to stay. I am arranging to rqa thirteen tents in our State, one for each congressional district, during September and' October. I believe the greatest disaster .that could come to our country would be the success of Harrison and Morton. I SHALL WORK FOR THEIR DEFEAT.” * * *

The Democratic Campaign of Intellect.

An in ci den t occurted at Koko mo last Monday night, which plainly reveals the chief means whereby the Deinocftttß ate hoping to catty Ittdittiia, One J. AV- Pl tier, a Democratic politician, was arrest-

ed in a state of intoxication. On his person was found a Democratic poll-book just revised for use on election ■day, which gives to Republicans a good deal of inside information; A few select quotations read as follows: Mr. J. D. 8., paid $5. Mr. D. M., paid in full; will be all right if closely watched. Mr. J. W. J. refuses to put up a Cleveland picture, but can be voted for sls. Mr. H., Sr., can be voted early for a quart of whisky and a prom T ise of $5; has been assigned to Postmaster Armstrong, etc.

THE BOLLAR-A-DAY LIE.

Democrats Know it to Be a Lie, but Circulate it Just the Same. Gen. Harrison has at last made a specific denial of the charges that at the time of the radroad strike in Indianapolis he declared that if he were the Governor .lip would put down the strikers with the troops of the State, and that on one occasion he declared that a dollar a day was enough for a workingman. We give full credit to the denial, for it never seemed afall likely that he made any such remarks, and there has been no satisfactory evidence that he did, in fact, make , them.—New York Times, Oct. 26. Notwithstanding the statement of the Times, and its distinct disavowal of the dollar-a-day lie, the Democratic National Committee is circulating the falsehood with renewed energy and determination in all of the doubtful States us the •election draws near.

Democrats and Pension Bills.

In di an a pol i s Jon r n al. “It is better to trust those that are tried than those who pretend,” said General Logan in one of his speeches. The Democrats pretends to be the soldiers’ friend, the Republican party has been and is. Every pension law on the statute books to-day is the work of the Republican paity. The following tabulated .statement of votes on pension bills shows who passed the pension laws and where the opposition to them came from:

~ 7 ’ ■,& * ' ? 1 - « 1 r « ' *-< . ■ fc, ~ Z) •y ® Name of Bill. ,c T ; = 2 - 3 " < I" y Repeal of arrears, limitation. | i Forty-sixth Congress 1 48 Gt: Illi 0 Mexican Pension bill, with i Senate amendments, FortyeighthCongress, lirst session : :)!) gj 87 0 Mexican Pension bill, with! ■ Senate amendments, Forty-, ■ eighth Congress, second sos-l sion : 57| 81! 72 , 1 Widows’ increase,Forty-ninth:L Congress, so GO 118! 0 '•Senate IJf 11, 188(1,” Fortrninth Congress (never re-’ - ported back in the House) .I 7 11 27' 0 Dependent PcnsiQii_Kill, For-; -ty-nintli Congress ! '(i(e~ 70j lilf O' Dependent Pension bill, For-: ty- ninth Congress (to pass i over President's rpto)—Bl. .125, 1:18| 0 On all the bills (aggregate)! 834,310: 572| 1

The Democratic rascals who are trying to persuade old soldiers to pledge themselves to vote . for Cleveland oh the promise of pensions being granted immediately after election, are engaged in a disreputable and dishonest business, and men should have more manhood than to allow themselves to be duped by such a proceeding. Cleveland is a foe to Union soldiers and the efforts of his henchmen to bribe the voters with the public’s money is illegal and damnable. General Harrison wdl be the next President of the United States, and he will inaugurate an administration under which the surviving defenders of the Union ’will get their just deserts without being subjected to the insult and mortification of sacrificing their self respect and manhood.—Lafayette. Courier. ~~ ? ' ■» ■■■■■»■■■. .in.-.. The Republicans of Fair Oaks raised the finest campaign pole in Jasper county, last Saturday.

Dow Does Wisconsin Like It?

Free trade in lumber will certainly be a fine thing for the Canadian luinlierman. He can bring his lumber into any of our ports, or ship.it by rail across the line, sell it, pocket the cash, go borne and put lus-money where it will do him and his part of the dominion tlie most good- Suppose' he comes to Milwaukee with his cargo and here he.meets schooners from Green Bay, Menominee and all along the Wisconsin shore.,. The Wisconsin lumberman pays heavy taxes, employs hundreds, of men who also pay taxes, buys large supplies for his logging cdnijisand for his mill hands, and leaves in Milwaukee a good slutre of the profits of his business. II is nioney helps to build Up tlie town where he is located; hel|is to build the schoolhouse ami pay the tax that makes education for the poor its free as water iu tliej brook: lie helps*4he county, helps the state, holjts the nation. _» Not so wjth the Canadian. He gets all lie cam keeps all lie gets. He eiiterslree of charge Milwaukee nathur. that has coat someliody millions of dollars to ini-* prove and keep in tcjMiir.aihd he availsliihiseif of our gent-ti »4ty and ftsilMuiess. “■ No wonder licit the CnnncHaim arc for the Mill# bill by a large majority.