Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1888 — FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

FACTS FOR THE PEOPLE.

The gates at Castle Garden open inward— not outward. A vote for Cleveland is a vote in favor of election frauds in the South. A vote for Ben. Harrison is a vote to continue manufactories in America. A,vote for. Cleveland.is a votc Aga'nat. the interests of American workingmen. Cleveland gave S2O to the Charleston sufferers, and SIO,OOO toward his own reelection. . ; To just that extent English manufacturers ate imported American manufacturers are reduced. - Give Indiana a chance. Hoosiers, do your part toward putting a Hoosier In the White House. The wageworkers of America own more property than all the wageworkers of the world put together. Protection did it. ' , '■ English workmen do not own their own homes. American workmen do. That- is the difference between free trade and protection. The Republican platform needs no “interpretation.” Read it. It says, American workingmen first, England and the world afterward. And that’s what it means, too. Don’tforget the Indiana Insane asylum when you vote. A Republican administration -means an end to the Coy-Stillivan-maggoty butter outrage on the insane of the State. Democrats claim the price of wheat is fixed at Liverpool. You haven’t heard any ot them claim that the price of American labor is fixed at Birmingham, England, have you? After only three years of Democratic rule, the Government is costing..the people S9O 00 ',OOO more per annum than under Republican administration—and think pf the postal service, too. Cleveland claims the duty is added to the product. If that is so, the average farmer is benefitted more than anybody. Make your own figures. The duty on hay is 20c ad valorum, on wheat 2 c per hu., corn 10c. oats 10c, bams 2c per lb., hogs 2c per lb., butter 4c per lb., pota'toes 15c per bushel. Farmers, do a little figuring. Colonel Henry Watterson, of the Courier-Journal, is just now. in his speeches, bitterly denying that tDe Democratic party favors free trade. We copy four sentences, bits from Colonel Watterson before he and Democrats heard from Oregon, and just when he was shouting praises of Cleveland’s free trade message last December. He said: “The Democrat who is nota free trader should go elsewhere.”. * • • “The conflict between free trade and protection istirrepressible, and must be fought out to the bitter end. We spit upon compromises, and propose neither to ask nor give quarter. * * * “The Democratic party, except in the person of imbeciles hardly wortn mentioning, is not upon the fence. It is a free trade party or it is nothing.” • • • “There can be no cooked-up platform andno compromise candidate. The black flag is up. No quarter will be asked, and no quarter will be given.” Hon. William H. English said of Gen. Harrison: t “You will observe fellow citizens, that I have said nothing against General Harrison personally. He has traits of character I admire. He is an earnest man, true to his convictions, not afraid to speak his opinions, and he is in no sense a hypocrite.” Hon. Joseph E. McDonald says of Gen. Harrison: “As to Gen. Harrison, I have no hard words to say of him. Personally, I respect him; he is my neighbor.” These expressions were used by these representative Democrats at the Cleveland ratification meeting in this city on the night of the 14th of July; and yet, in the face of such testimonials, Democrats like Si Sheerin. Charles L. Jewett and Gould are making and circulating stories that picture Gen. Harrison as a man utterly unwofthy public or personal regard. It is to the shame of our politics that lewd fellows of the baser sort are permitted to throw their filthy abuse at a candidate for office. There should be conscience and honor enough in any political organization to prevent such scum arising to the surface and dominating,a party organization.