Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1890 — THE FRAUDS IN THE SOUTH. [ARTICLE]

THE FRAUDS IN THE SOUTH.

Chicago Tribune. ' A local Democratic paper is maundering’ still about what it calls the • ‘suppressed vote”' in the Northern Stater arid says that proportionately as many, adult males do not vote there as Iri the Gulf States. To prove this it shows in 1880 there were in the South Caro-; lina 205,000 adult males and that 170,000 votes returned as east, while in Minnesota, with 212.000 adult males, 150,000 votes were cast. Ten yearshave passed since then, in which thei force and fraud system of the Gplfl States has reached its perfection. The! total vote cost in 1884 in South Caro.' lina was 91,5000, and in 1888 79,500,j or less than half what it was in 1880.' The population has risen, however,( so that there are now about 250,000< voters it the State, or 230,000 two' years ago. But less than a third of them went to the polls. Never mind' what happened ten years ago, but explain what happened in 1888. As for Minnesota, nearly two-thirds of whieh population is of foreign birth, it has kept on increasing its vote right along. Never before in so short a time has the Republican party given the Democracy so many opportunities to go on I record as the “against” party as at' this session of Congress. It says “no”’ to every proposition, all the time claiming that it wants something done in the direction of what the Republicans are doing. It wanted more sil-. ver and then voted against an increase! of $50,000,000 or $60,000,000 a year.: It wanted tariff reform and voted' against the only tariff reform bill bywhich the revenue can be reduced that had any chance of becoming' a law in’ the past several Congresses. With Cleveland calling for ballot reform it' opposes the only measure that has' been before Congress since Cleveland' was Buffalo’s hangman by which elections could be made more honest. , In the first district in this State, 442’ professed temperance men threw away! their votes in 1888, on a “Principle,”' rather than vote for Judge Posey, a' man who is opposed to.the saloon, thus' allowing Judge Parrett to be electedl by a plurality of 20. Judge Parrett voted against the original packagebill in the House. Fortunately there were enough anti-saloon Democrats who voted for it, notwithstanding the attitude of the party against it No thanks, however, to the very, very good temperance men of the first dis-, trict And they are preparing to drt the same thing again. Fortunately,! the cause has strength Enough to triumph over such madness on the part, of its pretended friends.—Temperance; Evangelist.

Indiana is trying to null tWt.OOO of, bonds to meet a deficiency if revenue for State expenses, bet can not find a* purchaser. Such is the result of! Democratic rule. When the Republicans had control of the State’s affairs there was money in the treasury to, meet all necessities, and the public! credit was carefully protected.—GlobeDemocrat. ' The Indiana Democrats have adopted the longest platform of the season,, and yet It doesn’t contain a word in explanation of the fact that they bave< increased the State debt from $4,000,.,, 000 to $8,000,000 within the last eight years, and that they are now vainly, trying to sell $600?000 of bonds to meet a deficiency of revenue for State expenses.—Globe Democrat. While the population of the United! States has increased only about 29 per cent, since 1880, its production of pig! iron has expanded 160 per cent. As, market are a fairly trustworthy trade barometer, this immense increase in: output indicates a marked advancement in the volume of general business during the decade. * ing to arbitrate the Behring Sea controversy. She had no proposition oC that kind to make, it will be remembered, when Cleveland was President;' for the very good reason that Mr. Bayard had a habit of conceding everything that she claimed in diplomatic disputes. —Globe-Democrat, The London Financial Times ad* mits that American protection “forces outside competitors to cut down expenses to the bone.” Without protection we should have to cut ours to the bone, and it would have to b& as it is there, to the bone of labor, which represents ninety per cont. of the cost df’pFSduCtton." Bishop Joyce, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, said, in answer to the question, “What should be done with the Southern question?” that ha was in favor of a federal election law, and of living upto the American principles of every man being entitled to his rights, and that he should be protected in them.” Tariff revision and reciprocity are not necessarily antagonistic, as will be shown by the Republicans this session by passing a bill providing, in a limited degree at least, fo’ both.