Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — Economic and Political Subjects Treated in a Ready and Handy Manner. [ARTICLE]

Economic and Political Subjects Treated in a Ready and Handy Manner.

Washington Special. A visitor to the Republican Congressional Committee headquarters in Washington will be impressed with the bustle pervading that place, while a similar inspection of the Democratic headquarters will discover no signs of activity and scarcely an indication of life. The Republicans are evidently alive to the situation. Documents are being mailed by the wholesale for campaign use, and every sign is apparent already to indicate that the hardest Kind of work will be done. While the Republican committee, rein forced by Gen, Clarkson, o f Io wa, is well supplied with funds, the Democratic managers are complaining that their Congressmen are not paying up their assessments. The Democrats seem to take it for granted that they will carry the next House, through their infamous gerrymandering*, and that this species of trickery will, make it unnecessary for them to do anything further. The Republicans, recognizing the seriousness of the situation, are spurred to enthusiastic effort, and nothing will be left undone to lessen tho handicap which the Democtals have already placed upon them. One of the campaign documents issued by the Republican committee is a gem. It is called a handbook, and is in attractive form, with an American flag in bright, colors on one cover between the portraits of Lincoln and Grant. Under the .striking combination appears the REPUBLICAN RECORD MADE IN THE HOUSE DURING THE NINE MONTHS OF

CONGRESS. 1. A federal election law. 2. A protective tariff law? 3. Silver restored. 4. Obstruction knocked out. 5. A just -pension law. 6. (Contract labor forbidden. 7. Convict labor forbidden. 8. An effective eight-hour law. 9- The American hog vindicated. 10. A uniform bankruptcy law. 11.. Two more new States. 12. Six new ships for the navy, * 13. Harbor fortifications. 14. Supreme Court relieved. 15. Shipping bills. This list on a scroll bears a red seal with the letters G. O. P. inscribed, The book contains but twentv-eight pages, but these are full of information on economic and while Republican arguments ready compiled and handy for use are easily found. Any Republican with this book in his pocket can confound half a dozen Democratic adversaries in argument or statement by the record. The cost of flags has been increased by the admission of the new Western States; but this is one of the advances in price that represents a substantial gain, and so there is no room for complaint about it. The failure of the panic to come to hand is a terrible blow to the Democratic chieftans and the speculators. The rest of the country, however, ia not mourning much over their discomfiture