Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1890 — VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

VOTE THE REPUBLICAN TICKET.

What is the principle for which the Democrats in Congress are contending? It is simply this —that in a governmentby parties, where the response bility for action and for inaction, too, rests upon the majority party, nothing shall be done unless the minority party consents to have it done; that the majority in Congress do that and only that which the minority is willing to have it do! Or, in other words, that the minority, being opposed to certain legislation, but being without the voting strength to defeat it, shall have the right to preventit by a blockade—that they may accomplish by neglecting their duty on this floor more than they could ac omplish by performing their duty! This is sheejv idiocy. The law of Belf"preservatiot| proclaims it to be the rankest folly ' Joseph E. Cannon. Vote it straight