Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — Before and After Election. [ARTICLE]

Before and After Election.

The American people are often accused of displaying short memories, but they have not yet had time tp forget the Democratic cries about the “billion-dollar Congress,” the prospective rnin of foreign trade by the unconstitutional Mi Kinley tariff and the czarispa and tyranny of ex-Speaker Reed in counting a quorum. A few months ago these cries wj-ie repeated with such seeming honesty and sincerity that many people were led to believe there was something in them, and they were not merely the latest cut and style of campaign lie just from the hands of Democratic artists long trained in the production of Buck

false issues. A short time elapsed and the people learned from a decision of the Federal Supreme Court that the McKinley tariff was strictly, constitutional and valid in all respects, and that there was nothing to support Democratic charges to the contrary. *• * Next in order came the official reports of imports and exports showing that under the McKinley tariff our foreign commerce instead of being ruined had swollen to proportions never known before; So another Democratic campaign li* went by the board. Further: the Supreme Court at Washington not only upheld the McKinley tariff, but (the Democratic justices concurring) declared the course of ex-Speaker Reed in counting a quorum leeal and valid in all respects. So much for czarism, tyranny and oppression in the last Republican House.

There remains one Democratic campaign lie not yet entirely disposed of, although rapidly disappearing, viz., that about alleged extravagant appropriations by the so called “billion-dollar Congress.” But that particular lie hasn’t much life left in it The people have learned that there was no “billiondollar” Congress, that no such amount of money was appropriated, and the Democrats now find they must expend as much as the Republicans, or else take the responsiblity of starving some branch of the government* That Democratic leader, Senator Gorman, in a recent speech in the Senate thus exposed the hypocrisy ann false pretense of Ins party iri“ dealing with TBTs question. - “I mean to say, Mr. President, that there is no jtower on earth, as the government is now constituted to enable the Democratic party to r+ duce the appropriation of $150,000.000 or more forpensious, there i-> no power in the party t » which in- aud I belong to reduce the fixed expenditures of the Government, the interest on the public debt, etc , there is no power on earth to reduce the expenditures for offices, There is no power to reduce taxation, and you cannot diminish expenditures.” In other words the Democrats lied when they charged the Republicans with extravagance, and thqy lied again when they promised to practice economy and reduce expenses. Exposed and discredited at every poHVt, what soi l of campaign lies will the bourbons produce this yea i ? Do they really expecPAbc people to believe any.thing they may say ? Can they not see4»what a help it-would be to them now to JtMEgfTaome slight reputation for truth and veracity ?