Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For President, Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana. For Vice President. Whitelaw Reed, of New, York. ; COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, -- »... Marcus Hemphill. For Recorder, i Thomas Thompson. For Sheriff, L -• • Charles W. Hanley. - i— — > • For Coroner, Shelby Grant. For Assessor, Charles El Mills. • ‘ For Surveyor, - . John E. Alter. -tC For Commissioner, John C. Martmdale.

Free trade was always and is now a conspiracy against labor. Under a pretense of getting cheapfood for the people Richard Cobden clamored for the repeal of England’s corn law. He was a manufacturer, and his real purpose was to secure cheaper food for labor so that manufacturers could get the profit of cheaper labor, regardless ofthe interests of farmers and farm laborers of his own country. The cotton lords of the South, in this country, joined him in this conspiracy, the latter agreeing that the farmers of ‘the would furnish the cheap food ih exchange for high-priced English manufactures, while the slave lords and the British manufacturing lords gained all the wealth. Our history shows that this bargain was imposed upbn this country under the rule of the slave lords, and that it kept the North comparatively poor while the slave rule lasted. The free trade successors of the slave rule are asking us to return to the conditions of this wary conspiracy against labor. Not much.

The Republican congressional convention for the Tenth district will meet in Logansportto-day, and its work will be done before this paragraph meets the eyes of the great majority of its readers. It is now too late to say ought to either help dr hinder any candi- ; date. We are now for the nominee of the convention, whoever he may be. In looking bacK over the preliminary canvass, The Republican is glad lb be~able~toT say that, while in pursuit of what we believed to be the best interests of the party in the district, we have advocated the availability of Mr. Gilman’s nomination, we have not deemed it necessary to disparage the merits of any other candidates, nor even to ignore them. Our readers have been informed as to whom all the candidates are, and this is m ure than can be said by all the Republican papers of the district. Our readers for instance have been fully informed of the candidacy of that excellent and able gentleman, Judge Johnston, of Porter county, and his merits freely acknowledged. In contrast with our course in this respect, the policy of the Porter and Lake county papers in studiously ignoring the candidacy of every one except Judge Johnston does not, in our judgment, evince the ffir and friendly spirit which should prevail among Republican brethren.