Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1892 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. ——...— ; Thursday, ■ i—" i . - -a«vtai fmm*DAtij«T s - ' 3-EC). r:. FifaiA*HK* <\n Bpoprtktob. n , r, rr In KcpKblicxß butldinp, on :oro?r of WA*hi»ptor. and Woirton streets. Terms of Subscription. Six months < ti Taree months.. M , The Official Paper of Jasper Ceunty.

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Principal Points of the Platform. -We Believe in the American doctrine of protection. We ■believe that articles, except luxuries, which can not be produced in the United States should pe admitted free of duty. We demand that on all imports competing •with the products of American labor duties should be levied equal to the difference between wages at home and abroad. We ask the people to pronounce a verdict upon the cowardly course of the Democrats in attacking the tariff piecemoal. We bel ievein refiproclty, which has opened new markets for the products of the workshop aud the farm. I We believe in the use of both gold and silver money. We demand that every dollar, whether of gold, silver or paper, shall be equal to every other dollar. We believe in an international conference to secure a party of gold and silv°r throughout the world. Wpdimand that every citizen, rich or poor native or foreign horn, white or black, shall be permitted to cast one ballot and lave it counted as he east it. Wcproposctwkeeponffghti-n-g-tinwe-have honest elections in every State. We favor the revival of our foreign commerce ip American ships. We demand a naYy tb protect our interests and maintain the honor of our gag. We demand that arbitrary combinations o eapHal to rantTOl trade c.editions shall be rigidly regulated. We believe in wise and consistent civil service reform. ~~We BelievcTiii :id!liH-Uwt-all_tlig rerrltorics into the Union as soon as they are~qilHtHSed for entr&asei.= reaffirm the Monroe doctrine. — ——l We demand me restriction of criminal pauper, and contract immigration. We demand that the. employees of railroads, midfee and factoring shall he protected against sell needless dangers. We sympathize with the oppressed in every - land. We demandfreedom of speech and of the press. We believe In 'wpular education. We favor the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by Americans. We bel ; eve iu self government for territorics. We believe that the Columbian Exposition should 1 e made a success worthy of the dig. nity and progress of the nation, apd that the government should aid in this if necessary. We sympathize with all legitimate efforts to prdmote temperance and morality. We pledge to the loyal veteransof the war for the Union the recognition that is theirs by right,We are proud of President Harrison's mag .nificent administration. And we propose to give the country an- , other -administiatiun just as good for . the next four years *.

' The prospects of the democrats would be much brighter if the record of the orient House of Representatives could be wiped out. 1 ‘ < Canada dbsen’t like the idea of retaliation ou the part of the United States. Nobody supposed she would. * Harrison and Reid and the Republican party stand for the everything* that patriotic Americans believe in; that, i« why they will be elected.

Since Cleveland’s" nomination; General Listlessness has become the democratic Commander-in-chief. Next November he will he succeeded by general Disaster. The democrats , who. buncoed Xiicle Isaac Gray out of the VicePresidwitial nomination, for revenge, may find that Mr, Gray is an expert at that game. I claim no other credit than'that of having attempted, without sparing myself as to labor, to'discharge public duties conscientiously.— Benjamin Harrison. 4 Americans who are not working for “British Commercial ascendancy” will vote the Republican ticket Ascendancy by oppression of labor is not popular in this country. ". . ttE I have a sincere love for all oar people. 1 exclude no section. I take into my affection and respect all the States and all our people— Benjamin Harrison. The entbusiam over the nomination of Cleveland is all in Europe, where he is recognized as an enemy to American interests. It is , ■f' < # v - -U - Americans, however* that will do the voting. Henry George hit the nail square on the head when- he said that the only reason for Cleveland’s nomination was that herepresented free'trade. That will also be one of the reasons for his defeat. The indications a*re thatthemen who have premised to put-the votes of the Farmer’s Alliance in Kansas and other States where they will most benefit the Democraticparty 1 will be unable to deliver the goods-

The London Post says: A Republican victory’ at the polls iu November would be a blow to the free- trade party in the States and would retard for a considerable period the progress of those sound commercial and economic doctrines which underlie British commercial greatness and alone maintain British commereial ascendancy.

With the same brutal temper and contempt of truth that it pronounced the war for the Union and the Constitutional amendments n ull and void, the Democratic party now denounces and opposes every attempt to secure an honest U&ltefts the South! "In denouncing the so-called “Force bill” the Chicago convention displayed thoroughly characteristic language and temper. Read the plank in question aud note how the bullying insolence of slave days survives iu the Democratic party aud speaks in its platform.

To vote a straight Republican ticket stamp within the square enclosing the eagle at the top of the ballot, aud nowhere else. If any other square is stamped in addition to the large square the ballot will be thrown out. After stamping fold the baljot so as to leave the initials of the poll clerk on the outside and band to the election officers.

The People’s Party nominated their candidates for president and vice-president',‘'at Omaha, Monday. The former is Ex-Congressman, J. B. Weaver, of Iowa; a Greenbacker of many years standing and a calamity-howler of the most eminent degree. For vice-president the candidate is Gen. James G. Field of Virginia,an ex-bohfederate officer. The platform is’not essentially different, from the St. Louis document, but it is prefaced by a preamble which, for wild, insane and malignant ravngs is fully equal to the utterances of the Anachists, previous to the Haymarket massacre, in Chicago.

The “New South” we have'bten hearing so much about does not make itself apparent in the Chicago platform. The same old Bourbon South ruled the roost there; and it was the aame : old South that dominated the Prohibition. convention at Cincinnati last week and forced the adcmtidn of the resolution that rebuked Mrs, Gougar for using i slave-sale incident in, illustrating her speech to the convention I'he same old BonrbonSouth was running things at Omaha too, ! aud don’t you forget it In fact there is only one party in tfhich the loyal northern element is the- controling "factor, and that is the Republican party-

There are Republicans who are in some doubt as to the* kind of legislation needed to Been re- an honest ballot in the South and stop- the prostitution of ©lectio* laws and machinery in that section. They are ready-- to listen so any honest argument or suggestion in regard to thic- matter; but it may as well be understood; at once that they will yield nothing to the bullying spirit and insolent falsehoods-of the Democratic plfctjform in its denunciations of the (“Force- bill.” “Plantation Iners” have been squelched in Congress and it is about time the balllying insolense of slavery should -be omitted from Democratic plat.forms. The ex-rebels have suffered enough by this time-- to know' .that the-North is not to be bullied land that no cause is to be helped in this- country by Democratic curses and falsehoods.

The decision of Congressman Patton-not to be a candidate for re-election is the most sensible act ,of his congressional career. Had he asked for and bsen given this re-nomination, it would have been Tom Wood’s- case over again-. From every part of the district would- have come demands for money, and before the- campaign was ®ver, all-of the Colonel’s savfrom this first session’s salary would have gone info the unappeasable hopper, together with-all he -could mortgage his next win* ten’s'wages for, and when he was turned down by the voters next November; he would.be left poorer than he- was when he was-first nominated—just as was the ease with Tom Wood. Hon. David H. V # (Patton, M. C. and soon again to declining the nomination. “My God,” said Wattergon in his speech in the Chicago oonvention, “is it possible that in 1892 we have to go back for a tariff plank to the straddle o£ 1884?” But it pleased him mightily that the convention took a j unsp instead of a step. The Convention weni back further than was expected and found tEecourageof ita_ convictions in the old tariff declarations of the free* traders who owned labor. The old slave-hold-ers were the men who originated the doctrine, that the Government had no right or power to levy a tariff to protect labor, or do aught else save raise revenue. The Democratic platform echoes the old doctrine of the slave-holding free traders that Congress ,had no right or power to give free Northern labor any legislative privilege over slave labor.

The Passing of Patton.

Under date of June 28, 1892, Dr. D, H. Patton wrote to H. A. Barnhart, of Rochester,' chairman •of the Democratic central Committee for the Tenth Congressional District, formally declining, to be a candidate for re-nomination. In his letter he says that he “Is well satisfied that there are others in this Congressional District who are much better qualified and better fitted to represent the people in Congress than myself;”—a proposition which may be allowed to pass without question,-in fact such a man has already been found in a very eminent degree, and “which his game is” is William Johnson, of Valparaiso. •’ In regard to the Hon. Dr. Patton himself, in whom a good phy-

; • - . V- 3 sician was spoiled to make an awful poor Congressman, it may be' truly said that bs has taken the wisest course for his political and financial welfare. And, so far as The itself is conkerned, while we have not been sparing of .our criticism of the gentleman’s political and official acts, we will say that personally we bearhim no ill-will, and greatly hope thot when he returns so private life after the 4th day next March that' he will be able to take hack to Remington 'with him wad of wealth saved from his Congressional salary, and to there resume so much of his old time medicate practice as he cares to look after, and ; to gratify his well'trained Kentuc®y taste for fast hordes? 5 ? And so ends the history of Pafcton in politics. -

Debt and Taxation.

For the decade from 1880 to 1890 the decrease in- the per capita indebtedness,-national, state ■ and local, from $30.73 to $33.37, jis marvelons within itself, but the value of’jwoperty assessed: for taxation increased during the same period from 17 billions- to- 25f billions, or 50 per cent., .indicating a reduction, of debt and an increase o? wealth-for the country unprecedented i in- modern times? yet all this was- done under what the Democrats call “the robber tariff and an inpoverishing. system of taxing people to death.” ' K a debt per capita of $60.73 was to be assessed and paid upon capitalization of 17 billions, how much easier can a debt of $32.37 per head be assessed upon a capitalisation of 25| and yet people say times never - were so hard as now. Buttle facts- are all against, the calamityites anc freetraders. ", *

The editor of • the Indianapolis SenMnel'w ae one of the four Indiana delegates- at large to the Democratic convention. The ■ Sentinel commented! on Stevenson- as a brave soldier. It makes correction from which: it is apparent that the convention-nominated the wrong mam It says: The Democratic candidate for the-vice-presidency was commonly known as “Gen. Stevenson-,” probably from- having been assistant postmaster-general, and for that reason was commonly associatec with the war record of the union soldier. Gftu Htevancnp-. ThVm TV Stevenson—who is also a South, by birth aud a lawyer by profession.. The error \\\ s one of "the sort to which all mortals are subject, and we correct it at once. But the Sentinel can’t, correct ,the greater etror of nominating such a man as Stevenson nor the ! great insult to the Democratic party of Indiana in defeating .with him i» the convention, the greatest of Indiana democrats, Ex-Gover. nor Isaac P. Gray. He hadrvir; tually been promised the second place, in reward for Indianas solid vote for Cleveland, but was butchered so make a “Tammany holiday;”

The Chicago Fire.

It is quite remarkable how of late years the public fancy has turned toward pictures; within the last decade, newspaper after newspaper has been compelled to illustrate their publications daily. There is a wide-spread desire to see. A book without illustrations is like roast turkey without the “fixings”—rather uninviting and not altogether palatable. -For years back the great artists hafe turned their attention to the illustrating of history, and they have done more to give people an idea of how great battles were fought than any description of them could have ever done. The last great effort to pictorially represent any historical event is the Cyclorama of the burnirg of Chicago. This is said to be by far the most difficult subject ever attempted, and it was thought bv many to be impossible to faithfully portray. If one may judge from the glowing accounts given of this great scene by the Chicago Prms, it must be the most remarkable production in the realm of art. The effects produced are startlingly realistic and faithfully show the situation in Chicago when the great fire was ?t its height. This unique and remarkable exhibition is attracting a great deal of attention in the World’s Fair Citv. It is housed in elegant quarters on Michigan Ave., tetween Madison and Monroe, and will remain in Chicago until after the World’s Fair.

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