Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — Mr. Cleveland Must Have Forgotten This. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Cleveland Must Have Forgotten This.

The Cleveland administration of the jrablio land office, after suspending Anal action on nearly every entry in the whole country a full year in attempting to fasten a charge of fraud upon every settler, went out of office leaving over 800,000 cases awaiting action. These have been all disposed of by the Harrison adipinistraiiou and the work brought down to date. The number of patents issued to farmers by the Harrison administration is nearly ten times as many as the Cleveland administration issued in the same length of time.

Men c«r Th*» aim Coder Psmtwrti. The eawConfederate Democrats are looking with anxiety to the result of the coming election, which they hope may give them control of the senate again. Senator Benjamin Harrison, >u a report submitted to the senate in 1882, showed that the Democratic sergeant-at-arms of the senate had ex-Confederatea as about 16 per cent of his force, and that the secretary of the senate had over 22 per cent, of his force made np of ex-Con-federatee and only 14 per cent Union soldiers. .