Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — FARMERS’ DISCOVERY [ARTICLE]

FARMERS’ DISCOVERY

THEY LOOK UPON THE PEOPLE’S PARTY AS ASSISTANT DEMOCRATS. Unwilling to Vote with the Third Forty Whew Such e Vote Will Help Fnt Clcvcland in the White House—Bitter Recollections of Sparks* War on Homesteaders [Special Correspondence.] Chicago, Sept 26.— The assistant Democratic party, called by courtesy the People’s party, is finding its efforts to capture Republican votes in the west and northwest far from a success. Word comes from ail the western states where the Democrats are attempting to hoodwink the Republican voters by getting them to vote for the third party ticket, that the effort is proving unsuccessful. Those who have heretofore been Republicans are beginning to see that (he Democrats are merely making a cat’spaw of them by secretly pushing the third party movement among them. They find, not only that every Alliance man in congress was an assistant Democrat, but that a vote for Alliance candidates means a vote to put Grover Cleveland in the White House and the Democrats in control of the house and senate. The Third Party Merely a Democratic Assistant. They are seeing that the third party cannot expect to accomplish anything more in the election than to weaken the Republicans and strengthen the Democrats. They see that if the third party carries any of the western states for its electoral ticket it will merely take that many votes away from the Republican candidate and not improve the situation tn the slightest degree. They are beginning to realize that by casting their votes for third party electors they will help put into the White House a man much.more hostile to silver coinage than is Mr. Harrison; a man much more hostile to the old soldiers who saved the sorratry a quarter of a century ago; a man more hostile to reciprocity, which nas opened new markets for our farm products to the extent of many millions during the past year; a man absolutely hostile to the protective system under which the wonderful prosperity of the past two years has been brought about; a man and a party pledged to the reestablishment of a wildcat Currency under which the farmers suffered looses amounting to millions of dollars, and a man under whose former administration and by whose consent thousands upon thousands of honest homesteaders were branded as dishonest and their homes taken from them by unjust and arbitrary methods. Forman "Getting Onto’* the Democrat!* Scheme.

All this the Democrats are scheming to bring about through the operations of the assistant Democrats—the People’s party. And the fanners of the northwest are beginning to get thoroughly “onto” this feature of tbe situation. They are thoroughly understanding the game which the Democrats are attempting to play. They see clearly that there is no ghost of a show the election of the candidate of the People’s party, and that by voting for their electors they are simply reducing the chances of Repulican success, and thereby increasing the prospect of a return to power of the man whose administration at a single blow attacked the title to over 40,000 homes and went out of office leaving literally hundreds of thousands of honest homesteaders unable to complete the title to the homes they had been struggling for yean to make their own. Bitter Recollection* of the Cleveland Administration. They are contrasting the experience during the past three years with those of the four yean under the Cleveland administration. They remember with bitterness how Mr. Cleveland’s administration of the land office by arbitrary and outrageously unjust methods destroyed the titles to thousands of homes which had been fairly and honestly earned by homesteaders. They remember that Commissioner Sparks in a single order suspended all entries of public lands in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Washington, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada and Minnesota, throwing them all into the “fraud division,” even where they had already been “proved up” for patents before the officers of the land office. This single order affected more than 40,000 homes, and during the entire period of the Cleveland administration titles for homesteads and pre-emption titles were doled out at the rate of only 2,000 or 8,000 a month, while under tbe present administration they have been ioßued at the rate of over 10,000 per month.

They Don’t Went Their Homes Again Endangered. These people, who remember the anxiety and sufferings of those long years when the titles to their homes were being unjustly attacked and rendered valueless for at least present use, are not willing to return to that condition of affairs. And they are recognizing the fact that a vote with the People’s party is merely an indirect vote to put Grover Cleveland again in the White House and bis methods of obstruction again in control of thousands—yes, hundrodsof thousands—of homes. And they are not willing to do it. Democrats Always. Jhey have been studying the record of the representative? 9f too assistant Democratic party—the People’s ‘party in congress—and find that they have in ; every instance co-operated with the Democrats, and that by electing People’s party congressmen or electors they are simply strengthening the hands of the : Democracy and paving the way to an- i other attack upon the titles to hundreds of thousands of homes through the northwest ________________ ■ Daring tbs eleven yeara tbe Kepoblleans bed » muJffrUy »a tbe bease of dßsiratttaQUß:Detaocrata tnraa bad tWbouse they ealy reduced taxation abeat |ia.o<Kbpoo. \ ■ s", " * \ .r . 'J"