Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1892 — DECIDED FAILURE. [ARTICLE]

DECIDED FAILURE.

DEMOCRATIC ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE* THE OLD SOLDIERS. V.--They Bee eat the Attempt* Made iu This Btportod Bright Everywhere—Free Trade aad Free Ban kin* Unpopular Everywhere. ISpedal Correspondence, j / Washington, Sept 26. —There was one conspicuous failure during the Grand Army reunion. That was in the effort made by the Democrats to capture soldier votes. One would scarcely expect that the Democratic party would think a gathering of old soldiers a sufficiently fertile ; field for Democratic work to make it even worth while attempting to make converts to the Democratic canse in it. But the situation is such a desperate one that the Democrats have stopped at nothing. Wolves In Sheep’* Clothing. The result was that documents, especially prepared to influence the seldiers, were sent oyer here from the Democratic headquarters in New York in great quantities, and men employed to wear the Grand Army badge, and distribute them broad cast among the old soldiers. It need scarcely be said that this fact when it became known created the greatest indignation among the veterans gathered here. It was also discovered that the Democrats have adopted a form of campaign badge which so closely resembles the Grand Army button that it can scarcely be detected as a counterfeit. This fact added to the in-* dignation on the part of the old soldiers, who saw in it an attempt to make use of their nonpartisan organization for partisan purposes, after the Democrats had even refused to appropriate a penny in congress for the entertainment of the old soldiers. The contrast between the two parties was strongly marked intake apparent absence of efforts by the Republicans to use this gathering for political purposes.

Comparing Party Records. One of the most conspicuous failures was the attempt made by Democratic emissaries to show that the Democratic party has been friendly to the soldier. Those who are familiar with the work of congress quickly met and defeated this effort. They showed from the records of congress that nine-tenths of the legislation favorable to the veterans of the late war originated with the Republican party, and that on almost every bill passed for the benefit of seldiers in the war of the rebellion a majority of the Democrats voted against the measure, and that every Republican voted for it. It was shown that in the aggregate of the votes upon the dozen or more great pension bills that have been passed by congress nearly two-thirds of the Democrats voted against the measures, and that out of the 1,800 Republican votes cast in the house upon these bills only two votes were against them.' Records of Presidential Candidate*. One thing that has come to the minds of the old soldiers gathered here in comparing the attitude of the two parties toward them has been the fact that every Republican president elected since the war has been a distinguished soldier; on the other hand, the only Democratic president served bis country by a substitute, and of the entire list of Democratic nominees since the war only one has been a soldier.

One interesting feature of the occasion was the opportunity it gave for inquiry into the political prospects in various parts of the country. The gathering brought not only old Boldiersof both parties, but many others who were drawn here to witness this great gathering of veterans. Talks with men from every part of the country show the Republican prospects to be extremely bright. Tbe "AMtltant Democratic Party.” The farmers and others interested in the progress of the great northwest are evidently becoming rapidly awake to the fact that the third party is attempting to use them for the benefit of the Democracy. They see that a vote wito-toe tfififcT party simply means a vote for Democratic success. The Democrats are quietly working through and with the third party to destroy the Republican majority in those states which have heretofore been safely Republican., The thinking people of Illinois, Wisconsin, toe Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado see that a vote in any of those states with the People’s party is really a vote with toe Democrats. The success of 4he Peoples party in any of those states they now readily understand would mean not toe success of any of toe principles of that party, but the success of toe Democratic party. It would mean the destruction of reciprocity, which has added millions of dollars to toe sales of farm products and is opening markets for our grain and flour and meat, and absolutely driving British and German goods ont of those markets and admitting our own in their place.

Mo “Wildcats” Meed Apply. Another thing which the farmers of the northwest are rapidly discovering is that co-operation with the third party means a return to wildcat money, which paused the turners such great losses >ben state banks we*e in of>erataoii before the wap.' The third party, is as ipuch in favor of a return to this sort of currency as are toe Democrats, but whether it is or not makes little difference, for toe people now underatand tfiat in voting with the third peopl+they jue merely helping to bring about Democratic poftfr# vs fcffWh nresideocy. “UnSdMt" la KMafeetnrlng State*. £ Those coming from the manufacturing sections report a “land slide” in favor of toe Republicans. Many manufacturers who have formerly been Democrats are now openly announcing their determination to 00-operate with the Republicans; in the belief that the absolute free trade principle* of the Democratic platform would when carried out destroy manufacturing indurTb* plusb talllrof tft* trade England aag AvSwti ami Gta|a gkt nrnlantflll America are epenlng up. Tbe English mawfartnmri aav it 1| dot to tht Mfi-