Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1892 — TIME TO STOP IT. [ARTICLE]

TIME TO STOP IT.

By virtue iff the gerrymander 250, (jUO liepubacku voters MSu elected t» o congressmen iu luciianh this year w hile practically au equal number ot Democrats have elect- d eleven congressman. Satieties prove this country *£o~ be the most prosperous in tne world. We bincerely trust that our democratic frien’ds may t>uoceedinnot* uly maintaining its presen prosperity but iu adding to it-but it cannot .<e done by carrying out their platform. S me of the men who aided in electing Cleveland, should stop rejoicing l' -ng enough to ask themselves why the Canadian ministers ann uuced iu their churches met democratic victory and stated it to be a cause"TbFt^MihfflfrEitrksS' ; giving; also why tnere is so much rejoicing iu Europe.

fgl fail t ""fnrprmvß“^Bg~ginglg j good reason why the present re publican Senate should hejp the demt»rais of the next Congress by allowing bills to pass that would have been defeated had the result of the election been different. iuu. the republican fiig * ' the mest aud let it go down only when th' s - ip does Ihe Indiana] olis Sen tint l pnb| lished lust Thursday the official vote iu 12 of the 13 congressional 1 distiu-tr ot the swtte. life ST rage majoiiti*s of the 10 Democratic i undulates there shown to bej elected wag 1020. Tne uverkgfij majorities of the two Republicans was 6362. Th us the Gerrymander gets iu its work. ’ The Fowler Era intimates that the parties who executed and swore to the forged certificate of Saunderson’s nomination, and which was filed too late in Denton county, are liable to be prosecuted for tho forgery, whb h the laws of the etate-make h crime. ihe parties who committed the forgery have been foremost in abusing the election commissioners for refusing to certify the nominations andi the Era gives them notice to stop their abuse or stand the conse- 1 queDces. 'Majorities rule, outside of the, Southern S'ti'es, but majorities are not necessarily on the right side. We b-lieve the princighs upheld by the republican party to be right aud that the results of

■ j:f — ; —■ tbefouFyearS of democratic rule will conviuce the men who hav mistakenly been led into supporting That party of their error, by making them feel it at their most sensitive point—the poeket. M njurities liiay be misled and vote wrong, bnt all the same they rule iu thiscountry. Tkemajority na» expressed its desire to try a lowMaruff; let the democratic leaders see that they get it without any unm cessary delay, no matter if it does paralyse some American industries and add an extra hundred thousand or s<> to the tramps on the Toad. " Will tbtr democratic Congress, in nddition to tinKering with the tariff,llire to authorize an era^offake money, by repealing the tax on.m<*ijey issued by state banks? iTt was : proviiied in its ' national pbifbttfflj Imt little things like promises have never been contoidered tjihding*by those who have in th.' P 'St controlled the democratic party.

Th- fact remains that New York City gave Mr. ‘Cleveland thirty-six elector d votes and Chicago twen-ty-'our. The vote it) those cities uas eontr il. d~by Tammany and the slums. It is humiliating to intelligent, patriotic Americans to know that the,.election was thus decided by the. wnrst element in the two largest cities of the country, but it is a fact. It is the weak point in universal suffrage that the balance of pow< r almost invariably passes mto the hands of the rabble in large cite s.—lndianapolis Journal. ! he great strike at Homestead is at las t ended, and iu the compie e surrender of the strikers. It l.as been the most disastrous sfffke mi record, €ntailing a total estimated loss of §5,000,000 and of 55 human lives : About §2,000,000 of this loss falls upon those least 'b e to endure it, namely the strikers themselves, or upon their families: Many <>f them have also lost their places, permanently, and some of them their livesT-ATte strike would probably have never been commenced in the first place, as it ceitainly never would have b en persisted in to such disastrous lengths, had not the minds < f the .men la en poisoned and preverted by the specious falsehoods of Democratic demagogues, who fomented and encouraged the strike for thesake of the great political advantage it was to their pariv.

The official figures give Hammond. the . Deun-mratic candidate for Congressman in this state, a plurality over Judge Johnston of ouiy 42 Volos. Jli till the Bepubli- j cans iu Jasper county who threw aw»y th-ir votes in complimenting their neighbor Mr. Yeoman, the People’s Puny candidate, had voted for Mr. Johnston he would linve been ►lec.tpd Of COUTSe, SO far as questions «>i a political na-1 ture are concerned, one Republi-1 can ueno u l i»-os in Congress, counts for nothing,'but there are ; many questi <n* of a non-political ; nature constantly arising in Con- i gross, in the settlement of which a man ot Johnston s mind and elo. queuce would bo of great benefit to the eont»try. ryhoreas such a man as Hammond, his successful competitor, will simply count for nothing, if not an obstacle. To destroy is always vastly easier time to bud ■ - again. It has taken thirty-two years of Protection to build up in this country the most ir* < ■no and happy condition of the musses of the people the world ever knew. The Democratic fuiiy, >1 it fttuy carries out its f reo trade and fake monev I promises, can easily destroy in two years the greater part, of what the Republican party lias done for the workingmen in a third of a century. And the worst • feature of the matter i 8 that if once the con-1 dition of tlio common people of this country is r* dneed to the level of that of foreign countries, it J will be a matter of almost insuper- 1 able difficulty, to regain what was hst vlv-n Protection was overthrown.

"There were 22,000 People’s party votes cast in !|ndiana aud 12,000 Piohibitiou votes. The Democrats had only 6JIOO votes more than the Republicans. This party gets 11 of the 13 Congressmen aud 50 majority of the 150 members of thp legislature while beiug 27,000 iu the minority in Indiana. And god Democrats and new party voters indorse .this by their votes! The first necessity for all parties is to get fair play in Indiana, * n w These are the Plutocrats. New York Pressrln view of the fact that a large part of the stock in trade of Democratic speakers and newspapers in the past campaign consisted iu the baseless assertion that the Republican party was the party of ‘ plutocracy," the diuuer given to Mr. Cleveland by Millionaire and Railway Promoter Yilliad on Thursday night w..:s rather . n interest ing event Among the leading Democr -.tic millionaires assembled to honor the candidate they * had duhe so mugh tn elect were Millio.i »ir® William C. Whitney, Miliioudfe Williamß.Gr .ee of New York and Peru. Millionaire Do M. Dickinson, of Detroit. Millionaire Henry. G. Davis of. West Virginia; Millionaire Hugh C. WMlaoeSP Tacoma; Millionaire Brice who ranM r. Cleveland's second campaign; Millionaire William Steinway, and Mi lionaire D. b. Ra raont. It is clear that for tins one occasion at least “Dem- trade simplicity” was thrown aside and that dJefferson economy” wa.s nut regarded in providing the feast. Mr. Cleveland has, of cdurse, a -figTrt fo’"GTire^'rsvxt 1 t . as many mi 11 ion a ires as he pleases, but a consideration for facts tinnld lead Deihocraiic papers to say less about Republictus being ‘ plutocrats” aud “monopolists.” The millionaires are far more prominent in the Democratic party than in theßepublican.

For more than a decade the Democratic press has been holding the manufacturers of this country up to the people as a class of monopolists, millionaires and trust organizers. Week after week, day after day, this has been done, until the larger , number oh people employed- by them have come to legH'rd their employers with aversion. Manufacturers have been denounced as ‘baton 'ro6Bere , - t d^'S ::; f¥PPtrat!e' "pr* ss ' w long that many people have come Demagogues who labor only with their jaws have so long proclaimed that all Wealth conn, add iin., ',.d labor, and fI at those who have more property than have the mass of laborers are robbers, that they have led a large body of people in great cities to hold the mt-n who has accumulated property as one who has taken from them a part of their earnings. D<.n T7T' rs from Y' dmes down to the i-nss-roada ignoramus, have told farmers ail over me tOUijiij '.hat they an celnpelled by American manufacturers to pay more fbr agricultural implements than they off foreigners. Demagogues on the stump and Hoctrimiirias in class or lec-ture-room have been telling all who would listen that manufacturers are adding the amount of the tariff rrrthc pi ice of their clothes and other, protected articles, until a feeling of distrust and antipathy has been aroused against manufacturers. Calamityites, purely for potitiiTil i ffect, have assailed capital ns wrong upon labor and producuiun, wjucn, as a mat,or ot fact, the loanable capital of the country is largely the deposits of work pet pV o savings banks and life insurance institution*- All these people, knowingly or ” igoorantly, have preached heresies which Imv nd.-ud class antipathies and sown-dhe seeds of socialism. It is lime now that they stop. It would be well if some of them would explain their conduct by saying that t hey have assailed capital aud manufacturers simply to get into political power, and having got there, they take back all that was mischievous in their utterances. Having got the two elements of production int* attitudes of mutual distrust, if not into hostility, let them stop aud-Ary to undo their evil works. The New York Herald, which, a week ago, was denouncing the hmpfoyers of labor in this country as heart-

less plutocrats, lias set the example by sayiug that the changes required in the laws affecting the industries of the country are few and small, thus Confessing that it has been guilty of attempting to hoodwink the people. Thesmaller demagogues and still less important doctrinairies should follow the example of this audacious leader of demagogy. At any rate, this work of arraying one element of our people against another must stop at once if a catastrophe is to be averted.— Indianapolis Journal. |