Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1894 — Hot Shot from Illinois. [ARTICLE]

Hot Shot from Illinois.

The- Congressional convention of the 21st Illinois District, which now includes the greater part of the counties in the old “Harrison” district, and where Hon. E. J. Murphy, of East St. Louis is the Republican candidate, has pnsand thft..fallowing strong resnltrtioiret

We ask the people in the midst of the depression and discontent brought upon the country by a Democratic admistration to ‘remember that it is the legitimate and direct result of the Democratic policy of the national administration- During the last Republican administration the public debt showed a”monthly decrease; now sit.swells with a monthly increase. Then there was a surplus in the treasury that met the disfavor of the Democratic party; now there is a deficit of over 870,000,000 that alarms the entire country. Then the gold reserve in the Treasury was over 8100,000,000; now the Secretary of the Treasury, after sell ing 850.f)00.t)00 of bonds, and iucroa>ingAhe public debt to that amount, about to repeat the process to secure the credit of the Government and maintain its currency at par. Then there was prosperity aud peace; now there is depression and disquiet. Then the foreign policy of the Government was firm and dignified; now it is the laughing stock of nations. Then were statesmen at the head of affairs, able to manage and direct the complicated processes of Government in the . interests of the people; now tho country is oppressed by financial disorders and permeated with a prevailing unrest, while two equally incompetentjfactions of the party in power waste time in idle dissensions, utterly disregarding ' the widespread and increasing misery of the people.

We. call attention to the fact that the Democraticgnational platform of 1892, which was reaffirmed by the Democratic Congressional Convention of this district, pledges the nominee of that convention to Free Trade and wildcat money, twin devices for the destruction of business, the overthrow of confidence, the oppression of the laborer and the ruin of the

farmer and manufacturer. We denounce them both and call upon the patriotic citizens who have tho welfare of the nation at heart 'to put the seal of condemnation upon the party that, regardless of the priyation and distress it has brought upon the country, proceeds with stolid indifference to plunge the business of the people still further into ruin. It got into power under false pretenses, and remains there only because the law retards an election. It has repudiated its supposed principles, violated its promises, broken itself into discordant factions and shown a superlative incapacity to govern the country. One experiment with it is all the country wants.