Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — Union Township Republicans. [ARTICLE]

Union Township Republicans.

The Republicans of Union tp., had a good convention last Saturday, and they nominated a good ticket as follows: For Trustee, James L. Babcock. For Assessor, John F. McColly. For Justice, Norman Brooks. “ F. M. Goff. For Constable, James Hill. ' “ Richard MaUatt,The nominations were all made by acclamation. The man who gets 82.00 per day and lives on 82.00 per day may not care if his wages are reduced to 81.00 per day if the cost of the same living is reduced to 81.00 per day; but the man. who is in debt must do twice as much work to pay the 82.00 that he owes and the millionaire gets twice as much work done for the 52.00 he has saved up. In this lies the secret of democratic purpose. The party is seeking to reduce labor to slavery, j us t aa. it. was under democratic rule in the South before the war, and to exalt capital.

Editor Republican: The editor of the “Dimmy-cratic Sentinel” thinks I am from the slums and dregs of creation. For the sake of .the irgument grant it. Does that mean that I must always remain in that condition and always vote to keep myself and my friends there? There are good men, who are conscientious and upright who are democrats, but too many of them rather keep men poor and ignorant than have them cease to vote the democratic ticket. It is true as I said before, the plentier the slums and dregs, the larger the democratic majorities; but there are large numbers of conscientous democrats who voted the ticket two years ago who are now dissatisfied with the party and especially its broken promises of better wages, better prices for farm products, and less prices for the things they have to buy, and many of them will vote the Republican ticket in November and still others will vote the populist ticket. So many have gone over to the populists that the eighteen bosses who indorsed the populist ticket last week thought that was the best thing they could do. The editor of the Sentinel promised last week to publish the Democratic county ticket this week. I wonder who he can fool by saying that. It will be the Populist ticket, with one poor lone democrat as a kind of Democratic tail-holt for them to hang ' on to. Speaking of Judge Hammonds denial of the Pharos-Sentinel charge against him, McEwen says the Judge should have seen the word “if” there. That js the very word the devil used when he tempted our Savior after the forty days fast. Oh! Mac, you are not smarter than the .devil. You cannot mislead Judge Hammond nor any other men who read and think for themselves.