Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — No Corrupt or Degraded Currency. [ARTICLE]

No Corrupt or Degraded Currency.

The public debt was reduced during Gen. Harrison’s administration, by the payment on the principal of $310,000,000, and interalt saved on that amount. In the I past three years, which the Democrats assured the peopleinadvance would be properous ones, Cleveland’s administration has so managed public affairs that it has been necessary to borrow $262,000,000, thus adding just that much to the public debt, and leaving it at about the figure it was when Harrison was inaugurated in March, 1889. The Republicans paid off the debt, the Democrats increased it and that is one, but not the only difference between the two parties. Some of our Democratic brethren in Rensselaer must be unduly anxious to elect some part of their ticket at the ensuing city election, judging from the methods by which they are trying to create dissatisfaction among Republicans with their ticket. They are telling around, very industriously, that a lot of “whiskey Democrats” in” and voted at the city convention. “At voted at the Reyljgp.J. L.«‘ i-" it so persistently unthinking also come to believe and say the same thing. But when they are requested. to name even half, yea, even a fifth of the fifty known Democrats who voted at the Republican city convention, they can not do it. No one, Democrats nor Republicans are able to name ten known Demo, crats who voted at the Republican convention- How then can any one honestly say that 50 Democrats voted there? Just consider the precautions that were taken, at the very beginning of the convention, to prevent members of other parties from voting. A resolution, pro-“ claimed londly in the hearing of the whole convention, was adopted, that any person, not known to be a Republican, offering to vote, his vote should be refused unless he would pledge himself to support the whole Republican ticket, not the city election, but at the general election next November. .An inspector was appointed to carry out this resolution and pursuant to it, the votes of a number of supposed Democrats were chalThose supposed Democrats who Were thus challenged and gave their word to vote the whole Republican tickets this year, were the following: Hiram Day, W. P. Hopkins, Prank Minions, Conrad Kellner. Prank King, Wm. King and Edward Duvall. ™ It is possible that some of these men did not make the promise in good faith, bnt the most of them are men of honor, and will do just as they said they would do; and who in no wise deserve the epithet of •‘Whiskey Democrats.” Some of them were already known to have left the party of Debt and Depression two years. Others are young men, for whom there was no reason to class as Democratt except that their fathers before them were Democrats. In addition to these were two or three much respected young men,

who though the sons of Democratic fathers, themselves claim to be, and no doubt truly, thorough Republicans. There was also one Prohibitionist and one Populist known to have voted at least once each. ■ 7—T" ; V ■ To sum it all up,the Republicans of Rensselaer, within recent years, never held a mass convention when such rigid measures were taken to elude all votes except those of genuine Republicans, nor a convention in which so few of the other party succeeded in voting. How foolish then will be the Republicans who are misled and deceived by this utterly untruthful and unjust charge that Democrats controlled the nomination of the Republican city candidates.

“The Republican party would as loon think of lowering the flag us our Goae'try.-as to contemplate with patience or without protest and opposition any attempt to degrade or corrupt the medium of exchanges among the people. It can be relied upon in the future, as in the past, to supply the country with the best money every known, gold, silver and paper, good the world over.” —William McKinley.