Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — What it Stands For. [ARTICLE]

What it Stands For.

!No one need be in any doubt about what the Republican party stands for. Its own history makes that too palpable and clear to admit of doubt. It stands for a reunited and recreated Nation, based upon free and honest elections in every township, county, city, district and State in this great America Union. It stands for the American fireside and the flag of the Nation. It stands for the American farm, the American factory, and the prosperity of all the Americah pebple. It stands for a reciprocity that reciprocates and which does not yield up to

another country a single day s labor that belongs to the American workingman. It stands for international agreements, which get as much as they give, upon terms of mutual advantage, ft stands for an exchange of our surplus hoiae products for such foreign products as We consume but do not produce.

It stands for the reciprocity of Blaine; for the .reciprocity of Harrison; for the restoration and extension of the principle embodied in the reciprocity provision of the Republican tariff of 1890.” —William McKinley.. =. - Judge W. S. Haggard, of Lafayette, has made a square-toed manly canvass for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, and it will not be the square thing for the State Convention to throw him overboard for the purpose of using the nomination for that office sis a sop to console some defeated candidate for the Governorship. Besides, Judge Haggard is well deserving of the place be seeks. There are few abler advocates of the principles of Republicanism in the state; and his record in the State Senate, as an able and faithful legislator, was of the very highest As a further reason why Jasper County delegates should stay wltlT*Tudge Haggard, “first, last and aIL the time” is the opportunity it affords to show to our Republican brethren in Tippecanoe County the groundlessness of their present belief that the Republicans of this part of the Tenth District “have it in” for the south end of the district. •— ' T *V*‘ *- - • 1 V " It cannot be too often, repeated,, or too forcibly impressed upon the minds of the people, that frbm the close of the ciyil warmup to the second inaugurations of Q rover Cleveland as President, there never was a time when the TreftS--ury did not contain a surplus. Then by Democratic mismanagement the surplus was soon dissipated, and jn 1894 the excess of expenditures over the receipts amounted to $69,803,260 58. In 1895 the expenditures exceeded the receipts by $42,800,223.18. What sort of financiering would this be considered if applied to a private business? The people have no recourse, however, bnt must endure as patiently as possible until the full four years more of Grover and clover have expired.