Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — Indiana’s Protection And McKinley Plank. [ARTICLE]

Indiana’s Protection And McKinley Plank.

Believing as we do in a protective tariff, the leading issue before the people, we favor the nomination as President of the United States of the man who perfectly represents a protective. tariff and the cardinal principles of the republican party; a man who has devoted his life to the defence of his country in war and in peace; one who at 17, fought with Hayes and Crook and Sheridan at Antietam and in the Shenandoah in defense of our flag against foes within, and for fourteen years in congress contended against country’s foes from 4 without, beating back British free trade and aggression, which finally under , the present democratic administration obtained possession of our markets and has almost destroyed our industries; a man who, with, the resistless shibboleth, “Protection and Prosperity,” has challenged the attention of the commercial world and won the support of every patriotic workingman of our country; whose life and work, open as a book, arfe in themßeUtes a platform, and whose very name is magic, that loyal American citizen,

sold/ier, statesman and Christian gentlemen, William McKinley, of Ohi6; and the deUgAtes to the republican national convention selected by this body are directed to cast theif votes for William McKinley as frequently aud Continuously as there is any hope of his nomination. The Fifty-first Congress enacted financial legislation that placed this Government beyond a condition such as we have now. It turned over to the Democrat party a surplus in the Treasury, with a law which, if the Democrats had left it standing upon the statute books, would have abundantly supplied the whole necessities of this Government during all of these years. What did the Democratic party do? Coming into power with a threat that they would destroy the revenue-raising law of the country, with a threat that would destroy the great principle of legislation upon which the industries of this country were thriving as they were never thriving before, the very breath of ’their entry into power, even before, they had acquired * the full fruition of the election of 1892, blasted as with a simoom all the industries of the country, paralyzed the resources of money, struck down the enterprises of the country, made bankruptcy where there had been prosperity, and then, coming into power, repealed the law by which the Treasury whs supplied with money, bankrupted the Treasury, and made it impossible that the people of this country could pay their honest debts. —Hon, Charles H. Grosvenor, M. C , of Ohio.

, The delegates to the Republican Congressional convention will be chosen Saturday, May 23, one week from next Saturday. The retirement of Dr. Hatch narrows the contest down to two men, Judge Crumpacker, of Valparaiso and Congressman Hanley of Williamsport. Both are men of great ability and also of great availability. In fact, it might be said, that, looked at from these two points, there is very little to choose between the two men. But' when the question of locality is taken into account, and that is one that it is part of good politics not to overlook, then the matter strikes us in a somewhat different aspect. 11l fact, for Jasper County people at least, there is a .good deal of truth in the claim that is made by

J udge Crum packer’s friends, that the matter of locality is greatly in his favor, and that it would be simply a matter of good politics for Jasper County to give him its support at the coming congressional convention. Jasper and Lake counties always have been and probably always will be in the same congressional district, and any favors given to Porter by Jasper will have good prospects of some day being returned in kind. But in the case of Warren county, where Mr. Hanley lives, itis hardly reasonable to expect it will remain in the same district with Jasper for any considerable length of time, and therefore political favors extended to WarreD now, would have little prospect of ever being returned in kind. Further more there is no denying the fact that that immediate section of the state to which Warren county belongs, is already pretty well “loaded up” with good Tippecanoe County has t)ie Lieutenant Governor, Benton County, close by has the Appellate Judge, and thepext county south of Tippecanoe, Montgomery, has the candidate for Governor. In short, other things being so nearly equal between Messrs Hanley and Ciumpacker, it would look as though the argument of locality should cause Jasper i County to favor Mr. Crumpacker.