Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — BENTLEY AND SOUTHGATE. [ARTICLE]

BENTLEY AND SOUTHGATE.

Formal Letters Written by the National Party’s Nominees. Charles E. Bentley, of Lincoln, Neb., and James H. Southgate, of Durham, N. C., have filed their letters of acceptance of the national prohibition'party’s nominations for President ufid Yiite-President respectively. Mr. Bentley strongly urges the cause of prohibition and holds that suffrage, without distinction of sex, is a cardinal principle of the party. He then declares the party’s policy is opposed to the national banking system, aud favors Government ownership of natural monop. dies, the public school system, and a juster and more equable distribution of wealth. He denounces the Wilson and McKinley tariffs us shields of the trusts, and make* a demand tot geueral reform of the Government. Mr. Southgate’s letter is not so long as that of Mr. Bentley, and does not go into au analysis of the situation. He highly commends th*- * national party’s principles und calls attention to -Hb broad platform mid the radleal reforms suggested therein.