Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1896 — Republican Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Republican Ticket.

FOR PRESIDENT wm. McKinley. of omo. ■ FOR VIC E-PRES DENT. . . GARRET A. HOBART, OF NEW JERSEY.

STATE TICKET. For Governor—JAMES A. MOUNT, of Montgomery County. For Lieutenant Governor—W. 8. HAGGARD of Tippecanoe. For Secretary—W I). OWEN, of Cass. * or^Audltor —A. C. DAILY, of lloouo. For Treasurer—F. J. SCHOLZ, of Vandorburg. For Attorney-general—W. A. KETOIIAM. Of Marlon. " For Reporter of the Supreme Court— CHARLES F. RKMY, of Bartholomew. ForSupermtendantof Public Instruction—D. M. GEETING, of Jefferson. For Statistician—S. J. THOMPSON, of Shelby. For Appellate Judge, First District—WOODKlN D. ROBINSON, of Gibson. For Judge Appellate Court, Second District WM. J. IIENLEY, of Rush. For JudgedAppellate.Court, Third District— JAMES B. BLACK, of Marlon. For Judge Appellate Court, Fourth District, D. W. COM STOCK,-of Wayue. For Judge Appellate Court, Klftd District U.Z. WILEY, of Benton. ■'« - District Ticket. For Congressman, EDGAR A. CRUM PACKER. For Prosecuting Attorney., E. A.'CHIZUM. For Joint Representative, PIERCE ARCHIBALD. County Ticket. For Recorder. ROBERT B. PORTER, of Marlon Township. For County Treasurer. JESSE C. GWIN, of Hanging Grove Township. For County Sheriff, NATHAN J. REED, of Carpenter Township. For County Coroner. TRUITT 1\ WRIGHT, of Marlon Township. For County Surveyor, JOHN E. ALTER, of Union Township. For County Assessor, JOHN R. PHILLIPS,of Hanging Grove Township. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM UALLECK.of Keener Townsnlp For Commissioner 3rd District, FREDERICK WAYMI RE, of Jordan Township

“The Republican party not ouly believes iu sound money and the highest public faith and honor on the part of the government of the United States to all its creditors, but also it believes iu a tariff which, while raising enough money to conduct the government economics 1 ly administered, will serve the highest and best interests of American labor, American agriculture, American commerce and American citizenship.”— William McKinley. Here is a strong passage from Senator Thurston’s speech at Madison, Wis., which did not appear in the press report: There is no country on the face of thjs earth, I care not where you go, there is no country that opens its mints to the free coinage of silver but what all other kinds of money thau silver, and promises to pay in silver, have fled the land. You cannot go into a country of this earth where its mints are open to the free coinage of silver and find a gold dollar circulating among the people. Not only that, but you CAnnot go to-day into any country on earth that opens its mints to the free coinage of silver but what your dollar, gold, silver, or greenback, will buy twice as much as the best dollar that is in the bauds of the people of any of those countries In 1894 the average price of potatoes in this country was 53 oents, in 1875, one year later, the the price was only 25 cents. If it* was the “crime of 73” that thus knocked the price of potatoes down, it took it a long time to get in its work. Bat in 1894 there were only 170 million bushels of s produced in this country, while, ill 1895, the production was

400 millions. Of course men of sound sense will eee at once that it was the euormously increased production that put down the price. The case is the same with silver itself. In 1873 the world’s production of silver was 61,000,000 oiinces; (itself an enormous increase over all previous years except one or |wo) and this annual production bad grown in 1895 to the vast total of 165,000,000 qnnces. In the face of such an enormous increase as that, is it not plain to anyone who wants to see the truth, that this is the true cause of the decline of silver and that the act of 1873 has had nothing to do with it.

“The low prices of our farm products are owing to the decline of silver,” say the silyeriteß. Take w heat, for instance, the most cited of any farm product.—— The year 1875 was a big wheat year, but the wheat crop < f this country was only 7 bushels for each person in the country,—7 bushels per capita. By 1891 the per capita yield was 9 bushels. Besides that, the foreign market had been greatly cut into by great development of wheat culture in Russia, India and Argentina. But for all this increased yield and diminished foreign market, the country was so prosperous and people were such generous livers under the Republican policy of protection, that up to the year 1892, when that policy was overthrown, the price of wheat kept up to a good figure, irrespective of the decline of silver. Thus for 9 years beginning with 1873 and ending in 1881, the avernge price of spring wheat in Chicago was SI.OB. For the ten years following beginning in 1882 and ending in 1892, the average price was $1.03. As to what came nfier 1892, we have nothing to say. Democratic free trade carried the day, and “knocked everything galley west;” just as the Republicans said it would. And if Democratic free silver wins in 1896, its effects will be even more disastrous than Democratic free trade of 1892. With coru, oats and cotton, though, like w heat, the acerage and production per capita has greatly increased since 1873, yet until the fatal year of 1892 the average price kept up, very satisfactorily. The Democrats betrayed the peopie with specious sophistries for free trade iu 1892. Now they are trying to betray them again with specious sophistries for free silver. Will they succeed?* The man who gets bitten twice by the same snake is the symbol of, and the 6yuonym of all that is foolish.