Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1874 — Democracy Selling Out the Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Democracy Selling Out the Farmers.

To a long line of deception and fraud in Ha pMt history the Democratic party ie now adding the tricks and impositions it is practicing upon the fanners and Griegers. No sooner was that movement started than sharp, tricky local demagogues, in accordance with a wink from prompters, behind the Democratic Mwnea, made haste to get control of the organisations. And so, from being a dead weight to all progress, thia old, rotten carcass of Democracy suddenly and mysteriously transformed itself into a party of "reform.” If it would confine its labors to reforming Itself, the world would say amen, and it would not be out of work for a good while to come. Going from its acts in piling up a large national debt and bankrupting the Treasury in a time of profound peace, when there was no interest to pay on the debt created by a Democratic rebellion, to its gigantic frauds in New York City, to say nothing of its Chicago Gages and lesser lights, all at once it has set itself up as the model party of honesty and purity, and claims the right to go into the fore-front of the farmers’ movement. It is surprising the farmers did not sec through this thin disguise of hypocrisy at a glance and promptly repudiate their proffered assistance. But generous, forgiving, open and manly themselves, they knew it was frill time for the Democracy to bring forth fruits meet for repentance, and a few of the more hopeful were received oa probation. Democratic deceit and dishonesty are dyed in the wool of that party, and it is useless to attempt to wash them out. The experience of the farmers in their new relations with them . is overwhelming testimony on the subject. In the eleation in Wisconsin last fail the farmers were sold out body and soul to the old Bourbon Democracy, as the result has shown. All appointees by the new • Governor are ingrained Democrats. The Speaker of the Assembly is an old political demagogue of like stripe, and although the farmers in that State went into the contest to secure redress of railroad grievances, it is now openly charged, and the charge has strong evidence to support it, that these Wisconsin Democrats, elected by the votes of farmers, are the pliant tools of the railways and ran the campaign last fall secretly in their interests. In lowa'and other Western States, wherever the fanners have joined hands with the Democrats, they have most generally been sold out in the some way. And in New Hampshire Where the Democrats are are working hard to secure help from the farmers, it is openly charged by a leading opposition paper which has more honesty than is generally found in Democratic was nominated for Governor by a most glaring fraud of railway combinations. If the farmers will contrast this course of the Democrats with what the Republicans are doing in their behalf, they will not have to look twice to see where their friends are found. The United States Senate Transportation Committee will throw much light upon this subject when Its report is made, and its measures and recommendations will doubtless do great good. The Republican Governor of Illinois led off in recommending and urging the adoption of satisfactory methods of relief when the movement was first started. Other Republican Governors have taken similar action. The nomination of Farmer McCutchins in New Hampshire shows that the Republicans are in full sympathy with all needed reforms of this character. It may have been a very indiscreet thing for the Democrats to show their cloven foot so soon, but we trust it will be a lesson our farmers especially will not soon forget or fail to fully improve. The extent to which they have already been sold out is only an in- — timation of what the Democrats would do were they restored to complete power in the Government, and ought to be sufficient to put farmers and all others upon their guard.— Albany Evening Journal.