Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1898 — TWO PROPOSITIONS. [ARTICLE]

TWO PROPOSITIONS.

The Democratic proposition: A legislature to elect a free silver United States senator. A congress to enaot free silver legislation, oppose the national policy, embarrass a patr\otio president in the settlement of great questions rising out of the war, to bring in a partisan verdict on the management of the war, reduce the glory of Americanism to a minimum, to restore calamity, cut down wages, close factories, depress trade and undo all that has been done the past two years. The Republican proposition: The flag and All it represents. A legislature to elect a United States senator who will stand for the country, sound money and continued prosperity. The continuance of a state administration that has been safe, economical and beyond criticism. The election of a congress that can be relied on not to desert the president or hamper him in determining the magnificent future of the country, that will guard against disaster in whatever form it appears, that will expand American trade at home and abroad, that will up'hold the nation’s honor, that will concede nothing to Spaniards and their allies here or elsewhere, that will retain the best fruits of victory aud that will by performance fulfil assurances to the people that their interests are safe. In the Republican proposition there is nothing to disturb prosperity; in the Democratic proposition there is everything to create apprehension of evil ■low* ————-——————