The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1884-10-23

of honor to be by me most highly
esteemed as a popular expression or
the part of . distinguished body Of
earnest, honest, intelligent, patriotic
representative men, who, by years
Of experience within and knowledge
Of tho wants Of the industrial classes
Of the Fourth congressional district
AS well as State and nation have
thus determined to indorse the gen.
eral course of action pursued by me
as representative of the people
ia mers, mechanics, wage workers
and business men-of this congress
sional district in the first session OF
the Forty-eighth congress; also as
renewed evidence that the Democ-
racy Of the district are in harmony
with the doctrine taught by the early
Democratic presidents, notably JET.
fcrson and Jackson, who each pro-
claimed that congress by its legis-
lative acts should advocate, support
and defend the rights Of the many
against the privileges Of the fe--, and
that corporations created by the
State should be controlled by the
state
| am satisfied that the Democracy
in this district and State are, as | am,
in harmony with that noble senti.
ment and great, grand truth. uttered
by President Lincoln in his message
to congress, Dec. 3, 1861, wherein
he stated:
"Labor is prior to and Independent
of capital. Capital is only the fruit
of labor and could never have existed
had not labor first existed. Labor is
the superior Of capital and deserves
much the higher consideration"
| / am satisfied that the soldiers
who went to the front in the hours
Of our country's peril, leaving home,
wife, children, business interests and
Jail at the call Of the government,
have. in far too many instances, been
most shamefully neglected, and
called upon for proof to sustain their
claims, which was unnecessary and
in very many cases impossible to
obtain, whereby their efforts to Sc
cure just pension have been de-
feated and their dependent relatives
left to the mercy Of charity; and that
the manipulators Of the latter day
Republican party have been, there
fore, wholly responsible during the
last fifteen years of official malad
ministration, as also for the enor
nous growth and multiplied mum
bers of the corporate monopolies
that are and have been eating W
the substance of the people, resulting
in the creation of millionaire anc
landlord aristocracy on the one hanc
of character similar. to that in thu
British empire, that has fed upor
the toiling millions and throttlee
Irish liberties, producing here, a
there, by tyrannous class legisla
ton, conditions of poverty and dis
tress, inimical to the welfare of .
people, who are by the genius of oul
form of government tho govern
mcnt itself
/ am earnestly, as you arc, in favor
Of revision Of the tariff, in the in
terest Of labor and the people, bu,
not in the interest Of rich corpora
tons andmanufacturing monopolies
Therefore, being thus, as in Other
material particulars, in harmony
with the governmental purposes YOU
holdas invaluable to the people til,
producing classes and business inter
ests-and believing the time is a,
hand for united action on the part O.
all who highly prize government Of
by and for the people-all who de
'plore the class legislation brought
Unto existence and fostered by the
manipulators of the Republican
party, and who desire that the books
of republican rule, management and
policy, Of twenty years continuance
be settled up and a balance struck
and other action had that will re.
store to the people conditions Of
peace and prosperity, l, with great
pleasure, accept the nomination you
have SO graciously and unanimously
bestowed upon me, and pledge un
swerving devotion as servant o.
the people. With high regards,
l.. II. WELLER.
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