The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-11-29
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Your Correspondent " Taking WateD "-Free
Trade HOwl Republican Lying. = Warning
to the Vietors-" Major 'Braggins Foryer-
ies.-The Leaders, Tenderness-H IS Ardent
Love for Workingnlen Sheriff Sawyer-
jolly Republicans and Glum Democrats.
A few weeks ago your correspondent
suggested that the Republicans would
find the tariff issue to. be " loaded" !"
They did, but the load went breech-
ways instead of InEzzleways Who
would have thought theguu could dis
charge its load in that way? He also
stated that these grinning Republicans
could not " lie" this campaign through
but would be compelled to . vote" it
through Mistaken again-they first
he'd and then voted.
In his letter of acceptance President
Cleveland distinctly stated that he was
not u free trader, yet all through the
campaign every Republican stumper,
ward -heeler and wharf rat belonging
to the G. o. p. Gigantic old prevarica
tori shouted =. Free Trade ~ Free
Trade. J" The Saturday before election
the Cleveland Republicans had very
creditabie street parade. l say cred
liable" because they made the most ol
the opportunity to indulge their chron
ic notwithstanding. There were
falsehoods direct and indirect, by in
ference and without any inference
bald lies and lies with gray hair-in
fant whoppers and adult whOppers-
hoodlum lies and specialized, silk
stockinged, patent leather lies-al
kinds, in order, disorder, and juxtapo
sition. Many notices read, No fret
trade for us" Well, who wanted fret
trade? With the exception of q small
club of free traders in this city, Franz
Hurd, and, possibly, Henry WattersoI
I have heard of no free traders thl
fall. The republican politicians, witt
one hand Oh their empty official stom
achs and the other held aloft over thei
emptier heads, howled Free Trsde!
until halt of them will die of brouohiti
before the 4th of next March. The,
believed that = a lie well stuck tOn wa
as good as the truth, and they made th
people believe it, Hence the character q
the election returns.
Nothing is settled until it is settled
right. This falls election was thu
| Bull Run of the tariff reformers. Now
monopOlists, trust makers, pOlitica
lizards, snakes and. auimalcu'&, tina
wriggle and crawl in the slime engen
dered by high protective tariff, tax
fair warning and prepare for your a p
pomatox in 1892. It sometimes take
four years to kill q political falsehood
/ "Msjoru F. II. Braggins, once al
editor on the Leader staff, an thi
years chairman of the Republican
county committee for Cuyahoga Co,
was arrested on the 9th inst, for sew
eral forgeries of bank checks, aggre
eating about $1,000 The Leader
headlines. in giving an account of thi
affair, were nothing near as large q
they were when Axworthy skipped
The boot is on the other foot, you see
Braggins should have had the goo,
sense to be caught before election. q
| Axworthy had the good taste to rul
away before the voting began. Tn
Leader will now d sscsnt on The beau
ties of honesty, and turn its attention
TO publishing rev recipes for maxim,
cheap soup for workingmen 1t Wa
very kind aud considerate to the toll
ing masses" before election. but nov
u workingman, TO the iaundlced eye q
its editor, looks like an object seel
through a telescope when the ends @
the instrument are reversed,
Sheriff sawyer, who has proved a.
efficient officer, was the only Demo
cratic candidate in Cuyahoga count,
popular, many republicans voting fo
aim.
Cleveland republicans are very jubi
liant, and tip around and giggle lik
school girls The democrats are u
glum AS fog horns in a clear day
Yours for tariff reform. PICA