New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-13
EMIL WEsCHCKE, Managing Editor,
Wednesday, June Is, 1883.

Wednesday, June Is, 1883.
The promissory note presented to the
people by the Democratic national con.
vention, and the endorsement of which
in next November is decidedly matter
of doubt, is q document so full of incon-
gruous declarations and so characters
tic of Democratic craftsmanship, that
the nation can but smile in contempt at
being offered such an infantile handi-
work for consideration.
1t is truly pronuneiamento in the
style of Cleveland's rude and narrow
sighted conceptions of propriety, and
proves once for al that the party now
administering to the wants of this NIGH
t. republic is utterly incapable and
therefore undeserving of holding such
a high trust.
All along has it been the endeavor of
the Democrats to make the topic of Ia
riff and taxes a party issue, and when
it was proven to them by the eager and
laudable efforts of the Republicans that
their views of tariff reduction were such
not in keeping with the demands of the
people and their welfare, hastv measures
were taken to reconstruct the original
platform. 1t has been fully reconstructed
and in such manner that the national
convention in adopting it has made it.
self liable to severe censure and ridi-
Guile, and clearly the republic is con-
WINGED that Democratic rule is identical
with misrule. The Democratic party
has committed itself to free trade, it has
stumbled over the rock in the path and
can not regain the even road that its
adversaries hold.
Already independent political organ
izations are becoming alarmed at the
prospects before them, and the mass of
the people openly protest against the
free-trade platform and resolutions
drafted by the great Democratic refor-
mers. The American Agricultural and
Dairy Association publicly demands the
services of Republican statesmen to
stay the tide of Democratic aspirations,
and in language not to be mistaken
pledges the vote of the Unions ablest
citizens for the support of anti free-trade
advocates, who must needs recognize in
the following. the voice of the Agricul-
tural Association, true and wise words
The majority of the Democratic party
in congress support tariff most mimi
cal to the country's prosperity. The
president in his last message praised
our great agricultural interests, which
are the basis of the country's wealth,
only to attack them by recommending
arepeal of the duty on wool, the prin-
cipal article by the tariff affected in
which the farmers are concerned. The
Democratic national convention by re-
nominating President Cleveland, indors-
ing his last message and the Mills bill,
has emphasized the injury and left no
hope for agriculture. In the interests
of the farmers, who constitute over half
of the population of the country, and
three fourths of the producing and
financial interests of the country and
are directly interested in the full pro-
lection of American industry, which
means good home markets, general
prosperity and increased development
of all resources etc.
Such then is the sentiment of that
class of our countrymen, who rightful-
~ deserve prominent mention as such
voters whose demands must not be de-
MED, and in view of the position the
Democratic party holds to-day, Re-
publican victory, grand and complete,
is a surety.