The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1890-10-16

word ''rights." They. too, know how to die
for ~hht they believe TO be q just cause.
They, too, sre Americans. proud OF thu name,
and proud 20 be regarded as honorable men,
which they are TO y pre-eminent degree: and
whore hospitality and big hearted generosity
are known ard ACKNOWLEDGED By ell the
world. am proud that lave Virginia, ~
wall ~ New England, blood In my veins.
And II AZ toes we met. kindred against kin.
drcd in the late war, under different ffags, We
meet now a. friends and lovers. under the
same starry flag. And we will fight side by
side, the black and the white. The veteran OF
tbs blue and the veteran of the gray. and tho
SONS Of the veterans OF both armies, undel
The flag OF the Farmers' alliance, the stars
and stripes OF our country. shoulder to shoul-
der and elbow touching elbow. at tho ballot
box for our common rights rs americans,
against the Tyranny OF the British money
power. and the gold kin1s Of New York, ~
our fathers fought of cid ut Yorktown, under
the same old flag, with sword and musket
agAinst tho tyranny OF the British King.
an not % afraid OF q confederate soldier ss
was twe1ty-eight yeras ago. 1 am not afraid
Ct him at al any more. though some Of my
republican brethren seem scared still. am
not much afraid Of the democratic party nj
this moment.
But right here, In closing. will tell you
fraekly what think OF the future prospects
OF Tho republican party. There 10 tide in
the Affairs Of parties as well ~ OF men,
(which. taken at the flood,
Leads on TO fortune.
When President Harrison vas inaugurateA
the tide OF affairs of the republican party
was 1t the flood. III the president I'd spoken.
~ am sure Abraham Lincoln would have
done, ,'word for al the people," and the
republicans had today In either house of
congress even one statesman to lead them.
what you say In your Instructive letter
might come true; the q : might in time
become republican. But 1t IL too late
now. The republican party under its
present name ard leadership Is, in my
humble opinion, dead, and It ought to be.
Not even one OF these rscleant Iowa cuu-
sressnen. who voted 4, the Window silver
bill and Lodge election bill, viii, aeyout!y
trust and pray. be ssa. back to Washington
to betray his constituents again. And the
giant north. 'sarOused from sieep." like the
'.strcng man armed" OF Milton, and hearing
the bugle call to patrit tic action, will ..sbake
his invincibie locks and, at the ballot box,
overthrow the whole army OF licks2 pits OF the
money power. who voted sorthcse fraudulens
and unpAtrfosic measures, dictated by tina
gold trust. and desig ned to destroy popular
liberty and to inaugurAte permanently auto
cratic and plutccratic rule in the United
States, to the end that the American pro-
dueers may continue forever, ~ they are
new. the showers OF wood and the drawers Of
WNNT IOr tH0 WOn6y lenucfo Oh tu0 Ola
world and the new.
Oh, Mr.. Clarksr y, would that could Gee
- You d0-see that our leaders are not false
have not betryed the people-are not In
fact worso than the southern 'snre eaters
Of ls60l But believe they arc worse. I
believe that they are corrupt, that for money
they have sold their votes; and that there
exists, and 10 being executed in the pass are
OF the Lodge election law, . conspiracy to
destroy FREQ government In the United States
to enthrone plutecracy and dcthrono do
mooracy-more dangerous than WAS the
rebellion Of 1851. II President Harrison had
In him the love OF liberty characteristic or HE
ancestry, he will veto the tyrannical measure,
II It pass. But, 1t Is my mature Judgment
that, II he sign that despotic law, he will
deserve the fate OF Charles, the First, whom
his great ancestor, Harrison, Crom vell's
lieutenant, had % prominent = part In behsad.
Ing. II would b curious reversal Of history
and degeneracy Of human nature, ii the ds-
scendAnt of him who In 1919 signed the death
warrant OF . British tyrAnt should, In 1890,
sign the death warrant Of American liberty,
which believe tho Lodge election bill 70
b. Yours most truly,
LEONARD BROWN.
Hon. J. 3. Clarkson, Washington, D. O.