The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-20
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Ell Perkins Goes Back on tho Republicans.
Why lie and MHcYeagh and Gresham
aad Cox Arc Against uarriSon-"we Are
nDomoorat," says Ell.
AT a recent Republican meeting Eli
Perkins read the following letter:
TAos II. Garter. Chairman Republican Committee:
DEAR sIR:-Below l give the reasons
why Wayne Macveagh, Judge Gresham,
Governor j. D. Cox and l desert Harri-
son and come out for noble Grover
Cleveland aud free trade:
We are against Harrison because he
is an honest Christian; because he isfor
temperance, and for twenty years has
been u Christian vestryman, and twice
u day bows down in family prayer.
We are against Harrison because he
drew his sword for the Republic in 6l,
while noble Grover Cleveland bravely
staid ut home aud hired II substitute,
mud paid him with the money earned
by hanging criminals.
We IRE down on Harrison because he
did not desert the nation, rs did the
noble Democratic party, with secession
in the senate, theft in the war depart
ment, bankruptcy in the treasury and
treason in the field.
We are n Democrat.
We arc against Harrison and the Re
publican party because they freed four
million slaves in '63;because they made
them citizens and gave them the right
to vote for the nation for which they
fought, and because il these infamous
Republicans were once in power they'd
honestly count these freedmen's votes
and stop q noble Democrat from hold
ing by fraud the Presidential Office.
We are a Democrat.
We are opposed to Harrison and pro-
lection because the English ~arlstocracy
hate them worse than they hate an
Irish patriot, and because if Harrison
remains our president he will watch
the tariff and see that it protects our
workingmeu.
We are Democrat.
We are down on the Republican party
for saving the republic when seventeen
Democratic states trod down our flag;
down on the Republican party for
slaughtering 100000 free trade rebel
Democrats, and down on Lincoln,
Grant and Garield-yes, and Logan,
Hale, Conkling-for making England
give up Mason and Slidell, spit on that
rabel flag, and reYerently cheer the stars
aud stripes.
We are a Democrat
We are down on Harrison because he
killed Mile English tariff bill for lower
ing the wages of our northern workmen;
down on him because he says he'll keep
the Chinese out, and hold back ignor-
ant paupers coming in to Gust our high
priced workmen OF the North.
We are down on Harrison because he
will keep such copperheads as Thur
man, Adlai Stevenson and Daniel Voor-
hees out; because we love those noble
Democrats who, when we were soldier
ing, cursed old Abe Lincoln and stabbed
US in the back.
We are q Democrat.
We are for Cleveland and free trade
because all our ex-secesslonists are for
them; because with free trade our mills
will stop and starving European work
men will make again our silk and tin,
Unless our 1uukSG hOEhuloA NOAhl Inv
them, for pauper pay.
We are for Cleveland because he
kicked the Yankee soldiers, vetoed 600
pension bills and sent the crippled vet
Grams back 10 starve or fill the poor
house, and down on Harrison because
he would not turn his back on legless
comrades with arms shot off while hold
ing up the Stars and Stripes.
We are a Democrat.
We are for Cleveland because Eng
land wants him, and because he tavors
building up great English industries By
breaking down American manufac-
lures; because he wants the Yankee
workmen to live on English pay, and
because he wants the free trade south
to ship direct from England and Kill
our Yankee workmen in the north.
We are for Cleveland and free trade
because every rebel who shot into our
flag is for them. am a Democrat for
free trade and against the Yankee work.
ingmen because jeff Davis was, and so
are Beauregard and every old slave
driver OF the south.
We arc n Democrat.
Yes, we're down on Harrison because
he wants our honest silver dollar good
as gold, and because he makes us pay
high wages here at home, when we
could buy so cheap from starving pau
pers on tho other side.
We love Grover Cleveland because he
weeps and cries "Retorm the ballot"
then souelches a million freemen's bal
lots in the south, but 1 am down on
Harrison because he wants every Union
loving lreemen, black or white, to cast
his honest vote, when he knows SO well
an honest count will break tho Demo
cratic south and stop another President
by fraud. Yours truly,
ELI PERKINS,
Harrison Deserter, No. 4.
EOS West End Avenue, Nep York.