Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-14
TO the Republicans Of SlGl-
aRdOal County.

ulHVuu OOut~Ai
The great national campaign OF 1892 is
drawing to a close On the sth of Noveu
Der, next, You are called npou to again do
battle for the Republican party.
The questions of governmental policy to
be settled by your ballots is by far the
most momentous that has ever been pre-
sented to the American people.
No one will deny that the great political
fight and gauge of battle will be between
the old parties, viz; Republican and
Democratic. One or the other of these
parties will elect the next president of
this great nation; and which ever elect
the president Will also most probably elect
a majority of the House Of Represen
tatives. These two great parties are now
before the country upon their records.
Their respective platforms have been
presented to you. What of them The
Democratic party is a party of promi ses.
In 1884 the people trusted their promises
and elected a Democratic president Alter
the administration of this government for
four years, they came before the people
with their record for endorsement. They
were rejected and hurled from po,cer.
In 1870, through Republican over con-
fidence and lethargy, they elected a large
majority of the House of Representatives
And now in '92 they arrogantly come again
before the people with the same candidate
rejected IN 15oS, and with a platform
bid and daring.
They no longer wear the mask Of Tariff
Reform" but recklessly put on the livery
OF "Free-Trade," pure and simple, and
declare "Protection fraud"
Are the American people ready for
"Free-Trade p If so, there is but one
course to pursue-vote for Cleveland and
Stevenson.
The Republican party is a party of per-
formdnoes. 1t has given TO the country
the Mckinley Bill" whose beneGcCnt
provisions throws the protecting arm OF
this great government alike around our
entire national household-around our
mdnufdciurers-our rage earnerS. This is
or olrR our aaiirc land, and while it will
VS. be projected bg Republicans and
Democrats from a military inrdder, the
Republican party alone IS pledged to pro
tect it against a commercial invader, who
would flood our prosperous country with
the products of a lOr paid Ddaper and con-
riot labor, which would lower the price of
our farm products, close our work shops,
and silence the busy hum of our manu-
features and render corkless and homoless
orr well paid, honest, respectable wage
earners.
As Americans, we claim the right to
protect our people from such evils, by re-
curing a tariff on all foreign products and
manufactures which we produce, and
manufactures based upon the difference in
the cost of production at home and
abroad the difference between American
wages and foreign wages. Recent Demo
cratic authority shows, that for the first
year of the existence of the Mckinley
Bill" our Manufactured products, in round
numbers, have increased in the state of Nelc
YORK. alone hbty-one millions Of dollars, and
wages increased 43 per cent. We have
like authority from other states and the
savings banks all over the country attest
the same facts The RECIPROCITY" clause
of that great bill has opened trade re-
lations with foreign countries that have
always held the balance of trade against
us and now the figures are reversed and |
show the balance in our favor.
1t is this clause that has given yon free
sugar along With free tea and coffee, which |
the Republican party gave you long ago.
1t has also opened these markets for our
pork, flour and all farm products.
The Republican party are the advocates
IF an honest dollar and are unalterably |
opposed to the Free Silve B H. that. not
their platform put forth at
to the contrary, the Democrats in
Congress have once put themselves on
ecord as favoring by a majority of them
n both houses voting tor the bill. The
Republican party believes in a mantle
iauce of the parity of the>setals and de-
nand that a silver dollar shall intrinsical-
= be worth as much as a gold dollar and
INSIST that be 1t gold, silver or paper, an
.merican dollar shall be worth one hun
red cents and not sixty-seyen cents.
Tie Republican party is opposed to the
meal of the 10 per cent. tax on state
anks, as advocated by the Democratic
atform, for the reason that it would be
death blow to our national bank sye-
IN 1.-THE best in the world) and would
vive the old state bank system that
ould food the country with "wild cat"
lper money with no guarantee behind it,
hich would not only unsettle values, 4
1t operate especially against the farmer,
N moor and 1aborinO man The farmer 4