The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-29
THE REASONS.
SEVERAL CLASSES OF VOTERS TELL
WHY THEY SUPPORT HARRISON.

Business Men, manufacturers, Farmers,
Homesteaders, Bankers, Foreign Born
Citizens and Colored Voters Have Rea-
sons for Voting with the Republicans.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Oct. 24-Republican lead
ers here sniff victory in the air. The
people, they find, are making careful
study of the situation, and since this is
being done there can be little doubt as
to the result.
A large proportion of the business
men have established and built up their
business under the present protective
system. The average business man of
today has established his business since
the protective system was adopted thirty
years ago. Those who inherited bust
ness established prior to that time have
adapted it to the protective system of
the last thirty years. Hence every bust
ness man sees that general change in
the system Of the conduct of the gov
ernment would change the conditions
under which he has had business pros
perity, and ut the same time so rlnsettle
the general business conditions as to
render investments unsafe, and capital
lists unwilling to enter upon business en-
terprises.
The nanufac turers are seeing that
their industries have wonderfully de-
veloped, that the balance of trade has
been 500, 900, 600 in favor of this country
in the past ten years, while in the same
time it has been S., 800, ,0O0,0 900 against
free trade Great Britain. Hence they
prefer to retain system under which
their individual business and our na-
tional commerce have both been pros
porous.
The old soldiers remember that Presi-
dent Cleveland refused his signature to
524 pension bills, while all the presidents
who had preceded him had only taken
this action upon five bills. They re-
member that Cleveland's administration
elected thousands of soldiers from office
and showed its lack of sympathy for
them at every step. Hence they will
vote with the Republicans.
Foreign born citizens who compare
their condition in this country with that
Of free trade countries are unwilling to
exchange the system which has given
them prosperity here for the system
which pays starvation wages abroad.
Hence they will vote with the Republic
ans.
The employees are seeing that the
rates of wages in protected United States
are double those paid in free trade Eng
land, and that employment is more GER
tain here than in countries not having
protective system. Hence they will vote
with the Republican party.
Farmers, too, are remembering that
President Harrison's administration has,
by it's energetic efforts in their behalf.
increased foreign markets for their
products immensely. Not only has the
vigorous work of this administration
caused reopening of markets for our
meats, but through reciprocity our
advantages abroad and the foreign sale
of all agricultural products has been in
creased $275,000,O00.
The bankers recognize the fact that
the Democratic party is pledged to the
destruction of the national banking sys-
tenn and substitution of the state bank
system which was SO disastrous and un-
satisfactory when in use. Hence they
will support the Republican candidates.
The people of the great west are re-
nembering that Mr.. Cleveland's admin
istration of the land Office devoted its
chief energies to preventing people from
obtaining homes and homesteads, in
stead of aiding them, as this administra,
tion has done. Cleveland's commission
ers of the land Office charge that 40 per
cent. of the homestead entries were
fraudulent; that 80 per cent. of the tim
ber culture entries were fraudulent, and
that 100 per cent. of the pre-emption
files were fraudulent. 1t suspended hun
dreds of thousands of claims for homes,
and went out of Office leaving $50, 1888
entries for homes unacted upon. Presi-
dent Harrison's administration has
cleared up all of these, and acted upon
all others which have come in mean
time. The people of the west, remem
bering these things, viii vote with the
Republicans.