The Dickinson press., 1892-10-01

CHICAGO, Sept. 2G.-Tho assistant
Democratic party, called by courtesy
the Peoples party, is finding its efforts
to capture Republican votes in the west
and northwest far from asucccss. Word
comes from all the western states where
The Democrats are attempting to hood
wink the Republican voters by getting
them to vote for the third party ticket,
that the effort is proving unsuccessful.
Those who have heretofore been Repub-
licans arc beginning to see that the
Democrats are merely making u cats
paw of them by secretly pushing the
third party movement among them.
They find, not only that every Alliance
man i'll congress was an assistant Demo
crat, but that Il vote for Alliance candi-
dates means a vote to put Grover Cleve-
land in the White House and the Demo-
Gratis in control of the house and senate.
The Third Part. Merely n Democratic
Assistant.
They are 55aing that the third party
cannot expect to accomplish anything
more in the election than to weaken the
Republicans and strengthen the Demo-
Gratis. They see that if the third party
carries any of the western states for its
electoral ticket it will merely take that
many votes away from the Republican
candidate and not improve the situation
in the slightest degree. They are begin
ming to realize that by casting their
votes for third party electors they will
help put into the White House a maj
much more hostile to silver coinage than
is MI. Harrison; a man much more hos
tile to the old soldiers who saved the
country a quarter of Il century ago; a
man more hostile to reciprocity, which
has opened new markets for our farm
products to the extent of many millions
during the past year; Il man absolutely
hostile to the protective system under
which the wonderful prosperity of the
past two years has been brought about;
Il man and a party pledged to the re-
establishment of a wildcat currency I'M
der which the farmers suffered losses
amounting to millions of dollars, and a
man under whose former administration
and by whose consent thousands upon
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branded us dishonest and their homes
taken from them by unjust and arbi-
trary methods.
Farmers "Gcttins Onto" the Democratic
scheme.
All this The Democrats axe scheming
to bring about through the operations of
the assistant Democrats-the Peoples
party. And the farmers of the north
west are beginning to get thoroughly
''onto" this feature of the situation.
They are thoroughly understanding the
game which the Democrats are attempt
ing to play. They see clearly that there
is no ghost of a show for the election of
the candidate of the Peoples party, and
that by voting for their electors they are
simply reducing the chances of Reptile.
all success, and thereby increasing the
prospect of a return to power of the man
whose administration at a single blow
attacked the title to over DC, 1000 homes
and went out of office leaving literally
hundreds of thousands of honest home
steaders unable to complete the title to
the homes they had been struggling for
years to make their OWN.
Bitter Eccollections of the Cleveland
Administration.
They are contrasting the experience
during the past three years with those
of the foul years under the Cleveland
administration. They remember with
bitterness how Nh. Cleveland's admins
tration of the land Office by arbitrary
and o~utrageously unjust methods de-
stroyed the titles to thousands of homes
which had been fairly and honestly
earned by homesteaders. They remem-
Der that Commissioner Sparks in a sin
gle order suspended all entries of public
lands i'll Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado.
Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Washington, New
Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada
and Minnesota, throwing them all into
the ''fraud division even where they
had already been "proved up for pat.
ents before the officers of the land Office.
This single order affected more than
10000 homes, and during the entire
period of the Cleveland administration
titles for homesteads and presumption
titles were doled out at the rate of only
1000 OF 5000 a month, while under the
present administration they have beer
issued at the rate of over 10000 pei
month.
They Don't Want Their Homes Agar
Endangered.
These people, who remember the anx
iety and sufferings of those long year
/. when the titles to their homes were be
ing unjustly attacked and rendered
valueless for at least present use, ar.
| not willing to return to that condition
of affairs. And they are recognizin!
the fact that q vote with the People
party is merely IN indirect vote to pu
t Grover Cleveland again in the Whit
House and his methods of obstruction
again in control of thousands-yes, hun
dreds of thousands-of homes. And the,
5 are not willing to do it.
e Assistant Democrats Always.
They have been studying the recor
of the representatives of the a~ssistan
:. Democratic party-the Peoples part
. in congress-and find that they have i
every instance co-operated with Il,
Democrats, and that by electing People
n party congressman or electors they ar
S simply strengthening the hands of tn
i Democracy and paving the way TO al
u other attack upon the titles TO hundred
a Of thousands of homes through the nortl
# west. u.
During the eleven years the Republic
ans had = majority in the house Of rel
. resentatives they reduced taxation $500
. 100000, and during the eleven years I'll
n Democrats have had the house they onl
rednced faxaAion ahout &G 00O non.