Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-10-13
The Georgia and Florida Elections.
What they mean.

1t is as we have all along assured
our readers, when it came to the
test, the Independents were not in
1t in the Georgia and Florida elect
ions. They have all along assured
us that they not only expected
great gains IN both these states,
but have asserted with IA great blaze
of trumpets that the Independent
ticket would sweep the states of
Georgia and Florida. The state
elections held there last week,
show that the democrats won Geor-
gia by a majority of $4,000, while
mFlorida they swept the state, the
Independent candidates received
less than 5000 notes.-the demo-
cratic majority being 20, 900.
Instead of making a division in
the South, the Independents seem
only to mite the Democracy more
firmly, and to show as we have
frequently assured the readers of
the REPORTER, that the Independ-
ent party was only created to divide
the Republican party of the North
enough to secure states, that with
the solid South, would insure Mr.
Cleveland's election, or to throw
the result into the house for its
decision, which would lie emphati-
lcally favorable to a Democratic
president of the United States in
the person of Mr. Cleveland.
Isl it not evident to every gentle
men who has left the Republican
party and joined the Independents,
that u vote cast for that party, is
simply and only IN the interest of
the Democratic party? Can you
afford to continue to cast your vote
against the Republican party with
the probable result staring you in
the face? Your knowledge of the
history of the country, will certain
ly convince you, thas of the two
old parties, the Republican is the
only one that is in line with your
principles, and your political
thought. 1t favors the increase of
our circulating medium, and has
provided by law, for that increase
to the extent of sixty-five millions
a year, and is favorable to free
coinage to the extent of the entire
output of the American mines
The Republican party's position on
the tariff question, its Mckinley
law with its reciprocity features,
has increased, not only the output
of American manufactured goods.
but has increased the wages of the
laforer, artisans and mechanics.
an average of 36 per cent. IN every
branch of industry in the nation
since the enactment of the McKin
ley law. and this is one of the very
things for which the Independent
party clam to be contending? Ii
seems to us that the question for
you to decide, is, which do | pre-
fer, a Democrat or a Republican
president. The report Of commits
sioner Peck, of New York, OH the
operation of the law, showing an
increase of t~hirty-one millions in
the output Of manufactures in thai
state for one yeaI from the time the
law became operative, and an in
crease to the wage earDers of the
state Of six millions in the same
time, is indisputable evidence that
Republican legislation has been for
the best good of all classes of work
men, of increase IN the demand for
for farm products, and hence "a ben
eft to every American citizen
throughout the length and breadth
of the land,
We ask you, therefore, in all
candor, to give this question your
earnest consideration, feeling as
sured that if you do, that you will
come to the conclusion the Repub
bean party comes nearest the PEG.
| pie as a whole, and is worthy of
your undivided support at the COM
ing election.
The southern states have, in the
two instances cited above, indicated
TO you what will be their action at
he November election. They have
stoned and rotten egged your can
Iidate for president, and In the
most contemptuous hammer signi-
led their hatred of your political
principles and position, Is it wise,
then, for you to cast your BALLOTS
in a way that indirectly gives sup
port to such pnw%arranted political
iatolleIance-to men who do not
favor and will not permit freedom
of speech in their midst, who