The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-10-21
FARMERS DISCOVERY
THEY LOOK UPON THE PEOPLES
PARTY AS ASSISTANT DEMOCRATS.
Unwilling to Vote with the Third Party
When Such Vote Will Help Put Cleve-
land in the White House-Bitter Recol-
Iections of Sparks War on II ON esteaders

When Such a Vote Will Help Put Cleve-
Iections of Sparks War on Homesteaders
Especial Correspondence
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.-The assistant
Democratic party, called by courtesy
the Peoples party, is finding its efforts
to capture Republican votes in the west
and northwest far from success. 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-
icans are beginning to see that the
Democrats are merely making cats
paw of them by secretly pushing the
third party movement among them.
They find, not only that every Alliance
man in congress WAS an assistant Demo
crat, but that vote for Alliance candi-
dates means vote to put Grover Cleve-
land in the White House and the Demo
Gratis in control of the house and senate.
The Third Party Merely a Democratic
Assistant.
They are seeing 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 man
much more hostile to silver coinage than
is Mr.. Harrison; man much more hos
tile to the old soldiers who saved the
country quarter of century ago;
man more hostile to reciprocity, which
has opened new markets for our farm
products to the extent of many millions
during the past year; a man absolutely
hostile to the protective system under
which the wonderful prosperity of the
past two years has been brought about;
man and party pledged to the re-
establishment of wildcat currency I'M
der which the farmers suffered losses
amounting to millions Of dollars, and
man under whose former administration
and by whose consent thousands upon
thousands of honest homesteaders were
branded as dishonest and their homes
taken from them by unjust and arbi-
trary methods.
Farmers Getting Onto" the Democratic
Scheme.
All this the Democrats are scheming
to bring about through the operations of
the assistant Democrats-th 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 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
an success, and thereby increasing the
prospect of return to power Of the man
whose administration at single blow
attacked the title to over 10000 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 Recollections of the Cleveland
Administration.
They are contrasting the experience
during the past three years with those
of the four years under the Cleveland
administration. They remember with
bitterness how Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tration of the land Office by arbitrary
and outrageously 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 sim
gle order suspended all entries of public
lands in 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
1900 or 5000 month, while under the
present administration they have been
issued at the rate Of over 10000 per
month.
They Don't Want Their Homes Again
Endangered.
These people, who remember the anx-
iety and sufferings of those long years
when the titles to their homes were be-
ing unjustly attacked and rendered
valueless for at least present use, are
not willing to return to that condition
of affairs. And they are recognizing
the fact that vote with the Peoples
party is merely an indirect vote to put
Grover Cleveland again in the White
House and his methods of obstruction
again in control of thousands-yes, hun
dreds of thousands-of homes. And they
are not willing to do it.
Assistant Democrats Always.
They have been studying the record
of the representatives of the assistant
Democratic party-the Peoples party
in congress-and find that they have in