Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-10-27
ANOTHER DESERTION.
Eli Perkins Goes Back on the Re-
publicans.
He and McVeagh and Gresham and Co,
are Against Harrison.

Perkins read the following letter:
Thomas H. Carter, Chairman Republic
can Committee:
Dear Sir-Below give the reason
why Wayne McVeagh, Judge Gresham
Governor j. d. Cox and desert Ha. ri
son and protection and come out fol-
noble Grover Cleveland and free trade
We are against Harrison because he
is an honest Christian because he is
for temperance, and for twenty years
has been Christian vestryman, and
twice daybows down in family prayer.
| We are against Harrison because he
drew his sword for the Republic in 81,
while noble Grover Cleveland bravely
staid at home and hired substitute,
and paid him with the money earned
by hanging criminals.
We are down ON Harrison because he
did not desert the Nation, as did the
noble Democratic party, with secession
in the Senate, theft in the War Depart
ment, bankruptcy in the Treasury and
treason in the field.
| We are Democrat.
| We are against Harrison and the Re-
publican party because they freed four
million slaves in '63; because they
made them citizens and gave them the
right to vote for the nation for which
they fought, and because if these infa-
nous Republicans were once in power
they d honestly count these freedmen g
votes and stop noble Democrat from
holding by fraud the Presidential Of
flee.
We are a Democrat.
We are opposed to Harrison and pro-
lection because the English aristocracy
hate them worse than they hate an
Irish patriot, and because if Harrison
remains our President he will watch
the tariff and see that it protects our
workingmen.
We are Democrat.
| We are down on the Republican par.
ty for saving the Republic when seven
teen Democratic States trod down our
flag; down on the Republican party
for slaughtering 100, 900 free trade reb-
ell Democrats, and down on Lincoln,
Grant and Garfield-yes, and Logan,
Hale, Conkling-for making England
give up Mason and Slidell, spit on that
rebel flag, and reverently cheer the
stars and stripes.
We are Democrat.
| We are down ON Harrison because he
killed Mills English tariff bill for low,
ering wages of our Northern workmen
down on him because he says he will
keep the Chinese out, and hold back
Ignorant paupers coming in to oust our
high priced workmen of the North.
We are down on Harrison because he
will keep such copperheads as Thur
man, Ad Stevenson and Daniel voorhees,
out; because we love those noble Dem
ocrats who. when we were soldering,
cursed old Abe Lincoln and stabbed us
in the back.
We are Democrat.
We are for Cleveland and free trade
because all our ex- -secessionists are fol
them because with free trade our mills
stop and starving European workmen
will make again our silk and tin, un
less our Yankee workmen work, like
them, for pauper pay.
We are for Cleveland because he
kicked the Yankee soldiers, vetoed 6O(
pension bills and sent the crippled vet
erans back to starve or fill the pool
house, and down on Harrison because
he would not turn his back on legless
comrades with arms shot off while hold
up the stars and stripes.
We are a Democrat.
We are for Cleveland because Eng
land wants him, and because he favorl
great English industries by breaking
down American manufactures; because
he wants the Yankee workmen to live
on English pay, and because he wants
the free trade South to ship direct from
England and kill our Yankee workmer
in the North.
We are for Cleveland and free trad,
because every rebel who shot into oul
flag is for them. am a Democrat fol
free trade and against the Yanke,
workingman because jeff Davis was
and SO are Beauregard and every ole
slave driver of the South.
We are Democrat.
Yes, we are down on Harrison be
cause he wants our honest silver dollar
good as gold, and because he makes III
pay high wages here at home, when W,
could buy SO cheap from starving pau
pers on the other side.
We love Grover Cleveland because hi
weeps and cries Reform the ballot,
then squelches million freemen 3 bal
lots in the South, but l am down OF
Harrison because he wants every Unior
loving freeman, black or white, to cas-
his honest vote, when he knows so wei
an honest count will break the Demo
cratic South and stop another Presi
| dent by fraud.
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