Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-08
Special 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-
rn ere beginning 20 sec tlat 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
Graf, but that 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 Party Merely Democratic
Assistant.
They are seeing that the third party
cannot expect to accomplish anything
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
PIN 20 realize that by casting their
votes for third party electors they will
help pat into the White House a man
much more hostile to silver coinage than
is Mr. Harrison; a man much more hos
tile 90 the old soldiers who saved the
country a quarter of a 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. n man absolutely
hostile to the protective system under
which the wonderful prosperity Of the
past two years has been brought about;
|. man and a party pledged to the re-
establishment Of 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
thousands of honest homesteaders were
branded as dishonest and their homes
taken from them by unjust and arbi-
trary methods.
Farmers Getting Onto" the Democrats
scheme.
d All this the Democrats are schelning
to bring about through the operations of
n the assistant Democrats-the Peoples
n party. And the farmers of the north
west are beginning to get thoroughly
III "onto' this feature of the situation.
M They are thoroughly understanding the
IA game which the Democrats are ATTEMPT
IVA Ing to play. They see clearly that there
NM is no ghost Of a show for the election of
s8S the candidate of the Peoples party, and
8 that by voting for their electors they are
M simply reducing the chances of Reptile
I'D an success, and thereby increasing the
81 prospect oi return to power of the man
81 whose administration at a single blow
81 attacked the title to over 10000 homes
q and went out Of Office leaving literally
H hundreds of thousands Of honest home
# steaders unable to complete the title to
NJ the homes they had been struggling for
All years to make their own.
IN bitter RecoHections of the Cleveland
Administration.
They are contrasting the experience
& during the past three years with those
81 Of the four years under the Cleveland
administration. They remember with
bitterness how Mr.. Cleveland's admins
n tratlon of the land Office by arbitrary
n ana outrageously unjust methods de-
n stroyed the titles to thousands Of homes
N which had been fairly and honestly
ia earned by homesteaders. They remem-
Der that Commissioner Sparks in sin
N gle order suspended all entries Of public |
lands III Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado !
Dakota Idaho, Utah, Washington, New
L @eAco, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada
" and Minnesota, throwing them all into
ii The fraud division" even where they
had already been proved up" for pat /
\ ents before the officers of the land office.
Il Inns single order affected more than
hi 990oJ homes, and during the entire
81 period Of TIE Cleveland administration |
h titles for homesteads and presumption |
niles were dOled out ut the rate Of only |
Nv. or 5000 a month, while under the |
b Present administration they have been
Issued at the rate of over 10000 per
month.
III 'heF Don't Want Their Homes Again /
III Endangered.
Ell l1e-a people, who remember the anx- /
~ and suherings Of those long years I.
h @WAen the titles to their homes were be- |
~ rnJustly attacked and rendered |
'alue.ess for at least present use, are |
-. willing 10 return to that condition |
II rs And they are recognizing /
'as fact that vote with the Peoples |
n any is merely an indirect vote to put |
n Iio'er Cleveland again in the Viii e /
3nse and his methods of obstruction
NJ gam IN control Of thousands-yes, hun
s4s at th0usands-of homes. And they ,
Ill net willing to do it.
Assistant Democrats Always.
-4sy have been studying the record /
ri re- representatives of the assistant /
III cratic party--the Peoples party |
ass-and find that they have in /.
Ett al Al