Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-19

induce him to indite his special mes
sage calling congress together in spe-
cal session. Cleveland doesn't take
The REPUBLICAN and we never bribed
him with n marked copy.
On August 5, 1893, Grover Cleveland,
the democratic president of the United
States, issued the special call, with the
following preamble:
1.-THE existence of an alarming and extraordi-
nary business situation, involving the welfare
and and prosperity of all our people, has con-
strained me to call together in extra session the
peoples representatives in congress, to the end
that through a wise and patriotic exercise of
the legislative duty with which they solely are
charged, present evils may be mitgated and
dangers threatening the future may be ayerted. "
The business situation was alarm
ing and extraordinary" when Grover
sized it up last August. Mr.. Cleveland
and THE REPUBLICAN agree upon this,
and our harmonious opinion is
without connivance or conspiracy.
And the evidences have accumu-
lated daily, and are still multi
plying in support of Mr.. Cleveland's
assertion.
Now then, after that special session
of congress, called because of the
alarming" business situation, has been
sitting for twelve weeks, is it imperti,
nent to ask: What has it accomplished
in the way of mitigating present evils
and averting threatening dangers"
Mr.. Cleveland said that this was duty
with which they solely were charged
And what have they done? Here is a
chance for our esteemed contemporary
to get in it's work Unless it can dc
this it should preserve discreet and
becoming silence.
A little later in the season, after con-
gress had assembled, the president be.
came more specific, and issued another
message urging the immediate and un'
conditional repeal Of the purchasing
clause of the Sherman silver bill. That
recommendation was the line of demo
cracy, for the platform had denounced
this law as "cowaldly makeshift.'
And again we inquire: What has con
greSs done?
| The most jealous advocate of de
mocracy can only stand and answer
nothing
According to the democratic plat
form of 1899 the present congress wai
elected to repeal the Mckinley bill
which was denounced as fraud, rob
Der, the eliminating atrocity of class
legislation; to repeal that "cowardly
makeshift," the Sherman silver bill; tc
grant liberal pensions, etc, etc.
What have they done? They have
occupied twelve weeks in weary debate
Neither the Mckinley bill or the Sher
man bill has been repealed. The pen
sion department has taken away the
pension granted under republican laws
to worthy veterans. The one con
spicuous act of this congress has beer
to grant to each of it's members a pri
vate secretary at Sl5O0 per year. Mo-
only this but the spirit of uncertainty
and unrest throughout the country has
been increased by the mere threat of The
party to repeal the protective revenu,
laws which effect directly and indirectly
every business interest in the country
This congress is democratic In senate
and house by over hundred majority
and the democratic party must stant
the full responsibility just as much a
though not a single republican had
seat on the floor.
Since the democratic administration
was inaugurated, the wheels of hun
dreds of factories have stopped; hun
dreds of thousands of operatives ar
out Of work; money is so scarce tina
! new projects have been abandoned, an
, men who have money have withheld
investment. Agricultural district
: have been effected because it has bee
4 impossible to borrow money, and thos
: who have to meet obligations are force
y to sell on slump market, resulting
g very large aggregate osqes.
y And by the multiplicity of signs II
/ people know for themselves that Il
times are out of Joint. The "chang,
that came over the country simultan
4 oo.slv with the present administratiC
a was felt by everyone and the cause ar
3 effect are still with us. Without a
y seyeration by The REPUBLICAN,
rs denial by our contemporary these fac
ID are self evident, and the only consol
u ton afforded by the democratic par
u. the author and sponsor for the
he woes-is the declaration of its create
"a New York newspaper that rice is
" cheap and healthy article of food
nt these hard times. If the country Is
O. adhere to its democratic idols, then i
Ut scribe upon its banners "Rice and Del
" oeraey Forever" wear artificial queu
III and hang out our laundry sign to
Is the world; but how much better a.
ne more creditable to honor the name
III Americans by voting in the light
ny past and present experience for repu
e. licanism and thus invite the return
y, rbs days Of prosperity.
vi ~-->ss
ID Two million men out of employmel
ns thrown out of employment duri
~ eight months of the democratic &
" ministratiop, is 2 fearful record to &C
Is template, and sven that rs but I
ng foretaste of dangers threatened. T
lit only consolation is that rice is che