Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-24

lnto power. Iney began soon atter the Mckinley tariff was enacted, and reached their height when the Sherman silver law touched the vitals of the nation.
 The Republicans, with all enemies Of Democracy and the people, are turning Heaven and earth to again get control of the government to re-enact their odious measures of tyranny and oppression, such as Force bills, high protective tariff, aud Truman H. Aldrch is their candidate in this district. He should be overwhelm- ingly defeated, and will be if every Demo- cfat will do his duty.
 Within eighteen months after it got con- trol of the government the Democratic party repealed the Federal election law, odious to every true Southern man; the Sherman law (which had made silver mere commodity of purchase, sale and speculation), which wise men and party leaders firmly believe to be the first step necessary to the restoration of silver to all the rights and honors it enjoyed before it's demonetization by the Republicans in 1873; passed a bill forfeting to the government thereby opening up for homesteads by the people-48, 1000, 900 acres of public lands, previously granted by the Republican party to railroad corporations, worth S5 per acre, making clear gain to the tax payers of the United States of S240, ,000, 900; by economy and honesty it reduced the ex penses of the government below those of the last Repu blican administration s28,- coo, ,000; dispensed with several hundred useless offices in the departments at Wash ington, thereby reducing the salary list more than S1 1000, ,0O0 annually. It repealed the Mckinley Republican high tariff law, by which the common masses were mercilessly plundered and made to pay tribute of hundreds of millions of dollars every year to the classes-the rich manufacturers, monopolies, combines and trusts of the North and East, by which they were made to pay at least $1, ,00O ,000 bounty money every month in the year to rich sugar planters. Instead of this law the Democratic party passed revenue tariff bill which the wisest men in and greatest leaders of the party declare to be the best for the people, the farmers, laborers, wage- earners, merchants and manufacturers, the country has every had. By this law the incomes of the wealth owners of the country have to pay to the government $25, 1000, GOO to $50 1000, 900 every year, not one dollar of which will come out of the pockets of farmers. ,laborers an working men; by it, playing. cards are taxed and an. additional tax is levied on whisky, to the amount of S23 ,e00, ,ooo per year; by it the tariff on woolen manufactures, clothing, carpets, blankets, etc., is reduced more than $163, ,000, 1000 per year, all of which is saved to the consumers. It placed on the free list 106 items of daily use on the farms and in the workshops and households of the country, which had been highly taxed by the Republican tariff; among them salt, lumber, agricultural implements and wool. The savings on free lumber will be at least $40, 900, coo, on agricultural impis- mente s5o, ,000, GOO. yhile-on the other arti- cles of the 1se list tue saving will be quite as Feat.
 The foregoing facts are beyond success ful contradiction Consider the immense saving of S24o, 1000, 900 on public lands res- cued from railroad corporations. S29, ,000,- 900 saved on the expenses of the govern Inent by Democratic honesty and economy, $25, 1000, ,000 by an income tax, $23, ,000, ,000 by tax on playing cards and whisky, $163, ,000, ,000 on woolen goods, clothes, etc., $40, ,00O, ,OO0 on free lumber, $50, 900 ,0OO on agricultural implements, and at least $90,- 900, ,000 on free wool, salt, cotton ties and bagging, etc. and you have the princely amount of S650, 1000 ,000 saved to the people of the American Union in one year by the Democratic party, it's honesty, patriotism and statesmanship.
 Can any Democrat, or any intelligent, patriotic citizen, be he Democrat or not, hesitate to support the Democratic party, it's principles, legislation and candidates?
 o. w. Underwood is the Democratic can- didate for Congress in this district. He upholds and advocates the work and prin- cipIes of his party. He stands squarely upon it's National platform of 1892, as con- strued by the people in November of that year. He believes in tariff reform in the interests of the people.
 Now, what Is YOUR DUTY in this election, when the enemies of Democracy are assail- ing it from every possible ambush, seeking to undermine the defenses 1t has erected around the people and destroy the work 1t has done for themf Your duty to your- selves, your people and your country is plain. It is WORE, WORK, unceasing WORK for Democratic victory on November 6. Arouse yourselves; talk to your friends and neighbors, especially Jeffsrso- nian Democrats and Populites; tell and show them what Democracy has done for the people in the eighteen months of its power, and get them to vote for Underwood. If you do your duty glorious success will crown your labors on election day. MCKINLEY and his followers often refer to the forefathers as protectionists. Some