The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-10-05
MISSOURI POLITICS.
HOW THE PEOPLE VIEW THE WORK
OF CONGRESS.


dood Times Promised In 1892 Are Con-
spicuous by Their Acknowledgements
Party Denounced as Incompetent-SugSr
Taxed and Diamonds Free.
The following article is taken from
the Henry County Republican of Aug.
30 and is worthy of careful perusal by
all honest thinking people, as it pre-
sents the true phase of the political sit
uation so far as the pending issues are
concerned.
While local i'll its application, having
special reference to Mr.. de Almond of
Missouri, the same language may be ap-
piled to the whole Democratic party, as
the sentiment expressed is fifty applied
to all:
Our people arc invited to turn out
and welcome the gentleman who in 1892
asked them for their votes and conf
dence, pledging in return q radical
change in the management Of national
affairs, an increase Of prosperity, an
honest government and free trade. Mr..
de Almond has kept his word in one
particular at least. A change has been
made. A wonderful change has taken
place in financial matters, in business
affairs, in the price which our farmers
receive for their products and in the
prosperity of the nation.
The good citizens of Henry county are
to meet and welcome the return Of q
man who belongs to q congress which
Harper's Weekly, the great Cleveland
organ, says sis the first congress ever
known in the history Of our nation
which an insolent, audacious, confessed
ly corrupt monopoly has succeeded in
debating to and which has passed laws
directly in the interest of thieving
trust.
Come in, farmers of Henry county,
and welcome member of the party
that promised you such good times if
you would support it. Thank him for
the price of horses and all kinds Of live
stock. Thank him for the year of DEM
ocratic administration just passed. Re-
member the days of last fall and winter
when your bankers sat trembling in
their banks for fear of destruction,
when money was all locked up, could
not be had, and gilt edged paper was
valueless, and thank him for it, Bring
in your wheat to the mill, get 80 to 40
cents bushel for it, hitch your team
and join the procession that will es-
cort Mr.. do Almond to hall to receive
your thanks for the good times Democ-
racy has brought you. Hurrah, and
hurrah loud, for De Almond, the Demo-
cratic party and $1.25 wheat.
Turn out, Jeffersonian Democrats and
welcome the statesman who, in order to
secure popularity, endeavored to destroy
the courts your fathers in their wisdom
established, and who would have made
it possible for dishonest men to plumber
and destroy without fear of government
interference.
Come out, people, Bring your wives
and daughters to welcome the man who
voted to put d direct tax of 70 cents
upon every man, woman and child in
the nation, and who helped, according
to Democratic authority, to give q for
tune of $40, 600, 900 one in year to the
Sugar trust.
Come along, woolgrowers, and shout
welcome to your representative, who
voted protection to the collars and
cuffs Of New York, to the orange grow
ers of Florida, to the rice planters Of
Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina,
but who forgot tho woolgrowers of his
own district and left them to compete
with the free sheep pastures of Australia
and South America.
Come out of your mines, you sturdy
hardworking miners of Henry county,
and see in tho broad light of day the
man who voted to open Canadian coal
mines and thereby reduce the already
small wages which you earn by the
hardest kind of labor. Walk up and
welcome the representative of o party
which would reduce the condition Of
your families to that of the pauper Ia
borers Of England.
Fall in, old soldiersl Fall in and
keep step in q procession that rejoices
ut the return Of congressman who
voted to reduce the appropriations for
pensions and to increase the appropria-
lions for everything else. Join in sa-
lutte to tho man who night after night
during tho year congress has been in
session has been absent and helped
break quorum for the consideration of
the claims of your comrades. Fall in
and applaud the return of the great
economist. who believes in the return
of millions of dollars of pension money
to the United States treasury, while
almost half million claims are wait.
ing hearing.
Come out ON Saturday and see our
congressman who voted for the Sugar
trust tariff bill which President Cleve-
land was ashamed to sign, which he
declared was filled with Outrageous
discrimination, party perfidy and dis
honor" which the St Louis Republic
says was "a sell, a snide, q sham, O
humbug, thing to be despised and
kicked" which ]. G. Tarsney Of Kan