Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1894-12-27
MISSOURI POLITICS.
HOW THE PEOPLE VIEW THE WORK
OF CONGRESS.

aood Times Promised In 1897 Are Con-
s~picuous by Their Ab~ence-Demoerstic
Party Denounced ~ Incompetent-sugsr
Taxed and amond Free
The following article is taken from
the Henry County Republican of Aug.
30 and is worthy Of a careful perusal by
all honest thinking people, as it pre-
sen:s the true phase of the political sit
nation so far as the pending issues are
concerned.
While local in its application, having
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
tn all:
Our people are invited to turn out
and welcome the gentleman who in 1892
asked them for their votes and conf
den,e, pledging in return a radical
change in the management of national
u~;f,irs, an increase of prosperity, an
honest government and free trade. Mr..
"a Almond has kept his word in n
pau ticular at least. A change has been
ma lie. 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
MAJ who belongs to a congress which
IIarper's Weekly, the great Cleveland
organ, says lis 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 a thieving
trust"
Come in. farmers of Henry county,
and welcome q 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
ocratio 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 a bushel for it, hitch your team
and join the procession that will es-
cort MI. de Almond to a 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.
urn out, Jeffersonian Democrats n
welcome the statesman who, in order to
eur 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 a direct tax of 20 cents
upon every man, woman and child in
the nation, and who helped, according
to Democratic authority, to give a for
tune of $40. 600, 900 one in year to the
Sugar trust.
Come along, woolgrowers, and shout
O 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 the w~oolgrowers of his
own district and left them to compete
with the free sheep pastures of Australia
aud South America
Come out Of your mines, you sturdy
hardworking miners Of Henry county,
and see In the broad light of day the
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mines and thereby reduce h already
small wages which you earn by the
hardest kind of labor. Walk up and
welcome the representative of a party
which would reduce the condition of
your families to that of the pauper Ia
borers of England.
Fall in, old soldiersi Fall in and
keep step in a procession that rejoices
ut the return of q congressman who
voted to reduce the appropriations for
pensions and to increase the a%ppropria-
tions for everything else. Join in q sa-
lutte to the man who night after night
during the year congress has been in
session has been absent and helped
break o 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 q half million claims are wait
ing q 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 filed with Outrageous
discrimination. party perfidy and dis
honor" which the st. Louis Republic
says was "a sell, a snide, q sham, a
humbug. a thing to be despised and
kicked" which j. C. Tarsney of Kan
sas City, a good Democratic congress-
man, said cit would be a personal dis
honor to vote for. which Senator Mills
of Texas says docs not reflect the senti-
ments Of 1000 people in the United
States" Turn out and cheer for the
man who voted to tax sugar and free
diamonds; that reduced protection on
pottery and increased it on collars and
cuffs. Welcome the man who voted for
. tariff that causes Canadians to rejoice,
that starts the idle tin works Of Wales,
that puts new life into the factories of
England, while it reduces the wages of
Pittsburg glass workers 80 cents on
every dollar; that closes the potteries Of
New Jersey and the cotton mills of
Massachusetts.
Come out and do homage to the repre-
sentative of a party that has added $780,
900. 900 to the debt of the nation; that
with 100 majority in congress had to
adopt Gar Reeds rules before they
could transact business. Come and see
one Of the mo quorum" statesmen who
Ga q day for months while doing
nothing. Shout loud for the member Of
party that by its incompetency has
caused q loss to the country greater