The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-10-05
MISSOURI POLITICS.
HOW THE PEOPLE VIEW THE WORK
OF CONGRESS.

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Party Denounced as Incompetent-sugar
Taxed and Diamonds Free.
The following article is taken from
the Henry County Republican of Aug.
so and is worthy of q 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 In its application. having
special reference to Mr.. dc Armond of
Missouri, the same language may be ap.
piled to tho whole Democratic party, as
the sentiment expressed is fifty applied
to all:
Our people are invited to turn out
and welcome the gentleman who in 1892
asked them for their votes and conf
dence. pledging In return 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 a
man who belongs to congress which
Harper's Weekly, the great Cleveland
organ, says "is 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 parry
that promised you such good times IL
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 SO to 40
! cents bushel for it, hitch your team
and Join the procession that will es-
cort Mr.. do Armond to hall to receive
your thanks for the good times Demoo-
racy has brought you. Hurrah, and
hurrah loud, for De Almond, the Demo-
cratic party and 81. 40 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 plunder
and destroy without fear Of government
interference.
Come out, people Bring your wives
and daughters to welcome the man who
voted to put direct tax of 10 oents
upon every man. woman and child in
the nation, and who helped, according
to Democratic authority, to give for
tune of $40, 600, 900 one In year to the
Sugar trust.
Come along, woolgrowers, and shout
a welcome to your representative. who
voted protection to the collars aud
cuffs of New York, to tho orange grow
ers of Florida, to the rice planters Of
Louisiana Florida and South Carolina.
but who forgot the 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 the 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 party
which would reduce the condition Of
your families to that of the pauper Ia.
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Fall in, old soldiersl Fall in and
| keep step i'll q procession that rejoioes
at the return of congressman who
voted to reduce the appropriations for
pensions and TO increase the appropria-
tions for everything else Join in sa-
Lutte to the man who night after night
during the year congress has been in
| session has been absent and helped
break a quorum for the consideration of
the claims of your comrades, Fall in
and applaud the return of tho great
economist, who believes in the return
OF millions of dollars of pension money
to the United States treasury, while
almost half million claims aro wait.
ing hearing.
Come out on Saturday and see our
congressman who voted for the Sugar
trust tariff bill which President Cleye-
land was ashamed to sign, which ho
declared was filled with Outrageous
discrimination, party pertidy and dis
honor" which tho St Louis Republic
says was "a sell, snide. sham, a
humbug, thing to be dcspised and
kicked, p" which j. q, Tarsney Of Kan.
sas City, a good Democratic congress.
man, said "it would be personal dis
honor to vote for, e" which Senator Mills
of Texas says docs not reflect the senti.
ments of 1000 people i'll the United
States Turn out and cheer for tho
man who voted to tax sugar and FREQ
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 tho 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 tho pottories Of
New Jersey and the cotton mills of
Massachusetts.
Come out and dc homage to the repre-.
sentative Of party that has added $780,.
600, 900 to the debt Of the nation; that
with 100 majority in congress had to
adopt Car Reeds rules before thay
could transact business, Como and see
ouo og tho mo quarim" statesmen who
draw "a dag tos months while doing
nothing Shout load for the member of
a party that by its incompetency has
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