Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1895-10-01
!. r. &F. j. MEAD, PUBLISHERS
w. R. MEAD, EDITOR.
Official Paper of County.
Bolter Indites a Philippe.

Bolter Indites Philippe.
Hon. L. r. Bolter, who for man
years was the acknowledged democrati
leader in tho Iowa senate, has writ
ten letter to DR.. j. K. Andrews c
Audubon county in which he not onl
voices his own but the disgust c
thousands upon thousands of othe
Iowa democrats with the course of TIL
national administration and the time
serving, unprincipled action of thu
Marshalltown convention. The lette
is direct, vigorous, and almost bitter
and if the fact were not already SC
widely known as to require no emphas'
is it would prove that Mr.. Bolter thinks
and feels deeply, and that he has ada
mantine convictions and is a Jackson
ian in every fiber. The epistle reads
My dear Sir:-Your patriotic and
thoroughly democratic letter OF yester-
day duly received. There are thous-
ands, and / doubt not tens of thousands
in Iowa that feel just as you express
yourself in your letter. The questions
presented to all of the true Jefferson
ian faith for solution are:
First-Shall we blindly follow the
..mugwump'', Grover Cleveland, into
the John Sherman camp of the very
rankest kind of republicanism and
there be surrendered without terms?
Second-Shall we tamely submit to
the European Rothschilds money pow
er and thereby cowardly surrender all
that our patriotic revolutionary
fathers achieved for us?
Third shall we quietly submit to a
banking syndicate, headed by Roths-
child of London and seconded and aid
ed by Belmont Morgan & Co. being
made virtually the secretary of the
United States treasury?
Fourth-Shall we criminally ac-
quiesce, at a time, too, of profound
peace, to a continued issue of bonds,
which bonds are no more nor less
than chattel mortgages covering not
only all our property, but including
Herewith ourselves, and also our
children and their children now born
or hereafter to be bornp
Fifth-Shall we silently consent to
continue a policy, at the instance of
horde of ''cukoo' Office holders, that
constantly increases the price of the
American dollar, and thereby dimin-
ishes the saleable value OF all property
and labor in like proportion until such
time as the dollar shall become so
dear that taxation shall amount to alb
sOlute confscation?
Sixth and lastly-Shall we as Il peo-
pie, clothed with the power of the
ballot, silently and longer submit to
monetary system that robs industry of
its just reward and constantly depre-
ciates the value of all property, ex-
cept money and interest drawing Sc
curities. that few gold gamblers and
money holders may be made vastly
rich so as to enable their daughters TO
exchange their virtue and pay mil
lions to boot for a kingly title worn by
some European snob, dead-beat, pro.
aigate and fraudp
AS to calling another convention at
1nlsf time, hardly know what TO say.
u Strikes me however that the time
hnsas cot yet arrived. OF course, there
lis virtually no difference between the
socalled democratic platform, adopted
at Marshalltown, and the republican
platform at Des Moines, and therefore
no issue between the socalled demo-
Gratis that succeeded at Marshalltown
and the republicans, no more than
there is now an important issue be-
tween Grover Cleveland and John
Sherman, Calvin Brice and William b.
Allison. But the Iowa "cuckoos'' now
have their inning, and is it not best to
let Thorn get beaten by 10000 to 1OO,-
OOO, as they are sure to be, SO that |
they may know just how popular they
and their theories are? But few of the
true democratic faith in this part of
the state will vote tie ticket. Some
Will not go TO the polls at all. Many
Will vote the straight populist ticket,
while others will vote the republican
ticket, not because they are either
populists or republicans, but because.
they feel Respondent, discouraged and
can not and will not abandon their
long cherished democratic principles
by swallowing bitter republican pill
merely because it is labeled s.demo-
cratic ticket.''
Yes. true democracy has met with
sad misfortune, a reverse, u setback,
but it is not yet dead, nor even is it !
conquered. Even Washington had an
Arnold, Christ a Judas, but their re-
spective causes survived the shock.
and the great democratic party will
long survive a Grover Cleveland and
his little army of craven and fawning
cohorts and cringing sycophants. Re-
member me kindly to the brave and
gallant democrats of Audubon county,
and let me hear from you occasionally.
Respectfully,
l.. r. BOLTER.