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Farmers' Discovery

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
October
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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Unwilling to Vote with the Third Party When Such a Vote Will Help Put Cleveland in the White Honse - Ritter KnnlIectlonsof Sparks' War on Hoinesteaders ISpecial Correspondence.l Chicago. Sept. 26.- The assistant !mocratic party, ealled by courtesy the People's party, is finding its efïorts to capture Republican votes in the west and northwest far trom a success. Word comes from all the western states where the Democrats are attempting to wink the Republican voters by getting them to vote for the third party ticket, that the effort is proving unsuccessful. Those who have heretofore been Republicans are beginning to see that the Demócrata are merely making a cat'spaw of them by secretly pushing the third party movement among them. They find, not only that every Alliance man in congress was an assistant Democrat, bnt that a vote for Alliance candidates means a vote to put Grover Cleveland in the White House and the Democrats in control of the house and senate. The Third Party Merely a Democratie Assistant. They are seeing that the third party cannot expeot to accomplish anything more in the election than to weaken th Republicana and strengthen the Democrats. They see that if the third part carries any of the western states f or ii electoral ticket it will merely take tha many votes away from the República candidate and not improve the situation in the slightest degree. They are beginning to realize that by casting their votes for third party electors they will help put into the White House a man much more hostile to sil ver coinage than is Mr. Harrison; a man much more hostile to the old soldiers who saved the country a quarter of a century ago; a man more hostile to reciprocity, which has opened new markets for our farm producís to the extent of many millions during the past year; a man absolutely hostile to the protective system under which the wonderful prosperity of the past two years has been brought about; a man and a party pledged to the reestablishment of a wildcat currency under which the farmers suffered loases amounting to millions of dollars, and a man under whose f ormer administration and by whose consent thousands upon thousands of honest homesteaders were branded as dishonest and their homes taken trom them by unjust and arbitrary methods. Farmers "Gettlng Onto" the Democrati Scheuie. All this the Democrats are scheming to bring about through the operations o the assistant Demoorats- the People' party. And the farmers of the north west are beginning to get thoroughl} "onto'' this feature of the situation They are thoroughly understanding the jame which the Democrats are attemptng to play. They see clearly that there s no ghost of a show for the election of ;he oandidate of the People's party, and that by voting for their electors they are simply redncing the chances of Repulican success, and thereby increasing the Drospect of a return to power of the man whose administration at a single blow attacked the title to over 40,000 homes and went out of office leaving literally hundreds of thousands of honest homesteaders unable to complete the title to the homes they had been struggling for years to make their own. Bitter Recullections of the Cleveland Adminisi rat ion. They are contrasting the experience during the past three years with those of the f our years under the Clevelanc adniinistration. They remeiaber with bitterness how Mr. Cleveland's adminisration of the land office by arbitrary and outrageously unjust methods destroyed the titles to thousands of homes which had been fairly and bonestly earned by homesteaders. They remeniber that Cominissioner Sparks in a single order suspended all entries of public lands in Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Washington, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada and Minnesota, throwing theiu all into the "fraud división," even where they had already been "proved up" for paten ts before the ofiicers of the land office. This single order affected more than 40,000 homes, and during the entire period of the Cleveland administration titles for homesteads and pre-einption titles were doled out at the rate of only 2,000 or 3,000 a month, while under the present administration they have been issued at the rate of over 10,000 per month. They Don't Want Thelr Homes Agaln Endangered. These people, who remember the anxiety and sufferings of those long years when the titles to their homes were being unjustly attacked and rendered valueless for at least present use, nre uot willing to return to that condition of affairs. And they are recognizing the fact that a vote with the People's party is merely an indirect vote to put Grover Cleveland again in the White House and his methods of obstruction again in control of thousands- yes, hundreds of thousands - of homes. And they are not willing to do it. Assistent Democruts Always. They have been studying the record of the representatives of the assistant Democratie party - the People's party in congress- and find that they have in every instance co-operated with the Democrats, and that by electing People's party congressmen or electors they are simply strengthening the hands of the Democracy and paving the way to another attack upon the titles to hundreds of thousands of homes through the northwest.

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