The Plumed Knight (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 16, 1884 Page: 3 of 4
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POLITICAL SQUIBS.
Ci.KVK.A.M ha too much of his brains
under his chin.
The I'lcmku Knkiiit will soon get Its
vlser down nnd Its lance In rent. lie pa-
tient friends.
The tremendous task of writing Cleve-
land Into greatness Is now heforo the
Democrat lo newspapers.
Dick IIl'rrai.d would make n Letter
man In Cleveland's place; that Is Dick
has still more brains under his chin.
Monky Is the root of all evil. Free
'trade will take all the money out of the
country henco the Democrats are re-
formers. To jtxicr. signers to the Cleveland
club It was distinctly understood that
It would not cost anything.
AccoiioiNO to the last phase of the
Cleveland soundal Orover would be a
handy fellow to have around.
The only difference In our local Denio-
rruoy Is that the party Is running the
machine and the clique Isn't.
Muhat Halstkad Whltelsw Jteld and
others will start a campaign paper In
New York to be sold at a cent.
It is evident that'some of the gentle-
men who signed the call for a Cleveland
and Hendricks meeting thought It was
a petition for the pardon of some fence
cutter.
Wouldn't our national all'alrs be In a
nloe condition If they met with the kind
of reform the Democruoy has dished out
to the county of Jlexar for the past few
years.
"Wk want a change" says the Demo-
cracy. All right; vote for Maine and
Logan. It will give you a change such
as you have not had since the war.
Tin New York Democratic State
committee have Issued their first cam-
paign document; It consists of a one-
sided view of Cleveland's career not a
word about Ilendrlck's. .
There Is some danger of Cleveland I
withdrawing. If Tllden should refuse
to write his letter of acceptance for him
it Is thought that he will baok out and
Ilutler and Hendricks will make the
race.
At Aliiakv on the fth Instant at the
French-Canadian convention the at-
tempt to Introduce a resolution endors-
ing Cleveland raised a perfect storm of
Indignation. No Frenchman enn stom-
ach Cleveland.
Ik the people of the Tenth district by
their votes elect the Democratic nom-
inee for Congress then they are not en-
titled to any consideration at the bands
of a ltepubllcan Congress n hen they ask
for protection for wool.
The irreat Interests Involved In pro-
tection may turn upon a slnglo vote In
Congress. The Tenth and kindred con-
gressional districts must send men to
Congress who will stand squarely with
the Itepubllcani
Like Cleveland our local Dcmocraoy
hasn't got n reputation equal to Cn iar's
wife but then you know they are for
free trade and the glorious principles of
the British cheap labor party.
I'liorucTioN has cheapened every ar-
ticle of use because of the competition
produced by home Industry. Freo trade
would kill home Industries and then (no
foreign monopolists would put up the
price of every article of manufacture.
Oin country Is still In Its Infancy so
far as manufactories are concerned and
the attempt to destroy American labor
by placing It In competition with the
klng-rftlden cheap labor of Europe is an
error the Anerlcan people will certainly
not commit.
There Is still hope for the Democracy-
No sooner than the Republicans rise ip
In their might and form a Blaine and
Logan club and plank down money to
pay expenses the Democrats pass
around a call for a meeting to form a
Cleveland club.
Manv of our old Bourbons are at heart
desirous that the country should con-
tinue under ltepubllcan rule and they
feel that their voting for the Democratic
candidates Is a harmless amusement; at
the same time they are enabled to keep
up a show of consistency after a long
life of political cusiedness.
Did our people stop to think for a mo-
ment over the consequences of the Gov-
ernment being turned oyer to the con-
trol of the Democratic party there Is
not a patrlotlo man even In the ranks of
the Democracy but would cast his vote
against Cleveland and Hendricks.
A t ciiscniuitR to the I. K. writes us a
letter and thus sums up the Independ-
ents: "George William Curtis after ad-
mitting himself In honor bound to abide
by the action of the convention without
a pledge had damned himself forever by
bolting. Ileecher has been darned ever
since the "nest hiding" all'alr. Every-
body In turn has damned Schurz and
Codman Isn't worth damning."
Tur. election of Cleveland nnd Hen-
dricks would mean to our city almost
Its financial ruin. It would mean the
crowding out of our trade and com-
merce. Let the list of the signers tothe
Democratic club be preserved. When
the oyerwhelmlng defeat of the Demo-
cracy In November has beeri accom-
plished by the patriotic majority of the
American people then let this list be
republished so that the laboring men
tho friends of American Industry the
Republicans of San Antonio can put
them down where they belong.
The production of our grass region
beef and wool have been the greatest
factors of our wealth and prosperity.
The wool Interest was brought to the
verge of destruction by tariff reduction.
The ltepubllcan party has pledged Itself -to
restoro the tariff of 1807. It Is tho
interest of every citizen of Texas to give
his support to the Republican party nnd
particularly Is It Important to elect Re-
publicans or friends of protection to
Congress. It only lacked a half dozen
votes to restore the tariff of 107 In the
last Congress.
" Aa Big; as It Ever Was"
In his powerful speech recently In
New York Mr. Evarts did not discuss
the tariff Issue at length hut what he
did say was to the point. There Is a
volume of meaning to Americans In
the following words:
"And then the tarirfls Just as big ns It
ever was. It Is nothing but American
Independence and American labor ac-
corded with the dignity that belongs to
citizenship. That Is the doctrine and If
you would ask the British Parliament to
Bass laws for us as they did In old King
eorge's time they would pass Demo-
cratic tariffs and not the Republican
and If the Crown bad the appointment
of the President for four years as In old
King George's time they had or our
Governors rely upon It they would not
appoint James G. Illalne."
The Democratlo party w 111 find out be-
fore election day that the tarilfquestlon
Is as big as It ever was and moreover
that no amount of platform wriggling
on the part ot the free trade party will
obscure this question from the Ainerloan
people. The manufacturing Interests of
the United States represent an annual
product of nearly $0000000000. With
those engaged in transportation and
wool growing they represent 65000000
of the population engaged In gainful oc-
cupations. By Its National platform the
Republican party Is pledged In r.o hesi-
tating terms to protect these Interests.
These Interests are "tho barometers
which Indicate general prosperity."
When they prosper the whole country Is
prosperous; when they progress by
leaps and bounds the whole country
progresses; the prosperity of the farmer
the tradesman the professional man is
bound up In the prosperity of the great
Interests protected by a policy that has
encouraged the vast and varied indus-
tries of America and "protects the
American worklngman from competi-
tion with any form of servile or contract
labor either from Europe or Asia."
Horatio Kin In making his report to
Henry Ward Ileecher of the Cleveland
scandal Bald: "I have Investigated for
myself. He Is. n pure man. I was going
to Bay that he was as pnro as yourself."
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