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But that salary grab, the action of our Legislature last 

 winter, of the Republican Legislature of Indiana upon 

 this matter last winter, and that of the Iowa Legisla- 

 ture, which snubbed the Grangers, have convinced me 

 that there is no redress for us inside any party organi- 

 zation except our own. I have been voted that is the 

 word ever since I was twenty-one, and now I am 

 going to vote ; that is the difference. I have been led 

 up to the polls all these years like cattle, and have been 

 voted. Now, in God's name, let us go to voting. When 

 you do that you will make the ' fur fly/ When you 

 decide that you will do that, you will see more than 

 one fellow around with hayseed in his hair and in his 

 clothes. My advice is simply this ; to vote as farmers. 

 Did you ever stop to think that you had three-fifths and 

 a fraction over of all the votes in this State ? Yet, with 

 all that numerical superiority, what have you done in 

 electing men to office to protect your interests ? Think 

 what power you have. Is it any wonder that these fel- 

 lows are ready to bow right down to us when they think 

 of the power we hold as voters ? Is it any wonder that 

 they are willing to concede to us a great many things and 

 a great many rights they have always denied us hereto- 

 fore ? As for myself, so help me heaven, no man who 

 has once betrayed my trust, no man who took that 

 salary steal, from the President down to the lowest of 

 them, will ever get my vote for any office whatever, 

 not even for postmaster; and I say, as I did on the 

 Fourth of July, that if any one of these men is ever 

 elected again outside of certain large cities, it will be 

 agricultural votes that will elect him. And I said, and, 

 repeat the expression, that if they are thus elected you 

 deserve to go right in and work thirty months to pay 



