Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — RGAHIZING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

RGAHIZING FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

■eetL-C of the I>«n<H'ruUe ■ Campaign Committee. ■ (Washington Telegram.] ■ The Democratic Congressional Cam■tign Committee met at the Arlington Hotel, in this city, and organized for He coming campaign. Senator PendleHs, Chairman of the Democratic joint Hocus, presided, and Representative Host, Secretary of the joint caucus, acted ■ Secretary of the meeting. Thirty Hates and lour Territories are repreHnted on the Campaign Committee, Htese being the States und Territories Hhioh send a Democratic Senator or' Representative to Congress. ThirtyHne members were present. The folHvring Executive Committee was seOn the part of the Senate, Henators Garland, Kenna, and GorHan; on the part of the House, Repre■mtatives Paige, Roeecrans, StocksHger, Stevens, and Murphy. It was Hjoided that this Executive Committee Hiould be empowered to select memHsrs for the Campaign Committee for Ke States and Territories not repreHmted either in the Senate or House by ■ Democrat. These States and TerritoHes are Colorado, Kansas, Maine, MinNebraska, New Hampshire, Hhode Island, and Vermont, and Hakota, Idaho, New Mexico, and Washington. No other business was ■ ansacted by the Campaign Committee. ■ The Executive Committee met on the Hljournment of the Campaign Commit- ■ e.'and organized by electing Senator Horman Chairman, and Representative Host Secretary. Senator Kenna and Representatives Stevens and Stock- ■ Ager were appointed a sub-committee Ha finance, and Senator Garland and Representatives Murphy and Paige a Hib-committee on campaign documents, Hie Chairman being an ex-officio memHer of both sub-committees. The comHdttee had an informal talk over the Hrrangements to be made for the camKugn, but did not enter into a discusHon of the question of party policy. Hevenue-reform Democrats appear to He in the minority on the Executive Hommittee. Senator Gorman and Senior Kenna are both “ tariff” Democrats, Hi are Representatives Paige and StevRks. Representatives Stockslager and Hlurphy were Carlisle men, and with Henatm- Garland represent the tariffHiform element on the committee. Representative Roseci ans voted for ■ar lisle for Speaker, but is an “inciHental Protectionist,® and indorses the Hhio tariff platform. The Secretary of Hue committee is a “tariff" Democrat, ■i the main the committee is composed ■ the younger element of the party, ■he following is a full list of the Cam* Haign Committee as at present organ■Alabatna—H. A. Herbert. ■ Arkansas —-A. H. Garland. ■California —W. S Roseorans. ■Connecticut—W. W. Eato.n. ■ Delaw-iro—o. B. Loro. ■Georgia—A.'Hi Colquitt. ■ Illinois —R. W. Townshend. ■ lowa—J.„H. Murrey. ■Kentucky— James E. Clay. RLou.slana —N. C. Bla iohard. ■Maryland—A. P. Gorman. ■Massachusetts —H. F. Loverin™. ■Michigan— X. B. Eldredge. ■Mississippi—H. L. Muldrow. ■Missouri—A. M. Tockery. • ■Neva la— W. Cas.-Idy. ■New Jersey—W. H. Fiedler. ■New- York—R. P. Sevens. ■North Carolina—Cloa.eat Dowd. ■Ohio —D. K. Paige. ■Oregon—J. H. Slater. —William Mutchler. ■Booth Carolina— Samuel Dibble. ■Tennessee—l. G. Harris. Rfexas—R. 0. Mills. —John S. Barbour. Virginia—John E. Kenna. P. V. Beuster. IRflorida —R. H. M. Davison, —G. H. Oury. I^Hontana —M. Magiunis. —M. E. Post. J. F. Caine.

|Mbor and Capital Suffer Together Under Bepublicanism. Mfa have endeavored to show in a Mrmer issue that the united system of |M>or caused by the overthrow of the Mbtitution of slavery, together with unfree trade between the States Kd Territories of the United States, |Mrald necessarily distribute our manuMcturing industries over a much greatM extent of our territory than heretoMre, and that the manufacturing Mnters of many of those industries, Mid notably that of iron and the Mieaper qualities of cotton, would shift ■om their present localities into those Mcalities where the raw material used Mr them was cheaper and more aceessi■e, and that manufacturing, like farmMg, would flourish most where the Mreatest results could be obtained at the Mast cost. It seems plain to us that as Mese changes take place the tendency M prices will be downward until the M>int was reached where our chief prodMts of manufacture, like our, farm Moducts at the present time, will be Mile to enter the foreign markets in Mmpef ition with the world. The neMssitv of finding an outlet for dur surplus products of manufacture Mverely felt The ■irbance in our labor centers ■(suiting from overproduction and the ■(suits of suspending until the surplus ■m be disposed of, is one of the crying Mils of the day, and thousands of la■irers are now out of employment, ■waiting the time when the home con■unption shall take up the surplus so ■iat they may have work to do, but if ■iat surplus had the world for a market lien it would be seldom, if ever, that Mere wduld be an overproduction. I nder the present condition of things loth capital and labor are sufferers, ■at when manufacturing and farming ■re carried on under the same condi■ons, and the same favors and no more ■(tended to each, then the industrial ■iterests of the whole country will move ■i apace and in harmony. It is nataM 1 for the present manufacturing cen■tfe tp hold on to the monopoly they ■ave heretofore enjoyed as long as pos■ble. and the higli tariffs of the last ■venty years have enabled them to do M up to the pnsmt tiire, but at a great list to the consumer. While capital ■as timid about entering the new fields M the West and South, a high tariff ■mid keep out foreign competition, and ■ins Johnstown could continue to freight ■on ore from the Iron Mountains M Miraouri and from Lake Supericr to

feed her farnaees, it cost her S2O to make a toh of,pig iron, for it eventually came out of the pocket of the consumer. But when capital produces the same kind of iron, at the point where the ore has to be mined, at a cost of about one-half that sum, and no tariff can be interposed, then Johnstown must set up her furnaces in the iron belt or turn capital to some other kind of industry; and eventually Johnstown will insist that the duty be taken off of pig iron that the industries may obtain the raw material at prices that will enable them to manufacture the higher classes of iron and steel so as to compete with foreign manufactures in the some line. It will require the foreign competition to keep the prices steady. It is time that s nee ths close of the war in many lines of manufactures the tendency of the prices has been downward; but this has been from other causes than the influence of high tariff that have prevailed, and in spite of their existence. It is very certain that the reduction of prices would have been much greater if the rate of “Custom duties” had been less; but the important fact before us at this tjme-is that natural causes will work a cure to the evils under which we have been and still»are suffering in spite of our viciou t system of class legislation, and when that cure has been accomplished the whole country will be prosperous. — Indianapolis Sentinel.