Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Campaign Notes. [ARTICLE]

Campaign Notes.

The Republicans are congratulating themselves that the defection of the “dudes”’ and “pharisees” will be more than offset by accessions from the hoodlum element. The latter certainly seem to have a fellow-feel-ing for Blaine. A Blaine meeting that was called in behalf of the workingmen in Jersey City got more than it bargained for when a horse car conductor arose and said he was for Cleveland, not in spite of, but because of, his vetoes. His veto of the 5-cent bill, he said, would have driven every surface railroad in the city out of business and thrown all the men employed on them out of work. He didn’t think that would help the workingmen much. As to the veto of the twelvehour law for car conductors and drivers, he said he, like all conductors arrd drivers, worked by the trip, and if the bill had become a law it would have reduced his earnings. The bill, he said, was in the interest of some of the railroad companies who now paid by the day and wanted the bill as an excuse for changing to the trip system, and not paying for unoccupied time as they have to when they pay by the day. The present decline in wheat alone of our agricultural products is over 20 per cent. Estimating the entire crop in round numbers at five hundred million bushels, the loss on it to the agricultural interest would not be far short of $100,000,000. JJut this is not all. There has also been an enormous decline in corn and cotton, and a considerable one in provisions. So that the farmers as a class must, during the next twelve months, be placed in generally straitened circumstances, while the only relief they can expect is a general and corresponding decline in manufactured goods of all descriptions and in the rates of transportation. , But it is against this decline that the manufacturers and transporters are now straining every nerve. The former are shutting down their mills and discharging their hands. The latter are formmg pools to put up rates of transportation. But in the end the decline '- which is now being experienced in agricultural products must become general, otherwise the farmer interest will make itself heard and felt.— Chicago Daily News.