Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1889 — Harrison’s Bomb. [ARTICLE]

Harrison’s Bomb.

Unless the President-elect has been grossly misrapresented he has thrown a bomb of startling dimensions and explosive power into the camp of his most rabid supporters. In two brief sentences he has destroyed the entire stock in trade of the Chandlers and Ingallses and others who have been parading the smallness of the vote of the South as evidence of suppression and fraud. “It seems to me,” he is reported as saying to a Republican visiting delegation from Alabama, “that the white Republican vote in the South is suppressed as much as the colored vote. You gentlemen don’t practice what you preach.” This is hard on the shriekers and the organs. They have done their shrieking and their organ grinding on the Southern question in the interest of the President-elect, or what they have assumed to be such. They have been laying the foundation, as they supposed, for reducing the Southern representation in Congress and the perpetuation thereby of Republican supremacy. It is hard, therefore, to have the party’s successful candidate sit down upon them so crushingly. But it is the truth that he tells them, and they may as well accept it with the consequences. Their Southern bubble is burst, and they must direct their inventive genius to the manufacture of another.— Detroit Free Press.

The kind of tariff revision we are getting can be pretty well judged by the fact that the Senate refused to increase the duty on diamonds or to lower it on coal. Both articles are forms of carbon, but one sparkles coldly on the bosom of wealth and beauty while the other warms and cheers the fireside of every citizen. The country could still stagger along somehow or other if the tariff walls were so high and tight and the customs officers so unapproachably honest that not another pauper-dug diamond ever entered the country. But it would be a great boon to all if coal could be poured into every back yard by the wagon-load. Surely the coal barons have had the country long enough by the back of the neck. Let us have a let-up. What the people ask of Congress is that the tariff be revised for their use and behoof and not for the benefit of interests already waxen fat by plunder.— Chicago Times.