Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1889 — HON. DAVID TURPIE [ARTICLE]

HON. DAVID TURPIE

Senator Turpie, on his retnrn to Indianapolis from Washington,was interviewed by a reporter and saic that the armv of office-seekers whioh invaded -Washington on inauguration day is disbanding; the patriots are returning home leaving behind them, on file in appointment divisions of the departments, tons of indorrements and petitions. The applications for office under Harrison’* administration exceed in number any two previous administrations. “Until the offices are filled,” said he, “the office seekers will suppress their disappointment, still hoping to catch on to something; but when the patronage is distributed, there will be no end of complaining. Of the cabinet and the appointments made so far, notning can be said till they have been in long enough to stand trial- President Harrison stands the strain well, and he looks as well as he did when he left Indianapolis last February. Most of the Republican congressmen have gone home and he will have an opportunity to take some rest till congress convenes.” “Will the new states and the r©apportionment based upon the next census, give the republican party any advantage over the democrats in the lower house in congress and in the eleeioral college?”

“After the reapportionment for the next decade nas been made the situation will remain unchanged; New York, Indiana, Connecticut and New Jersey will still hold the key to the situation. The republicans will gain some electoral votes in tbs West, but they will lose in the East The democrats will hold their own in the South east, in Indiana, New York and New Jersey, and gain in the Southwest, while Montana will eo doubt be a democratic state. As a territory Montana has gone rep iblican but tw ce since its organization. We have fighting chances in Bhode Island. However, New York, Indiana and New Jersey will remain the battle ground of the campaign in 1892.” “Then you do not believe that the iron manufacturers of the South will sueeeed in oaptnring the republiean organization fiom the negroes and conver' the whits vote of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Nerth Carolina to republicanism on the protection idea?” “If such a movement is on foot it is not worth while to discuss it because nothing will result from ii The people of the South wh o are to be benefited by protection are insignificant compared to the great mass of people who are «.p----pressed by the high tariff, The republicans can not look to the West for reernits to the protection ides, and they naturally look to the South, where a few men have amassed large fortunes manufacturing iron with cheap labor.” “Is it probable that a taiift bill will pass .the first session of the next congress?”

“No. I believe the republicans will let the present tariff alone. The monopolists are well pleased with the present tariff schedule, and they will have the power to prevent legislation in this matter.” “What will the demot rats do?” “What can they do? Both houses and the executive are republican. All they can do is to agitate the question and educate the people to tariff reform.” “If the republicans pass no tariff bill, hew will they rednee the surplus?”

“Oh, it does not require a tariff bill to keep down the surplus. Blair bill will send $80,000,000 south to catch votes and subsidies to steams! ip companies will take what’s left of the surplus. If at the end of Harrison’s administratiou the tariff seheduio is different from what it is now, I will be much surprised. When the republican senators reported what is known as the senate tariff bill they never intended to pass it and they do not intend to pass any duaing the next congress.

“What is ills opinion of the republican senators of ex-president Cleveland?” “They admit that Clevela id was a good president, honest and a man of ability. No president ever left the white house *ith a better reoord than Grover Cleveland did when he turned over the executi , r e mansion to Gen. Harrison.” “How is Gov. Hill regarded as a presidential' possibility?” “Thera is nothing said about Hill or Any other candidate. We will have to wait for the election of 1890 before the availability of candidates can be discussed. The election of 1882 brought Cleveland forward as a presidential candidate in 1884. Who knows but what the election of 1890 will also ehange the situation?” - The law prohibiting the sale of tobacco to children did not have an emergency clause attached, as but will soon b in force. It makes it unlawful “for any j erson to give, barter or sell, directly or indirectly, to any ohild or children uuder sixteen years of age, any tobacco, oigars or cigarrettes, to be chewed or smoked by said child or children,” or to *ny other person with the knowledge that it is to be so used. The penalty is a fine of not less than $1 nor more than $lO.

Street Auctioneer—There, genilemen, is one of the cuff buttons worn by Washington on the day of lis inauguration. How much am .! offered for it 9 Countryman—joekee here, feller citizen, thst man's a swindler. I bought both of Washington’s cuff buttons over in Fulton street two hours ago.— Jewellers’ Weekly. In speaking of a foundling, a ' Linsns edit' r remarked that “the child has its father’s eyes but its m ther’b name.” V _ John P. Oarr, Jr. of the Ox : lord Tribune, will conduct the poet office at Oxforc.