Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1892 — NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For President, GROVER CLEVELAND, OF NEW YOKE. For Vine President, ADLAI E STEVENSON, OF ILLINOIS.

THRg. p. has begun to whistle to keep its courage up Have your name enrolled in a Democratic club and get your neighbor to do the same. If the workingman wants to see a genuine product of protection let him look at Carnegie. The relations between McKinley of 1888 and McKinley Qt 18(9? aye becoming decidedly strajnedPennsylvania lawyers fayor the high tariff because it gives them plenty of work in the Criminal Courts. The McKinley policy is becoming more penetrating as it takes the form of bayonets advanced as arguments. A FEW years ago Mr. McKinley was denouncing the cheap suit of clothes. Now he brags that cloth is cheaper than it ever was before.

If the force bill should ever become a law a Republican administration would have a great deal of work to let out to the Pinkertons. Pat Egan is another elephant Harrison cannot afford to let go or hold on to j nst now. His menagerie will conclude its grand tour in November. Thus far no Republican has offered to explain why in ten years of Republicanism there were more farm and home mortgages filed in Kansas than there were inhabited houses in the State in 1890. Republicans who do not like to compare Harrison with Cleveland may. compare him with other Republican Presidents. And by doing so they will find that he is costing the country an averege of $100,000,000 a year more than Arthur did. The Republican rainbow-chasers are doing plenty of talking about “redeeming” the .South, but they will put no money or high-grade workers there. They are simply running a bluff to which the Democracy should pay no attention. McKinley would probably say that it was an excellent thing for Canada to tax American vessels passing through Canadian canals. It would force American vessels to stay in American canals, don’t you see?

Thebe was a time when Tom Carter was not Land Commissioner, and it was during that time that he referred to Mr. Harrison as “a two-cent Hoosier statesman.” When the campaign is over perhaps Col. Carter will recall the epithet and be able to say, “I told you so. ” New York is not a doubtful State this year. There is no State of the East where the Harrison force bill will damage the Republican party as much as the one of which the commercial metropolis of the country is a part. Harrison's administration has given more unrest and disquiet to the great legitimate business interests of the East than any other in our history. An lowa statistician says that “the tariff and reciprocity have brought the price of hogs in this State to 6 cents a pound. ” It is now in order for the statistician to say whether it was the tariff or reciprocity. And when he has solved this problem he may address himself to the task of proving that one or the other has made food cheaper for the laboringmen. gPPIP——— Having explained to the Western farmer that the tariff has raised the price of wheafJie produces and sells to the American consumer, Maj. McKinley is gQiag<B*st to explain to the consumer that the tariff has reduced the cost of everything, including the products of the farm. Mr. Orator Puff “with two tones to his voice” was not a circumstance to the modern protectionist orator striving to fulfill the requirements of the situation. Since the Alabama election the force bill is more necessary than ever to get the nogro vote at the South counted for the Republican party. The„ Alabama election shows that aothing short of bayonets at the polls will induce the uegroes to to keep on voting the Republican ticket. As fG- the negro vote in the border

States, It will be largely ft oolonlzed vote, paid for in advance. The protested manufacturers ought to have been generous enough to have increased the wagss for this year, at least It would have been better for them than payiDg campaign contributions. After the election the redactions might begin again without injury to tbe'industrial infanta. During ten years of high tariff taxes more McKinley mortgages were put on the farms and homes of Kansas and Nebraska than there were inhabited houses in these States in 1890. We have extracted this fact from the census several times before, but we intend to keep it before the McKinley people until they can make up their mind to say something about it.

Tom Carter is said to have made his start as a book agent for “Footprints of Time,” and to have closed his literary career peddling ‘The Royal Path of Life” through lowa. His sudden rise to fortune and political bossism indicates that he struck the royal path, and made footprints on it at such a rapid gait that Time “wasn’t in it.”

A rampant Pittsburg protectionist organ says that plumbers’ prices are sustained at extortionate figures by combinations. Of course, plumbers’ materials are not only made costlier by the high tariff, but the combinations add their weight to the load put upon consumers. Down with the high tariff, and down with the combinations to which it gives birthl

If protection protects the manufacturer and increases the wages of the mechanic will some Republican please rise and explain why the Carnegie mills have reduced wages from 15 to 50 per cent, and transformed their works into a fort? Even Mr. Harrison in his letter to the Republican State League made no mention of this practical example of the benefits of a high tariff to the working* man.

The Republicans are preparing to make a hot fight all along the line for the possession of lowa in the coming election. By all means let them try their level best; it will do them good. The weather will soon be pleasant, and campaigning in the open air will not only strengthen their health but brace up their spirits against the disappointment to come in November. lowa ceased to be a Republican State several years ago.

Vice Presidential Candidate Reid skips and plays, makes pretty speeches hither and yon, travels about in private cars and pleasant company, but as the campaign progresses he will be admonished quietly but pointedly by the people who made him the nominee that he was selected for a specific purpose, and that committeemen in need of money are not going to overlook the fact. The suggestion to Mr. Mills’ son-in-law will be , curt and authoritative: “Come downl”

Courier-Journal: “Honesty at the ballot-box,” exclaims a Republican organ, “is proving very costly to the dominant party In New Jersey. It has just sent sixty very efficient Democratic workers to the penitentiary, where they can do no good to their party until this year’s elections are over.” Thus is another difference between the parties illustrated. Just over in Indiana, for instance, the Republican election crook, even on the bench, instead of being sent to the penitentiary is promoted.

Des Moines Leader: In the United States the laboring people have the right to vote. Ihey can right every wrong peacefully through the ballot if they will only intelligently exercise their right. This being true, there is no excuse for physical opposition to established law. If certain laws are objectionable, repeal them. If incorporated capital enjoys unjust privileges and advantages, deprive It of those privileges and advantages in the legal way. Labor must learn to vote right if its would free Itself from legalized oppression. The people are responsible for the statutes.

Papers that talk for the McKinley bill, which is not permitted to speak for itself, as its author contends, are loudly asserting that carpets were never before so cheap In this country. It is well to note in this connection that scarcely a yard of American carpet is exported, while an immense amount of foreign carpet finds Its way over the Chinese wall erected by American legislation. During the last year a hundred million pounds of carpet wool was imported by the United States, and the duties paid were $2,500,000. Now, to reconcile this with the claim of cheap carpets, the manufacturers must admit that they were getting extravagant profits before the McKinley bill went Into effect, or that they are using shoddy in the shape of hair, cotton and other adulterations. The latter is the true explanation, as it is in the case of the cheap clothing about which these same Republican organs make 'so much noise.