Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Republican Romance .Spoiled. [ARTICLE]

Republican Romance .Spoiled.

Lately the Bepublican papers outside of Indiana have be n referring to an alleged report made by State Statistician Peelo, showing an advance in wages since tho enactment of the McKinley tariff. The Bepublican papers of this State are not referring to it, because no such report has ever been male. In order to disprove this Bepublican falsehood, Statistician Peele makes the following statement for publication: “I have made no repoit since the report for 1890 was issued. The report for 1891 will not be made until the next Legislature convenes, next January, when it will be submitted to them printed. It will be a general report of statistics of Indiana, but there will bo no comparison of wages in it, because I have nothing to compare it with. There is not a scrap of data in my office giving any in’ormation or the wages received by Indiana workmen prior to the passage of the McKinley tariff. How is it possible, then, for me or any one else to make any comparison witß the wages receiver, since the passage of the McKinley bill? You see, therefore, how false the statement circulated by Repub* licans is. It is a Republican trick. “I do not believe there is a workman in Indiana whose wages have been increased on account of the McKinley tariff. But we all know here that the coal miners of Indiana receive less in wages now than before the election of Mr. Harrison. No one can deny that statement. ” A few weeks ago the Indianapolis Sentinel advertised for the photograph of an Indiana workman whose wages had been increased on account of the McKinley tariff. It is said that it received tut one, the photograph of a printer of a county paper who had made extra money setting up sheriff sales. Mr. Peeie was elected in 1890 on the Democratic ticket and is the Democratic nominee for the same office this year.— New York Times.