Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — “DEMOCRATIC TIMES." [ARTICLE]

“DEMOCRATIC TIMES."

Republicans Appalled by the Business Revival. rheir Organ Refuses Longer to Print the News. Bnt Neverthele** the Boom In Mang. factoring Industrie* Goes Merrily Along Thousands of Workingmen Once More Employed Unanswerable Arguments For the Calamity Shrlekers to Meet—Republican Testimony Prove* the Return of Prosperity. “Democratic times” has become a phrase which Republicans no longer delight to use. In fact they don’t like to hear anything about “Democratic times” these days. “Democratic times” are right at hand and they are just what everybody wants prosperous times. When the Indiana Republicans opened their campaign they couldn’t talk long enough or loud enough about the disasters that would follow on the enactment of the tariff law. But a Democratic tariff law was enacted and immediately business began to revive in all quarters. The revival was not a spasmodic movement, either, but has continued until trade in every line may now be said to be booming. For weeks, in fact ever since the passage of the new tariff bill, the Indianapolis Journal has on every Monday morning been refuting calamity statements of its editorial columns by publishing a department of industrial news treating of the business situation in Indianapolis and vicinity. This department has been carefully prepared but evidently has not passed beneath the supervision of the political editor. Week in and week out this department has told of reviving trade, of factories starting up, of extensions being made in every line of business. This department has been to the party managers what the traditional red rag is to the sanguinary bull. They have labored with the management of The Journal to suppress the department or “cook” the news so that it would give a semblance of truth to the calamity howling of the orators and organs. The managers have protested and complained and threatened. But still the news in the industrial department of The Journal has continued to herald the return of prosperity. At last, however, the state central committee has triumphed; the news instincts of The Journal management has given way to the political desires of the proprietors and the industrial department of The Journal, which has been one of its leading and best features for many years, fails to appear this week. It is also to be observed that Republican papers all over the state, presumably by the direction of the state central committee, are giving no prominence whatever to announcements of resumptions of factories and other evidences of the restoration of business activity. The action of the Indianapolis Journal in suppressing this valuable department of the paper is the best evidence possible that Indiana has at last fallen on “Democratic times;” and “Democratic times” means prosperous times—-means Democratic victory in November.

REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. Manufacturing Institutions Running to Their Full Capacity. But the fact that Republican papers in Indiana refuse to print news of the’ revival of business doesn’t prevent the revival from going right ahead, just the same, and a few Republican papers are honest enough to tell their readers so. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette in its Sunday issue has the following items of interest in connection with the resumption of business: In General. The Chattanooga plow works will enlarge its plant and double its force of 250 men. The Globe woolen mills, Utica, N. Y., resumed with 30 more hands than formerly. Mill operatives are looking forward to an advance in wages at the North Adams Manufacturing company, whose mill is at Braytonville, Mass., and which manufactures high grade woolens. A reduction of 10 per cent was. made last March. ' ' ‘ 1 " The manufactures of Chicago pre gradually employing mor© men and aye slowly getting back into the condition in which they were prior to the hard times. It is certain co-operative sleepingcar works will be built at Hiawatha, Kan. The Pennsylvania steel works, Steelton, resumed with a full force in all d> partments.-

a new Bicycle factory of large proportions is soon to be erected at Weatherly, Pa, and when complete; employment will be given to several hundred men. The Cleveland Twist Drill company, Cleveland, 0., is now running full capacity and 10 hours a day, with an increased force of men. Pullman is to have another formidable competitor in the Goodwin Car Manufacturing company, which has just been incorporated at Des Moines, la., with an authorized capital stock of $2,000,000. Employment will be given to 3,000 men. The silk industrial awakening is being strongly felt in Allentown, Pa., where the Adelaide mills, employing more than 1,000 hands, has restored the old rate of wages, which were reduced last winter. Another silk mill is in course of erection. The Barbour threadmill has recently resumed operations with several hundred hands and increased wages. The Montour Steel and Iron company of Danville, Pa., is still running all departments of its works to the fullest capacity. The foundry, machine and blacksmith shops are busily engaged working full time. The Lima (O.) Steel Casting company ftpened its new works on Oct. 1 and gave employment to about 60 men. The Lakeside nailmill, Hammond, Ind., started up last Monday on full time. The 25 potteries in East Liverpool, 0., are all being operated with greater activity than at any time probably in their history. The Standard iron and steel works, at Bridgeport, contemplates erecting an additional galvanizing works. The Wheeling (W. Va.) Pottery company is turning out more ware than any time in its history, and the Warwick pottery, at the same city, is away behind with its orders. ' September was the best month of the year with the West Virginia glassworks at Martin’s Ferry In Indian*. Greentown, near Kokomo, has two new factories in operation—a pressedbrick works and a tableglass factory, the latter amploying 200 hands. All Kokomo factories are busy, and there are no idle men in town. The Mcßeth lampchimney works at Elwood has put on its night force, now running day and night There is no thought of a cut in wages. At the McLoy factory, Elwood, lampchimneys are being turned out at a rate never before equaled in the history of the factory. The. Elwood steam forge works has started up with 300 hands. The Elwood windowglass works has started with a full force. The. iron works and radiator plants at Elwood report increased activity. The Diamond Plateglass plant at Elwood is working fullhanded. The new glass factory, to employ 150 hands, at Windfall, is completed. At Alexandria the Depauw glassworks started Monday with 800 hands. The glass strikers in the Lippincott works. Alexandria, gained their point. Every windowglass plant in Anderson is in operation today for the first time in the past nine months. The wiremaking record at the American wire nail works of Anderson was broken last week. During the six days' run of 24 hours each 925 tons of finished wire were turned out. The plant is in full operation, and has 700 men on the payroll. Ground is being cleared this week and excavations made for the new Wright shovel works in North Anderson and the Riverview Agricultural works in Irondale. Three hundred pressers at Ball Bros.’ fruit jar factories at Muncie resumed work Thursday, but not at a reduction of wages. They have been idle several months, and the firm several times announced that they could not resume at last year’s wages, but they did. On last Monday morning the Indiana Iron company started all departments of the big mill, and now this company has over 700 names on the payroll. This is the concern that moved from Lancaster, 0., to Muncie.