Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1895 — TROUBLE IN THE CAMP [ARTICLE]

TROUBLE IN THE CAMP

REPUBLICANS EXPECT LOSSES IN NORTHERN STATES. Attempt to Keep Up Their Courage by Claiming Improbable Gains— Coming Prosperity Reluctantly Admitted by Champions of Protection. Republican Losses and Gains. It is evident that the Republicans expect to lose some, at least, of the great Northern States which they carried by handsome majorities in 1894. They are not saying much about these States, but they are making vociferous claims that they will carry Kentucky, Maryland and Tennessee. If they did not expect serious losses, they would not attempt to keep up their courage by claiming improbable gains. There is abundant cause for the Republicans to apprehend the loss of States at the North which they carried last year by overwhelming odds. In nearly every one of these States they are rent by factions, and each faction Is declaring that it would be better for the Democrats to win than for the other faction to win. Warner Miller, in an open letter, said that he had rather sea a Democrat elected than the leading Republican candidate for the nomination elected in one of the Senate districts of New York. Throughout State the Platt and anti-Platt factions are fighting each other with greater vigor and determination than either faction is fighting the Democrats. In Pennsylvania the war between the Cameron and Quay faction and the faction led by Governor Hastings is embittered in the extreme. “Don” vameron's Senatorial term expires ' March 4, 1807, and the Quay politicians are in such straits that they have attempted to unload by announcing that he will not be a candidate for election to another term. In Ohio the condition of the Republican factions is as bad as in New York and Pennsylvania. In the States carried by the Republicans last year the grossest scandals have occurred In the administrative departments and in the legislatures. The yet incomplete history of the Illinois General Assembly is a specimen of the condition of affairs in other States. Popular indignation has been excited by the enactment of bad laws and by failure to enact good laws, and by general inaction, incompetence and corruption. In every “landslide” State, without exception, this is the record that the victorious Republicans have made. The Republicans have deserved to lose the great Northern States that they carried overwhelmingly In 1894, and such is the present probability. But their expectation of making gains at the South to offset, in whole or in part, their losses at the North is absurd. What gains they made at the South last year probably will disappear, instead of increasing, in 1895 and 1896.—Chicago Chronicle.

How Dare Prosperity Come? Where is McKinley? Where are all and singular the Republican editors, the Republican orators, the Republican statesmen who with one direful voice proclaimed in season and out of season that Democratic policy for the reduction of taxation and the elimination of the fraudulent pretense of protection to workingmen would reduce American laborers to the condition of paupers and destroy the industries of the United States? Day after day the announcement comes of voluntary Increase of wages by industrial concerns from one end of the land to the other, especially from those giant Industries specially the object of Republican protection—furnaces, forges and rolling mills. The iron industry is the greatest precursor of improved conditions. Throughout the United States the iron Industry is actively at work. The fact that the Democratic tariff law reduced the so-called element of protection cuts no figure at all. Wages are increased, activities at iron mines are renewed, lines of transportation are more widely employed, business conditions are everywhere more favorable. Where is that apostle of calamity and disaster, that fraudulent preacher of the false doctrine that the United States must put heavy taxes upon the whole body of the people in order to render themselves prosperous; that hired advocate of the few who wish themselves to be the special objects of government regard? McKinley is running up and down the land, looking for a nomination to the presidency at the hands of the Republican party, still preaching calamity and distress as the necessary outcome of Democratic tariff laws, and holding his peace profoundly on the silver question. And if nominated in 1896 thereafter nothing will again be heard in this country of either McKinley or McKlnleylsm.

The Evasive Allison. “General” J. S. Clarkson, erstwhile of lowa, now very much at large, is in New York loudly urging the “claims” of Allison to the presidency. In the very heart of the enemy’s country, in the bailiwick of Mayor Strong, a militant McKlnleylte, and Tom Platt, who has views of his own hostile to the lowan, the faithful Clarkson raises the standard of Allison and calls lustily upon all to rally about it. Conservatism is the virtue which Clarkson thinks makes his chief the fittest leader for the Republicans in the Impending conflict. If the issue turn on the tariff question, why, there is Alilison, who doesn’t think a tariff should be too high or too low, who insists that the people shall be taxed neither too much nor too little. And if it be the currency which shall mark the dividing between the hostile camps in November, 1896, who shall dub Allison a “gold bug” or a “silver crank,” who can justly charge him with “striking silver down” or with seeking to debase the nation’s standard - of value? Haply none. Upon these vexed questions of national polity the lowa sage has maintained so nicely impartial an attitude that either side may count him as one of them. In the biology of politics he stands like one of those lower forms of invertebrates, too insensate to be classed as animals, but endowed with such powers of Independent motion as to make biologists hesitate to class them as vegetables. It may be creditable to Mr. Allison’s sagacity that at the end of a long pub-

lie life no man can define with exactness his position on any vital public question. It is not at all creditable to American political methods that this consistent policy of trimming and evasion should be held to peculiarly qualify him for the presidency. Admitted Prosperity. The Chicago Inter Ocean, that with veiled lids has been seeking McKinley in the dust, mourning, as one that could not be consoled, the fearful calamities which it said must fall upon this nation as the result of the reduction of taxation at the custom houses, not only lifts its eyes to see prosperity upon every hand under a Democratic tariff, but lifts also its voice to exclaim in joyful note: ALL SAY ITS A BOOM. MERCHANTS CLAIM AN ERA OF PROSPER* ITY HAS BEGUN. DARK DAYS LEFT BEHIND. DRY GOODS MEN SPEAK OF A VAST IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE. Clothing and Boot and Shoe Manufacturers All Tell of Increasing Orders.

Do we sleep? Do we dream? Is civilization a failure? Is the Caucasian played out? Here is a journal that has never failed to assert that if Democrats, voted into legislative and executive authority by the people of the United States, should make the slightest reduction of taxation from the schedules set up by Republicans, should make a single step In the direction of free trade, the land would lie prostrate under g blow delivered by the land itself! If, was the dire prediction of the Inter Ocean and all its class, the Democratic party should reduce taxation at the custom houses an average of 50 per cent, the. prosperity of the country would disappear, its industries would be delivered into the hands of the Philistines, its workingmen would be reduced to a condition of paupers and peace and prosperity would forever fly therefrom. We have not yet had a year of the Wilson law. The result shows all over the United States. Out of the clutches of McKlnleylsm the country begins to resume that prosperity that McKinley and Sherman between them had nearly destroyed The Wilson bill, lacking all that it ought to be, yet hlTnishlng on the average some 50 per cent reduction of taxation, assists the people of the United States to regain their feet far more rapidly after the panic of 1893 than after the panic of 1873, when Grant was President and the Republican party was in full control of every branch of the Government.

When Will Democracy Die ? When the lion eats grass like an ox, And the fishworm swallows the whale,’ When the robins knit woolen socks, And the hare is outrun by the snail; When serpents walk upright like man, And doodle-bugs travel like frogs; When grasshoppers feed like the hen, And feathers arb found on hogs; When Thomas cats swim in the air, And elephants roost on trees; When insects in summer are rare, And snuff never makes people eneeze; When fish creep over dry land. And mules on velocipedes ride; When foxes lay eggs in the sand, And women in dress take no pride; When Dutchmen no longer drink beer, And girls get to preaching on time; When billy-goats butt from the roar, And treason no longer is crime; When humming birds bray like art a»s, And limburger smells like cologne; When plowshares are made out of glass, And the hearts of true Texans of stone; When ideas grow in Populists’ heads, And the wool on the hydraulic ram, Then the Democratic party will be dead, And the country won’t be worth a d—n. A Tin Plate Nail in McKinley’s Coffin. The increased number and prosperity of the tin-plate mills drive another nail in the coffin of McKlnleylsm. The new tariff made tin ore free, as it was before the McKinley bill clapped on the preposterous and oppressive tax of four cents a pound. It also reduced the duty on tin-plate from 2 2-10 cents a pound to 1 1-5 cents. Yet there are thirty-five tin works rolling their own black plates and seven in course of erection. In addition there are thirty tin-plate dipping works prospering because.of untaxed metal. The amount of finished plates will be Increased this year, according to the Metal Worker, from 4,110,000 boxes of finished plates to 5,500,000 boxes, or nearly four-fifths the consumption. The logic of events is making short work with the theories of high-tariff men.—New York World.

Carrying a Heavy Handicap. Ohio’s favored son is logically a hardtimes candidate. By an overwhelming majority he was re-elected governor of Ohio as a calamity howler who charged all disaster to the party who overthrew his tariff system and substituted that nowin. operation. His graphic description of* the troubles and sufferings that must be endured until McKinleyism could be restored are on record to discredit him as to his alleged facts as well as to his prescience as a statesman. He committed himself beyond hope of hedging or explaining. He burned his bridges behind him and stands before the people to-day carrying the handicap of a dead issue.—Detroit Free Press. The Popular Income Tax Idea. We have heard many men In this country discuss the income tax question, and only the few having a tax to pay have opposed it. One rich summer visitor to Cooperttown, who would have had a large tax ip pay, wrote to us when Congress passed the law: “It is one of the most equitable and just taxes ever imposed to carry on the government.”—Freeman’s Journal.

Hint to a Good Friend. If Governor McKinley has any gumption he will have Captain Foraker removed from charge of the steerage apparatus. The Times does not want to make any hard feeling in the Republican camp, but cannot help a friendly word of caution to the best friend the Democratic party ever had.—Dayton Times. Fact and Fiction in Each Issue. The Republican papers are presentirig the ridiculous spectacle of carrying prosperity in their news columns and calamity on their editorial pages.— Richmond Times. The Industrial Barometer. As wages go up McKinley goes down. —lndianapolis News.