Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

lu Kentucky the republican majority ot 281 lust year gives place to a democratic majority of about twenty thousand. I hen iliero are reductions of lepublican majorities in Massachusetts and lowa, and a tremendous increase in tbs democratic majority in Virgiuia. *~ ~~ ■■ ...... When American steel makers can undersell British and German steeKmukers in t e open markets it does seem that they ought tc* hold their own in the home market without a tariff bonus. ' ■ - -

ih'adstreet's commercial report ior the week ending October 29th, is less optimistic in nature Still Brad street’s idea is that we shall have great prosperity in theunceraiu future. If th i stock of public ‘confidence” isn’t being rapidly exhausted it is because we are a people of marvelous resources. The harder up wo get the more “confidence” we have. The late G eorge M. Pullmo a persistent ami notorious ta:, . „• r A recent investigate i . closed the fact that i u .••. 'i holdings were listed for taxan •. i at less than oue-teLth their nominal value, and the charge was made by members of the Chicago Civic Federation that the tax assessors have been bribed by the Pullman company to fix a low valuation.

•Secretary Sherman says that the Wolcott commission had no auih* i ority from the administration to make the propositions mentioned in the report made by Lord Salisbury of the negotiation. They only had authority to negotiate for the bringing about of an interna* lional monetary conference having for its object the large use of silver, without the right to bind the governments to stipulated torms. From this the Philadelphia Rec* ord concludes that “the Wolcott expedition was a mere picnic per* iormance, with Pickwickian pow* eis. It was iru-nded to mike a show of redeeroingplatform pledges.”