Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Tradesmen’s National Bank, N. Y. c ; ty. failed Tuesday. Bad debts to the extei t of $250,000 the cause, Examiner in charge 1 ' 1 * The Democracy of Georgia carried the election in that State Wedneßday, over populists and repub* licans combined, by at least 70,000 majority. Fourteen houses in the business district of our neighboring town of Lowell, were destroyed bv fire Tuesday morning. The loss will reach $40,000, with limited insurance. So far, the editor of the Delphi Times is the only one to take stock in tbu assertions and inuendoes of ( our “Bab,” and he is unacquainted with him and his political affilliations. Ho is no more a democrat than is Bill Bynum. The goyernor hai issued a proclamation inviting the school children of the state to contribute their pennies for the monument to be erected over the grave of LaFny ett9, in Paris, it being the expectation to unveil this monument during ihe Paris expos tion of 1900. The populist editor of the Dems ocrat? in his last issue demands of his patrons that they “boycott” al professionals, business men, mechanics, merchants and others who in the exercise of their best judgment, fail to patronize him with advertising. The proposition is not original with him. He is simply in line with the methods carried out by the “Pilot” man* agerneut.

In the Marion county populist convention, Monday, W. P. Adkinson declared that “ he Democrats had intimated that they wo’d remembea the populists in making a legislative ticket, but had slapped them in the face.” Served thum right. The republicans set on foot a movement to control the populists but after f ooking the field over decided that there were not enough members of the third party to make the effort worth while, and the plan was abandoned. Tho democratic state committee, says the Indianapolis Sentinel, could not have found a better equipped or in every way more suitable can bdetofor the supreme bench than M. Z. Stannard of Jeffersonville if it had searched the state over. Mr. Stannard is one of the leaders of the bar of southb ern Indiana, lie is a gentleman of fine attainments and high percharacter. Although a sturdy and consistent democrat, and a warm supporter of his party, he has never been a politician in t! e accept d sense of the term. He has never been an office-seeker.. In this case the office sought him and it is with reluctance that he accepted the honor, not because of any doubt as to the election of the iicket, but because going on the bench involves the sacrifice of a lucrative practice. His selection s highly creditable to the democratic state committee and adds gi eat strength to the 1 icket.

Following the closing Wool of the New York Woo and the Exchange comes the Tariff. lailure of tht New York Tradesmen’s National Bank. These two institutions had close business relations, and the failure of one doubtless had its effect on the condition of the other. But the important significance of these failures lies in the sac that the grand republican measure which was exploited as the coming salvation of the wool business., the great McKinley-Dingley tariff bill, .failed to work, and the New Yoik Wool Exchange went to the j wall in spite of the much-talked* g about benefits of protection. How long will the people allow themselves to be deceived by the j false prophets of the republican ' party? Has not the failure of the Dingley tariff to produce revenue opened the eyes of the vote lß to the falsehood of repu' Jieanolaims? if not, will t 1 e failure of the Nrw Y< rk Wool Exchange servo this , purpose? In everv respect the republican tari ff law has proved a lVi!nre. As a revenue producer it ie absolutely incompetent and as a measure ot protection to home industries it is i jpptjiely worthless.