Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1914 — REPUBLICAN SUCCESS CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN SUCCESS CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED

Sixth District Candidate for Congress Believes That Victory Will Come to G. O. P. Indianapolis, Ind., July 14.—P. J. Lynch, of New Castle, republican nominee for congress from the sixth district, was at republican state, headquarters in the Hotel Severin today. Mr. Lynch has just, returned from a two weeks’ stay at his old home in Pennsylvania. Regarding the political and commercial conditions throughout the east Mr. Lynch said: “I was greatly surprised to find in the large cities of the east, where depression should be the last to make an impression, a deep-seated feeling of unrest and dissatisfaction at the present democratic administration in Washington. In all lines of business, particularly in the iron and steel trade and in textile industries, nearly all the great plants of Pennsylvania are partially closed, if not entirely so. Many hundreds of thousands of men are out of employment and all the ramifications of this lack of indnstry has worked untold hardships unto the almost unlimited phases of everyday business life. There seems to be a well defined idea in the minds of the working men, the manufacturers, and businessmen generally that the Underwood tariff bill which held out the inducement to the voter that it would make the cost of his living jess, has failed utterly to fulfill Its promise. Not only is the cost of the necessary commodities of life the same as before the bill was passed and enacted into law, but the great tragedy of life ensues when the workman is either out of employment or working on partial time, so that the effect is that be has less money with which to buy than he ever had before, and it makes no difference what the price of the article is- when there is not sufficient money to buy. The farmer who voted for a downward revision of the tariff has found that he has voted for a downward revision of the prices paid for his products. In the great dairy country of Lancaster, Chesfter, Bucks and Delaware counties in Pennsylvania, of which there is no finer exemplification of dairying in the fullest sense of the term; the dairy farmer of these counties and elsewhere finds it impossible to produce the milk at anything like the price that he is obliged to take tor it by reason of the tremendous of condensed milk from Denmark, (Sweden, Norway, and especially Holland. One of the largest" manufacturers of condensed milk in the United States told me that it was impossible for them to produce this important staple product that enters into "the homes of the plain people especially in the large cities in such enormous quantities, as low as this product from foreign countries is being sold for in all the principal cities of the United States. The result is that dairy fanning has been dealt a death blow.

“In Washington the prevailing sentiment is that nearly all democratic congressmen have prepared for a long leavetaking when this session of congress is closed, and one of the oldest members from New state expressed the cold fact that he did not expect to return, so strong was the sentiment against the national administration, against free trade propoganda, and the forcing through congress at the president’s behest the repeal of the free tolls for American shipping through the Panama Canal, the watchful waiting policy in Mexico, and the interminable prolongation of congress which has resulted in nation-wide business depression. A democratic editor of national prominence gave expression to the view that with the fall election it was his belief that the democratic party as a national party would be almost obliterated. Working men, business men and financial men are determined that they shall return to the protective policy of the republican party, and the fads and isms of the modem political philosophy have not the slightest interest for them, and all they want to know is that their candidates stand squarely and fairly tor the eternal principles of the republican party, which brve made this nation so prosperous and brought to its people a degree of prosperity not found in any other nation in the world. The balance of trade is estimated to have turned against us at such an alarming rate that the year will show that instead of five hundred and fifty million of dollars in our favor, as it was in the last year of the republican national administration, that in the first year under the Wilson-Underwood bill it will have turned Against us to the extent of five hundred millions of dollars, which may be viewed as being a grAter national calamity than anything that >as befallen

this country in the last fifty years. “As to my'own candidacy, I have Ibeen in close touch with all parts of the district and I am highly encouraged in the belief that not tor myself, alone, or for any peculiar attainments that I may hove, or lor any especial worth that I may possess, hut for the fact that I stand squarely and have always stood for these republican principles so essential to our own welfare, that the farmer with ffla ap-