Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 17 March 1892 — Page 2

CURRENT COMMENT-

Why the Republican Party Will Win in the Coming Contest.

Reciprocity's Good Work— Wool and Shoddy Tariffs—Other Interesting Topics.

The men who know David B. Hill most intimately say the harshest things about him as a public man. Dr. C. S. Carr, of Elmira, Hill's home spoke to the Democrats at •Columbus, Ohio. Monday night and divided public men into three classes, as moral, unmoral, and immoral, as statesmen, politicians, and demagogues, as reformers, con formers, and deformers of the body politic. The Doctor said he had long known Hill, aud, being of his own party, he had tried to put him in the second class mentioned, but he had been unable to lift him out of the third class. There is a marked distinction between the estimates put or. Hill by those who know him intimately and those on Harrison, or Blaine, or Reed, or McKinley, or Cullom, by people in their own homes, without regard to politics. To regard Hill as a great man it is necessary to get a long distance away from him.

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Has made a new market

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in Cuba, for a million

barrels of American

flour a year.

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Farmers, think of this.

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REPUBLICAN ECONOMY.

Cheapness in the public service is not by any means a sure test of excellence economy at the expense of efficiency is extravagance. But administrative officers who reduce expenses, and at the same time improve the service, are certainly entitled to credit.

In the collection of internal revenues, for the first time under the existing laws, the cost was in 181'0 reduced below 3 per cent. During the four years from 1885 to 1889. iniusive, the average cost of collection was 3 5-10 per cent., while for the years 1889, 1890 and 1891 the average cost was 2.90 per cent.

In the four vears first above named the total increase of collections of internal revenue over the previous four years was $18,000,000. or at the rate of $4,500,000 per annum, while during the two years 1890 and 1891 the increase was §15,000,000 over the preceding two years, or at the rate of $7,500,000 per annum, notwithstanding there were cut off in 1891 $3,000,000 by reduction in the tobacco taxGS

In 1888 to collect $117,000,000 cost $4,300,000, while in 1891 to collect S29,000,000 more cost $90,000 less. Nor are these figures in the Internal Revenue Bureau exceptional. The Kustoms, the Bureau of Printing End

Engraving—in short, all branches of the Treasury show similar reductions of expenses, with no diminution of efficiency.

"Why Republicanism Must Win. There may be faint-hearted Republicans who weaken before Democratic bluster. The old exploit of David B. Hill in burglarizing the State legislature of New York in the open day light is. perhaps, a mere kitimation of what the Democratic party will do in its desperation in the dark in the great national struggle of this year. But it is very true of the Republican party, and always has been, that it never does its best and is never at its greatest except in the darkest times, in the most serious situation, when its actual mettle is called upon. It never does its best till then. The very seriousness of the situation will arouse all Republicans to the danger of possible defeat, and Republicans everywhere, instead of lagging and being lukewarm, will come to the front and do their part. There is the same difference between the Republican and Democratic parties as there is be tween the volunteer and the regular army. The Democratic party is thoroughly organized—is a machine —and always responds to its leaders. The Republican party is a volunteer organization, and every volunteer in the ranks, otherwise every voter, must be as well satisfied that there is need for fighting as the leaders themselves before the party move forward to great and successful things. But there is another view— and it comprehends the elements of national selfishness—which gives hope to the Republican situation. The present-day politics have been pitched upon economic issues, otherwis ebusiuess or selfish issues. As a party of business principles the Republican party has never had an equal in American history. In the present situation it is not only strong but commanding, powerful and overwhelming. The business world recognizes this much more than the political. Several years ago, under '„he inspiration of President Grover Cleveland, the Democratic party began to tinker with the tariff and business laws, to disturb business by giving uncertainty to all business operations to paralyze trade, to stop many factories and to throw hundreds of thousands of men out of employment. The business •world always suffers most from uncertainty. It suffered very greatly

from this cause during the entire time of Cleveland's reign and during the first year of Harrison's administration. Then the Republican jparty came on, and, through the McKinley bill, supplemented by reciprocity, struck down the party of obstruction and interference with prosperous business, and elaborated and carried through and placed in the statutes these great business policies. It gave the business world certainty instead of uncertainty. It started up the wheels of trade. Every business house knew that it could invest in goods and have a certainty in selling them and in the knowledge of prices. The idle factories started up. Idle labor became employed. Hoarded capital came out of its timid hiding places. The farmer began to find a larger market for his products. The American manufacturer found new markets all over the worid through reciprocity. As a consequence the business* world has been prosperous for two years. Released from the spirit of unsettlement and unrest which prevailed during Cleveland's time, and from the tinkering at the tariff and financial laws, it entered upon a career of certainty, and has gone on from one prosperity to another.

So we come to the Presidential election of 92. The business world and its honorable and selfish interest, extending from the laborer who has to care for his own family day by day—to the farmer who has to gain every year the support of his family for each year, to the mechanic who has to find in a prosperous situation the employment to support those who are dependent upon him, to the business man, and to all— all have felt this as the instinct of self-pres-vation. Therefore the interest of the business world is for the continuance in power of the Republican party, and it is the mightiest of levers in any national campaign. For it is the selfish interest of every home, the business instinct of the country, the instinct of self-preservation. More than this, with these great policies, which have given certainty to the business world, to be tried, the people will say that such policies must have a fair trial. They will say still more, that they are entitled to atrial by their friends, not their enemies. Anvthing else would not be fair to such policies nor fair to the country.

All Republican businessmen know that the present prosperity and stability aud certainty have come through these Republican policies, adopted by the Republican Congress and approved by the Republican President. All Democratic business men who are sharing this prosperity will admit tliat it began with the certainty established by these policies which have proved of so much good already are entitled to full and fair trial, and entitled to trial under the direction of their own friends.

This argument alone, the interest of the burinesp world, the interest of every family, the necessity for certainty. will outweigh in popular strength all the arguments that the Democratic party can bring. Let the strength of this one issue not be under-estimated. It is the basis of prosperity and comfort for the country. It is the basis of strength and success for the Republican party. The Democrats would give all their stock in trade, all their political arguments, and all their sophisms to boot in exchange for any such issue of such surpassing strength and power.

HOW RECIPROCITY HAS MADE TRADE WITH CUBA.

The good results of the reciprocity treaties negotiated by our Government with foreign countries is well illustrated by the treaty with Spain in the flour trade of Cuba. For a number of years past the exporters of Hour from the United States have been carrying on a sharp competion with the Spanish exporters of flour to Cuba. Although there was a larg* discrimination in favor of Spanish flour imported into Cuba the duty on which was 50 per cent, less than the duty charged on American fiour. still our exporters were able to divide the market. Spanish Hour was a product of Russian wheat imported to Spain and ground by the millers of Barcelona and other ports, and then reslnpped to Cuba as Spanish Hour and admitted at the low rate of duty. The annual consumation of f.our in Cuba has amounted to about 500,000 barrels of flour of v/hieh about one-half, or 250,000 barrels have been shipped from the United States. This was the state of trade up to July 1st, 1890. At that date Spanish flour imported to Cuba was made entirely free, and 20 per cent, was added to the duty already charged upon American flour, making the duty on the latter $5.64 per barrel. The result of this change in the tariff of Cuba gave the market almost exclusively to Spanish flour, and the imports from the United States decreased in the year ending July 1, 1891, to 114,000 barrels, which represents only a high grade of flour which was a necessity to bakers for pastry purposes. 3y the treaty negotiated in May last and recently put in operation it was provided that, after the first of January, 1892, the duty on American flour should be reduced from $5.64 to $1 per hundred kiiograms, or to about 90 cents per barrel. Notwithstanding Spanish flour is admitted free into Cuba, the result of this treaty provision has been that Spanish flour is now entirely excluded from the market and the American product has been substituted in its place. So that hereafter the Cuban market will be completely under control of the United $tates.

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result of this action will be to largely incerase the consumption of flour in Cuba. Experienced importers of

Havana novr calculate that the consumption of flour in Cuba will reach 1,000,000 barrels, all of which will go from the United States. This is a practical lesson in reciprocity which our farmers, millers, and exporters can readily comprehend.

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TARIFF PICTURES!

New York Press.

Do you know that the beet sugar industry now supplies more than onehalf the world's sugar product? Well, it does, and it is an industry that was ci'eated and fostered solely by protective Government bounties. Germany has tried the bounty system with conspicuous success. In 1871 she produced 186,442 tons of beet sugar.

In 1890 her product, developed under Government protection, was 1,213.639 tons. 1

We pay to Germany $15,U00,UU(J annually for beet sugar that we ought to pay to our own farmers. Yet the anti-American free tradeparty is clamoring against the principle of Government protective bounties, by which some of the greatest industries of the world have been created.

BAD MONEY MAKES BAD TIMES.

The history of Andrew Jackson's two Presidential terms is crowned with lessons that ought to be heeded by wild-cat financiers. Every evil of reckless political banking was then exemplified, and every one of these evils would be duplicated by the Alliance plan. The idea that State taxation or land loans could be paid out of the profits of wild-cat banking is the most pronounced lunacy. When a man can lift himself by his bootstraps, or make water run up hill, or invent perpetual motion, then he can abolish taxation and run State Governments on the interest derived from loans of fiat money on corn and potato security.

Let us try to show the American farmer, mechanic and laborer that good money is the safeguard of business.

HE BIDS YOU BE OF HOPE.

A Word of Good Cheer for Republicans from James G. Blaine.

I cannot refrain from sending a word of good cheer on the prospects of the Republican party. On all leading measures relating to the industrial and financial interests of the people, we are strong and growing stronger. On the contrary, our opponents are weak and growing weaker. They are divided we are united. If we do not win it is our own fault. We will be justly censurable if, with such great measures involved, every Republican does not feel that he is appealed to personally and that victory in the election depends on him. —James G. Blaine, Feb. 22, 1892.

WOOl AND SHODDY TARIFFS.

II is very rarely that a free trader brings his suppositions within cannon ranee of fact. The free traders who drew up the majority report on Springer's free wool bill are no exception to the rule. Prognosticating the influence of what they call "an oppressive duty" upon raw wools they say that real woolens will be made so dear that shoddy will supersede them, and they rashly affirm that 100,000,000 pounds of shoddy will be manufactured in the United States during the present fiscal year. Shoddy is the product of woolen rags, which are manufactured into a comparatively worthless cloth.

The McKinley bill increased the duty on shoddy, The duty on it has ranged as follows during the past twelve years: 12 cents a pound during the years 1880, 1881 and 1882 10 cents between and including the years 1884 and 1890 30 cents for 1891 and since then. The imports of shoddy, including muugo, rags, flocks, waste and kindred material, have stood: Year. Quantity. Value. 18S0 1,388,233 $297,196 1881 470,873 138,3o3 1-8:2 1,097,641 353.336 1781 874,962 433 7f0 1881 1,316,083 564.6i'4 1S8" 700,221 237/254 1:8 3,059,214 1,( 3'.,897 1.-87 4,834,636 1,£4 5,823 1 83 4,483,325 1,719,154 1'.8 3,662,209 3.477.201 8 4,960,327 2,052 0'.0 lc9! 215,714 53,627

Nothing can be plainer than the teaching of these figures. When the duty on shoddy fell from 12 to 10 cents there was not a very great increase in the imports of this base material until the effects of the reduced tariff on raw wool, enacted in 1883, had been felt, and had been supplemented by a reduced tariff on a base substitute for wool. Then, with reduced protection to our home wool growers, and reduced duty on shoddy, the vile material quickly doubled, trebled and quadrupled its sale. A further evil is to be noticed. While in 1880 shoddy was worth hardly 25 cents a pound, in 1890 it had come to be worth nearly 50. Thus the increased demand for the base material that took the place of the diminished pure wool of the United States so increased its price as to prevent any considerable cheapening in price of the inferior cloth made from it. But in 1891, with higher duty on purer wool, and with increased duty on shoddy, the price of pure wool fell and the demand for shoddy was but about one-eighth of what it was in the preceding year.

The McKinley bill is not working toward an increase of shoddy manufactures it is working toward an increase of pure wool manufactures, but the Springer free wool bill would quadruple the importation and manufactures of shoddy. it'

A SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE.

HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND EXCLUDED FROM HOSPITALS AS INCURABLE.

The Remarkable Experience of Charles Quant as Investigated by an Albany (NY.)' Journal Reporter—A Story of Sur passing Interest.

[Albany (N. Y.) Journal, March 4.] SARATOGA. March 4.—For some time past there have been reports here and elsewhere in Saratoga County of a most remarkable—indeed, so remarkable as to be miraculous—cure of a most severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the use of a popular remedy known as "Pink Pills for Pale People,"

Sledicine

repared and put up by the Dr. Williams Company, Morristown, N. Y., and Brockville. Ont. The story was to the effect that Mr. Charles A. Quant, of Gaiway, who for the last six or eight years has been a great sufferer from creeping paralysis and its attendant ills, and who had become utterly powerless of all selfhelp, had, by the use of a few boxes of the Pinic Pills for Pale People, been so fully restored to health as to be able to walk about the street without the aid of crutches. The fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought it worth his while to go to Qalway to call on Mr. Quant, to learn from nis Hps, and from the observation and testimony of his neighbors, if his alleged cure was a factor only an unfounded rumor. And so ho drove to Galway and spent a day and a night there in visiting Mr. Quant, getting his story and interviewing his neighbors and fellow-townsmen. It may be proper to say that Galway is a Dretty little village of 400 people, delightfully located near the center of tne town of Galway, in Saratoga County, and about 17 miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon inquiry, the residence of Mr. Charles A. Quant was easily found, for everybody seemed to know him, speak well of him, and to be overflowing with surprise aud satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restoration to the activities of enterprising citizenship, for Mr. Quant was born in Galway and had spent most of his life there. Mr. Quant was found at his pretty home, on a pleasant street nearly opposite the academy. In responso to a knock at the door it was opened by a man who, in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was atnome, said: "I am Mr. Quant. Will you como in?" After a little general and oreliminary conversation, andaafter he had been apprised of the object for which the Journal reporter had called upon him, he. at request, told the story of himself and of his sickness and terrible sufferings, and of the ineffectual treatment he had bad. and of his final cure by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheerfully gave assent to its use for publication. He said: "My name is Charles A. Quant. I am 37 years old. I was born in the village of Galway, and, excepting while traveling on business and a little while in Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. My wife tea native of Ontario. Up to about eight

fhen

ears ago I had never been sick and was in perfect health. I was fullv six feet tall, weighed ISO pounds and was very strong. For twelve years I was a traveling salesman for a piano and organ company and had to do, or at least did do, a great deal of heavy lifting, got my meals very irregularly and slept in enough 'spare beds' in country houses to freeze any ordinary man to death, or at least give him the rheumatism. About eight years ago 1 began to feel distress in my stomach and consulted several doctors about it. They all said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia I was treated by various doctors in different places. and took all the patent medicines I could hear of that claimed to be a cure for dvspepsia. But I continued to

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gradually worse for four years. Then began to have pain in my back and legs and became conscious that my legs were getting weak and ray step unsteady, and then I staggered when I walked. Having received no benefit from the use of patent medicines, and feeling that I was constantly growing worse. I then, upon advice, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the different kinds of electric appliances I could hear of, and spant hundreds of dollars for them, but they did me no good." (Here Mr. Quant showed the Journal reporter an electric suit of underwear for which he paid $124,) "In the fall of 18S8 the doctors adyised a change of climate, p,so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and acted as agent for the Estoy Organ Company. While tnere I took a thorough electric treatment, but it only seemed to aggravate my disease, and the only relief I could get from the sharp and distressing pains was to take morphine. They were so intense at times that it seemed as though I could not stand it, and I almost longed for death as the only certain rolief. In September of 1888 my legs gave out entirely, and my left eye was drawn to one side, so that I had double sight and was dizzv. My trouble so affected my whole nervous system that I had to give up business. Then I returned to New York and went to the Roosevelt Hospital, where for four months I was treated by specialists, and the pronounced my case locomotor ataxia and incurable. After I had been under treatment of Prof. Starr and Dr, Ware for four months they told me they had done all they could for me. Then I went to the New York hospital on Fifteeth street, where, upon examination, they said I was incurable and would not take me in. At the Presbyterian hospital they oxamined mo and told me the same thing. In March, 1890,1 was taken to St. Peter's hospital, in Albany, where Prof, H. H. Hun frankly told my wife my case was hopeless that ho could do nothing for me, aud that she had better take me back home and save my money. But I wanted to make a tpial of cProf. Hun's famous skill, and I remained under his treatment for nine weeks, but secured no benefit. All this time I had been growing worso. I had become entirely paralyzed lrom my waist down and had partly lost control of my hands. The pain was terrible my legs felt as though they were freezing and mv stomach would not retain food, and I foil away to 120 pounds. In the Albany hos-

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ital they put seventeen big burns on my one day with red hot irons, and after a few days they put fourteen more burns on and treated me with electricity, but I got worse rather than better lost control of my bowels and water, and upon advice of the doctor who said there was no hope for me, I was brought home, whore It was thought that death would soon come to relieve me of my sufferings. Last September, while in this helples and suffering condition, a friend of mine in Hamilton, Ont., called my attention to the statement of one John Marshall, whose case had been similar to my own, and who had been cured by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. "In this case Marshall, who is a prominent member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, had after four years of constant treatment by the most eminent Canadian physicians been pronounced incurrable, and was paid tne 11,000 total disability claim allowed by the order in such cases. Some months after Mr. Marshall began a course of treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after taking some 15 boxes was fully restored to health. "I thought I would try them, and my wife sent for two boxes of the pills, and I took them according to the directions given on the wrapper of each box. For the first few days the cold baths were pretty severe, as I was so very weak, but I continued to follow instructions as to taking the pills aud treatment, and even iefore I had used up the two boxes of Dills began to feel beneficial effects from hem. My pains were not so bad I felt .armir my head felt better my food bean to relish and agree with me I could straighten up the feeling began to come back into my limbs I bevan to be able to

get about on crutches my eye came bacTt again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills—at a cost of $4—see!—I can, with the help of a ciiuo only, walk all about the house aud yard, "can saw wood, and on pleasant days I walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone I have gained ten pounds 1 feel lileo a new man, and when spring opens I expect to be able to renew my organ and piano agency. I cannot speak in too hign terms of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Paio

People, as 1 know they saved my life after all the doctors had given me up as incurable."

Other citizens of Galway, seeing tho wonderfui cure of Mr. Quant by the Pink Pills foi Pale People, are using them. Frederick Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, said he was finding great benefit from their use, and Mr. Scliultz. who had suffered from chronic dysentery for years, said he had taken two boxes of tho pills and was already cured.

Mr. Quant had also tried faith cure, with experts of that treatment in Albany and Greenville, S. C., but with no beneficial results.

A number of the more prominent citizens of Galway, as Rev. C. E. Herbert, of tho Presbyterian Church Prof. as. E. Kelly, principal of the academy Jolin P. and Harvey Crouch, and Frank and and Edward Willard, merchants, and many others to whom Mr. Quant and his so miraculous cure by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are well known, were pleased to have the opportunity of bearing testimony to the high character of Mr. Quant, ana of verifying the story of his recovery from the terrible affliction from which ho had for so long a time been a sufferer.

Truly, the duty of the physician is not to save life, but to heal disease. The remarkable result from tho use of Dr. William's Pink Pills in the case of Mr. Quant, induced the reporter to make further inquiries concerning them, aud he ascertained that, they are not a patent medicine in the sense in which that term is generally used, but a highly scientific preparation, the result of years of study and careful experiment. They have no rival as a building and nerve restorer, and have met with unparalleled success in the treatment of such diseases as paralysis, rheumatism,sciatica, St, Vitus dance, palpitation of the heart, that tired feeling which affect3 so many, and all diseases depending upon a watery condition of the blood or shattered nerves.

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. They build up tho blood and restore tho glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature.

On further inquiry tho writer found that these pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicino Company, Brockville, Ont., and Morristovvn. N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in bulk by the hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes foils 50, and may bo havl of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Modi cine Company, from eithor address. Tho price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment.

LABOR NOTES.

The clerks are organizing at Elwood. There is a growing interest in unionism at that place.

The clerks and salesmen of Lafayette have succeeded in closing stores at 6 p. m. and all day Sundays.

The Loganspart City Council by unanimous vote decided to employ none but union labor on city work hereafter.

The unions of Logansport take the credit of having carried the election in favor of free gravel roads at the late balloting.

Kokomo is making great headway in organization, The farmer organizations are amalgamating somewhat with the town labor there.

The grand lodge of boilermakers will meet at Columbus the second Monday in May.

The Brotherhood of Painters and Decorators gained ninety new local unions in lB'Jl.

Denver's industrial fair was opened last week by Governor Routt and staff. It promises to be a grand success and is the grandest trades display ever made in the West.

The extensive locomotive shops of the New York, Lake Erie & Western railway at Susquehanna, Pa., have been placed on eight hours' time, a reduction of one hour per day.

A new order is being formed in the South called the Labor Educational Association, its object being to educate the masses of the people by means of labor and economic literature and to qualify speakers and lecturers to battle with the money power and its tools.

The new constitution of the National Granite Cutters' Union, which was recently submitted to a general vote of the local unions, provides, among other things, for the election of a national organizer whose salary is to be $100 per month, besides traveling expenses, and the initia tion fee is to be raised to $25. Tlx union aiso proposes to build a monu ment costing $5,000 for the World's Fair.

J. A. Riis, author of "How th Other Half Live," recently lectured in Washington, D. C. In the 38,00( tenement houses of New York, ht said, dwell 1,300,000 people. Tht tendency is still upward. Where the buildings were four stories higl they are now six where two families once lived on a floor, there are now four. This accounts for the 40,00( annually sent to the islands, the 10, 000 tramps who go to Blackwell's and the 500,000 beggars regis terec for eight years past.

A pine tree in Pennsylvania re cently scaled 8,033 feet of lumber. made seventeen saw logs 12 and 1( feet in length, and the top end of tin butt log was fifty-eight inches in di ameter.

A Plain Precaution. r,

Either to adopt a plain precaution, on sanctioned by experience and approval by med ioal men, or to incur the risk of a medical ob durate and destructive in its various forms intermittent or billious remittent fever, oi dumb ague, which of the two? For every lyp for every phase of malaria, Hostetter's Stom ach Bitters is a specitlc. It acts promptlj —does its work thorougly. As a dcfenct against the malarial taint it is most effective Emigrants to and denizens of regions in tin West where mismatic complaints are period ical visitants, should be mindful of this an use the Bitters as a safe guard. For constip tion, billlousness, rheumatism, "la grippi kidney a»d bladder troubles the Bitters will found no less useful than in oases of of laria. Against the Injurious effects of exp^ sure, bodily or mental fatigue, it in also a va uable protection.

CLEVELAND'S LETTER.

He Defines His Position As

to

the Presidential Nomination*

Says Ho Cannot Bring Himself to Regard Candidacy for the Presidency as Some* thing to Be Won by Aetlvo

Self-Assertion.

Gen. Edward S. Bragg, author of the fa* mous phrase "We love him for the enemies he has made," has been urging ex-Presi-dent Cleveland to make a public avowal of his position in connection with the ap-» proaching Democratic Presidential con* vention. Under date of March 5 he wrote a letter to Mr. Cleveland from Fond du Lac, containing the following paragraph: "Tho danger to the public interests which a failuro of the Democratic party would involve seems to me now to require ,tho open avowal of your willingness to 9ubmit to any service to which your party and tho people may assign you. Many entertain fears that you may decline farther public duty, which none but you can effectually remove, and your voice will be everywhere heard with benefit and effect. I believe your usefulness to thfe

Nation may be greater now than ever in the past to carry to victory the cause of tariff reform and to restore tho blessings of good government to our people and, as your fellow-Democrat and fellow-citizen, I ask you to say to your party and thfe people that your name may be presented to the national Democratic convention as a candidate for its nomination to the Presidency, and that you will acceptthatnoipinat.ion if the convention shall make it, and again undertake tho duties of President if tho people shall, as I believe they will, chooso you for that oftice. Sincerely yours."

In reply the ox-President writes as fol* lows to General Bragg, under date of "Lakewood, N. J., March 9."j "My Dear Sir—Your letter of the 5th inst. is received. I havo thought until now that I might continuo silent on the subject which, under the high sanction of your position as my 'fellow-Democrat and fellow-citizen.' and in your relation as true and trusted friend you present to me. If, in answering your questions, 1 might only consider my personal desires and my individual ease and comfort, my response would be promptly made, and without the least reservation or difficulty. But if you are right in supposing that the subject is related to a dutv that I owe to the country and to my party, a condition exists which makessuv.li private and per* sonal considerations entirely irrelevant I cannot, however, refrain from declaring to you that my experience in the great office of President of the United States hda so impressed me with the solemnity of the trust and its awful responsibilities that I cannot bring myself to regard a candidacy for the place as something to be won b# personal strife and active seif-aasrtiion.^ "J have also an idea tkat the Presidency is pre-eminently tho people's office, and I have been sincere in ray constant advoJ cacy of the effective participation fh po« Iitical affairs on the part of all our citi* zens, Consequently, 1 believe tho people should be heard in tho choice of theitf party candidate, and that they thomsolves should make nominations as directly as is consistent with open, fair and full party organization and methods. "I speak of theso things solely for thfli purpose of advising you that my concept tion of the nature of the Presidential office, and my conviction that the voters o! our party should bo free in the selection of their candidates, preclude the possibility of ray leading and pushing a self-seek-ing canvass for the nomination, even if I had a desire to be again a candidate. •'Believing that the complete supremacy of Democrat ic principles moans increased happiness of our people, 1 am earnestly anxious for the success of the party. I am confident success is still within our reach, but believe this is a time for Democratic thoughtfulness and dHibenttinn. not orttv as to candidatse. but concerning party action upon questions of immense interest ti the patriotic and intelligent voters ol the land, who watch for an assurance of safety as the price of their confidence and support. Yours very truly,

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The Negro's Humor,

From an article by Col. Richard M. Johnson on "Middle Georgia Rural Life," in the Century for March, we quote as follows: "Amonaf the old-time negroes in the region that we have been considering- was much of a humor very interesting. Their speech, by constant contact with the white man's, which it sought to imitate, had a curtness and vivacity never heard on large seaboard or river plantations. In the lightness of the negro's heart, with an imagination that, never sought to be curbed, his words and deportment often had a fun as racy as any lover of that article reasonably could wish to see. Even his complainings, oftener than otherwise, were put forth with a resentment so peculiar as to provoke as well laughter as sympathy. Witness the following anecdote of the return to his old master, not long ago, of one of his former slaves after having served another person for a year: ''Why, Jim. how happens it that you have quit Perkins?" asked tho gentleman. "Well, now Mrse Jack, I gwine up en tell you jes how't is. I wuck fer dah man ail las' year, and .1 wuck hard, en I make him a ood crop.' Well, now, the troof is, I did git f'om him a few, but min' you, jes only ul few, merlasses en tobarker. en one hat, en a 'pa'r o' shoes, en one little thing an'nother. Well. den. Chis'^ mus come, en he say, 'Jim, 1 gwine to make out our 'count.' En den he tuck he piece o' paper, and he pen, en he ink-vial, en he 'gin a-settin' down, and when he thoo wid dat job,' he 'gin a-addin' up, and a-puttin down, en a-kyar'n en he kyar'd en hep on a-kyar'n, ontwel, bless your soul en body! Marse Jackv, when he got thoo, he done kyar's off all what was a-comin' to me! En so makes ud my min', I does, to left* dar, and pewoose my way br.ok to you, whar I knows dey not gwmo. to be no sich kyar'n on ag dem.' Then he joined heartily in the laugh raised by what had just occurred to hl.n as being a good practical joke.

Papa—Johnnie, I heard that you were a bad boy at school to-day. Did ou break some rule and the teacher ad to whip you? Johnnie—No, pap-i i, I didn't break any rule, but thf acher hit me so hard that she broki .ler'a* 1.