Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 25, Hope, Bartholomew County, 13 October 1892 — Page 4

HOPE, REPUBLICAN. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. JAY C. SMITH, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Subscription, $1.00 per Year, In Advance. For Advertising Rates, Apply at Office. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1892. FOB PBESIDENT, BENJAMIN HARRISON, Of Indiana. FOII VICE-PRESIDENT, WHITELAW REID, Of New York. STATE TICKET. For Governor, IRA J. CHASE, of Hendricks. For Lieutenant-governor, THEODORE SHOCKNBY of Randolph. For Secretary of State, AARON JONES, of St. Joseph. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. COONS, of Marlon. For Treasurer of State, F. J. SC HOLTZ, of Yanderburg. For Attorney-general, J. D. FEREALL, of Lagrange. For Supreme Court Reporter, GEORGE P. HAYWOOD, of Tippecanoe. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, JAMES H. HENRY, of Morgan. For State Statistician, IMEON J. THOMPSON, of Shelby. For Judges of Supreme Court, Second District,—JOHN D. MILLER. Third District—BYRON K. ELLIOTT. Fifth District—ROBERT W. McBRIDE. For Appellate Judge, First District, A. G. CAVINS, of Green. For Appellate Judge, Second District, O. S. BAKER, of Bartholomew. For Appellate Judge, Third District, JAMBS B. BLACK, of Marion. For Appellate Judge. Fourth District, M. 9. ROBINSON, of Madison. For Appellate Judge, Fifth District, EDGAR C. CRUMP ACKER, of Porter. COUNTY TICKET. Representative—THOMAS E. DAVIDSON. Sheriff—RICHARD CONN. Treasurer-HENEY NOLTING. Coroner—Dr. G. E. REYNOLDS. Surveyor—LEWIS VAN HORN. Assessor-W. H. JACKSON. Commissioner. First District—A. J. ALEXANDER. Third District-WM. E. MOFFAT. TO OUR READERS. With this week’s isshe the undersigned assumes control of the Republican. It is the intention to make this the best paper published in Hope, both for subscribers and advertisers. In this way it can be made of material advantage to the business of the town. We expect to give you a paper whose appearance you will gladly welcome each week to your home. We want the news, first, last and all the time. If you have a friend coming to see you, if you are preparing for a visit yourself, whisper it in our ear, for we want to know it. The news is what we are seeking. In politics the paper wjjl be -what its name indicates, supporting the present administration in its acts and the Republican nominees for office. Indiana’s son has given our country a splendid administration; we are proud of it and earnestly hope that when the votes are counted next month the Hoosier state will be found leading the ranks in support of her favorite son. We want to see many new names added to our list during the next few weeks, and hope we may secure a good agent in every neighborhood. Our job printing department is putting out good work. Our new stock will be here in a few days and we can furnish you all kinds of work at reasonable rates. Hoping to merit your favor I am Yours for mutual profit, Jay C. Smith. While men are changing their political views and adopting the principles of opposing parties, there is no excuse for Republicans relaxing one whit in their vigilance and industry. From the very start it has been apparent to every thoughtful person that neither of the great parties would have an easy victory in the coming election. The winner must succeed by dint of hard work. Republicans must be thoroughly

alive to this fact and not allow victory to slip from their hands. More than once this great party has gained the victory against great odds, and in the present contest, with so many advantages, they can blame no one but themselves if they are losers. The magnificent energy which has shown itself in the past history of the party must again show itself and the result of Nov. 8th will be assured. Every man watch iiis man. Our friends of the opposing party who are interested in a revenue tariff may find a little food for thoughtful reflection in the following extract from the annual message of President Fillmore in 1851. It is the testimony of a man holding the most responsible position in the gift of the American prople, and one whose opportunity for observing the effect of the revenue tariff were not surpassed. Here are his words: “The value of our exports of breadstuffs and provisions, which it was supposed the incentive of a low tariff and large importations from abroad would have greatly augmented, has fallen from $68,000,000 in 1847 to $21,000,000 in 1851, with almost a certainty of a still further reduction in 1852. The policy which dictated a low rate of duties on foreign merchandise, it was thought by those who established it, would tend to benefit the farming population of this country by increasing the demand and raising the price of our agricultural products iu foreign markets. The foregoing facts, however, seem to show, incontestibly, that no such result has followed the adoption of this policy. ” Mr. Curtis, the great constitutional lawyer, of Richfield Springs, New York, writes as follows: I proceed to give you my views of the protective issue as it has been made by the two political parties in the present campaign. First, however, let me observe, by way of preface to what I am about to say, that, although I have for very many years acted and voted with the Democrat party, I can not do so in the coming presidential election. A vote for the nominee of the late Democrat national convention will mean a vote for free trade. It will mean a vote for the doctrines enunciated in the platform, which denounces the Republican tariff as a fraud on the great majority of the American people for the benefit of a few, stigmatizes a protective tariff as unconstitutional, and proposes to lay duties for obtaining revenue only, without regard to the protection of our own industries. I can not by my own vote affirm anything so false as this. A man must pay some regard to truth in politics as well as in other things. To affirm what I believe to be untrue political doctrine is something that I never did, and I shall not do it now. I consider the antiprotection “plank” in the Democrat platform to be as false as anything that I have ever known to be asserted in a similar instrument. If it had said that the existing tariff needs revision, I might have concurred. But it has gone the whole length of denying that any protection to our domestic industries is within the constitutional power of Congress, I repudiate this doctrine, because I know better. This is not the first time that I have differed from my party. I was born and bred in the state of Massachusetts, and lived there until I was fifty years old. I was educated as a Whig in politics, and I learned constitutional law from Daniel Webster and Joseph Story. In future communications I shall show that in laying duties on foreign products it is perfectly constitutional for Congress to lay them so as to encourage our American industries, and that a tariff for revenue only would bring ruin upon the government and upon the people. George Ticknor Curtis. Great demonstrations are being made in New York city this week in honor of the Columbian celebration. On Sunday the weeek began with beautiful weather. The main streets of the city were decorated with a perfect sea of the red, white and blue. In many of the churches the

pulpits were decorated in the same manner and many of the pastors gave an address in commemoration of the handing of Columbus. On Monday the public schools gave their display, in which thousands of youth* ful hearts beat high with joy and thousands of pattering footsteps kept time to the soul-stirring patriotic airs. A unique feature was the marching of three hundred Indians from the school at Carlisle, Pa., sturdy young warriors who are fighting their way to the front of our American civilization. These showed admirably that the more humane methods now used are surely and rapidly advancing in the scale of civilization the race who were in sole possession of our land when Columbus first set foot on our shores. The exercises continue through the week with a naval procession, military parade and general rejoicing and banqueting. The shaft of the Columbus statue which is being erected is a single stone twenty-seven feet high and four feet in diameter at the base. The statue of Columbus is to surmount it and the entire height will be seventy-eight feet. This week will long be remembered by the thousands of New Yorkers and their patriotism will be quickened by the great demonstrations. It is a fact which nobody disputes that our country is passing through a period of great prosperity. New lines of industry are being developed, capital is seeking investment in our land in larger amounts than at any previous time. The profits of our own people finds abundant opportunity for investment here, while foreign capital is coming in a steady current to our American stock companies, mines and mercantile establishments. Should the voters say on Nov, 8th that they want a change of policy in our government, all these investors would at once become conservative. They would hesitate to invest in a business which might be destroyed by one fell stroke of legislation. Business would become dull and no one would suffer from such a condition so soon as the laboring man. Capital can live in idleness because it has plenty upon which to depend for some time, but the laborer must have his wages from week to week in order to maintain himself and family. Even if by careful economy he has succeeded in saving a little sum for a rainy day, that little is soon exhausted when he is without work. It is to his interest then to see that a policy which fosters the investment of capital is maintained. It is to his interest to see that the protection of American industries is maintained. It is to his interest to cast his vote for the Republican nominees, Harrison and Reid. A business man of Indianapolis, a former Democrat, gives as his reason for supporting the Republican party this year a business man’s reason, viz., “because to change our President at this time would be in my opinion an interruption of the greatest prosperity this or any country ever saw, and to vote the Democratic state ticket is to indorse a reckless extravagance that has involved us in taxation the like of which we never had in Indiana before, and which is so high that many people will suffer on account of it if not be driven to bankruptcy entirely.” The effort of Democratic organs to show that the rate of duty under the McKinley bill is the highest in the history of the country, falls flat when confronted by the figures. On dutiable goods alone the ad valorem rate was higher in 1887 than now; and on the entire importation of goods including those on the free list the rate is one of the lowest in the history of the country. The editor of the Brownstown Herald, one of our Democratic exchanges, surely forgot himself when, in giving an account of a wedding near that place, he stated that the groom “holds a lucrative position in the American tin works,” at El wood. Alas! that so much solid argument showing that America could not produce tin should be overthrown by such a casual remark.

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