Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1888 — Page 4

IHE REPUBLICAN- , TprusHAV. Auqust 0, 1888.

Republican Ticket.

For President, BENJAMIN UAtUUSOty of Indiana. Fov Vice President, lEYI P. MORTON, of New York. l'or Governor ALVIN' 1* II<)\ I V fori.Uiltcn ant Gmirnor, U!A J- < 'IASK. » ..r KtowCutldg Attorney, 3i th Jmlicial Circuit, it alpii w. si ans ha i.i. jnr Jisptr ami Newton counties, «■ JOHN F JOHNSON. For County Tron-urer, iskaki. ii. washnriiN. For County SlierilT, FIG LI l* BUTE. lor Conn Iy Coroner, lUAI. I*. IiKN’JANIIN. ~ for Count y 3ujvcxnr» JAMI.SC TIinAWLS. For County Commissioner, First District, I’KKSTON M yl KRRV. for County (.'oiuuus-ioiser. -'■Hv.oml District. J.vMKtS F WATSON. For County Commissioner, Third District, OLIVER V. TADOU

THE STATE CON VENTION.

Yfce Repwtlieaii State Convention, in lufiiauapolie, yesterday, was a magnificent ?iffnir. The largest aud most enthusiastic ever held in the state; aud the ticket and platform are> simply perfect. For Governor Al' in P. Hovey, of Mt. Vernon, member of Congress from the “Pocket” district and one of Indiana’s bravest and most successful Generals in the war, was nominated on the first ballot. His chief competitor was Lieut.-Gov. ltobertson. Private Ira J. Chase, of Danville, present State Commander of the G. A. it:, was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor, by acclamation, Judges Berkshire, Coffey and Olds were nominated for the Supreme bench, in the same manner. John L. Griffith is the candidate for Be porter of the Supreme Court. The present state Auditor, Secretary, Treasurer and Superintend'€nt of Public Instruction were renominated, by acclamation. The Presidential Elector for the Tenth distriot is Frank 'Swigart, of Cass Co., and Contingent Elector, D. L. Bishop of Kentland, On the Temperance question the platform stands squarely ip favor of local option.

REPUBLICAN SPEECH.

Jodge Adams, of She.lbyvilie T a distinguished Republican orator, will address the people of Rensselaer and vicinity, upon the political issues, this Thursday Evening, Aug. Oth. ' at the Court House. All are cordially invited to .attend.

THE GREAT SOLDIER IS DEAD.

Geo. Phil. H. Sheridan, made his first and only surrender at 10:20 p. m., on Monday night, August 6,1858, Up to within an hour of his death he seemed bright and hope- , ful, end there was nothing to indicate the sudden relapse and dis- - solution. At 9:30 he was suddenly attacked with Leart failure, which, failing to yield to the usual remedies, the General gradually sank into complete unconsciousness, from which he quietly and speedily passed into the last long sleep of death. Another great hero of the war has gone. Again a loyal ration mourn* ,"n<t weeps; Mot hits glory ami his fame are living on; While love and honor, guard the tomb wherein he sleei>s.

Every Repnulican should stand > firm for Republican principles and Harrison and Morton. v - England and the rebel brigadiers worked together from 1661 to 1866. ’ They are at it again bat by different methods this time.

w. L. Scott, thq; great coal baron and Democratic member of-” Congress, is a coni monopolist ami a free-trader. Whenever he crooks his fiuger coal takes a rise. “Down with the war tariff of 47 per cent.”— Chorus of Democratic newspapers. > f , While.Ahe Mills hill levies a ►tariff of G 8 per cent., upon sugar and 100 per cent, upon rice. Gyeat is Tariff Reform. A “war tariff” which averages 47 per cent, is a dreadful thing,, in the eyes of the democrats, but the Mills tell lays a tariff pf ONE 11 UN DU ED per cent, upon rice and SIXTY-EIGHT per cent, upon sugar. Sugar and rice are products of the Solid South. Seel Let us see! Isn’t the local publication which last week advocated the establishment in Rensselaer of a Chiuese laundryman, to starve out the poor widows who already liave far too little to do, a professed exponent of the party which has so much to say about Mr. Harrison’s so-called Chinese record?

If. wages are so mftcli 'better in England and other free-tmcle countries of the old world, why do not laborers leave this country and go to England, France and Belgium by the hundreds of thousands? •; More than half a million immigrants came to Americaduiingthe year ending Jane 30,1888. Will some democrat please explain?

How can any man of common sense and common judgment fail to see the hypocritical disliofiesty and demagogism of the democratic demand for tariff reform, when the Mills bill takes off the entire duty of 55 per cent, from wool, 40 per cent, from salt, 17 per cent, from lumber, 35 per cent, from fruits, 20 per cent, from hemp and flax aud lets all these productions of Republican states or districts in, duty free, and yet puts a duty of 100 per cent, upon rice, and one of 68 per cent, upon sugar, both production a of democratic states?

Ip tjbe Forum for August, Geo. \\. Gable propounds the following conundrum: “What shall the negro do?” That depends upon circumstances. We think he should vote the Republican ticket whenever lie can do so honestly and can have it honestly counted. And if any democrat shoots a negro because of his politics, then he or his friends should shoot the democrats who shot th 6 negro. They would then soon receive the respect due them from that class who now deny them the rights guaranteed by the Goustitution of the United States.

The worst enemies of every cause are its fanatical friends. The most potent foes in the way ; of the grand march of Temperance Reform, to-day, is the little band of enthusiasts who think there is only one way of combatting intemperance and who denounce as sinners in league with Satan every I person who does not fall in with ! their way of thinking and acting. ! Who are daily embittering, the iminds of hundreds against the very cause of Temperance itself, by their intolerance and bigottry ; and their altempis to turn every I temperance meeting, "of every kind, aud in every place and on every day, into a political pow- | wow.- Who lend themselves, as willing dupes aud tools, of malig- ; uant sore-head Republicans or Scheming and dishonest Democrats, to pull down and destroy the only party that ever, in any Northern state, city or towu, gave the people any advanced temperance legislation.

Some democrats claim the Mills bill is not open to jtlie charge of striking at a distinctively northern industry when it takes the tariff off of wool, because as they claim Texas produces more wool than any other state in the Union. But let us look into that matter, a little; Texas has more sheep than

iny other state, but is does no! produce neorly so much wool a? Ohio. The sheep in' TeSrifc'are kept more for the production oi mutton. Furthermore, .there if no general demand from the people of Texas to have wool protected, and no danger of losing the state to democrats incurred by Removing the tariff' upon it. The reason for this is apparent "to anyone who is informed as to the condition of the sheep raising indus--1 try in Texas. There, unliktf the situation iu Ohio, it is ip only a few hands, not more than one man in a hundred,probably, owns sheep in Texas, and as the sheep which are owned, are kept in .immense flocks, on the open ranges, they spoil the pasture for the raising of other kinds of livestock, and it thus happens that the great mass of the people of Texas thoroughly hate the sheep raising bittiness will be glad to see it placed at a disadvantage, by the withdrawal of the tariff on wool. It is therefore apparent that the democrats sacrifice nothing and risk nothing, from a partisan point of view by putting wool on the free list.

The Constitution of tke Confederate States, among other things, prohibited the laying of “any duties or taxes on importations from foreign countries, to promote or foster any branch of industry.” Five of the eight members of Congress, whom Speaker Carlisle appointed as members of the Ways and Means Committee, had sworn to maintain the Confederate constitution with their lives, in the Con federate 1 -army. Are they less free-traders to-day than they- were in IS6I to 1865? No. Those men were so appornted by Mr. Carlisle after frequent consultations with President Cleveland. ,

Richard Taylor, a LieutenantGeneral in the. Confederate army says: J‘We made two great mistakes. Had we avoided them we should have conquered you. The first was, that we did not substantially destroy the protective features of the tariff in the session of 1857 and 1858, by an act which provided a rapid sliding scale ..to free trade. ** * * *, We could have passed such a law and held it tight bn you till it closed the furnaces, work shops, woolen and notton mills, and steel and bar iron works of the whole North and West, and scattered your workmen over the prairies and territories. When the war for the Union came you would not have been ready for the war, you could not have armed and equipped and put in the field a large army nor built a large navy. You would Have been without supplies, machinery and workmen, and you would have been without money and credit.” Does it not look as though the Democratic party is now tending to that point in its legislation? Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, of Maryland, who is president of the M nryland Confederate society, oh the 6th of June last, upon the day they decorated the Confederate soldiers’ graves, said: “Thesouth is progressing. She is not dead. '’These' old Confederate soldiers and their descendants elect ninety • out of every hundred congress- ! men, thirty-four U. S. senators, and the President of the United 7 States. The government of the ‘ United States is controlled by Confederate soldiers. It is always ! the case that when you get into a position to command respect you j will get respect. These old Confederate soldiers are not idle.”

Free Trade is Unjust to the Farmer.

_ - V The advocates of free trade are especially earnest in their appeals to the western farmer, as the voter most likely to furnish aid in overturning the existing fiscal policy of this country and once more trying that of England, In their efforts to this end they are untiring, ingenious, unscrupulous. possible: resort remains untried, no illustration unused, no appeal loug neglected. They seek to inflame the worthy ambition to better oue's condition in life by i uring a mythical market which is at once both the cheapest for the

- —” ' ' ' —" • V « -r - | buyer and the dearest for tke seller. They seek to create sectional prejudice by persistent repetitions in. speeches and writings of the antithesis “ Western farmers;?” Eastern manufactures’’— just as if the West had do manufactures, the East no agriculture. They ignore! " the common-sense inference that, if the people of the l imited States paid the duty on foreign competing articles sold in this country, the foreigner would be by no means so persistent for the removal of oin' tariff. In view |of such tactics it will be well for I farmers to keep in mind certain ■ facts which with practical men are ■ likely to, outweigh all the theories of British free traders and their attorneys in the United States. Money is necessary' to the existence of government. Under our liscal system the main reliance of ►States, Counties aud municipalities is upon taxation of property —the exception being the sale of licenses for carrying on certain lines of business. Money raised by taxation come from owners of factories, machinery and other personal property, as well as from farms and farm equipments, s and is the price paid by the owners for defense of their rights in property and the peaceable pursuit of the business of their choice. To exempt any man’s property from taxation would be an injustice to all compelled to pay taxes. Yet this is just what free trade proposes to do. American owners of farms, houses, machinery, etc., are to be taxed, while the same rights they enjoy are to be given free to others —to men who owe no allegience to our government amLwho seek profits from trade here to be spent in other countries. Hay, barley, wheat, wool, etc., are grown in large quantifies by Canadian farmers who nevfer paid a cent of taxes towards the support of our government. If these men prefer to send their products here to be sold in our markets, why should they not be taxed, at least as much as our farmers are taxed, for the privilege? But the free trader says no, let the foreigner have our markets without cost, although the American farmer’s taxes need to be increased in consequence, and then complacently suggests that if growing such articles under this one-sided arrangement proves unprofitable our farmers can turn their attention to some other productions. Protection insures for our own citizens not only the first, but always the best, chance in the markets of the country they have Helped to build up. This is both patriotism and good business policy. Its opposite is the un-American policy advocated by the President and other free trade advocates, aud for which they have received the plaudits of the Cofcden Club and every prominent journal in. Great Britain. It remains- to be seen if a majority of American farmfers agree with them.

Minnesota Is All Right.

The fiUiiierri of Minnesota know thaf this state has been built up and developed under protection; that our magnificent transportation system has been constructed and perfected under protection; that the state has been dotted with sclioolhouses, churches and other facilities for intellectual and moral development under protection; that great cities• and hundreds of small towns have grown up under protection; that factories have beeir established and a home market created under protection, and that the Valuo of their farms lias increased and is constantly increasing Under protection. They do not believe in free trade aiid consequently are not goiug to vote for Democracy.— Minneapolis Tribune.

Henry Watterson’s Frank Expressions.

Tariff reduction of “the Henry Watterson kind” is the tariff reduction of theSt. Louis platform, aud none other. It mav be that I have been more earnest and insistent in the matter of urgency, but nowhere and at no time liave I exceeded the demands made by tlio St: Louis platform, which I not only voted for in committee and reported to the convention, but which is an exact reproduction of my own view delivered over and over again. —lnterview iu New York Star, The Democratic party, except in the persons of imbeciles hardly worth mentioning, is not on the fence. It is a free trade party or it is nothing,—CourierJournal. n

How They Vote in Oregon.

If the voting iu Oregon by the men in the fields, the factories, the counting rooms and workshops is any indication whatever of the voting that will, be done by the like sort of men elsewhere, then the Democratic party will be overwhelmingly beaten/ In Oregon the politicians of. neither party know how these men were going to vot e. They kept their own counsel, went to the polls with tlieir ballots and wlie%.tlie polls were closed the political managers on both sides were full of uncertainty and apprehension as to the result. The count, however, was amazing—amazing to both sides -—Portland Oregonian. ■

The Same as in 1840.

r One of the objections t<? Vatl Bnren in 1840 was his hesitating andfeowardly conduct in relation to complications an the Canadian frontier; and the same objection lie? against Cleveland in 1888. ■ It is characteristic of Democratic presidents always that they favor Canada and England at the expense of their own-country. —Bt, Louis Globe-Democrat.

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