Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1891 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

Bopnbllcans In Both Ohio and lowa Preparing for Fight. A M’KINLEY DAY. The Republicans of Niles. Ohio are making great preparations for Major McKinley opening speech at that place next Saturday. Ex-President K. B. Haves ha 3 been invited and has expressed'‘his intention to be with the throng on that day. Colonel A. L. Conger, of Akron, one of the vice presidents of the day, says: “I will come and bring a strong delegation.” A cavalry company, fifty strong, is expected overland from Sharpsville,Pa.. a distance of twentysix miles. The arch at the corner of Mill and Furnace streets, representing the major in the war, will be surrounded by a full battery of guns with the requisite number of men, all of life size, and made exclusively of American tin. Vice-President T. R. Morgan, of the Morgan Engineering Company, at Alliance,. writes: “Coming on a special train 500 strong. ,r J. 3. Burrows, of Paines vilie, says:—“We are coming with a strong delegation. Have chartered a special.” Vice-President Col. E. J. Obi was in the city, and stated that the people of Mineral Bridge were coming en masse from that town, and would have in their industrial display the largest object that was ever seen on wheels in Northern Ohio, Preparations are being made to accommodate 30,000 people.

HONORING GARFIELD’S SON. A special from Painesville, Ohio, says: Lake county will take a hand in the convention of the Twety-fourth and Twenty-fifth senatorial districts, which meets in Cleveland September 1. It has been twenty years since Lake county has had a State Senator of its own, and the Republicans here are of opinion that it is now time to urge the claims of the county before the convention. With remarkable unanimity James R. Garfield, of Mentor, is the chosen candidate. He is a rising young lawyer, whose worthy object is to make his own way and reputation in the world and to stand entirely upon his own merits. He is a thoughtful student of political affairs. For some time Mr, Garfield has been a member of the village council of Mentor, and it is largely through his efforts that the town has the best public library in Lake county. He is actively interested in agriculture and owns and superintends an excellent farm near his Mentor home. His broad and liberal education fits him admirably for legislative duties, and his affable and generous nature and his true manliness make him a favorite whereever he is known. Lake county will honor him with a solid delegation und go to the convention on the merits of its candidate and the just claim which it has upon the senatorship at this time.

REPUDIATING FREE SILVER. Michael D. Harter, the Democratic ' Congressman, from Mansfield, Ohio. I who has repudiated the free silver , plank in the Ohio Democratic plat- j form, makes this point against the' silver boomers: “Perhapes I ought to call your at- j tention to the fact that these same J silver people who live in Nevada, j Tdaho, etc., while advocating a law to compel the wage earners of Ohio to take 75 cents worth-qf their silver as full payment for the working- j man’s dollar’s worth of sweat, are ! careful in all their notes, contracts J and agreements to stipulate, that every one of their debtors shall pay these same silver advocates exclusively in gold coin of the United States of the present standard of j weight and purity. Yes; and if it is an interest bearing debt, these silver patriots also provide that all the interest due them shall be paid in gold.

SECRETARY FOSTER CONFIDENTSecretary Foster, in an interview on the Ohio campaign, says: “I have never seen the Republicans go into a fight with a better supply of ginger, or sand, or pluck, or whatever you choose to call it. They are wideawake and thoroughly in earnest, and I see no reason in the world why they should not elect their entire ticket by a sweeping majority. I have felt this way ever since the State convention, and since this visit to Ohio I feel so more than ever. The thfrd party fiasco has opened the eyes of the people, and since its nominations and the platform adopted the people know pretty well where it stands. In their platform those people declared themselves in favor of the government manufacturing afcfl selling at cost all the liquor That ifr-tt§€*L in th,s country. This is their idea of government control of the traffic. If this policy were to prevail I imagine would come within the jurisdiction of the Treasury Department, and if I were then Secretary it would be my duty to appoint all the bar keepers of the country. How would that be for patronage? A friend of mine the other day, speaking of the Alliance, de dared that he saw very little differ :nce between the Alliance and the Democratic party. The Democrats and the Alliance people each wanted free trade. Each of them wanted free silver. Democrats wanted free whisky and the Alliance wanted it at cost. This, my friend thought, was the only difference between them. If there is any other it has probably not yet been discovered.'*

60CKLE68 ORATORS FAIL IN OHIO. A Sandusky special to the Pitts j burg Dispatch (tod. Bern.) says

About 10,000 people were gathered at the farmers’ picnic at Buggies’ Grove to-day. It is fourteen miles from this place. Most of them came to tariff-advocate speak. Nothing like these open air annual meetings are held in Pennsylvania except, possibly, at Williams’ Grove. At present all the farmers here talk about is the tarifi and; the financial question. As usual, the Kansas representativas were on the ground getting in the»r work. One was a collarless and sockless individual who looked as if he had not seen a day’s work for years, and was too lazy to eat. Bv the side of the well fed and well dressed Buckeye granger he was de-_ cidedly out of place. It must be said at this stage that the unkempt and careless emissaries of the People’s party are not adding anything to its strength. They remind one of the Salvation Army leaders, men and women who could not succeed at anything. These leaders may have done good work in Kansas, where the farmers vrerg ip distress through bad crops, but in a prosperous State like Ohio their mission is ridiculous. This seemed to be the concensus of opinion among the farmers in Ruggle’s Grove to-day. The Alliance advocates, whenever they got a chance, would engage in discussions with the farmers, and at times little bevies of men could be seen all over the ground earnestly arguing about the present condition of affairs. Democrats and Republicans alike were drawn into the contests, and the third party have no use for either. The Dispatch man enjoyed the novel debates and was an amused, listener. One farmer charged the Alliance, in being opposed to trusts, is not consistent in trying to get the grangers to hoard their wheat. He wanted to know if this was not the trust idea. The Alliance man was not daunted, and denied most vehemently that such an order had been issued. “What you people need in Ohio,” said the sockless specimen to a crowd, “is more money.” “Yes” replied a democratic disciple of Agricola, “we would have all the money we used if you fellows out there would pay who borrowed from us. You growl about mortgages and high interest in your state. You had better put up some of the interest first. I have not seen either principal or interest since I loaned my money. I want to say that the loan associations lost more money in Kansas than the poor afflicted farmers. Why don’t you work f6r your money as we do? It would be far better for your people now if you had not borrowed a cent:”

M’KINLEY TO THE FARMERS. Major McKinley, at the farmers’ picnic at Ceylon, Ohio, last Saturday, said: “At the Agricultural Society meeting at Cedar Point, a few days : ago, the * Hon. James E, Campbell addressed your society and undertook to explain to you the reason why the farmers do not do better. He i said he had owned two farms for < years and made no money out of i them, and had traded them off for j manufacturing interests because of ! it. It was evident,” he said, “that Mr. Campbell farmed by proxy and | did not look after his farms himself. :It is said.” he continued, “that the majority of the farms of this county are mortgaged. This is not an evidence of poverty since it shows that i THE PAjBMER IS FORGING AHEAD by paying for his farm in small pay ments. apd bv doing so he is taking it more easy and at the same time paying for his farm, which is the best evidence of prosperity. I heard a very able man who was addressing a much larger body than this one, just after they had arisen from a : most bountiful dinner, get up aud tell the people that they were starving. [Laughter.] What we want to do is that which is best for this country, and we do not want to consult together as Republicans, Democrats, Prohibitionists, or the People’s party, but to consult as to the best plans for all, and not for individuals. How shall we raise the money to conduct the government? Shall we tax ourselves, or our land, or our labor, to do it, or our products or investments, or the products of other countries seeking a market in the United States? We must raise $360,000,000 every year to maintain the government — $1,000,000 everv twenty-four hours! Think of it! It would never do to borrow that sum of money. Shall we raise it by direct taxation, or shall we raise it by indirect taxation? Write on your ballot what yoq you must settle the question as to raising this money. If we do not raise it by either of these methods we must raise it by a tariff. There are two kinds of tariffs. One is a free trade revenue tariff, the other a protective taFife'-A revenue tariff has but one object m Sjew and that is to pul money into theKTreasury. The protective tariff has alts uNs the idea of putting money into "ther-Treasury; and also looking for the interest*. ot all by putting money into the pockets of the peoplte. England puts her tariffs on foreign goods, the like ol which she can not produce. You can not have revenue unless you have importations, and you con not have large revenue unless you have largi importations. We have got in Olin the largest pottery in the World, anc I have seen it builded, and J helpe: to build it by helping to increase thtariff on that article of ware. I an ; in favor of the foreign goods for tax ation, but I prefer the domesti goods for consumption. Who,pay the tax? Ask the Canadian farme who pays the tax. He’ll tell yon. ”