Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — Exports to Cuba. [ARTICLE]

Exports to Cuba.

Republican recTproc'fty i« alreadv doing effective work in gaining new markets for the American producer. Our exports to Cuba of corn,;,wheat.. Hour, butter, cheese and refined petroleuifffoT theihree months ending March 31, 1891, w&re —8342,831. ’ . t WBUESS* For the porrespoudiug period ending March. 31, 1892, they 'were ffifiimaS .... • t • ■ ; -dfhere was a time when popular euthusiasim counted for a good deal at national conventions, for then it was really what its name implies. Now however, th 6 whooping business has been reduced to a system, is done by contract, so to speak and counts for very little.

The Minneapolis ticket is a winner, no matter who is pomiuated at Chicago or what deals the democrats’try to make with the alleged.third partv.

Hill has about given npjill hope of getting the nomination, but in* intends to njake. things very unpleasant for Mr- G rover Cleveland, at Chicago. He bus had considerable experience in t hat line, and unless Tammany sells him out he will succeed. , ,

It has lieen stated that Hon. John F. Johnson, of Newton county, 5 would again be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Representative in the State legislature, but Mr. Johnson writes a card to the Kentland Enterprise saying he is not a candidate and that his “name will not go before the convention.” We guess Mr. Johnson means just what he says. -

The statement that President Harrison was renominated by Democratic states is not true. He received 284 votes from the states that went Republican in 1888, to 114 for Blaine and 160 for McKinley, or a majority of ten votes ovei both, and had Blaine alone been voted for against him, his majority would have been larger by about 27 of the Ohio votes, that went to McKinley. Had every Democratic state been excluded, Harrison would still have been th.j choice of the convention.

This is the way “Uncle Jerry” Busk answers an application made by an American who runs a stock farm in Canada, for exceptions in the departmental regulations that would allow the stock raised by him to enter this country free of duty: “If Mr. Todd takes advantage of the cheap land and cheap labor to be found in English provinces, spending his money for the improvement of the community there located, and paying taxes for the support of a foreign government, I do not see how he can expect an exception to be made in his favor, so that the products of his farm can reach American markets duty free.” In spite of all the “yoopiog aud yelling” the fictitious enthusiasm, and the more tangible pressure ..brough t to bear upon the tions to the Minneapolis convention, it is much to the credit of the delegates t > that convention, that out of the several hundred that went there instructed by theireonstitutents to vote for Harrison, on ly three were f oiud wanting when the decisive moment came. Those three were nil from Chicago, and in palli tit'ii.of jheir treachery, :: may b& said that their* sense of lmrror wrs probably vitiated by reading that politically most dishonest and unreliable of newspapers, the Chicago Tribune, which openly and shamelessly advised the. tCeac her y. • - A Howard county farmer, who was in attendance at the People’s Party convention gave thesefis hi of that Ixjdy to-ilie Kokcrno Dispatch: ‘ The convention was a,'disappointment io me, not so much in its numbers as in its person el. I had heard so much about the inngw movement was making onlbe old had really begun to believe there was something in it. Judging by Friday’s convention this is rot, pure aud simple. The same old faces that, haye been present at every meeting of this sort for the past ten years were there. It was a galvanization of the greenback party, nothing more. The no%inees are ancient greenbackers add professional laboring men without exception, and it was this element that dominated the convention from begi uuing to end. The farming element, on which the new psrty builds up so much, was conspicuous by its absence. The F. M. B.A. and Alliance men were few and far between. The respect for this element is shown in the fact thatpthe convention refused to andotpe-1 prohibition, though the national F. M. B- A. and the national Alliance as well as their state conventions, declared emphatically for it.” *