Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

" " * r **• **“• “°* r<i ° f UowDwoa»Ut'u» ten*. ”*° U CHg&roi-Ary oi oiiii.c ' derson, who constitute a majorityof the Board of State PrlntingCommisSioners. in electing, ia violation of Chris. Stein as derk of the |§||BSii*jl, a mad who has no knowledge Ortapcrience in the printing business, and Who at one time was au employer erf scab workingmen in Indianapolis. A precedent had been established by former administra Vions recbgn izing'o rganbed labor in , giving out this appointment. Strong brought to bear on Mr. Matthews by ing that said appointment be revoked, bat he positively refused to .: - jit.:,.. shisdirect so organized labor, and the appointment of a non-union Sped Inexperienced man as clerk of the State Printing Board, justified Indianapolis Typographical Union in passing the following resolutions of WfitRRAS, The law requires that the clerk of the State Board Of Printing Commissioners shall havot/aNs practical knowledge of tbejqriutiag business; and Whwikas, Messrs.’ Claude Matthews, Secretary of State, and J. O. Henderson, Auditor of State, a majority of said Board, in violation of ti» provisions of this law, and in ut ter disregard of the request of or- .. jgtaized labor, have appointed to the said position a man who has neither experience *»or knowledge of any blanch of the printing business, and is unknown to the printing craft. W&BRKAB, Said appointment was made largely through tkeinfluenceof a man whose hatred to trades unions is well known; and In view of the fact that ono member of the State Board received valuable aid from union printers in the late campaign to refuting certain charges against ests', therefor© _Besolved, That Typographical Upion No. 1 hereby enters its protest against said unlawful action on the part of said majority of the State Printing Board, and denounces their ition as a violation of a public trust and dangerous to public interests, as well as n flagrant disregard of the ttjtoOMtble request of organized labor. Resolved, That the Secretary send at copy of these resolutions, under wealof the Union, to Secretary of State Matthews and Auditor of State Henderson, nod to all sister unions throughout the State; that they be published in the Labor Signal and Typographical Journal, and that our delegates lay the same before the Central Labor Union and request its Organized labor throughout the Stale should remember that the passage of the foregoing resolutions did not involve any political trick by preventing an honest and truthful expression of opinion by the members of the above named union, but are a faithful statement of indignation of that body and union men everywhere at the manner in which Messrs. Hen demon and Matthews treated the printers of the State. The author of the resolutions is a life-long Democrat, and was then and is now a Democratic office holder -in Indian The tbove resolutions still remain upon the minutes of Typographical Union No. 1, of Indianapolis, and have never been rescinded. The People Know and Appro date a Good Hung-Wm-W3mm Baum, Ugfct »nd Ken.lnUc.ntt With the EUpabUeon*—Tho Fore* 811 - Ii(*llf Pmlsos Harrison—- ▲ Prosperous Country, __ That the editor of the New York Sun is ridiculing his party is now quite dear. He has refused to accept any part of the Chicago platform as sertoos, has made a new issue tor Mr. Cleveland, and lias gone to Europe to escape voting for him. Mr. Dana enjoys * joke, and on the other side of the Atlantic he can laugh heartily at the Democrats taking seriously his cry of “ No Negro Domination” after he had refused to dignify one piank in their platform with his approval. The ridiculous position of the Democratic party in taking up the old worn out CTf oftheSouth twenty years after Southerners bad ceased to believe in ft is shown by the Hon. Albert Griffin in a speech at Baltimore last W66k Mr. Griffin is a Southern man by .jMsthjlßßA.has spent most of his life %in the South. lie asks the question Why should any intelligent South enter disregard his own interests end those of hi* family, State and Nation in Ordhr to help tho Demo eratic party and the politicians of the black belt who control it? 1.. Answering this question Mr. Gr i fli n •hows that the rulers of the black their dealing with a’d but t hen

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f olutionize State affairs whi£bar6 hot? passed in JS66, before the reconstruction acts of Congress. These laws “prohibited the uegroca from renting or leasing any lands or ten* ements except in‘, incorporated 1 towns or cities, la which the corporate authorities shall control the same.” Another section of this act providsd that every negro who had not a home, and a license from the mayor to show that he bad euch n home, should be regarded as n vagrant and fined. These laws were meant to prahtfca l ly re-ensalve the negroes, and the fifteenth amendment was absolutely necessary to insure them against such oppression. But had the whites really regarded! tho negro voto as a danger they might have prevented it by surrendering the representation in Congress and in the electoral college given them by reason of the negro population. They have never attempted to do this. They cared more for this vote in Congress and for President than they feared negro domination. They found that they could criminally control or suppress the negro vote and retain their representation at Washington. They preferred to defraud the whole people at the ballot box to legally disfranchising the negro. The white population of South Carolina in 1890 was 402,008, and with seven Congressmen they had one member of Congress for each 06,001 of the white population. Pour of these members are given to South Carolina by reason of her negro population. The other Southern States show the following white population for each Congressman: Mississippi, 77,836; Georgia, 88,959; Alabama, 93,746; Louisiana, 93,066; Virginia, 102,012; Florida, 112.474; North Carolina; 117,262; Tennessee, 133,664; Texas, 134,303; Arkansas, 136,459; Maryland, 137,749; Delaware, 140,066 Mirsouri, 144,587; West Virginia, 182,519. South Carolina has four Congressmen representing negroes, Mississippi has 4, Georgia 5, Alabama 4, Louisiana 3, Virginia 4, Florida 1, North Carolina 3, Tennessee 2, Texas 3, Arkansas 1, Maryland 1 and Kentucky 2. In all there are 38 Congressmen in the South given them by reason of the negro population, and nearly every one of them stolen. A South Carolina white man has three times the political power of a white man in West Virginia, Missouri, and most of the Northern States. Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia aro but little behind South Carolina in this political power. There is another reason why the nolitiejans of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina; and Mississippi do not fear negro domination enough to disfranchise the negroes legally. It would change their representation in State Legislatures so os to dethrone the bosses now bolding power by reason of frauds in the black belt. In Alabama, Cullman County, has 13.394 whites and only forty-five blacks. Were the blacks disfranchised Cullman County would have three times the political power of Lowndes Countv instead of one-half the power. Cullman County is Republican but Lowndes is Democratic, because the negro votes are falsely counted. The rulers of the South before the war were the planters in the black belt. They have been able so continue that power since by reason of the black vote which they appropriate to themselves after it is in ballot box. These crimes have given the Southern aulfifiers a greater power in the government than have loyal man. But they have hurt the South more than they have harmed the North, because, recognizing these frauds upon them, the Northern people have stood more solidly against the South than they might have done had elections been as free there as here. Thev have hurt the South in this, that they have begged for white immigration and it has shunned them. In 1880 there were only 283,035 Northern born whites in fifteen of the sixteen Southern States, while those same States had lost three times that number (892,534) of their own white people to the more prosperous section of the country. There were only 634,080 foreign born whites in these fifteen Southern States in 1880, while there were 6,919,853 foreign born whites in the North and West. In 1890 the number of foreigners had actually diminished in five Southern States and while the net increase in all of them was only 100,722 in ten years that in the North was 1,686,729, or nearly seventeen times as great. The old Southern boast was that one of their men could whip five Yankees. In but two Southern States to-day are there more negroes than white people, while in West Virginia and other States not in the black belt, the whites aro about fivo to one negro. And still goes on the cry of the New York Sun that those States are in danger of negro domination. Mr. Dana is a very successful humorist. He has made the whole Democratic party ridiculous.

PROSPEROUS COUNTRY. inSismpSUa JmmL : A day or two ago the Journal printed interviews with scveralleadmg wholesale merchants of this city showing, without exception, that all were doing an unusally large business for the season of the year, and that trade was not injured or affected to any appeeiable extent by the Presidential campaign. This shows that the conditions of prosperity are 1 healthy and solid, and that business is not disturbed as much as usual during a political campaign. The New York Sun, in a leading editorial, ; In no past campaign for President I vu we regular ©ours© oi ousiuess and pleasure so little disturbed as it

would have been If an election sot t W#Fft not 80 At h&flld. Commercial travelers report that their enterprise is not checked by the campaign. At no past time was labor so generally employed mid so well paid. In all directions manufacturing industries are active, and the prosperity of the people is manifested in the volume of trade, the increase of savings bank deposits, the paying off of farm mortgages and the steady - progress of improvements. ~ To-day the United States, of all the countries of the world, is the most prosperous. In Europe, in England more especially, doubt and anxious forebodings as to the business and industrial future prevail.. Here we see only buoyaney and hopefulness. . Hero is one Democratic paper honest enough to toll the truth. The prosecution of the present campaign on the Democratic sldg consists very largely of efforts to niake it appear that the country is not only not prosperous, but it is suffering terribly from the effects of the McKinley law. In the prosecution of this plan of campaign all sorts of stories aro invented and circulated to show the stagnation of trade, the oppressed condition of labor and the general state of calamity that now prevails In of lies we have the statement of leading wholesale merchants, irrespective of party, that trade is unusually good, and we have also the admission of the New York Sun that business never was better at this season 61 the year; that ‘‘at nQ past time was labor so generally* employed and so well paid,” and that “to-day the United States, of all the countries of the world, is the most prosperous." There is not an intelligent business man in the country who does not know this is true. Why, then, should any intelligent man vote in favor of a radical change ‘of policy and a general upheaval of business conditions?

INQALLS PRAISES HARRISON. Thinks Hit Letter to Salisbury Ono of tho Greatest State Papers of the Century. I have never been, ladies and gentlemen, an idolater of Ben Harrison. I am under no personal obligations to him, and in the struggle which I waged against the combined hosts of anarchy, socialism, paternalism and disloyalty in this State, and in which I went down, I never had even the assurance of personal sympathy from his administration, therefore I have no occasion foir idolatry. But I affirm that we havo placed able candidates upon an invulnerable platform; I affirm that the administration of President Harrison, for dignity at home, for force and vigor, is without a parallel or peer in the whole history of American statesmanship. \ He is the only man who has sat in the Presidential chair for the last half century that could conduct eveery department of the government himself and run it without a break. He was a gallant and heroic soldier. He was an eminent lawyer. He has been an efficient and trained legislator. It is not often that a man grows after he is fifty years old. Ordinarily a man is pictured so that his specific oontents are known as they will continue to be until the end.

Harrison has distinctly grown intelligent in his mental vigor since he has passed the half century line, and stands to-day immeasureably higher in the estimation of the American people than he did when he was sworn into office nearly four years ago. The series of speeches that President Harrison made in the campaign preceding his election, the series that he made since in his tour across the continent, that he bos made in response to invitations to address gatherings of his comrades and upon various other opportunities afforded him, have not been surpassed at any time in political literature.l affirm that for elevated patriotism, for purity and grace of diction, for discretion, which left nothing at which partisanship would scoff, or which any enemy would find fault with, that they have no superior in the compositions of politcal orators, ancient or modern. He s a courageous man. He is not afraid to do right. He is a patriotic man, he believes in the American people, aud spells the word “nation"’ with the biggest letter *'N” in the alphabet. His letter in reply to the ob.ectiona of Lord Salisbury to continue the modus vivendi of the seeing trouble with Great Britain is in my judgement one of the finest, ono of the ablest, one of tho strongest State papers of this century. He wrote it himself. He had no Secretary of State, and he is just exactly as competent to conduct the negotiations with auy foreign power of Europe as he is willing and competent to look over the private Dopers in the case of a pensioner applying for a pension, and beyond ail that he did not trench upon the proprieties of his position, and I believe there is no American citizen, whatever may be bis political affiliations,> that does not feel, as he sits in the j shadow of that most doefui thing that can darken tho windows of a man’s soul, that it is something to them in this state of tribulation and danger to have a chief magistrate who is neither afraid or ashamed in this age of maternalism and agnostioism to have faith and belief in that Supreme Being who is the arbiter alike of the destinies of nations and of the fate and fortunes of man. I know that in this great crisis in his affairs and life, which ihay soon turn to bo a calamity, he has the sympathy, affection, regard and respect of the entire American people. Dr. Nansen, whose plan for seek - ing the North Pole is to jab into the drifting ice in. a stout vessel, Aud resign himself to certain ocean Currents, proposes to lay in a four years’ supply of provisions when he finally embarks on this voyage. He will also take along an immense stock of patience. vjr©n. Booth has 330-jnpn. mostly