Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — Governor McKinley in his Lin [ARTICLE]

Governor McKinley in his Lin

Pennsylvania elected a Con-gress-mau-at-large Tuesday, at which the whole state voted. Not only is the state redeemed from Democracy, but the majority exceeds anything ever before recorded; from 150,000 to 200,000. If a presidential election were to be held now the Democrats would not get a single electoral vote north of Mason <fc Dixon’s line—and very tew south of it, except as they stole them. Gee'. Fred Km.tier, of Indianapolis, has be*oi looking up Gresham’s war record from the official sources, and finds that he was never in a battle and g- t his wound from a long-range bushwhacker, several dajs before the battle of Atlanta, where, by courtesy, he is said>to have received it. Gen. Knefl r sagely concludes that “Gresham w s a humbug as a soldier, a hum ! iig as a citizen, a humbug ss a lawyer and a humbug as a statesman.”

colb (fay speech at Columbus pointedly asks: What is gained by reducing the revenue from tariff while increasing the expend:tn y e of an interest bearing debt? Wind . 1 1 of economy is it that redi:ci-s the tariff even if it be ‘r. tax’ by $50,000,000 and at the, same rime adds to the other forms of taxation the burden of SSO 000,0U0 principal and $2,500,000 increased public debt? What if? gained by foregoing $50,000,000 of tariff revenue, which is $50,000 000 without interest, and borrowing SSO 000,000 at 5 per cent, interest? How is it more easy for people to pay $52,500,000 by direct taxation than to pay $50,000, 000 by indirect taxation—assuming tariff duties to be indirect taxes, though in many instances they are not taxes of any kind, or _ not paid by Americans.”

A H. Purdue, of Warrick county, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination of State Geologist. There is probably no one in the state with better prepa- . ratiuu for the work which the of-fice-entails. He is a graduate of the State Normal School and has been a student at Purdue University and also graduated from the department of Geology at Leland Stafford Jr. University, last June. Prior to his graduation he assisted Dr. Brauner in the geological survey of Arkansas, having prepared the relief map of that state which was exhibited in the Government building at the World’s Fair. Drs Jordan and Branner speak in the very highest terms of his work. Mr. Purdue is a yonng man of energy and great personal worth and just such a man as is needed to Sfci • • the state in the capacity of State Geologist He is also a thorough Republican.

A correspondent from west Grant township, Newton county, in the Goodland Herald, thus shows the practical workings of one f-ature of the Wilson bill: Both Andy Thomson and S. H. Dickiubou have sold all * their sheep on account of the Wilson tariff bill. Mr. Thomson has already plowed up his pasture, f./r corn. Dickinson will doubtless do the same, and they will not only sell the grMn the sheep ate, but will put on the market the corn grown on these pastures. Yet Democrats, who were free traders, tell us they do not make the prices. But it is plain to any sensible man that by driving the sugar men and sheep farmers to corn or graiD grov. ill put more corn or grain on l'h»* market, already overloaded, and reduce the price to & ruinous tigure, We were ofoen told by s • ire-box politicians that farmers wore not. protect* d, but they (the farmers) are in a fair way to learn by bitter experience their own solution of the question.