Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — The Defunet Populist Party. [ARTICLE]

The Defunet Populist Party.

The United Kingdom has sent UB -upwards of 42,000,000 yards more liuen goods this year, to September 30, than she sent in 1894; also 6,500,000 yards more jute _goods—androver 10,000 tons more pig iron. The British carpet trade must be improving. The English sales to this country were 112,300 yards to September 30,1894 and 523,400 yards this year, an increase of 411,100 yards. And this was with our free wool policy The Sheffield manufacturers have sold us $195,000 more hardware and cutlery'this year to September 30, than they shipped here in the corresponding months of 1894. They also sold us 6,967 tons of railroad iron this year as compared with only 9 tons in 1894,

The Republican State Printing Board has let the contract for the State printing to W. R. Burford for f 35,000 less than Mr. Burford got for it the last time. This for less than SIOO,OOO worth of print-ing-4s~a pretty good saving and shows the difference between Republican and Democrat rule. A rather singular fact that is now beiDg commented oh is that though the state has had the most severe summer and fall drought in its history , there has never been a time when corn, wheat, potatoes and fruit, the four staples, were at one time so low in price.—Exchange. But a combination of big crops and Gorman tariff is enough to account for the low prices, all right. / /

.4- y***r-a£f>. Jnst June it w»s predicted tluiythe Populist party in Indiana x\oii id draw so heavily fr m both parties that it miffht he the sect nd in strength in 1890. It had a large and enthusiastic Stut convention, and the ticket rtceiv*d hall'- as many votes as some of its friends predicted. When the silver craze came up it was again predicted that the Populist party in Indiana would be the larger of the three it the others did not declare at once for free coinage of silver. This was six short months ago. The silver moonshine did not materialize, and now the Populist party in Indiana may be said to be dead or feebly drawing its last breath. Its organization has gone, or is going, to pieces. The Farmers’ [utiial Benefit Association gave it a fatal blow when, a few weeks ago, it resolved to be sensible and get out of Populistic or any sort of politics. Next fall some of the leaders will be asking nominations of the other parties, and, not getting them, they will go out and form a new party. It will not be named Greenback, or Union Labor, or Populist, bat it will have a name and" a long list of heresies, and it will make a noise. It may materialize as the party of the sil-ver-mine owners if they are not too bnsily employed in gold mining. But the Populist party is dead.—lndianapolis Journal. ■ ■ i " ■ ■ • Bayard, the English toadying, non-American American embassador to England, in a speech to English hearers the other day, could not find language strong enough to express his contempt for the system of protection by which the country he misrepresents has grown and prospered as no other country ever has grown and prospered before! His unpatriotic views found plenty of admirers among the Englishmen, of, course, for owing to their peculiar situation and the perfection of their mechanical arts, as compared with most other nations, they still have little to lose and much to gain by a general adoption of free trade. But this will not always last, and the signs are

even now apparent that many Englishmen are losing faith in their great national dogma of free trade. In fact, we believe that it can be safely prophecied that plenty of men now old enough to vote who will live to see England itself abandon the free trade policy, and raise up a protective wall, to protect its own workmen against the cheaper labor of China and Japan; even as this country now needs protection against the cheaper labor of England pnd other European countries. In the days of cheap and rapid and fast improving means r>f= transporting people and freight, through countries and between and alsouf awakening intelligence and enterprise among the swarming millions of the far east, the time is not far off when all nations whose people enjoy better social and economic conditions than China, Japan and India, will be obliged, to preserve those conditions, to adopt a protective principle as to the goods of those nations, and exclusion as to their immigrants.

Prize fighting is under the ban of the law and of public opinion Ift well, as a brutal and demoralizing practice; and we are heartily sorry that so many respectable citizens of Rensselaer have been found ready to give such a proceeding their countenance and support.

Seymour Matthews, only son of Governor Matthews, died Thursday evening at Atlanta, of typhoid fever, He was 24 years old, and for two years had been connected with the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. The sympathy of the people of the entire State goes out to the Governor in this time of his sore bereavement. , '

A populist paper says: “The toughest team grows tired without food. We are a good team, but we must have fodder occasionally. Send it on friends.” This is the first information we have had since the election that there was a pair of Populistß surviving. We thought the entire pfirty had become extinct. By all means let the team have “fodder. As there is but .one sex in it, no danger will arise from a multiplication of the There is in preparation a niche in the National museum of political freaks and curiosities for this populist “team” which must be filled. Let it not perish from the earth for the want of “fodder,” at least before the next general election, when it may be decently embalmed and placed in its appropiate place for the amusement aud instruction of the antiquarians of future generations. —Lafayette Herald.

Charles F. Griffin, of Hammond is a candidate for the Republican nomination sor Governor, and he don’t care who knows it. Well, he is a pretty good all-around man and the Republicans will make no very bad mistake if they make him their candidate for Claude Matthews’ place. He was Secretary of State some ten yean ago and sized up to that job all right, and we have no doubt that be will fit into the Governor’s place all right now. He is a very effective and tireless campaign speaker, bas unlimited energy, makes friends with everybody he meets; is vastly popular with the young men, as a leading member of the Sons of Veterans, and with the old soldien for the same reason. He is a thoroughbred Republican, and lastly, he is the only known candidate in northern Indiana. Why therefore, should not Jasper oounty be solid for Charles Griffin?