Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Some of Our County Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Some of Our County Candidates.

Robert B. Porter, better known as Bruce Porter, is the Republican caodidate for County Recorder, and is a man of whom no criticism of any kind can be . truthfully ihade. He was'Bom on'lfie £ar£f

where he now liv'ee, a few mileiy south-east of Rensselaer, has livetU there; all his life,- and has always commanded the fullest respect and esteem of all his He was born a Republican and cant be anything else, and a mighty earnest one too; but for all that* le has lots of strong friends outside the party lines. Mr. Porter will be 44 years old next June, “if he has good luck.” /He was too . young to have been a soldier in the great war, like his brother candidates, Gwin and Reed,: bnt he came of a family that probably sacrificed as much for the Union cause as any family in Jasper County. Three of,, his brothers went to the war, and two of* them fell in battle and the other died of sickness. Z- ■-

Nathan J. Reed, the worthy candidate for County Sheriff on the Republican ticket, is not a native Hoosiei, but he came near enough to being a Hoosier to be a Buckeye; which is the next best thing. He was born in Warren Co , Ohio, in Sept. 1844; and therefore, although he doesn’t look by a dozen years, he is now nearly 52 years old. Nate i 3 an “old bach” and very probably will not relish our giving away his age in this public manner, but the truth is the truth, and it must come out when a man runs for office.

Mr. Reed’s parents brought him west with them, with other portable property, while he was still a mere kid, and from Warren Co., Ohio, jumped to Warren Co., Indiana. It was at Williamsport, in the latter county, in August 1862, that Nathan, being then 18 years old, enlisted in the 72nd Indiana Regiment; and in which he served nearly three years, or uutil the end of the war in 1865. In 1871, with his father, the late Wm. Reed, he came to Jasper County, and located two or three miles from Rensselaer, where he lived until three or four years ago, when he moved to Remington. Mr. Reed is all right in every way, and is popular with everybody, and all parties, and will make a good sheriff.

The lately much advertised Encyclopedic Dictionary is an “Encyclopedic Fraud,” and it is a sin and a shame that the great daily papers of the country have so extensively advertised what they must have know was essentially a a swindle. And more especially, when the advertisements of the .work are so gotten upas to convey •to the mind of the ordinary reader the idea that the newspapers themselves are publishing and selling the work. The dictionary as now being sold' by the alleged “American Newspaper Syndicate,” a syndicate that has no existence in point of fact, is a photographic reprint of an English work, over 20 years old. A few American changes, in spelling and other matters, have been patched and cobbled in, to conceal the too evident ancient English origin of ofi-the work, but these are not numerous nor extensive enough to make it in any sense an up-to-date work. The names of eminent men are advertised as “editor’s” who never had the least connection with it. The alleged introductory price of sl6 is also a swindle. The English edition of the work, essentially the same as this, is sold regularly by John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, for $6 and in St. Louis it has been sold for fonr. |

The New Tariff And The Farmer. Republicans will have an advantage in tariff argument this year they have not had in recent campaigns—a fresh object lesson, in the shape of the Wilson tariff law. Heretofore they have had to go back beyond the present generation to bring to view the evil effects of a low tariff. Now they have statistics which are borne out in the* experience of every ■ man, woman and child now living who is able to reason from cause to effect 0 □lt was the stock in trade of democratic writers and speakers to denounce the McKinley law fbr ]

its discrimination against farmers, and the advocates of the Wilson law insisted that they were legislating in a way to protect the farmer and at the same time increase his sales abroad. The actual working of the new law show how misleading were these assertions and pretensions. Official figures furnished by the Treasury department show that in all the great staples of farm produbtion, such as w’heat, barley, wool, hides, tobacco, meats, flax, bread-stuffs, hops, hay, hemp, cotton, aud others, the importations have largely increased under the new law, while in the same class of articles the exportations! uud6r the new law have decreased. On twenty of these farm staples the imports in the last year of the

MeKintey law were 556, while for the year 1895 under the Wilson law they increased to $134,860,468, thus supplying to the I home market about $70,000,000 worth of products from abroad I I which had heretofore been fur- [ I nished by the farmers of our own/ I couutrv. !j ■ r Did the farmers sell enough abroad to compensate for this loss? Let the Treasury figures answer again Id the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, the last fiscal year | under the Wilson law, the exports of products of domestic agriculture amounted to $628,71,4763 In the year 1895, the first calendar year under the Wilson law, the exports of products of domestic agriculture amounted to only $545,714,375. This was a falling bff of $83,000,000 in the amount exported. s

So for the first year* under the Wilson law the results for the farmer may be summarized thus: Foreigners sold $70,000,000 more .farm products in the farmer’s home market, and the farmer Bold $83,000,000 less of his products abroad than in the same, length of time under the McKinley law! A great thing for the farmers are “the markets of the world” as demonstrated by democratic tariff Taws.