Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — DEMS IN THE DUMPS. [ARTICLE]

DEMS IN THE DUMPS.

SPLIT PREDICTED IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. T Chicago Convention Promises to Be the HotTeet Sfrice IB6o—Free Silver Men Declure They Will Bolt a Gold Standard Platform. A Red-Hot Convention. ! The •.lines- 1 are certainly cast ftfr the hottest Convention at Chicago that the Democracy haa seen since 1800. The followers of Cleveland and Carlisle have about given up all hope of stemming the free silver tide, and are now discussing the chances of a bolt. Mr. Cleveland is quoted as saying that he considers the platform of more importance than the man that shall be* named to stand upon it. It lias loug been the talk that the free silver faction would walk out of the convention -fiFdheir demands were not accepted, but there is no longer i|iore than a possible contingency that they will not be aide to dictate both the candidate and platfonii. The Washington Cor-” respondent'of the New York Evening Post, who is generally accredited as the nearest to the Cleveland throne of all newspaper representatives there, says that several cabinet officers have declared their intention to at least bolt the ticket in the event of the Cleveland policy being turned down. Beyond that, calculations are being made as to the advisability of going still further. The New York’ Herald leads off in the suggestion that “true'’’ Democrats stirinld lea ve the‘Convention and nominate a gold man on a solid gold platform, and accompanies the advice .with tlie prediction that “the people, irrespective of party liues,” would rally to its support with invincible force. Whitney, who some time ago pro-’ dieted a split, is of the opinion that the failure to control the convention should lie followed by a caH for another, in the nante of “the sound money Democracy,” but Hewitt lias a still niniwromprehensive plan. Bhoulrt the St. Louis convention fair to pronounce flat-footed for a single gold standard, he would have a convention of ••business men” of Tiot'i parries and' a campaign that would carry the election of President, into the House of -Representatives:

A hot convention at Chicago is assured. There may be g. bolt, and there may not lie: hut no amount of lighting or boiting wlil mfcke it possible to draw Republican votes to a ticket manufac-tured-by the leaders of free trade Democracy. Nor will any such allurement as that implied in the proposal of Abram 8. Hewitt swerve the Republican convention into an abandonment of the pa rty’s~ "established principles and settled policies. Democracy will have to settle its own quarrels in its own way. They have pome about as a natural result of incompetency in government. The party has demonstrated its unfitness for public trust, and tlio leaders who have dictated the policies which have brought about its downfall will not be boosicd back to a position of influence' and power by Republican, strength. Protect Our Hay Crops, Farmers sire appealing to Congress for increased protection for their hay. Thousands of petitions have been in circulai.ou in the country in the past few weeks, signed by hundreds of thousands of farmers, asking Congress to increase the duty on hay. because of -ttiQ aiinrmniig tnerpnap In tlio Itrlftnrth- . tions of hay, mostly from Canada, since Die repeal of the McKinley law. The rate of duty on hay under tlie, McKinley tariff was four dollars per ton. In the year following the enactment of that taw the importations of hay from 125,000 tons to 29,000 tons. The Wilson law reduced the duty to $2 per ton, and the result lms beefl an enormous, increase in the importations of hay. ; ’ • ■ —— The amount of hay brought into the country since the enactment of the Wilson la WTui s lieeu mofFThfln double what it was in the corresponding-length of time under the McKinley law. The official figures for the first seventeen months of the Wilson law show a total Importation of :S7S.B(iO tons of lmy. against 140,083 tons in the last seventeen months of the McKinley law. This is an increase of 233.773 tons. It will thus be seen that the Importations under the iipjv law. by reason of the reduction in the tariff rates, have increased more than 150 per cent., and that nearly two million dollars, which would otherwise have gone to the farmers of the •United States, have left the country for the benefit of foreign farmers. London Notes Our Wool Market, Messrs. Helmutli Schwartze & Co., of London, comment upon the fact so well known here, that the United States in 1895, In addition to the unprecedented imports of raw wool, also Imported “manufactures of wool lo the extent of over sixty million dotlars ($<!0,000,000) as against less than seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) lor the preceding year,”

This increase in the American imports of woolen goods is roughly calculated as equal to 130 million pounds of raw wool, which, is exactly the amount of the increase in the world’s supply of the year 1890. If American wool luifl been used to manufacture the increased amount of Imported woolens, more than one-lialf of the entire American clip would have been consumed in their production. The increase in the imports of wool, including that used in the manufacture of woolens imported in 1895, over the average of the previous four years was over 257 million pounds (a quantity within 3 i million pounds of the American wool production for 1895), an increase of about 114 per cent. The effect of tills extraordinary increase in imports upon American prices in now being very seriously felt. Great "Revival” in Business. -Total bank clearing* aggregate JU2U,0041,000 tills week, thus continuing to reflect the slacking off In business which lias been so conspicuous. The decrease ns compared with last wodft is 2.ti per cent., and as compared with th” week one year ngdTnearly 3 per cent, The corresponding week in 1894 was one of extreme depression, and this week's total cleurings show an incrppfle compared with it of 7 per cent. But when comparisons are made with like weeks in preceding years, continuous decreases are shown, 23.5 Der

cent, as contrasted with 1593, nearly ?4 per cent, with 1892, and 12 per cent, as compared with the week in 1891. Bradstreet’s. “ ; ..... x ■ /i- ’ _ Reed Reviews ConUitions. v - We a?e npminally 70,000,000 people. That is what we are in mere numbers. But as a market for manufactures and choice’ foods we are potentially 175,000.000 as compared with the next best nation on the globe. Nor is this difficult to prove. .Whenever an Englishman earns one dollar an American earns a dollar and sixty cents. I speak within bounds. Both can get the food that keeps body and soul together and the sltllter which-the body must ha,ve foY GO cents. Take sixty cents from a dollar and you have 40 cents left., Take that Same 60 cents from the dollar and sixty and you have a dollar left, just two and a half times as much. That surplus can be spent in choice foods, in house furnishings, in line clothes and all the comforts of life —in a word, in the products of our manufactures. That makes.our population as consumers of products, as compared with,the English population. _ 175,000,000. Their population is 37,000,006 as consumers of products which one century ago were pure luxuries, while , bur population is equivalent to 175,000,* 000.—Hon. Tliqs. B. Reed. Argument for Protection. The closing down of the print works in tills city means a good deal to a considerable number of the inhabitants of Lowell, and-taken in connection, with the fact that the duty on print cloths was reduced moYe than 25 per cent, by the Democratic tariff it makes a very tangible argument in. favor of just protectiqiL.to^_mOTrajL_!!??^^r nobody can fail to understand. Lowell is not alone in suffering for the folly of the national Democratic party, for the, same condition prevails wherever there are industries which could be -reached by the mischievous tinkering of the tariff reformers in the Fiftythird Congress.—Lpwell, Mass., Mail. Hurts American Labor. There was imported, during the month of February, $5,352,410 wo ft h of lnanufactafCd’* \Vdttlens; * -This ,is * more than double the imports of woolen goods dining the corresponding month of 1892 under the McKinley tariff. More Reciprocity Wanted. The Isaac Harter Milling Company or Kostoria. yhlo, said: “Since reclprocity has been repealed we have practically lost all our Cuban trade, which amounted to about 75,000 barrels per year to this flour mill alone,”