Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1904 — Friday, July 1, 1904 [ARTICLE]

Friday, July 1, 1904

It is now believed that the sunken I vessel found two miles south of Gross Point, note of which was made in the 1 News Saturday, is the long lost steamer Chioora. The Chicora was lost in the winter of 1893 and as j wreckage faom the illfated steamer was found along the west shore marine men believe that the marine derelict is none other than the long miss ing vessel. It was supposed at the time that the Chicora met its fate near the east shore and that the our* rent of the lake carried the wreckage to the other side. —Micoigan City News.

The first law enacted by the very first congress was a protective tariff law and it was signed by Washingon on the Fourth of July. There is eason to believe that he selected that day for the purpose because in ~aot it was a declaration of commerdal independence Then, too, the rst Republican congress enacted a rotective tariff law, not as a w£r measure but because the great men then at the head of the Republican party had in sight aud foresight enough to know that it was the drift of the world and absolutely essential to the prosperity of this country, We reoognize these men today as statesman whose ability has not been surpassed by the greatest of any land.

“The earth has yielded her fruits aoundantly and has bountifully re. warded the toil of the husbandman” wrote President Buohanan on the Bth of December, J 857. “Plentous crops,” said Grover Cleavland on the Bth of August, 1893, The crops seem to have been all right in eaoh case. Said President Buchanan: “We have possessed all the elements of material wealth in rich abundanoo.” President Cleaveland speaks of “abundant promise of remunerative production and manufacture.” Nevertheless President Buchanan was compelled to say, “Our country in its momentary interest is at the .present time in a deplorable state”; and President Cleaveland deolared that “suddenly financial fear and distrust have sprung up on every aide.” Why ? Tinkering with the tariff and lowering duties in opposition to protection.

Whatever Indiana does at the St. Louis convention, everybody knows that it will not fitly represent the great mass of Democratic voters in the state. When the bosses proclaim that Indiana will be a unit at St Louie, it simply means that a few men ore in the saddle and they propose to override the voters, as if the latter had no rights that they are bound to respect. The truth is that aotual democracy of the state will not be represented at the so called Democratic convention at all. For, according to Democratic testimony ' itself, the party in this state has has been Bold to August Belmont &Co., representing not merely one milionaire, but a number of millionaires, and not merely American millionaries, but foreigners.