Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1905 — EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST FOREIGN TARIFF DISCRIMINATION. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EFFECTIVE DEFENSE AGAINST FOREIGN TARIFF DISCRIMINATION.

rule. Republican administrations have been business-like and economical. The State has thrived under them. Its treasury lias grown fat. Orfe Democratic governor can undo the good work of several Republican governors. We wouldn’t call it dishonesty, but rather inefficiency that has marked the administration of Democratic governors. Not one in 4 recent years has left the treasury in as gcod condition as he found it. The finances in Ohio are. to-day stronger than ever before, largely as a result of Derrick's management. Yet tjie people are asked to make a change to give Democracy another trial. Evidently its leaders credit the taxpayers with possessing short memories. “The stealing of the public funds is a great crime,” says Mr. Pattison par-rot-like, as if he had made a great discovery. Since when did the people appoint Democracy to run down graft and corruption? Their orators point with pride to Folk, of Missouri, apparently unmindful of the fact that the Democratic leaders in tliat State used every Influence in their power to pull their governor off. They didn’t want him to expose the rottenness and cor-

ruption that was flourishing in the Democratic stronghold. But grant them their Folk, have wo not our Deneeu in Illinois, who is quite as active in his way? Have we not our Weaver, who is driving the Philadelphia thieves out in the open? And finally have we not our Roosevelt, who first moved against the political thief and encouraged Folk and Deneen and Weaver? It was a Republican President who began the crusade against public thieving—a crusade that is extending to all parts of the country. The Republican party In nation and in State has always proved its capacity and willingness to turn the rascals out, whether they were Republicans or Democrats. Mr. Pattison talked*against bossisnt, but be was careful to define It ns Coxism. He said nothing about McLeanism or Jobnsonlsm. Yet McLean was for years absolute dictator of Ohio Democracy, while Cox has never been able to extend his dominion beyond the borders of Hamilton County’. Tom Johnson holds Cleveland as in the hollow of his hand. He has plied up a debt under which the taxpayers of the city are groaning for relief, and he has planned for a long while to succeed McLean. Then there is the bosslsm

most people that both Rhode Island and Massachusetts choose their chief executives every year, thus carrying the principle of “frequent responsibility to the people” about as far as possible. In Rhode Island, as in Massachusetts, the Democrats nrofess to have hopes of victory—largely based upon the personal popularity of Mr. Garvin. It may be remembered that last year the Republicans pulled through by a very slim margin, despite the prestige of President Roosevelt. Kentucky elects a legislature which will choose a successor to Senator Blackburn, and Ohio chooses a full State ticket. There is small doubt as to the result in either case, nor is there much more with respect to Vermont, whore the question will probably be as to the size of the Republican majority and nothing else. Nebraska and Kansas hold general county elections, and in Pennsylvania three Supreme Court judges are to be chosen. The judicial election, however excites small interest as compared with that manifested in the struggle in the city of Philadelphia, where Mayor Weaver, backed by the reform element, is fighting the boodlers. Upon the result of this struggle hinges not only the political control of Philadelphia, but the ascendency of the forces which at preseut dominate the State. Philadelphia will be worth watching on election day. So will New York City, where Tammany Is once more lined up against a none too harmonious opposition. The metropolis will witness some lively campaigning when a candidate shall have been selected to oppose Mayor McClellan. Probably New York will excite more attention than any of the States, though we might mention that in addition to those already enumerated Virginia will elect a complete State ticket and Maryland will pass upon the so-called Poe amendment to the State constitution, under the terms of which the negro will practically be disfranchised. There will be plenty of interest, at any rate, to warrant repudiation of the term which designates 1905 as an “oft year.”—Chicago Chronicle. In Manchuria, Siberia, and North China much use is made of Chinese brick tea, not as a beverage, bnt as a vegetable, boiled with rice and mutton.