Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — POLITICAL COMMENT [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL COMMENT

Charles E. Hughes defeated William B. Hearst for Governor of New York yesterday by what would be, under ordinary circumstances, a handsome majority—a majority at least three times that by which Theodore Roosevelt was elected Govern6r In 1898. Nevertheless the result Is a disgrace to the State of New York, the Republican party, and the country at large. Upon the Issue made by himself — that property is robbery—Mr. Hearst should have been not merely defeated, ibut wiped off the political map. He is not wiped off. He is merely defeated. And 'Without the assistance given to the Republican party by such Democrats as Patrick McCarren in 'Brooklyn and Timothy Sullivan in 'New York, and Richard Croker from this exile in England, no one can tell /what disaster might have swept the iState and the Nation. Nor is the reason for this disgrace ifar to seek. The Republican organizaition has been demoralized. It was •also without money—too poor to make a Campaign of education. Mr. Hearst had the money, and with lit organized his forces and covered the 'State with his literature and speakers. So Mr. Hughes was left to make a single handed campaign. He made it

magnificently, but be led only an enthusiastic mob against a trained army. However, the fortress has been held and the enemy checked. The res*t of the country is delivered from the necessity of having to treat the State of New York as a hinatic asylum. Something has been gained, but what has been gained is not an evidence of good work, but a warning of work to be done.—Chicago I nter Ocean. A Story from Indiana. Those people who are so concerned about the high cost of living and the prices demanded by jso-called “trusts” can read the following with no little Interest and a considerable amount of Instruction. John L. Moorman, of Knox, Republican district chairman for th# Thirteenth Indiana Congressional District, said recently: We are having few speeches in the Thirteenth District. About yji we are doing up there is to tell one story, and it seems better than speeches. Listen! Not long ago a farmer in Nebraska, Bryan's State, went to a buggy dealer to buy He-found one ,hat suited him, and the price was SO2. The farmer happened to remember that about a dozen years '•go he had be tight a buggy juat like it from the same dealer for $55, and he mentioned the fuct. The dealer went to his books and found this to be true. “But,” said the dealer, “my books show that you did not pay cash for it, because you did not har-e the money. You hauled in 500 bushels of corn and gave it to me for the $55 buggy. Now, I'll tell you ■what I will do. If yon are willing to bring me now 500 bushels of corn I will give you the SO2 buggy, a self-binder worth $125, a sulky plpw worth $35 and a walkingplow worthsl2. In addition to this I will hand you $lO in money.” The dealer cduld have carried out the proposition, too, for corn is worth 50 cents a bushel now, while at that time it was worth only 11 cents. ' About the sathe time that this farmer wts buying a buggy for $55 and paying for It II cents a bushel other farmers In Nebraska were selling spring lambs to the butchers for $2 apiece, while full-grown •beep were sold in Ohio for 50 cents

a bead. Now the Nebraska farmer gets 50 cents for his corn and $7 for his, lamb, and sheep in Ohio sell at $3.50 to $4; Not only that; the value of farm landS| in the United States has increased over six billloi dollars since 1900, and they were in 1900 worth folly six billions more than ip 1895. The farmers are all stand-patters on the tariff, and they know the reason why. The Home Republican. The Republicans will have a satisfactory majority in the next House of Representatives. They have controlled it by larger or smaller majorities since 1894—an almost unexampled length of time. During- this- long period the Republican party would have lost the House once and again if it had not been for the dissensions which fatally weakened their adversaries. Usually it is the party in power which suffers from internal strife. In this instance the minority party has been afflicted. The Republicans owe much to the war between the radical and conservative wings of the democracy. Tjie Republican victory means that President, Senate, and House will be of the same- political complexion -during the life of the next Congress. There will be an opportunity to give effect to

Republican policies which have not yet been written Into laws. —Chicago Tribune. Farmer* Are Not Fools. The farmers of the Middle West have been appealed to directly to fa-, vor Canadian reciprocity, and the advocates of that policy have felt compelled to present some argument which should beguile the farmers into consenting to such procedure. And what was this argument? It was to the effect that they should willingly permit the farm products of Canada to come into competition with their own in order that a larger market for American farm products might be provided dQwn East The farmers of lowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota. South Dakota, Nebraska and other Middle States are not fools. They understand the situation exactly; they know that in this agitation for Canadian reciprocity they are to be made the victims of every arrangement that Is contemplated, and for that reason they are opposed to it In toto and to a man.—Cedar Rapids Republican. Cannot Dotice the, luue. After the terrible lesson of Mr. Cleveland’s lost administration, the people of the country will Insist upon knowing just where any party that seeks to control the government stands on this vital economic question. If Mr. Bryan still believes, as formerly,, in “tariff for revenue only,” as be still professes to believe In that even more dangerous economic,, heresy of a debased coinage, let him proclaim the fact. But if he and his followers fanny they can dodge this issue by injecting new ones Into the coming campaign, they are deluding themselves and underrating the intelligence of the American people.—San Diego Union.