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' 'fit?* XW r *, . ,.: NATIONAL .., .^•"7 4 ' .' -v '.'•*•••" '• ... ' >'• " ' .REPUBLICAN .TICKET. , K' [ I ' ff'A" >; BENJAMIN HARRISON, OF IKDIAXA. ^s&u, 'fM-J-Wme •»«« PwWwt, ;i- * ' 'WHITELAW REII* *.?«*- . «r mw rank. IK this retaliation busies# many Democratic papers are standing up for Canada. THAT irruption of Democratic an­ archy which the Homestead affair «aiied out will cost Cleveland dearly in the canvass. - : 'j-- " i •••' THE Democratic party frSS never since the war placed on a presiden­ tial ticket a man who volunteered to 4{£ht for the Union. p. * . «fr. IMPORTS of all kinds of "iron and steel, and manufactures of," in 1891 were valued at $53,241,022. In 1892 they were #28,423,883. GLOBE - DEMOCRAT: "Illinois is doubtful!" The doubt is as to whether her Republican majority will be 35,000 or only 25,000. THEY don't set much value on rot* ten eggs in Alabama. The Demo­ crats use them to throw at the or­ ators of the People's party. IT is estimated that the Kansas wheat crop this year will put $40,- 000,000 in the pockets of the Kansas farmers. It will also put a crimp in Senator Peffer's neck-warmers. - IT is safe to predict that Cleveland will not write any letter about the Democratic split in Texas, and yet it is far more important than many other things upon which he has epis- tolated. ' WHEN the Democratic party calls protection unconstitutional, it refers to the Confederate constitution of 1861. Under that constitution, how­ ever, it was constitutional to Are on Sumter. ' THE fact that the meeting at which Cleveland was notified of his nomination cost $100,000 may be said to prove that there are some Democrats in the country who have not been impoverished by the tariff. ' IT makes the Democrats mad to fiave the Government redeem its Treasury notes in gold, but the Re­ publican policy of financial honesty and good sense will not be changed on that account. Wnx the epistolizer of Gray Gables kindly tell us whether it is not an exhibition of ghoulish glee" when free-traders gloat over the destruc­ tion, by fire or otherwise, of Ameri­ can tin-plate factories? THOSE who have heard Jerry Simp­ son's reckless assertions upon the stump will not pay much attention to his alleged discovery of Republican i assessments upon cattlemen. Jerry is probably talking through his socks. "OURS is npt a destructive party," says Grover Cleveland, and he is demonstrably correct. His party, however, tried to be a destructive party in 1861, but the party of Lin­ coln and Grant entered an effective objection to its programme. MAIL AND EXPRESS: The ticket which the Republicans of Michigan have nominated is the strongest that could be named. Hon. John T. Rich, a popular farmer, heads it. We look for the State's redemption l»y the Republican party this fall. CLEVELAND LEADER: There is only one road to a safe and permanent bi­ metallic monetary standard, and that is by an international agreement cov­ ering the principal countries of Eu­ rope as well as the United States. President Harrison and his party are seeking the goal of all true and in­ telligent friends of the silver dollar by the only sensible road. MR. CLEVELAND has informed a friend--by letter, of course--that he expects to carry New York, Massa­ chusetts, one or two Western States, and in short enough electoral votes to make hira President. Everybody will be glad to know that (- rover is in a cheerful frame of mind at this stage of the campaign, for the Lord knows lie Will have enough grief later on. SINCE the passage of the McKinley law there has been an average in­ crease of 18.67 per cent, in the selling price of agricultural procfucts. The farmers know this, and they will be slow to believe lies told by Democratic newspapers and orators to the ellcct .«c»*».- .«uw<s»v» rw thnt they are oppressed by the tariff, especially when thoyitnowihat theri has been a decline in the prices of ali manufactured articles which they bave to purchase, ,, • ^ , EX-GOVERNOR GRAY, of Indiana, whose boom the Tammany tiger clawed into carpet rags, at Chicago, announces his readiness to do any­ thing be can for the ticket. Evi­ dently Brother Gray feels that none but a mighty mean man would raise a disturbance at a funeral. THE negroes of the South may get a chance to vote this year. They m*y not all vote the Republican tick­ et. In fact, it is pretty certain'that many of them will support the Peo­ ple's party, and some of them will cast their ballots for the Democracy. This little detail, however, is of mi­ nor consequence. The big fact is that they are likely to vote and to have their votes counted. As YET there is no evidence that Mr. Cleveland's large and justly cel­ ebrated "personal comfort" is going to ptyy any prominent part in the campaign. This is indeed gratifying, and it. indicates steady progress in the right direction. Nevertheless, it has taken Mr. Cleveland eight years to discover that there is not iior ever will be any personal comfort in a political contest WHEN on the stump for Garfield in 1880, Governor Boies had in his ac­ customed speech this passage: "The work of the Republican party i* not ended. Four million of people have been made citizcns by its actions, but their rights as freemen are yet to be Secured." Is not this plainly sug­ gestive of something fully as bad as the imaginary "force bill" which the versatile Governor is now so wildly fighting. THE speech of Senator Aldrich, in answer to that of Senator Vest, is the most noteworthy defense of pro­ tection, anti especially of the McKin­ ley bill, that we have seen since the great speech of Gov. McKinley pn reporting the bill that bears his name. It bristles with facts and is eloquent with the eloquence of experience. If ever a man was squelched in an ar­ gument that man was Senator Vest. Mr. Aldrich's speech will be a strong campaign document for use in the coming fight. SOKE of the Democratic papecs are evidently getting alarmed at the ef­ fects of the extreme declaration of their party's platform against the policy of protection, and they are re­ sorting to the poor and absurd device of working ^helr candidate against their platform. They are trying to make Mr. Cleveland out to be "a mod­ erate protectionist Democrat.'* Now, if he is that sort of a Democrat, what sort of views would a moderate free- trade member of the party of Jeffer­ son, Jackson, Pierce, and Tweed en­ tertain? THE free trade Chicago Times says: "The iron production of the United States still continues larger than that of any other country in the world. Two years ago we passed Great Britain for the first time, and we are certain to now hold the lead, While the production of the world has increased 25 per cent, in the last decade, that of the Uuited States has more than doubled, and almost the entire gain in the total has been in the production in this country." That is a truthful statement, but the free trade Times forgot to add thlit the protective tariff has been the only method by which the United States could have excelled England in the production of iron. THE consistency of the free-trade Democrats is something remarkable. The Democratic platform denies that our country has prospered. Edward Atkinson, a distinguished Democrat­ ic free-trader, says that it was never so prosperous before. The Demo­ cratic plaform asserts that prices are higher and wages lower since the new tariff law passed. Two Demo- cartic Senators, Carlisle and Harris, agree with the other members of the committee that prices are lower and wages higher since the enactment of that law. But, then, what consist­ ency can be expected from a party whose sole claim to power has rested on the howls of cal amityites and the vaporings of cranks? Ir Chairman Carter had dared to hold on to the office of Land Com­ missioner while engaged in directing the movement of the Republican campaign, the Mugwumps and other hypocrite reformers would have sprained their throats in denouncing his action«as wicked and subversive of good government. The spectacle, however, of Chairman Harrity cling­ ing with a vise-like grip to the fat office of Secretary of the Common­ wealth of Pennsylvania while he de­ votes nine-tenths of his time to booming the cause of Cleveland and free trade, strikes these pious souls as being eminently proper and cor­ rect. The Mugwump ear is so large and so finely attuned that it can de­ tect a difference between tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum without the aid of an audiphune. Democracy anil tha Westt- * It will be well for the massed Off the Republican party of the country at large to understand that the Republican cam­ paign managers in the West are fully «... ill<v oaj informed as to the necessities and re- there will not be money enough left quinmenU of the situation. They ~ know all about that proposed Demo­ cratic crusade in the upper part of the Mississippi Valley and on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. The possi­ bility of such a movement as this has been foreseen from the beginning, and has been intelligently and adequately guarded against. Doubtless the Re­ publican campaign managers have no expectation that this Western crusade will reach formidable proportions. In all probability they are convinced that It will coiiapso before election day ar­ rives, notwithstanding the boasts of Its promoters and the confidence, or pretended confidence, reposed in it by the inner circle of the Democratic mag­ nates. They an treating it seriously, however, and making all needful prepa­ rations to defeat it. In every Western State the local Republican managers are getting the party into effective fight­ ing shape, and the National Committee is doing its part toward making the party's position impregnable. All the machinery of the organization is being THE WORK IN THE WEST a-i their tariff principle the nullification j Conjrcssionafl tloetiona. They BER^CANcMANAtless .. • v: V* : "' ' U*v.'• "fendw All Abotit That Propoird Demoeratle Crw»d« In tha Upper Ml*. nUalppi Valley--Uemoorata Will Find otOvliH Wall Gu«rd*d. ••iJ""- -- ' * i declarations cf tt.e Confederate consti­ tution?--Mail and Express. That Draadfot Deficit. Four years ago it wan# the surplus that troubled tlte Democrats. If It had been the traditional ?man on horseback," they could not have been more thor­ oughly lrightened. President Cleve­ land wrote a message about it, in his most ponderously elephantine style, pointing out the grave dangers to which it exposed the republic. This year it is not a surplus, but a deficit that the Democrats are fright­ ened at. They say there is danger that in the Treasury to pay current bills, and that a deficit stares the country in the face. Surplus and deficit seem to be almost equally terrible to them. Tbey do not know what to do with either. If there should be a deficit of a few millions--that is, if the expenditures of the Government during the fiscal year should run a few millions over the re­ ceipts--it would not be matter for any alarm, and the Government of the United States would not have to go out of business; but as a matter of fact there is no immediate danger of any deficit at all. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, the receipts of the Government were $356,983,302, and its expenditures were $361,348,669. The net cash balance in the Treasury at that date was $127,050,286.38, or, ex­ cluding the gold reserve of $100,000,000, $27,050,266.38. The customs revenue during the year was $177,833,034, an average of $14,823,586.17 per month. During the month of June the customs receipts were $14,618,498, or more than $200,000 less than the average. During , _ . „ may think that a force bill would be a good .thing for State as we^l as lor Congres­ sional elections. Of course no one has much f-ympathy for these men who are complaining of stuffed ballot-boxes. Most of them were Democrats, and have been stuffing boxes and suppressing votes for the last sixteen years to cheat the Republicans* Thev are taking a dose of their own medicine now, and find that it does not taste good. The Tariffand Strike*. Drowning men catch at straws! Probably that is the reason why the Democrats are making such desperate efforts to show that the McKinley bill Is the real cause of the labor disturbances In Pennsylvania and Idaho, and that the only possible relief is by restoring the Democrats to power and so obtaining the much vauuted blessings of "Free Trade." The natural inference from this would be that under Cleveland's administra­ tion there were fewer strikes than undei Hartiscn'a. What are the facts? In the first half year of MoKinleyisn we find two strikes in "McKinley pro­ tected" textile industries in Connecti­ cut. ' In the corresponding six months ol Cleveland's administration there were four strikes in the clothing factories, six ia the cloth mills and thirty-nine if the foundries of the same State. In New Jersey during the same perioc there were two strikes in "McKinlei protected Industries." In President Cleveland's second yeai (first six months) New Jersey reportec ME. STEVENSON'S PATRIOTIC SERVICES. I A A 4 "Stevenson said he %asr glad Lin- coin had been shot and that he should have been killed earlier."--Affidavit of William B. Whiffon, editor of the Meta- mora Sentinel, whore Stevenson resided In 1862. "Stevenson was throughout the war a friend of the Copperheads."--Affidavit of Rev. G. B. Snedekcr, pastor of the Methodist Church in Mr. Stevenson's home in 1862. i " Stevenson sold revolvers to traitors." --Affidavit of Aug. 6, 1892, of Parker Gardner, Wfabash, Ind. "If 'General' Stevenson could pro­ duce even one little bit of a speech or public utterance made by him in 1863 or '64 in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war for the Union, or sustaining the hands of Abraham Lincoln, loyal people may forget, or believe themselves mis­ taken in their firip recollection that in | 1863 and 1864 A. £. Stevenson was » rank Copperhead, politician and candi­ date for office in Woodford County."-- Ex-Governor Hamilton of Illinois, whe lived at Bloomington during the war. "Stevenson's name appeared on the record of membership of the Knights ol the Golden Circle, which I captured."-- Statement of Major J. Olmstead, now oi Los Angeles, Cal. placed in good working order. The mis­ take of underestimating the ability and the resources of the enemy is not being tfeommitted. All the documents needed to set forth the record of the two parties on the chief issues of the day are being distributed. Some of the most effective stump speakers in the country are com­ ing to spread Republican dootrine and revive and quicken Republican seal throughout the Wostern States. The Democrats will find when their assault on the Western Republicans be­ gins that every part of the line is well guarded. They can make no conquests in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min­ nesota or Iowa. The interests of the Republicans In those States seem to be adequately defended. It Is altogether likely that the party's lead in none of them will be as broad as it was in 1888, yet undoubtedly It will be sufficient for all practical purpqpes. In Kansas, Ne­ braska and the Dakotas the Democrats and third party men appear to believe that victory is within their reaoh, but to the Republicans the situa­ tion is not at all discourag­ ing. The prospect at this distance from the election is that the Republicans Will secure the electoral votes of all these States. Colorado is no longer doubtful, for the silver men are more hostile to Cleveland than they are to Harrison. Nobody need be surprised if the Republican majority In that State this year is larger than it was in 1888. Wyoming and Idaho, Which are also in­ fluenced, to some extent, by the silver issue, are safe for the party. So, of course, are Oregon, California, and Ne­ vada. The oniy Northwestern State which the Republicans have much chance of losing is Montana. But in that State, as well as in the older and larger ones, the Republicans will make a vigorous canvass. They will nowhere and in no particular trust to their pre­ ponderance in the past for victory in the present. They will, all through the West, go to work with the same earnest­ ness and activity in the campaign as if every State was doubtful, and as if the result of the election would depend upon the vote of each.--Globe-Demo­ crat. That Confederate Plank. The Democratic platform contains a plank that was taken almost bodily from the constitution of the defunct Southern Confederacy. It is its tariff plank, which declares that a protective tariff is unconstitutional, and that this Government has no right to protect its home industries and the workingmen to whom they afford employment. This means that the Government has no right to forbid the entrance of con­ tract laborers from abroad, or of the product of their labor, by the imposition of legal penalties on the first and of a tariff on the second. It is fair to say that the tariff plank, as < riginally pre­ sented at Chicago, distinctly provided for the protection of domestic industries and the wages of American working- men, and that 352 members of the con­ vention voted for the original plank, while nearly 600 stood lor that which was taken from the rebel constitution. That constitution declared that* no "duties or taxes ou importations from foreign nations shall be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry." The Democratic platform at Chicago declares it to t>e "a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Gov­ ernment has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties except for ihe purpose of revenue only." The close resemblance between the purpose of this plank and the declaration of the secession constitution on this subject is readily seen. Do the people , of the United States propose to vote for candidates who adopt the month of J uly the customs receipts rose to $17,205,153, an increase over June of over $2,500,000. The receipts for August and the fall months will in all probability be still'larger than those for July. The customs revtnue for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, is not likely to be much less than $200,000,000. Not all the appropriations will need to be expended during the year, and Sen­ ator Allison, who Is a safe and con­ servative authority, says that at the end of the year there will be a small surplus. * A Democratic House of Representa­ tives, with jk\knowledge that the esti­ mated revenue of the Government of the fiscal year Is about $455,000,000, has ap­ propriated sums amounting in the aggre­ gate to over $307,000,000. Its only excuse for this is that the Republican House of Representatives of the Fifty-first Con­ gress made permanent appropriations amounting to nearly $80,0u0,0tt0 which this House had to pay; so that "left to themselves" the Democrats would have appropriated about $428,000,000. Now, the Democrats were perfectly free to repeal these appropriations if they chose. Forty-eight millions of them were for pensions, $9,500,((00 for redemption of national bank notes, $10,000,000 was for sugar bounties, and $3,291,250 was ap­ propriated for the World's Fair. These appropriations were not re­ pealed nor rejected by the Democrats, but now they seek to repudiate them. There is no telling, of course, what they might have done if "ieft to themselves." AS they had only 150 majority in the House they were, of course, hampered by the opposition and were unable to do as they chose. It is perhaps natural that the Demo­ crats, who have had little experience in public business, should bo Incapable of dealing with either a surplus or a deficit; but the Republicans are frightened by neither, and will, we suppose, adminis­ ter the government safely and econom­ ically for at least four years and a half more.--New York Pross. An Ol^feet Lauoo. The Democrats say to the Alliance people of the South they must not desert the Democratic party, because If they do the Republicans may go into power and pass a "force bill," to secure honest Congressional elections in Alabama and other cotton States. It is doubtful whether the recent experience of the Alliance in Alabama will induce its members to listen to the pleadings of the Democrats. The Alliance people say that their State ticket was elected, but that they were cheated out of their victory bv the tricky and rascally Dem­ ocrats. One of the Alliance men in Mont­ gomery stands ready to make oath that he stool at the polls all day keeping an ; accurate count of the number of ballots I cast, and that although there were but i 370 tickets put into the box the officers I returned 506 for the Democratic can- j didate and fifty-two for the Alliance ' candidate, thus doubling the vote and j giving the Democrats 90 per cent, the ! advantage. ^Another man reports that in Bullock County, where only 300 bal­ lots were put In the box, the ofilcers re­ ported a majority of 800 for the Demo­ cratic candidate. In still another county the Alliance people insist that there were but forty ballots cast at a particular precinct, but that the officers reported 445, and did not give the Al­ liance can tidate a single one of the number. With these Democratic rascalities before their eyes, says the Chicago Tribune, the supporters of the Alliance ticket may come to the con ?lusion that there are worse things in the world than bills intended to secure honest voting at ] twelve strikes in its silk works, eleven in the building trades, nine in leather and eight in machinery. During the first six months of Mo- Kinleyism New York had one strike in a "McKinley protected industry." The first six months of Mr. Cleve­ land's second year witnessed five hun­ dred and thirty-three strikes in this State. In Ohio during that period the ratio was three for "McKinleyism" to eighty- one for Cleveland. In Pennsylvania during the first half- year of the McKinley bill Democratic authorities charge up strikes in eight iron and steel works in Pennsylvania and in several Philadelphia carpet fac­ tories to that measure. During the corresponding six months of- Cleveland's administration thirty- nine carpet works and twenty-seven steel works in Pennsylvania were under strike, not to mention the 16,000 miners in 143 coal mines. In our issue of July 20 we showed that while the population of the United States was nearly double that of En­ gland, yet within the last twelve months there were over 1,500 strikes in "Free Trade" England, affecting over 3,000,- 000 of workers--the Durham miners' strike alone involved half a million-- while in Protection America scarcely 200,000 persons were affected in the same period. It seems to us that this is a subject the Democratic papers had better leave most tarefully alone. Free Trade Kdltom Challenged. There is not a Democratic editor in the land irom Cape Cod to San Francis­ co, from Lake Itasca to Key West, who is not to-day buying the very paper on which he prints his McKinley prices falsehoods for less money tnan he paid before the McKkitey bill was passed. We know of our personal knowledge that it is true of the New York free trade daillos--one of them is saving $60,000 a vear in the fail of the price of its paper below the prioe actually paid for it, be­ fore the new tariff was enacted. The American Protective League will pay $1,000 to that Democratic editor who will show that paper of the quality and kind used by hfti to publish his McKin­ ley prices falsehoods can not be pur­ chased In the open market from 5 to 20 per cent, cheaper than it cost under the old tariff. IVhttelaw Reld'a Speech. Tho Illinois League convention of Republican clabs is to be counted for­ tunate in that it introduced to the Amerr lean public Whitelaw Reid in the, to him, new role of a political orator. As a writer on political topics his fame was long ago made. His speech at Spring- geld is evidence that the Republican party has been neglectful of its duty in not calling him to the rostrum years ago. His speech was a logical, masterly effprt, eminently suited to the occasion and the audience, and presenting Re­ publican doctrine in a clear and forciblo manner. Every line reveals the close thinker, the logical reasoner, und we do not see how any man of intelligence could listen to Mr. Reid'o effort and not have his faith in Republicanism con­ firmed and strengthened.--Toledo lila ie. The Democrats and the War. The Democratic party has never since the war placed on the Presidential ticket a man who volunteered to tight for the Union, but they have placed there seve­ ral who like Grover bought substitutes. Hocnethtng to Stand By. There is not one article In the list of American goods that is not cheaper to­ day under protective tariff than it was uq4*r froejfcrade of 1860. PECK'S LABOR: REPORT. DEMOCRATIC TARIFF SPEAK­ ERS ARE IN ERRdft. 7» <» .> .***•» > (• > >f « t ---I ' .„•* £ •"i », Sk-; x u1.e* * - ' ILLINOIS IKCIDEKTSb SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITH*v; # FULLY RECORDED. ^ J The Kosolts ot HI* Work TeU Their Own Story-Like All True Statisticians He Vfma Governed bjr Facte as Us. £«and THETM. , Democrat* in Troabl*. The official summary of the ninth annual report of Chas. F. Peck, New York Commissicnsr of Labor Statistics, ' has just been issued. Commissioner Peck is a Democrat of Democrats. He ; holds his position by the appointment of David B. Hill, lately Governor of New York, and Tammany's candidate j for the Presidency. Mr. Peck says this j concerning his report: ' Now, I am a Democrat--a Hill Democrat. II • TOU will--and I began this Inquiry with *!M BE- ltef that the result would vindicate the Demo­ cratic tariff position. The first returns came from the ptlk Industry, and were pleasing to my way uf thinktnff, Hnt I am free to admit, thftt the report, as a whole, is not In harmony with i the Democratic platform, so far as the tariff la concerned. A PolaakT County Parmer Killed la * Une-Fence Quarrel-Kevin, Murderer •* S. B. Curry. Dies tn aa laaane AagrtasB-*',. Looted a HoteL> "• From Far and VCmr. THE campaign has been opened In the Eighteenth Congressional District in Washington County with a joint discus­ sion between Congressman William 8. Foreman, Democratic candidate for re- eleciiuu, and A. W. Norihcott, Kt*publi­ can candidate for the same office. NEWS comes of another tragedy that occurred in Pulaski County, the. MM day that William Napier was murdered. A difficulty arose between a farmer named Brlce and a man known as Smith. Smith was stabbed nine time% and is said to be mortally wounded. ROBBERS worked the town of OkaW- ville, and a half dozen places were vis­ ited. At Henry Kiaume's Hotel t&e However, my duty as a State oA cial is to report t hings as I find them, not as » reckless partisan would like to have theiii con- i family and lodgers were drugged. Two straed. I gold watches and $300 were taken from Mr. Peck's report Is not as he wished the hotel men. Charles Fach, of the to have made it. It is as he was forced to make it. The evidence came to him, and he could not suppress It. It is evi- de&ce that shows an Increase of wages or of production, or of both, in 77 per cent, of sixty-seven of the chief indus­ tries of the State of New York, the period of increase being the first year of operation of the McKinley tariff, and the time with which this period of in­ crease is contrasted being the last year of operation of the old tariff. As to the methods pursued by Mr. Peck In his investigation, they were the only ones that could be used by an of­ ficial who had not power to compel evi­ dence under oath. He sent out 8,000 circulars of inquiry to wholesale dealers and manufacturers in all parts of the State of New York, ne received 6,000 replies to his 8,000 inquires; 77 per cent, of the replies were in the nature of evidence in favor of the McKinley bill. The fact of his being a Democrat, a Hill Democrat, a Bourbon Democrat, was assurance to those to whom his circu­ lars wero addressed that no fact ad­ duced by them in opposition to the tariff would be suppressed. But it seems that lew facts, or even opinions, in opposi­ tion to it were addressed to them; 77 firm of Fach & Hottes, of Mascoutali, was stopping at the hotel over night. He was drugged and relieved oi a val­ uable gold watch and $75 in money. There Is no elew to the robbers. j THOMAS XEVIX, who murdered Bali- uel B. Curry, a prominent St. Clafr CoQnty farmer and the husband of hi* niece, two years ago, died in the South­ ern Illinois Insane Asylum. The caad of Nevin attracted a great deal of atten­ tion at the time. There was apparently no motive for the deed and a strong case of insanity was made by the de- , fense. Notwithstanding this fact the • jury gave Nevin a life sentence. He I became a raving maniac two weeks agOh I NEWKIBK, one of the boy counter­ feiters arrested at Elco, claims that a Mobile and Ohio freight conductor gave him the dies, and taught) him and Ma companion, Farker, how tjp make bogus dollars. This led to Col&luctor Ye? " arrest, and he was t^eh< %\8pringfiel j by Deputy United States Marshal I$e I veil. Conductor^BuH1 1 go as a witness for the defense ind his own expense^ ' This/ lb&/to story that both edndfcetoraha rested. r £ irrl'i!"18!^8 ̂ re favu°™bl° i SOME time ago the World's Fair Com- toit. Commissioner Peck sought for, raittee of the State Horticultural So- and expected to find, evidence to prove that the McKinley bill had not increased wages, but he found the witnesses whom he had summoned testifying that the wagftltst of New York was greater by $<>,3®,y5i'"> during tho first year of the McHp^ley> tariff than during the last year of the tariff which it supplanted. He could not suppress the evidence. Commenting upon it, the Democratic Labor Commissioner of New York says: The result shows me the leading Democratlo speakers on the tariff are In error as to the effects of the McKinley bill. The figures in my report speak for themselves, and thdre is no trotting away from them. This is the comment of a Democratic official, who is in possession of the facts of the case, upon the bloviations, argu­ mentations, and prevarications of. the Democratic press and speakers who are not in possession of the facts, and who do not want to bo in possession of them. The lamentations of the Mugwumps, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, are as unseemly as tho attempted sophistry of ciety issued a circular which was sent to members of the Legislature and others, attacking the State Board ot Agriculture for its failure to keep an al­ leged agreement to set apart $40,000 for a horticultural exhibit at the World'a Fair, under the management of tho State Horticultural Society, the Board having declined to give the Horticul­ tural Society the management of that sum of money. The Agricultural Board has now adopted resolutions answering those charges in detail. Declaring that no such agreement was ever made with the Horticultural Society, and calling attention to the fact that the latter Is not a State Board, but merely a volun­ tary organization, the Agricultural Board assures the fruit-growers of a liberal provision for an exhibit at tho World's Fair. THE weather crop bulletin of the nols Weather Service reviews the weather and crop conditions prevailing a city contemporary is ridiculous. Too • throughout Illinois during the week wise to attempt to break the force of follows: The temperature of the last this terrible exposure . of free trade falsehood, the Mugwumps complain - ot its publication. "Why was it not sup­ pressed till after the election?* they ask. These are the men who have been week has been about normal. At Springfield the dally excess amounted to 2 degrees, while at Cairo and Chi­ cago It was slightly below. The amount of sunshine for the week was about a prating of their own integrity and of j seasonable average. The rainfall dur- the trickery of the Republican party! i ing the last seven days was slightly be- These fellows, who are complaining be- Ilow the normal, being fairly well dis- cause a Democratic official did not aid tributed. It consisted of showers, and in the suppression of evidence that is ln ft few counties heavy rains fell. Corn. vital to the just determination of the prospects have improved slightly over, cause at issue before the people, are the ; lft8t week. Early corn is ripening fast, same who turn up their eyes in horror i aIlll iQ most places Is beyond the reaoh when a Republican official contributes ! rain. The prospects for late corn to a campaign fund, and who wring their hands in anguish whenever a man who has been active during a campaign is appointed to a place of trust and honor. National Revenue Increasing;. Just before the new tariff aot went into effect importers took occasion to order enormous stocks of goods, which came ln under the old rates. The reve­ nues for September, 1890, were tremen­ dous. After the law went into effect in October imports fell off and the customs revenue was largely decreased. The great stocks of goods thus lm- ftorted to discount tho effects of the new aw and enable importers to make a big profit by charging "McKinley prices" on goods that had not come in under the McKinley act have now been about used up, and the market 1s resuming its nor­ mal condition. Consequently the cus­ toms duties are largely increasing. On Tuesday of this week they amounted to $900,000, or about double the usual fig­ ure. This increase for one day is likely to be followed up, and the receipts of customs for September will probably exceed considerably the receipts foa- August. \ The Derrocrats. need not worry about a "deficit" in the national treasury. The only way they canj make one is by elect­ ing another Democratic House and a Democratic President, and that is some­ thing beyond their albillty. Political Paragraphs. CHAIRMAN HABBITT needs a force bill to get the leading Democratic states­ men on the stump for Cleveland.--Ex­ change. EVEN with New York the Democrats in 1868 and 1876 were defeated. As they virtually concede that they cannot carry New York this year, how do they expect to win? THE Increase in the product of cigar factories in New York since th$ McKin­ ley law amounts to $4,379,050, and the Increased wages paid amount to $447,147. DON DICKINSON appears to have been placed at the head of the Democratic National Campaign Committee mainly for the purpose of keeping him away from his own State. LABOB COMMISSIONER PECK,'of New York, says he is sorry he can't please everybody. He needn't worry. Those who are not pleased with reports of prosperity in this country can find satis­ faction in the reports that the cholera is coming. They rejoice ovor calamity.-- Chicago Inter Ocean. THE official statistics show that 89,717 workingmen ln New York are getting larger wages now than they received before the passage of the McKinley law, and that this increase aggregates $6,377,925 per year. 8uch facts tend to simplify the tariff issue. CHAIRMAN HARRITY is reported as saying that there is "more harmony in than in New York." Dave Hill seems to be playing Mephisto to perfec­ tion.--Exchange. IN the work of .breaking the Solid South the Republicans will begin with West Virginia, Virginia, and one a&d probably both of the Carolinas. After that Maryland will be ready to fall into line.--Baltimore American. THE Democracy, at first elated over prospective Republican dissensions. Is now becoming cognizant of Republican have been considerably Improved, ac­ cording to a majority of the correspond­ ents, exoept in a few counties where no rain fell. More rain and an absence of early frosts will make a fair yield. Wheat thrashing has been continued during the week on account of the favorable wtather, but is nearing com­ pletion. A few counties report thrash­ ing as being finished. The yield will be light and quality fair. No fail wheat sown yet. Oat thrashing is far ad­ vanced; there seems to be no improve­ ment in the yield and quality. Fall plowing is progressing where sufficient rain has fallen. Much more rain is needed to place the ground in suitable condition. Rain is needed for pastures, meadows, garden truck, and stock water. Fruit will be almost a failure. The potato crop is light. BI KGLARS entered the Poetoffice st Altlanta. Letters were ransacked and torn and the loss is yet unknown. AIIONZO HEFFX,INO, 16 years old, was drowned in the Sangamon River at Yel­ low Banks, near Petersburg, white bathing. AN assassination lately occurred near Olmstead, on the Big Four Railroad. William Napier, a well-known and pros­ perous farmer, was fired upon with a shot-gun by some one concealed near the roadside. The murder is the termi­ nation of a feud that began several weeks ago between Fanner Napier and some of his neighbors. It seems the public road passed over a portion of Napier's farm, and he determined to claim his own and fenced the road. A short time afterward la mob ot forty or fifty farmers who objected to this proceeding tore down the fenee. Napier replaced It and it wasn't long before it was torn down again, and this time the rails were burned. Napier again began the construction of the fence, and it was while at this work that he was killed. There were tyo shots fired. The first shot took effect in his chest. He was evidently expecting trouble, for his own gun lay near by, which he picked up and brought to his shoulder, ready to fire, when a second shot was fired, and he fell. He died shortly afterward. There is no clew to the identity of the murderer. NEAR the village of Villa Ridge a colored boy, 15 years old, known a* Amos, has been employed by Dr. A. Royal in the care of his horses. Satur­ day afternoon the Doctor had paid the lad $10. Sunday afternoon the latter was met on the road a short distance Irom the house by another negro boy. Wade Hill, 13 years old, who, according to Amos' ante-mortem statement, picked a quarrel with him and struck him on the back of the head with a brick, robbed him of his money, and lied. Dr. Royal found that the boy's skull was fractured. He died. The youthful murderer uuulft. jood his escape. ? HAL MO FELL and George Whistler, ;wo Alton apprentices of Capt. Paw Boy ton, made an aqua-pedestrian trip 'rorn Alton to St. Louis upon the waters >f the Mississippi River. They wore Is- lated rubber shoes. ^ THOMAS WILSON, a negro, ealled at ' he home of Mrs. Dallne Miller, an aged •vidow, west of Mascoutah. He asked or food and it was given to him. After latisfying his appetite the brute struck ;lie widow down with his fist, brutaltaT assaulted her and robbed her of The scoundrel was captured by citixei '}• •$ unity and is becoming alarmed at the ' ' short time later and came near b«« dissensions in its own party.--Toledo j ynched. The Sheriff finally landed tits Commercial. ' nan in tfcs County Jail at J*eUe«iii* Lwkf Sits,!-.** 'J I'tLA .