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- 'REPUBLICAN TICKET. . V y » v V Sfi C'v;#: For PnridtBti BENJAMIN HARRISON, • : : O F I N D I A N A . '<.b !'- W VIC Fr-Kfnv - if^'^;;#iHITELAW REM^... *",w< ' f OF 1ST YOBS. . . :*n; .- • , T^ftflght this yearwill be on the tairifl and reciprocity. -J . jpL GEOVEB CLJSVKLAND'S friends are dot urging him to write any more tetters. IFIT CLEVELAND has withdrawn two of his family from politicsand he will make it unanimous in the fall. THE more the Cleveland ites hear of Chairman Carter the more they wish that he had not been selected. " SILK socks have made Jerry Simp­ son's feet so tender that he cannot run (for shucks in the tall corn of Nebraska. CLEVELAND writes plenty of let­ ters, but he doe^p't send any 810,000 check to the Treasurer of the Demo­ cratic National Committee. THE Chairman of the Uepublican National Committee has scored a de­ cided victory at the very start in baving a speech made against him by fieaater Vest. '? .. THE best Republican campaign (documents of the fear so far are Mc- Kinley's Nebraska speech and Reed's review of the work of the late session of Congress. , THAT is a jery close race which Is going on between the Prohibition and People's parties for third place, bnt the country obstinately refuses to get excited over it. ' ! • : - • THERE \?ere only 101 more labor Strikes in free-trade England In 1890 than there were in protection Amer­ ica, but the English strikes affected 175,000 more workmen. GLOBE- DEMOCRAT: The Chairman of the Republican National Commit­ tee will have a comparatively easy job this year, as the success of the party is practically assured to begin with. WHEN a Democratic paper wants to show what it can do In the matter of wild assertion, it declares that General Stevenson will carry Illinois for the Democratic ticket. A KANSAS farmer the other day thrashed forty acres of Wheat that averaged fifty-two bushels to the acre. ' This, a local paper suggests, was the way in which he ratified the action of the Omaha convention. THE announcement that the rev­ enues are increasing at the rate of a million a month is not the kind of argument the Populists and Demo­ crats would like to have flung at them, but it is a fact, nevertheless. EX-MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, always was an amusing person, but he never said a funnier thing thaji that "State pride would lead the peo­ ple of Illinois to vote for 'Gen.' Stev­ enson." Illinois, the home of Lin­ coln and Logan, proud of a copper- bead and substitute-purchaserl THE existing lockout of 55,000 English tailors is not receiving the comment in the American Demo­ cratic press that. the'importance of the affair would seem to warrant, if we may judge by the amount of edi­ torial space devoted to labor disturb­ ances in the United Stater by that same press. ST. LOUIS STAR-SAYINGS: Now that the Democratic candidate for Vice President is shown tp have been •a Knight of the Golden Circle, it is •easy to understand why Senator Dan Yoorhees of Indiana preferred Ste- •enson to Gray. ^ The Senator was an enthusiastic member of that patriotic organization himself. THE wage scale proposed by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers has been signed by twelve manufacturers and opposed by only one firm, the Carnegie company, which was wiping to accept all the •provisions except one, affecting the wages of 300 out of the 5,000 ipen •employed in its works. IF there is anything against protection in this .showing, we are unable to see it. murder of Mr. ^Vick. The cowardly atUayyt of tlioraussJan anarcttist is the logical sequence of their teach- lags--'. > -4 : V . - EvERy Democrat who doesn't be­ lieve in free . trade should get off that* Chteago platform. 1 If the party Is I'or fair trade, let them indorse the Republican policy of reciprocity. That guarantees fair trade, and, together with the Republican polity of protection, It works like a charm. TH® Democrat^^at^'over the alleged demise of the McKinley Tin- Plate Company, Limited, of Pitts­ burgh. It now turns out that the reported dissolution of the concern was merely incidental to a purchase of the plant by a syndicate which has increased tlflS^capital stock, taken out a charter of incorporation, and pre­ pared for the erection of a much larger establishment than was.con­ templated by the original company. INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL! Promi­ nent Democrats of North Carolina express alarm at the progress of the Alliance third-party movement, and admit the possibility of the Republi­ cans carrying the State. 'Gen. Hen­ derson gays: "We are going to have the hardest fight we have had since 1876. If the elections were to come off to-day I fear we would lose the State." The Democrats carried the State in 1888 by 13,118, the vote for Harrison being 134,784 to 147,902 for Cleveland. ' BOSTON JOURNAL: Our people want to see him (Stevenson). They want to hear him explain why he joined Vallandigham's copperheads; why he took the stump in Illinois in 1864 against Lincoln on a platform declar­ ing the war a failure; why he was several times elected to Congress as a Greenbacker, and there voted for the repeal of the resumption act, and of limited paper money and free silver coinage; why, finally, under a Presi­ dent who Was elected on voluble pro­ fessions' of "reform" he cut off the heads of 80,000 Republican post-, masters. ... IN 1890 our imports of barley were 11,332,545 bushels. In 1891 imports fell to 5,078,733 bushel*, and they would haje been less but for the great rush of barley from Canada in September before the new tariff passed. But the fiscal year ending June 30,1892, was wholly under the McKinley law, and what was the re­ sult? Simply that we imported only 3,146,337 bushels, a decrease oi 8,If6,208 bushels, which represent? the increased market, of home-grown barley. Is this a benefit;or an Injury to American farmers? THE New York World, which has undertaken to raise money to defray the expenses of chasing rainbows in the West, is the same organ that usually has'a good deal to say about the corrupting influences of money in elections. Its sprightly contemporary, the Morning Advertiser, says that the World has two funds in operation now--"The Sick Babies' Fund" and "The Sick Cleveland Fund." When the Republicans remember that the World volunteered to carry Rhode Isl­ and for the Democrats this spring by exactly the same process, pamely, the liberal distribijfion of a corrupt fund, they wi'l view with a great deal ol complacency its purpose of sweeping the West into the free trade basket The World is somewhat of a "Koodoo* for the Democrats this year. DETROIT TRIBUNE: 'German-Ameri cans will not vote for Grover Cleve­ land because his election is no guar­ antee of the stability of our financial system. German-Americans have al­ ways stood for honest money. They have never been misled by the finan­ cial heresies of the Democratic party. And just now, when that party is honey-combed with dangerous finan­ cial theories, they will assuredly have nothing to do with it. Wildcat banking, free silver and irredeemable paper currency have no attraction for German-Americaii citizens. They will vote against the party that ad- cates sueh inimical projects, and the best way to do it is to vote foi Benjamin Harrison and the continua tion of the present governmental policies. * , , _ _ THE South Bend Tribune mentions the case of an old carpenter in that city who, on the 8th of May, 1858, did a day's work for one of the local merchants and also bought some goods of him. The bill for the goods was as follows: 9 yards calico, 12*6c 9 Tarda lawn, XS^c. 8 lbs coffee sugar, 12)60..... IS lbs 8d nails, 7c...... ...41.1} ...."-l.lt ...» l.ct .... 84 THE Democratic papers which have •been printing incendiary editorials concerning the Homestead troubles and trying to stir up bad blood by their false accounts are, in a degree, •morally responnib'e for the attempted ToUL The carpenter got $1.50 for his day's work, deducting which from th€ bill left him in debt to the merchant $2.60. This was in good old Demo­ cratic times, under a tariff for rev­ enue only. If the transaction had taken place on May 8, 1892, under Republican protection, the carpenter would have received, instead of $1.50, $3 for his day's labor, and his pur­ chases would have cost him $1.52 in­ stead of $4.10. Instead of coming out $2.60 in debt he would have had his goods and il.48 in cash. forecasting results. THE REPUBLICAN bOTLOOk EX­ CEEDINGLY BRIQHT. With * Cleaa Administrat ed Snort All tho P»«1y Brqulre* Is a Welt-Dtreeted Appeal to th« Patriotic Commoa hue ol tit* American f'eopie. A CkmpaSpfn t'rospaet. The campaign plans of the generals w* now well matured.and the gone are being trained for action. In a fortnight we will be in the midst of it It is the proper time for a view of the field. Conservative estimates of electoral ! >robabiiiti«s rank the States about as ollows: XBPCBLICAX STATB8.'DEMOCRATIC California.....*. Colorado........ Idaho Illinois Iowa. Kansas... Mate* If i--ir ihnMt t > Michigan ' Minnesota Ilbnakt Nera da New Hampshire.... North I>akota....... Ohio ...» Oregon..... sum li V} Alabama 4jArkansas 8 SiDelaware 3 MSFlorlda ....... 4 lJGeorgla. .is WjKentucky............ is • ILonlslana............ a IS Maryland 0 10:Mteiiigtm 4 V- Mississippi o SiAJissonrf. 17 $!Xew Jersey ....; 10 4 North Carolina 11 3 south Carolina u Tennessee u •'Texas... mmuui t'lexu Pennsylvania. 32 Virginia. Rhode Island....... 4) South Dakota....... il Total Vermont ^ashlsstm...... Wlsoonaln 1: Wyoming. 31 Total..............2U| . , • feovBTrut, wrxrm. " Connection* ; « Montanv.. ......... ...... 3 West Virginia. .. « New York".... M Jtodlana .........,,. •.? 1 s Tnfftl * 66 Total number of Tote®. !I ;"?! **.!"! Neoesiutfyto* obolce._;. 23 The Democracy has been building • w 15 .......j. 12 .167 Virginia art good "RwubtteMi fighting ground. j £ i • •• % But leaving the wro ftet named States still in the Democratic column, the above table gives Jl|p ..electoral vote as follows: Republicans, 'ill; Democrats, 167; doubtful, 66; necessary for a choice, 223. The Republicans, on the above estimate, need ohly •* a dozen votes. These twelve wotttd4 be supplied by either Indiana's flftoen, New York's thirty-six, or th6 twelve of Connecticut and West Virginia. The Democf-ats, with fifty-six votes to gain from doubt­ ful States, would ,, require both New York and Indiana, and either West Vir­ ginia or Connecticut.. Little Montana, on the above basis, would not appear to be required either way, unless the Michigan vote varied from the estimate. But Montana will be cared for all right by Chairman Car­ ter, whatever the requirements. In New York the Tammany anti-snap­ per fight, the revolt of the manufactur­ ing centers because of the free-tra ie plank, the bolt of G, A. R. veterans from tha war and pension records of Grover and Adlai. •and the 14,000 plu­ rality for Harrison over Cleveland in 1888. are all strongly favorable Re­ publican signs. Indiana may safely bo left to heriavorite son and the causes of protection and an honest bal­ lot. West Virginia, , four years ago, gave Cleveland only 506 plurality. Since 1888 West Virginia has grown in mines furnaces, foundries and fac­ tories. Her industrial population has largely increased along both the Ohio and Pennsylvania boundaries. New factory and mining towns have sprung into existence. The Democratic free trade plank ought to settle that State in 18^2 as Republican. It is difficult also to see how Connecticut, whose Demo­ cratic plurality in 1888 was only 336, can be kept out of the Republican ranks freight passing through our SV Vary's BLAINE TO THE FRONT Falls Canal is likely to make Canadian IUL iivuili, shippers protest so loudly against Brit­ ish violation of treaty obligations as to compel the bumptious empire across the Sea to cease trifling with Canada's local interests for its selfish purposes. Some day Canada will teli Great Britain she declines to be a tender to British in­ terests any longer. We declined that subordinate station In 1776, and again in 1888, when Benjamin Harrison was elected on the protection issue. The President has the blood of a signer in his veins, and he is something of a Signer of declarations of Amerioan in­ dependence himself. He signed the Mc­ Kinley law and this proclamation.--New York Press. ftepublloaa v*. Democratic Mtteeeee. President Harrison's administrative record is his best and strongest recom­ mendation to the support of the Ameri­ can people in the approaching election. It satieties all honest-thinking and pub­ lic-spirited citizens. It is patriotio In purpose and upright in performance. It has advanced civil service reform In a wider application and along the rational lines of practical and permanent benefit. The twin agents of American progress --protection and reciprocity--have in­ creased employment at home, enlarged trade abroad and advanced the income, while they have cheapened the necessi­ ties of the people. In all that makes for the country's security and the people's happiness, in the stability of the our- rebey, in the creation of a new navy, in the extension of internal improvements, hi the praotical application of needed reforms--our nation's future progress, all hinges on Republican success. All these great public causes, in which the people are so vitally involved and deeply interested, would be violently checked, if not fatally crushed, by a in 1892, tn the face of the Democratio ) Democratic victory in this election. Free HB DISCUSSES THE ISSUES OP THE CAMPAIGN. > . £ho Une of Battle lor the Kepubiicami-- Would Hoi.t Democracy to tHe Three Proposition*, Tariff, i{ec4proeffy, aa< National Banklnc Kyuteni. • f ARQUN D A GKEAT SfAfl|. , g BRIEF COMPILATION OF ILU-> ^ NOIS NEWS. jiy. +\a£ *relah*Wndk on tlie SuaiM aa* jor-DtMstnflrt - Dragge* ^ to Death by aiWiri--sieiteniag Tragedy . ' tn Fayette County. APPROPRIATIONS. DEM COMGRE3S(l892.) ,3l0.000i000. R{ R; C ON68CSS(IQ9I^J6«.OOaOOQ ' ~ 18 000.000 m y 1 \ Good, Soniid Adrlee. The following letter from the Hon. James G. Blaine to Chairman Manieyj of the Bepublican State Committee, it made public: . BAB HABBOR. Me. The Hon. Joseph H. Manley, Chairman, etc.: M* DEAR SIB--Not being able, for reasons v.'hich I have explained to >uu, iu ueiiver pub­ lic speeches in this present campaign. I take the liberty of submittmtr my views 011 the issues which I regard as being strongest foi the Republicans to nrge before the people. 1. The Issue ot the greatest consequence la the tariff on imports, and it will continue to be until a settlement is effected by a majority so large that it will be tantamount to general acquiescence. The Republicans are aggressive 011 this subject. Two years ago they passed a general enactment known as the McKinley tar­ iff, which for a time failed to meet with popu­ lar approval and was regarded with a certain degree of distrust by those who had always upheld the protective system. Bnt a powerful reaction has come in consequence of the vin­ dication of the McKinley tariff by experience. It la found to have worked admirably, and vrithin the last year has produced a greater •Volume of business. Internal and external, ex­ port and import., than the United States ever transacted before. Notwithstanding the char­ acter and extent of the opposition to it. agri­ culture is remunerative, manufaetisres are prosperous and commerce is more flourishing then at any previous time, thus vindicating the McKlr.iey tariff by an impressive and on- deniabf® aeries of facta. Against this tariff the Democratic party have taken, a position almost without parallel In the history of the country. They reject, entirely the doctrine of protection, pronounce it a, fraud and anathematize it generally. A resolution to this effect was adopted by the Democratic convention against the report o£ the Commit­ tee on Resolutions by a two-thirds vote, thus manifesting the intelligent participation of every men. in the cwrpnttom. Sometimes a resolution may be adopted In ha;te, or just when the, convention is adjourning It may fall to receive the attention of the members, but this resolution was debated, pro and con, adopted after a contest, and was perfectly un­ derstood by the membero of the convention. It is contained in these words: "We denounce Republican protection as a fraud upon the labor of the great majority of the Amcncsn people for the^beneflt of a few. We declare It a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government haa no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff dut ies except for the purpose of revenue only. We demand that the collection of such taxes be limited to the necessities of the gov­ ernment when honestly and economically M|« iiiluisycivsi," If any one will take the trouble to react the resolu ' del find the tsrlff platform of the . party in general fcariyqny therewith, and it hJ examines the subject luniier he wiii discover that the duties In the compromise tariff which reconciled Mr. Calhoun ana appeased his angry followers In South Carolina were of a more comprehensive character than those contem­ plated in the 1 Vt>iS'ratio The we ifi t etierson _as fnc fnynder of J yet, Ml the' siioje^t of tariff, the' Jelier8o"_ _ radi­ cal opposition to the principles laid down by Jefferson. Toward the close of UJs aamlniip tratim the revenue from the tHrifroH imports produced a considerable surplus, ana the question was what should be done. Should tl: ' ' ~ * -Hew York Press. hopes on fusion in Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and the Da- lotas. Kansas is the only State in 'Which fusion has materialized, and the effect in that State has been to alienate some of the best Democratio leaders and organs from the ticket, and drive back into the Bepublican ranks many of the leading Alliance men. The result Is that Kansas is in a most promising condition for the traditional Republican majority. Fusion is in itself a confes­ sion of weakness and creates an element of weakness. Fusion is besides such a display of departed principle, such a prostitution of pretended convictions for office, and such advertisement of moral cowardice that the mero propositions and attempts at fusion in the Northwest have strengthened the Bepublican cause In every Northwestern State. There is tio reason to belleye that any of the Northwestern States claimed by the Weaver party will fail of a substantial Bepublican plurality. The States now claimed hy the Popu­ lists are, with their electoral votes, as folio was . • Alabama. U Axk&nsaa.............. 8 Georgia...; ....13 Kansas. 10 Minnesota... V Nebraska 6 North Carolina 11 North Dakota........ 3 South Caroling...... 9 South Dakota..;..... 4 Tennessee ..12 Total 98 Congresman Watson claims to •hie, by dividing the negro vote, to wrest Georgia from Democracy. In the Carol! 11 as and Arkansas the situa­ tion is about the same. The refusal of the Democratio Congrrss to pass the free coinage bill demanded by the. South, the complete failure of said Con­ gress to fulfill its tariff and "economy" pledges, and the repudiation of Demo­ cratic promises to give aid to Alliance measures, will, probably, cost Democ­ racy in the Southern States thousands of votes. In addition to this, the ad­ vent of the third party will divide the negro vote, and thus provide for its being cast, which cannot fail to swell the Republican returns. In Missouri, prominent Democratic organs and lead­ ers are supporting Warner, the Bepub­ lican candidate for Governor. But, after all, although Democracy may suf­ fer wide gaps in its ranks, the hope is too good to be entertained that elec­ toral votes will be turned from the Democratic column in the solid Sonth, Both the Northwest and the South will, undoubtedly, cast their votes in 1892 as in 188S. Of the above twenty-three States placed in the Republican column, Demo­ cratic queries have been raised concern­ ing Massachusetts and Illinois. But the action of the late Democratic Congress upon the World's Fair bill has stopped all Democratic talk about the doubtfulness of Illinois, and the free trade plank in the Democratic platform settles the' case in Massachusetts. Those two banner Republican States will not choose 1&92 in which to secede from their principles and interests. Of the sixteen States in the Demo­ cratic column, New Jersey and Virginia are questioned. New Jersey has re­ cently adopted the Australian ballot law, and it is a leading manufacturing State. The Democratic free trade plank will alienate a good many hun­ dreds of votes in a State whose elections are -always close. Besides, New Jersey has recently prodnced and imported, under the McKinley.. tariff, a strong colony of new factories which employ considerable forces. The recent trial and conviction of Democratic ballot box stuffers reveals the fact that Democratic success in New Jersey has hitherto re­ sulted from election frauds, which the Australian ballot will materially cure. In Virginia the Democratic plurality in 1888 was only 1,539. Virginia's re­ cent developments in mining and manu­ facturing, in addition to the People's y defection from Democratic ranks, ke that State's electoral vote an un­ certainty. Therefore. New Jersey and platform and the farcial acts of the Democratic Congress. Indeed, the wholesale failures of eaid Congress, its violated pledges, its extravagancies and follies, may be depended upon to help Republican pluralities all along the line. The Republican outlook for Novem­ ber, therefore, is calculated to inspire confidence. With a string and clean administration record on which to base a campaign, and with an opposition whose genius is in making bad breaks, all that Republican victory requires is a well-directed appeal to the patriotio common sense of the American people and an industrious marshaling of the Bepublican vote.--Minneapolis Tribune Harrison** Administration. The administration of President Har­ rison has been in keeping with his per­ sonal character--clean, able, conserv­ ative, dignified, and patriotio. He has naturally gathered about him men who sympathize with him in his views and resemble him more or less in character. The general tone of the administration has been imparted to it by its chief, and there have been no grave scandals, de­ falcations or other sta'ns to mar its good name. The search lights of polit­ ical investigations, geeHjng campaign ammunition, have brought to view •be nothing tnat challenges criticism. An opposition Senator, ifi an article on the administration published in the North American Review, does not even hint at trade is the only cause whioh Democrat­ ic success would prosper. This is not all. A Democratic victory not only means the disturbance of busi­ ness, the loss of public confidence, and the agitation of the foundations of gov­ ernment, by the introduction of wild and chimerical schemes of social, political, and economio innovations, but it would also mean the Inauguration of a carnival of corruption. There is not an intelli­ gent supporter of Grover Cleveland who does not know that the election of the Democratic candidate is only possible by wholesale crime at every Southern polling place. ^ Now it is manifest that no good cause can prosper and no public reform suc­ ceed in the hands of a party whose gup- porters not only tolerate but encourage this crime against freedom and human­ ity. The conservative citizens of this country, those who have interests at stake, and who take a patriotic pride in the progress and prosperity of this great nation, are, therefore, satisfied Jth^t the welfare of the people and the security of the Government will be best conserved by the continuance of Republican supremacy under the safe and sagacious statesmanship of Presi­ dent Harrison.---||aii and Express. England's Silk Manufactures. •• • When England had "protection" her silk manufactures were valued at $40,- 000,000 a year. " To-day under "free trade" they sre «ZSngmoti™ *ia JKf: I °n^«der5" protection " the.imports of silk sonnel, motives, or methods, while goods into England we. e «b£ut $11,000,- Senator Dawes says: "He called into his cabinet as his ad­ visers men who commanded at once the fullest confidence of the country; some of them already so tried in the public service that they had been designated by common consent for the places they filled. Some of them were new men in public life, but brilliant service has in each case proved the sagacity and wis­ dom of the election. Subordinate offices have been filled with able and clean men; commendation of this ad­ ministration does not demand of claim that there has been no exception. I# the vast machinery of this government, in operation at a thousand points, many of them thousands of miles beyond the eye of the executive, it never has been and never can be the case that men who operate it will in every instance prove themselves fit and faithful. But one who has witnessed the successes and mistakes of administrations in this par­ ticular during nine of these quadrennial periods challenges without fear for the present adminlstratidii a comparison with any or all of the Others. "--Hon. T. J. J. Morgan, In Review of Reviews. A Proclamation of Retaliation. The backing and filling of the Cana­ dian Government in the matter of the discrimination against American ports by a rebate; of eighteen cents a ton on grain going through the Welland Canal to Canadian ports is now explained. What explains it is President Harrison's retaliation proclamation. The Canadian Government, by fair promises to remove the discrimination, but excuses for not doing it till the end of , the Beason, hoped to fool the administration Into a failure to use the power conferred by the retaliation act. But the adminis­ tration took no stock in this Rip .Van Winkle pledge of reform: "We've sworn off, but this time doesn't count." The Piesident says, in effect, that this time has got to count It makes no difference whether Canada's British masters like it or not. They have no objection to trying to "put the adminis­ tration in a hole" and thus making a contribution toward the election of the free trade candidate for President. But President Harrison steps over the hole with a firm tread, and puts his foot down so that it can be heard on the other side of the Atlantic. His imposition of a toll of twenty cents a ton on Canadian Under "free trade" the Imports of Silk goods into England rose to over $55,000 000 a year. Would not our own production of silk goods, which were $35,000,000 in 18ffe and rose to $60,000,000 last year, fall off just as the English production fell off if we took to free trade af England did? Just think it over! A Tariff Picture* Commissioner of Labor Charles F. Peek, of New York State, a Democrat, in fits annual report states that out of 285,000 he tariff be reduced or should this surplus be In5cWe^oif iolntedly asked: "Shall we sup­ press the imposts and give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufacturers?" For himself hu recommended that "the imposts be maintained," and that the surplus crested "should be appropriated to the improvement ot ro4ds, canals, rivers and education." If the Constitution did not nive sufficient power to warrant these appropriations. Jefferson went so far as to recommend that it be amended. This presents the strongest condition of af­ fairs upon which a protective tariff can be justified, and Jefferson did not hesitate to recommend it. The Democrats of the present day, it is needless to say, are In direct opposi­ tion to the policy which Jefferson thus out­ lined and adhered to. When the principle of reciprocal trade was first proposed to be introduced into the tariff system, the Democrats showed a most, gener­ ous appreciation of the question and gave it their support, long as Republicans refused to accept it. but when Republicans came to ap­ prove it the Democratic support vanished, and instead of favoring, we find the Democratic National Convention passing a resolution hos­ tile to the system. But In spite of Democratic opposition we have attained, through reciproc­ ity, a new and valuable trade and the system has demonstrated Its many advantages. We were about to declare sugar, molasses, coffee and hidfs free of all duties, idftthe McKinley bill, but instead of that we passed a law by which we asked the several nations interested what they would give to have those articles m&^e free. We found that the privileges which we were about tc give without cost and without charge would secure a large trade in Brazil, in Cuba and Porto Illco.ln the Windward and Lee­ ward Islands, in British Guiana and Jamaica. San Domingo and the five Central Amerioan States, and to a minor degree in Austria, France, and Germany--all in exchange for the articles which we have intended to gratuitous­ ly admit. The free list of the McKinley tariff is larger in the number of articles and' in the aggregate amount of their import value than the dutiable list. What would have been the result to the United States if every article, be­ fore it was put on the free list, had been made the subject of inquiry to see what wo could get in exchange for it? We omitted to do so tor many years. And that neglect has cost the government advantages in trade which would ave amounted to tens of millions of.dollars. This is the whole of the reciprocity scheme. It is very plain and very simple. It secures a valuable trade in exchange for articles other­ wise destined to be put on the free list. The Democratic party think they can discredit it, and they make the> effort, apparently for the unpatriotic reason that they did not origi­ nate it. 3. With all Us calamities the war brought as one great blessinir--national currency. There aie many %ho will say that it was worth the cost of tae war to bring about so auspicious a result to capital and labor. Prior to the v,-ar we had the worst eijed na1 sftoaslhlt out the U fajlfd the result was a large distress among the people, ISQ 0: SiM.18 M bills, and they " found SCitUCffl ifi the pockets of the laboring Kan, to wlioni they were a total loss, without a n y r e d e m p t i o n w h j j L n - M ^ Q | t n e I h & n k it. was often and truly said that t great W at SIXTY THOUSAND children ARE WITTHOTA school accommodation in Chicago. 3 GOVEBSOB FIFEB has offered a rS» |f ward of $200 for Ihe arrest of the peraott or persons who killed William H. N$» pier in Pulaski County, August 23. NOTWITHSTANDING the warning and efforts of the State Board of Health to protect the commonwealth against small-pox, the disease is now reportaif. in two different counties in Illinois. The Secretary of the Board left for jt personal visit of inspection to the tif-r" localities. *'J GOVERNOB FIFEB ordered the issue <at; an election writ for an election to be held Nov. 8, 1892, for two additional judges of the Superior Court A Cook County. Also an election to be held oil the same day to fill thcvacancies in the office of judges in the Circuit Court gf Cook County, caused by the death George Driggs sad vfce resignation oi-„- Judge Thomas A. Moran. NEAB Mascoutah, Frank Martin, a farmer, of Smithton township, ww dragged to death. He was unhitching his team when a traction engine came along. The horses became frightened. In his efforts to stop thesa the farmer became entangled in the harness, and was dragged over a mile. The body was horribiy bruised and life was extinct when it was recovered. FBIDAY morning about 5:40 o'eloek, on the Hannibal and St. Joe track, about half way between West Quinay and Moody, a "K" line freight train bound east and a Hannibal and St. Joe freight train bound west collided. The injured are: A. D. Arnold, Hannibal and St. Joe engineer; Henry Walker, "K" line brakeman, right foot hurt; two colored tramps in a car of brick, both bruised. The trains came together just 5*U£ of what is known as D@sd Man's Curve, about two miles ont of West Quincy. A SICKENING tragedy occurred near. A vena, in Fayette County, in whtrtn John D. Frailey wa& stabbed to death by Charles Chandler, his brother-in-law. Both were well-to-do farmcjs of London Township. They, ^fent to Vandalia lo transact estate busjjess, accompanied bj* Bgjrs? WIS quarreled All along Uie rgad over poti* tic?. Chandler flflahy got out of the •yagon and said he would walk. Frailey declared he should ride and climbed out and began plying the whip to Chand­ ler Chandler drew his knife aiiA stabbed Frailey *nce in the back and twice in the left side. During the alter­ cation the horses became frightened aad started to run. Frailey called to Chand­ ler to stop cutting him and to eaten the houses. Frailey got up and started with Chandler after the horses when he com- plained of being sick and sank down hy the roadside and expired in the presence of Chandler and his mother. Chandler is 25 years old, while his victim is five years his senior and both have families^ CONTRACTS foe State supplies were awarded by the Commissioners of State Contracts, consisting of Gov. Fifer, Secretary of State Pearson, Auditor Pavey. Attorney General Hunt, and State Treasurer Wilson. Generally thei prices named In the awards are lower than those of last year, and in some in­ stances lower than ever before. The awards are as follows: Class 1. pript and cover paper, George L. Bardeen, of Kalamazoo, Michv, for $9,615; book pe- per, $2.36 per ream; cover paper,, $1.7$ per ream. Class 2, flat paper, Graham paper Co., St. Louis, for $4,251.78. ClaSH .1, stationery, John Morris Paper Com­ pany, of Chicago, for $4,348.54. Chum?:. 4, steel engraving, lithographing, etft..' J. M. W. Jones, of Chicago, for 937.60. Coal, Starnes Coal Mining Cons* pany, Springfield, $1.07 per ton; disr* tributing law journals, etc., George K. :* Paulen, Springfield, $120; copying lair ; journals, resolutions of General Assents bly, etc., Catherine L. Brown, Spring* field, lj cents per 100 words. For printing legislative bills, Phillips Bros., $3,640; for printing the laws, journals, and State reports, H. W. Bokker, $20,500; and for binding, H. W. Bokker, $10,*- j 466.7§. THE Adjutant General confirmed the election of James H. Walker as Seoond Lieutenant of Company G, Fourth In-' fantry, located at Effingham. V'^S '• - TP • ! •;a Mi .efet? wjjs thp measure bf their profits. They havS caused an aggregate Jdfrs of hundreds of mil­ lion of dollars among of the war all this ii noiig tte *K>or. Since th different. workta# people as-many as 89,717 show indltlduwl instances of increased wages, representing ' 75 per cent. of different industries, making the average increase in the wages of the employes of these Industries $43.95, and of the whole 285,000 for the year $28,11.--New York Press. They Are Silent Ndir. The Democratio press howled and yowled over the troubles at Homested because they affected a firm that was Bepublican. " But how silent they are over the labor troubles in Tennessee, where the min­ ers revolted against the Democratic contract convict labor law! The Bepublican McKinley tariff law had nothing to do with the labor troubles in Pennsylvania, but the Dem­ ocratic convict labor lease law had all to do with the labor troubles in Tennes­ see. and £he Democratic politicians, from the Governor 0owu> are all out with promises to repeal the law as soon as possible. The Cost ot Living* In Great Britain the cost of -a work- ingman's food, according to the English Statistician Mulhall, is 45 per cent, of his wages, and he lives poorly at that. In the United States Ihe cost of a workingman's food, according to the same authority, is only 33 per cent, of his wages, and he "fares like a nabob." THE velocipede was invented by Drais in 1817. lose Kvery pspsr dollar that circulates among the people flas the I'nited StateB behind it as a guarantee. All the banks that exist are under the control of the national government, and if they fall as tinancial institutions, the Government has taken care that their bills shall be paid by secu­ rities deposited in Government vaults. Under these circumstances it is a matter for extra­ ordinary surprise that the Democratic conven­ tion should deliberately pass resolutions for the revival of State banks. The palpable effect of this policy, if carried out, would be to cheat the poor man out of his daily bread. If State banks be adopted and their circulation attain a large issue, no device could be more deadly for the deception and despoilment of all the commercial and laboring classes. How the democratic convention came to make such a declaration, who was its author, what intelll- fent purpose was in it, will remain a mystery, have heard the argument adduced that we would keep the money at home if State banks were instituted, but we should keep It at home because it would be so worthless tnat nobody would take it abroad. Were the system of State banks revived we woulfl again have dis­ counts at the State lines, large charges for drafts on financial centers and general sus­ picion of every bill offered In payment, with a liquidation every few years that would be a destructive ^3 the innocent holders of b|]Js ana corresponding profit to the parties 6wnlng the banks. The three issues which I have given are the lss'iles oft Miicn I would arraign the Democratic party. I would not multiply issues nor be di­ verted bj- out opponents from a steadfast ad­ herence to and constant presentation of these questions befCtfe the people until every voter is made to know ana Understand their true >>hd weighty slgfiinoaflce. Verv sincerely 70 rs, J. d BLAINE, When They Worked. MOHAMMED began the Koran at. 35. SHELLEY wrote "Queen Mab" at 18. KEATS wrote his "Endymion" at 22., ALEXANDRE DI MAS wrote plays at 22. Di SUAE LI wrote "Vivian Gray" at 21. HEINE published his first songs at 23. SWIFT wrote the "Tale of a Tub" at 37. SENECA wrote "De Beneficiis" after 50. BICHARDSON published "Pamela" at 51. BACINE wrote the " Andromache" at 28. ^ PAIIT wrote the "Hons Pauline* at 47. COLERIDGE published " Chrfstabel" at 44. PLINY finished the 'German War" at 31. LFTHXB wrote his ninety-five theses at 34. AT Jacksonville, Labor Day was eel^f brated in great style, with a procession. , one and a half miles in length. Fully - 5,000 people were at the fair grounds and listened to addresses by the Ketr. oge gag respon-, §, B. Moore, Cornelius Sullivan of In- iey were generally uianapolis, Miss Lavinia Boberts of ^, tl pike County, and the Rev. D; f\ How^ THE Illinois Weather Bureau bulletin' says: The temperature of the last week has 'Cg, been below the normal throughout The ^ \ percentage of sunshine, has been much above a seasonable average.^ The rainfall,. for the woek, except in central and soutb-- ern counties, has been below a seasonable , amount apd unevenly distributed. Not­ withstanding the COJ! nights which "prevail­ ed during the last week the early corn te­ n-ported as maturing rapidly, and it li • tnought that it will be safe from frost in tee days. Late corn is reported generally lif good condition, but needs warm weatbtar and will not bo safe from frost before Oe^^; 1 Thrashing of oats and wheat, except some of the northern counties, is practice*' ' , ally completed. The yield generally is low what was anticipated. Plowing lit progressing slowly, owing to the dry an4 hard condition of the ground. Itisprobabla that a large area will be plowed the coming. " vreek for fall planting. Rain is bad If needed for pastures, which are reportea generally in poor condition. In some coun-. '< ties stock water is scarce. Grapes au4 melons will be an average crop, while the yield of plums, apples and peaches will ba 1 light ( FBED EAGER, a Chicago and Alto#; brakeman, was killed at Sherman while coupling cars. " THE Adjutant General confirmed eleotion of Frederick W. Pearson atf First Lieutenant and Franklin C. Tyler as Second Lieutenant of Com­ pany B, Third Infantry. The follow*" log-named enlisted men are honorably discharged: Privates James Oliver, B« B. Beal, Clarence O'Dell, Thomas Hud*, son, Ottls Hubbard, Ira Snyder^ Thomas J. Me Adams, Elbert Oliver/ ' Thomas Mabry, Charles A. Hlggens, and John H. Johnson, Company I, Fourth Infantry. THE switchmen in the Big Four " yards at Alton Junction quit work be- * ^ cause they are not paid the standard ot % wages. Men were sent from East Louis to take their places, but refuse*! ^ I:, ; to work upon learning the circura- * | . stances. (Considerable delay is caus«<i to freightjin transit. • ^ \ ̂ A FEW days ago Charles Hatch, an v' . a ^ old and well-known citizen of West* t M a s c o u t a h , l e f t f o r J e f f e r s o n C o u n t y t o . i / visit a married daughter. Monday hit '*'> * . was scratched upou the hand t>y a pet 5 ' dog. The injury was slight and no at^ "? ^ tentlon was paid to it. Biood poi*>ntotC , set in Tuesday and death came the nesti day. The deceased was about 70 year* s k Vr -i - -ip - ^ V