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It may now be safely said that the cam
paign U open.
Senator Sherman backed up General Har
rison's deliverance on trusts.
THE letter i3 plain language from truthful
Ben, and needs no interpretation.
Mr.' Cleveland in his letter clearly in
dicates his idea that tobacco should continue
to he taxed.
Governor Kill was renominated by the
Democrats at Buffalo by acclamation. What
will the mugwumps do now, poor things!
Democratic papers announce that "Judge
Thurman is back homo in excellent health
end spirits." Has better spirits in Ohio than
he got in New York, eh?
"What might be called "Hoars Shorter
Catechism" is likely to prove a political stand
ard, if not a classic. Read it in the report of
the debate in the Senate yesterday.
The New York Po3t is getting ready to
support Warner Miller for Governor. The
Post is for Cleveland, but even its mugwump
stomach cannot etanJ two of this kind, and
hence revolts at HilL
TlIE Journal desires to give its opinion that
Mr. Cleveland and the Democratic party
would both be stronger if they had the cour
age of their convictions. The people scent
oat a trimmer unerringly.
Warner Miller has struck the whisky
ring of New York right between the eyes.
We believe Mr. Miller ha3 done both a brave
and politic thing in making an attaek upon
the arrogant and law-defying liquor com
bination. If an epidemic should break out in the
crowded quarters of the dirty dadoes, proba
tly the citizens of Indianapolis would not rest
so quietly as they do under the wholesale and
illegal importation of this gang labor into
their midst.
From the fact that Mr. Bynum continues
to act on the defensive, making a very poor
defense at that, we conclude he is not "riled''
yet. We have his authority tht he Is never
st his best in a campaign till he gets "riled."
He should become so as soon as possible.
The News says of General Harrison's letter
cf acceptance:, "It is an able letter. Let any
one agree or disagree with it 83 he likes, it i3
an able letter, and it is another added to the
long line of illustrations that General Harri
son has made no mistake in his utterances."
To judge from the comments of the Demo
crat; press on General Harrison's letter, it
might be thought that the editors were look
ing for a sort of Fourth-of-July oration. They
lave become so accustomed to political pyro
technics from their own party leaders that
they do not recognize a statesmanlike docu
ment when thev tee one.
If Mr. Byncm will furnish the name of the
Indianapolis workingman he told about at At
lanta, who stayed at home and took care of
the babies while his wife went out and made
t living at the wash-tub, we will have him
1 hunted up and Interviewed. A statement
from somebody corroborating some of Mr.
Bynum's "inaccuracies" would help him out
amazingly. Give us the man's name, Mr. By
sum. The mugwumps who supported Cleveland
four years ago because of their professed be
lief in civil-service reform are convicted of
dishonesty and hypocrisy in advocating his
election this year, in the face of his record
and the utterances of General Harrison on
the subject. It will be simply useless for
Curtis and Godkin. and the rest, to pose be
fore the country as friends of this or any re
form after thus exposing their insincerity.
The Hon. Wm. M. Springer is not one of
the Democratic idiots, like the Indianapolis
Sentinel, which is trying to make a Demo
cratic victory out of the result in Maine.
Mr. Springer was one of the army of Demo
cratic speakers sent into the State by Mr.
Brice to help reduce the Republican vote.
He sadly says now: "I have got enough of
Maine to last me a life time;" and the Courier
Journal, which prints Mr. Springer's words,
piously adds: "S say all of us."
The Democratic criticisms unoa General
Harrison's letter are in the main compli
mentary to the man and the letter. They
find it quiet and unsensatiomil. That is the
fact. General Harrison is a perfectly btlf
poised man. He Is not pyrotechnic in any
decree. If he becomes President the people
of the country can go to bed every night
without either alarm or wonderment as to
what he will do next. He is a sound, safe,
able, conservative man, with a will and an
opinion of his own, but with both subordi
nated to a thoroughly disciplined mind and a
kindly tempered disposition. The letter was
the expression of the G eneral's character, and
as such has struck the level common sense of
the country.
13 IT FREE TRADE?
The incisive and conclusive presentation of
the issue of protection versus free trade, in
General Harrison's letter of acceptance, has
started the whole Democratic chorus to yelp
ing. Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart, every
cur of high and low degree alike, is repeating,
parrot-like, the assertion of Grover Cleveland
that the Democratic party does not mean free
trade. Abraham Lincoln said you could fool
all the people somo of the time, some of the
people all the time, but not all of the people
all the time. The Democratic party will not
be able to do what Mr. Lincoln declared to be
an impossibility. The Democratic party is
for free trade, always b.as been for free trade,
and is for free trade now, despite these shriek
ing protests. They meant - free trade in the
Cleveland message of last December, and in
the Mills bill, and they mean free trade in
the Cleveland letter of acceptance. We pro
pose to submit some evidence on this ques
tion, reproducing a good deal which the Jour
nal once before collated, in answer to an
assertion made by Hon. Wm. II. English, in
his speech at the Tomlinson Hall ratification
meeting, in this city, in July last:
The Democratic national convention of
ISoG, in Cincinnati, resolved
"That the time has come for the people of
the United States to declare themselves in
favor of progressive free trade throughout the
world."
The Democratic national conventions of
I860, held at Baltimore and Charleston,
adopted a resolution "declaring our affirm
ance'' of the above declaration. Of the his
toric record of the Democratic party, Mr.
Henry Watterson, the author of the St Louis
national platform, said only this yean
"If any man doubts what has been the po
sition of the Democratic party, let him read
the official utterances made continuous! v from
1800 to 18S4. This record, begun in 1S00 by
demanding free commerce with all nations, is
followed in 185G by a pledge of progressive
free trade, and closes in 1SS4 by the declara
tion that unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa
tion. Cowards and traitors we have
had from the beginning, but the party has on
the issue held always to the principles of the
Declaration of Independence, which was as
much an insistance on man's right to ex
change freely as it was a demand for freedom
of political action. By this record the Demo
cratic party must stand or fall"
The New York World said, while under the
editorial control of Mr. Manton Marble, whom
President Cleveland appointed to a trusted
and confidential mission almost as soon as he
was inaugurated:
"No protectionist can be a Democrat Our
hope is in making the Democracy an out-and-out,
thick-and-thin, aggressive, intolerant,
free-trade party, subordinating all issues to
thivar.d thereby drawing to itself all citizen
who have a true appreciation of this grand
principle."
Senator McDonald, a leading and honored
Democrat in his speech, in the court-house
in this city, only a few days ago, said:
"I am opposed to the so-called protective
system upon the ground that it is a violation
of the spirit and meaning of the Constitution
conferring the taxing pwer. I be
lieve that free trade between nations, as
between individuals, is the foundation upon
which commerce should rest"
Mr. Cleveland, in his letter of acceptance,
speaks of the tariff laws under which the
present revenues are collected, as "an utter
perversion of the power" of the government,
just as he Fpoke of the tariff system in his
December message as "vicious, inequitable
and illogical."
Mr. Roger Q. Mills, author of the Mills bill,
said in Congress four years ago :
"Wealth, prosperity and power will hies
the land that is dedicated to free men, free
labor and free trade.
This year Mr. Mills said to a delegation cf
Philadelphia wool merchants :
"The more confusion the tariff works to
business the better I like it because it will
the sooner be done away with. I desire free
trade, and 1 will not help to perfect any law
that stands in the way of free trade."
On the 31st of March, 1SS2. Mr. .Henry
Watterson said:
"The Democratic pariy, except in the per
sons of imbeciles hardly worth mentioning,
is not on the fence. It is a free-trade party,
or it ia nothing."
On the 20th day of March, 1SS2, Mr. Wat
terson said:
'The Democrat who is not a free-trader
should go elsewhere. He should join t'ue Re
publicans. The Democratic party
will make a free-trade fight in 1884. If it
loses, it will make another iu 1888. The con
flict between free-trade and protection is ir
repressible, and must be fought out to the
bitter end. We spit upon compromises, and,
propose neither to ask nor give quarter."
Grover Cleveland said to Attorney-general
Cassaday, of Pennsylvania:
"I believe in free trade as I believe in the
Protestant religion."
Allen G. Thurman said in his Port Huron
speech last month:
'Of all the humbugs by which men were
attempted to be deceived, this humbug of the
laboring man being benefited by a high pro
tective tariff is the greatest"
Speaker Carlisle said:
"All trade should be as free as possible."
Secretary Fairchild said:
"Add to the free list as many articles as
possible. Reduc dsties upon every dutiable
article to the lowest point possible."
Hon. S. S. Cox said:
"It would be a glorious consummation of
this debate could we only have gentlemen on
the other side join in this invocation to paper
and type and to the hearts of honest men
to clear the way for British Cobden free
trade."
Senator Reagan said in the Senate, on the
11th of July last:
"There is another term in which we speak
of England as a free-trade country. They
adopt the policy of liberalizing their com
merce. Others suggest that a free-trade
country is a country where a tariff is levied
for revenue only. If that is what
the Senator menns by free trade, then I am a
free trader, and I take it that most of the
Senators on this side of the Chamber are free
traders of that kind."
Henry George said:
"Mr. Cleveland stands before the country
a champion of free trade. Mr. Mills's speech
is a manly, vigorous and roost effective free
trad speech. "
Professor Perry, of Williams College, au
thor of "The Principles of Economy," says:
"Secretary Manning has done for free trade
in the united btatas. in the roast vear.
more effective work than any other man in
tne country. Postmaster-general v lias is an
out-spoken and undoubted friend of free com
merce. President Cleveland will go as fast
and as far toward that goal as the people and
ri- :ii : i i . it
v.uugrc&a wm permit mm.
The Chicago Herald, a recognized Demo
cratic organ, says:
"Protection is wrong in itself. It is un
constitutional. There must be a tariff, for
revenue, but there must not be protection
that is, the taxation of the many for the few
and the Democratic party is the only or
ganization which can sweep away this mon
strous error."
Finally, the Indianapolis Sentinel, on the
29th day of May, 188S, said:
"What is to become of the Democrat who
believes in protection? asks the New York
Tribune. It isnlt a hard conundrum, because
the Democrat who believes in protection don't
exist. He may call himself a Democrat, or
even think himself one, but he isn't'
As to what will become of the man who
claims to be a Democrnt, and at the same time
advocates protection, his destiny is sealed.
Unless he reforms he will land in the Repub
lican party, sooner or later, and better sooner
than later." -
This will undoubtedly answer for proof of
the general spirit and purpose of the Demo
cratic party. Now for the President's mes
sage, the Mills bill and Mr. Cleveland's letter
of acceptance: f ,
Of the December message, Hon. Frank
Hurd, the distinguished Democrat, f aid:
"I shall never be able to describe the joy
with which I read that message. All ; I felt
was that the issue of free trade is now decis
ively brought before the American people,
and that its cause was more than half won."
Henry George said in February last:
"I look upon the President's message as a
free-trade document"
Hon. George G. Vest, Senator from the
State of Missouri, in a letter to a club named
in his honor, written under date of June 20,
last, said: -
"Mr. Cleveland, by his message,, for which
I sincerely honor him, has challenged the pro
tected industries of the country to a fight of
extermination. It is useless for us
to disguise the fnct that the fight i3 to the
death, and we would be idiots to ignore it"
Of the Mills bill the New York'Sun, Dem-
ocratio authority, said:
"The Mills tarirt Bill was, in its conception
and purpose, a free-trade project" r
The Sun also said:
"Free trade would be the natural, rational,
practicable and probable result of the Mills
bill, and not at a very distant date,, either."
We could collate columns of testimony to
the free-trade character of the " December
message and the Mills bill from British news-
papers, but desist, reprinting, f however,
the following from the London Times, which
was cabled to the New York World of the
7th of July. Commenting on Mr." Cleveland's -
letter to Tammany of about that date, the 1
Times says:
"It would hardly be possible to put the free- '
trade case more clearl- or more strongly, and .
yet such is the force of word President
Cleveland shrinks from the use of the term:
free trade,' and, in fact declares that those'
who taunt him with being a free-trader are.
deceiving the country. It is certain,
that the arguments which President Clever
land urges are those which Cobden usd ta
employ forty-five years ago, and which any
English free-trader would employ now. We
are very glad to see President Cleveland using
them."
Of Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance, the
Louisville Courier-Journal savs: v 4
"A TARirF FOR REVENUE ONLY COUld not
be more truly defined." '
T- r. a. i "'
xi niriuer says; y , . '
"It knocks the bottom completely pat of
the protection tub, and sends a Hood of day
light straight through tho robrxr camp. Ho
walks straight into the den of the protection
baron and crams tho doctrine of a'tarift for
revenue only' down their throats." r. :
And the Loudon Chronicle, .one of the
chiefest papers of England, says of it:
.1 -y r
"It is immaterial to discuss what President'
Cleveland's crusade should be called. He may
give it any came he likes, as long as we know
it is, in fact, a crusade of free trade." f ' t
In view of all this, the man or paper that'.
says the Democratic party i3 not a free-trndo .
party, and attempts to deny the truth of Gen.f
Harrison's terse and epigrammatic putting f 1
the case, is either dishonest or a foot The;
people will not bo deceived, as flip result cf
this campaign will demonstrate, :' ;'.
, &
"IMMEH8E GAISS.".-!
No political organization ever banked so ts
tensively on its "immense gains'' as the Fro!
hibition party. In its fourth presidential"
campaign (1S84) its candidate received 150,-:
946, or about one in seventy of the votes cast
that year. Two years later, an off-year sum
ming up all the odds and ends that might to ;
counted in its favor, it claimed 294; S53.'1 This -
i it
was heralded as "immense gains," and the
party started out with new vigor.' cipheiing
thus: If 130,000 becomes 300,000 ia two'
years, it will be COO, 000 in four years, and 1,-,'
200,000 in six years, and 2,400,000 in ! eight
years, and 4,800,000 in ten years, and O.GOO,-;
in twelve years, and then we are there. Bat
the year 1SS7 had some elections which" make.,
some modifications of these figure?, yet they,
cry "immense gaind" from sheer habit At
their national convention in this city; they
fixed their figures at the 000,000 due from the
above arithmetic, apportioning the'1 vote
among the States with wise discrimination.
Burin ten States there were election; ,last
year, and there have been three this year,
whose figures would stagger ordinary men," but
our third party friends never mind it bat go
on all the came crying "immense gains." For
convenience we give the figures of these
thirteen States for 1880 and 1887 and the es
timate for 1888:
1S7. rttiintttrd 1S.53;
Iowa(lS31) 1.403
111 4.000
Maryland 7,105 4.272 15.000
Nebraska 8.173 (,50U 1G.OGO
New Jersey 19.803 12.600 30,000
retnavlrania 32,438 3H.471 33.000
Kento"olT(1895)... 3i.542 'JO.OOO
Massachusetts 8,251 10,70'J 12,000
Ohio 2S.H2 20.700 35,000
New York 30.437 40,900 73,000
It will be seen that in these States all but
three greatly declined, and that the aggregate
"gains" in these three large States was only
7,7SS, or less than one-fourth the loss in Ken
tucky alone, and only about one-half the loss
in Pennsylvania.
There have been three elections this year.
In all these this party has spent men and
money, and women, too, with a lavish hand.
Oregon was canvassed by St. John and Mrs.
Malloy, Maine by Fisk and Miss Willard, and
a hundred others, male and female.
Speaking of the Maine campaign, the can
didate for Governor said, two weeks ago:
"We have raised more money than ever be
fore. We will poll from 5,000 to 7,000, and
the Voice a month ago claimed at least 10,000
are over cow,
lS&j. Estimated ISti
l.t7l ' 5,000
1,37 5.000
2,000 7,000
Oregon 2,753
Vermont...... ......1,541
Maine 3,873
i,rtffi(.;i
These are the "immense gains" on which
that mendacious party is making appeals to
honest men for support Unsuspecting men
are led to believe that at the rate of "im
mense gains" the party is making, it will
bury the Republican party this year, then the
Democratic party in 1S92, or at the furthest
in 189G, so that 1900 will find it alone in its
glory, and roaster of the situation. And some
preachers repeat this story! Preachers, even
a3 politicians, ought to tell the truth.
There has been no election in Indiana since
1SSG, except municipal and township elec
tions; but these tell the same story of 'im
mense gains" that is told ia the figures above.
Thus, in the Indianapolis city election the
153 of 1SSG was reduced to 99; the Center
township vote of 200 of 1880 was reduced to
148; the Warren township vote of 07 was re
duced to 27. In Hendricks county the aggre
gate vote of 203 of 18SG was reduced to 93,
and so on; and there has been no indication
of any change in this trend, yet the orators
of that party cry "immense gains."
Meanwhile, what of the Republican party,
against which its batteries are trained! In
.Oregon both the Democratic and the Renub-
ican party made gains, the Republican party
of 5,902, and the third party alone lo3t They
have not yet quit counting the Republican
gains in Vermont and Maine, but the Prohi
bition party, that expected 23,000 in Ver
mont, is still shouting "immense grans" over
its merger 1,400.
V MR. BTOCKSLAGER'S MAHOGANY.
In order to protect poor settlers in Nevada
and other Western deserts, Senator Stewart
recently proposed an amendment to the bill
vr the protection of public lands, which pro
vided that no part of the appropriation should
be used in the prosecution of any person in
the mining regions for cutting, for mining or
domestic purposes, dwarfed or scrubby timber
unfit to be sawed or hewed into lumber cf
commercial value.
This amendment excited the attention of
Land Commissioner Stockslager, who at once
wiote a letter of protest, asserting that it was
offered in the interest of rich corporations,
which were destroying the valuable timber of
Nevada and other regions. He was particu
larly indignant over the destruction of ma
hogany trees, which he declared were actually
being burned as wood or into charcoal. The
Salt Lake Tribune jeers at Mr. Stockslager
for his ignorance, and the ease with which he
has been gulled into the belief that the scrub
by mountain mahogany of the far West is the
mahogany of commerce, which grows only in
the tropics. The Tribune wants to have a
mountain mahogany tree dug up and sent to
the superservicable Commissioner as an object
lesson, and says:
"He would see at a glance how infamously
his spies have been imposing upon him and
how utterly contemptible and mean are the
prosecutions which Sparks set on foot, and
which he is continuing. It is a mighty pity
that all those sensitive geutleman, whose
fathers cut and burned the beautiful timber
of the East, cannot be forced to camp for a
single month in Nevada, and be compelled to
provide the fuel for their cook from the na
tive timber of the Mate. It is simplv a
shame for those educated asses and their
educations are not sufficient to excite any
envv to sit there in Washington and, with
out the slightest knowledge ot what they are
really doing, set forces in action which can
have but two results. One is to supply fees
to broken-down tramps, who want to make a
living out of the party which they disgrace;
the other is to harass, annoy and put to cruel
expense the men who are building signal sta
tions to civilization on the desert If the
men of the West can find one act of the partv
in power, performed since the inauguration of
President Cleveland, tnat has not been appar
ently controlled by utter ignorance, or a dis
position to harass and oppress them, we
should bo glad to see the exception pointed
out7'
THE MAINE AVALANCHE.
The assertions of the Democratic preta that
their party had made no fight in Maine are
glaring taisenoous. ine train is that the
managers etrained every nerve to reduce the
Republican majority. Money wa3 spent
freely, their best sneakers were sent there,
and the fight was made on national and not
local issues. They also counted largely on
the federal patronage, which they control for
the first time in many yeais, and to which
they havo heretofore been accustomed to
ascribe tho Republican victories. So sure
were the leaders that their tremendous efforts
must show great results that they indulged
in sanguine anticipations, home even express
ing a belief that the Democracy would carry
the State. Others, less hopeful, were
euro that the Republican majority would be
out down to 10,000. The outcome is a terri
ble disappointment Now that the returns
are still coming in, and making the Repub
lican majority larger, Messrs. Brice & Co. can
hardly be expected to understand what hurt
them, but after a few days they can take time
for calm reflection and cast their eyes upon
the wool-growers, the lumbermen, the lime-
workers, the potato-raisers, the fishers, and
the thousands of others whose interests were
imperiled by the Democratic free-tiade and
English policy. It was not personal mag
netism this year. It was principles rather
than men, and the chiefest was the principle
of self-preservation. The same influences
that brought the victories in Vermont and
Maine are at work in other States, and the
result in November will be a triumph of the
American, which is also the Republican,
idea that of protection to home industries
and the prosperity of all citizens.
Gen. J. R. Chalmers, of Mississippi, de
livered a speech at Little Rock, Ark., a few
days ago, in which he made some strong
points in favor of protection. Referring to
cotton, in which many of his hearers were
personally interested, he showed that the cot
ton crop of the country brought an average
of $33,000,000 a year more for the eix years
ending in 18S0 than fcr the six years ending
in 1800, and yet, while the product was stead
ily increasing, the price was not lowered.
This could only come from an increased de
mand fcr cotton, and this, in turn, oaine from
the growth of home manufactures. Statistics
show that England took less cotton from us
In 1880 than ah did Ia 18C0, and that the
for Vermont The elections
and we append the result:
whole foreign demand for cur cotton increased
less than 3 per cent in twenty years, while
our production of cotton increased 22 per
cent The speaker continued:
"Now, let us see what kept up the price
while production was so largely increased.
Our home consumption was in 1800 904,028
bales; in 1880, 1,795.334 bales, an increase of
SO per cent And during the same period all
cotton gtds which the Southern farmers con
sumed were reduced in price 28 per cent
These so-called protection robbers, by their
sharp competition, compelled the foreigner to
ay 2 per cent, more for cotton in 1880 than
le paid in 16G0, before protection began, and
at the same time furnished the planter with
cotton goods at 23 per cent less cost"
It is such facts and figures as theso that are
rousing the American people to the criminal
folly involved in the proposition to substitute
free trade for protection.
We suppose no candidate for . so high an
office ever penned a more humiliating recanta-
tion than that Mr. Harrison writes in this
letter concerning Chinese immigration. In
his senatorial career he was distinguished for
nothing except his advocacy of Chinese immi
gration. Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The Courier-Journal knows this to be abso
lutely false. Not a word or a vote of Gen.
Harrison's can be quoted in favor of Chinese
immigration. While a member of the Sen
ate, on May 19, 1880, he wrote to Mr. Martin
Biorn, a Knight of Labor in Frankfort, this
State, which letter the Journal published
yesterday, in which he said:
"I agree with you that they are not a class
of immigrants that are desirable.
The present law prohibits the coming in of
any more Chinese, and I have been in hopes
that those who came under the previous
treaty would be returned to their native land
to stay."
And on the 20th of May he again wrote
Mr. Biorn, saying:
"While I am writing we are considering in
the Senate a bill to amend and make more
stringent the present law. I will send you a
copy of it. It will make the coming in of
Chinese laborers, in violation of law, more
difficult"
This is cumulative and unexpected evi
dence of General Harrison's mind touching
the Chinese; but it is valuable and conclusive.
What the Courier-Journal can expect to ac
complish by downright misrepresentation and
lying we cannot conceive. Mr. Watterson
had better read the tearful Gorman's remarks
in the Senate a few days ago.
TllE New York Graphic, the national sub
sidized Democratic organ, says about the
Maine election :
"The Maine Republicans ought to carrv
the State to-day by 20,000 majority. For six
years past this has been about the average
figure by which they have beaten the Democ
racy. Four years aco the Maine
Republicans carried the gubernatorial elec
tion for his Blaine's nominee in September
of that year by a majority of over 20,000."
The Graphic should stop telling-untruths,
even if Mr. Brice does pay it for campaign
work. In 1682 the Republican plurality was
8,8;
In 1881, with Mr. Blaine as the Presi
dential candidate, it rose to 19,833. In 1SS0
it was 12,019. The average for the last six
years has been 13,802, instead of 20.000. The
Democrats had better drop Maine. They
gnaw a file.
Genek-l Grosvenor, of Ohio, who has
taken part in five campaigns in Maine, in
cluding the last, says this one - surpassed all
others in hard fighting on both sides. The
Democrats, he thinks, had the best organiza
tion, as they certainly did the most money,
and the active, untiring aid of an army of
office-holders. "They fought with a despera
tion," says General Grosvenor, "such as I
never witnessed before. The excitement in
the State became intense. It was one con
tinuous torchlight procession from Kittery to
Qaoddyhead." The result far exceeds the
most sanguine hopes of the Republicans, and
is a crushiog disappointment to the Demo
cratic managers.
The total duties remitted by the Mills bills
according to the official estimate of tho com
mittee, appended to their report, is $49,4S6,
210.75. The schedules affected by the bill
produced a revenue, last year, amounting to
$179,741,330.71. These are the Democratic
figures, and they prove that the Mills bill
makes a reduction of 27 percent In view
of the committee's own official statement,
what becomes of the stereotoypvd and dishon
est cry that the Mills bill only makes a reduc
tion of 5, 0 or 7 per cent? Out of the com
mittee's own report, the statement made so
glibly and repeatedly is proven false.
Hon. Charles II. Knigut, of Brazil, one
of the foremost Democrats of CUy county,
has declared for Harrison and Morton and
protection. A large number of the leading
citizens of that county have addressed him a
note, requesting him to make a public ad
dress at the wigwam on Thursday evening,
Sept. 20. Mr. Knight responded, accepting
the invitation, in a letter in which he de
nounces the free-trade policy of the adminis
tration. Mr. Knight's accession to the ranks
of protection is of the utmost value. He is a
man of character, prominence and large in
fluence.
The New York Times thinks General Har
rison's letter lacks altogether the "power of
luminous statement which characterizes Pres
ident Cleveland." As Mr. Cleveland's lumi
nosity in his letter of acceptance leads one
Democratic organ to remark that a tariff for
revenue only could not be more tersely stated,
and another to declare that it is the very es
sence of protection, the Times's observation
stems to be very just General Harrison cer
tainly does seem to lack the "luminous" fac
ulty of expressing two meanings in one utter
ance. The Cincinnati Enquirer has finally got
tired of lying about Maine, by claiming a
Democratic victory. Yesterday its Portland
special said:
"There are but few redeeming features in
to-night's resume of the situation. Every re
port adds to the majorities, Manley says to
night, with much show of truthfulness, that
every county ha3 gone Republican. The
Senate is unanimously Republican, and the
House four-fifths so. The Republican plu
rality In the State is full 20.000. It is the
largest the party has ever had, and so is
Reed's."
No, esteemed but excited Democratic con
temporary, the members cf the G. A. R. are
not partisans; they are patriots, and there is
nothing in their constitution and by-laws to
forbid it It is the misfortune of the Demo-
cratic Congressmen and not the fault of the
veterans, that the former are in the way of
the Grand Army road-roller when it starts in
pursuit of the opponents of pension legislation.
The Richmond Telegram prints an inter
view with General Hovey, in which be says
"Just so lone as Grover Cleveland is in the
White House and the lower home in Con
gress controlled by a boIU South ant a few
Democrats, the 6oldier will have no benefit
from the present administration. The hopes
of the soldier, his interests, rest with the
Republican party. The llouse is dominatsd
by the Southern brigadiers, and they will,
of course, have no. legislation that will ia
any way benefit the men who foajrht them.
No, indeed, the soldier can look for nothing
good from this Democratic administration."
M. EL, Cincinnati: The customs duty on for
eign works of art, paintings and i tatnary Is 30
per cent ad valorem.-
To the Editor of the I ndianeitoli Journal:
Where and when did Cleveland say: "I be
believe in free trade ai I believe in th Protect
ant religion." W. II. Yocnck.
Franklin', ImL, Sept. 11.
He is reported to have made the remark in
the White Hooee to Attorcey-ge neral Cassaday,
of Pennsylvania. The story has never been de
nied by any one authorized to do so.
To the EJItor of the InJiaoarolii Journal:
1. For whom did Grover Cleveland first vntef
2. II is a?c? 3. In what town wa General Har
rison born? Red-hot Repcblican.
8?pt 11.
1. We don't know. 2. Ia his fifty-second year,
a North Bend, O.
POLITICAL NOTE AND CO 31 ME. NT.
Governcb Hill's campaign properties con
sist mainly of a whisky bottle and a knife. Pro-
idence Journal (Dem.)
No workingman in this country has yet asked
for free trade, and if be vots for it he will d
so throuch ignorarce." T. V. Powderly.
Dr. G. De La MATYR,pstorof Evan's Memorial
Church, Denver, has ben nominated for Gover
nor by the Unitsd Labor party, of Colorado.
TnE most remarkable thing about Grovei"
letter of acceptance is that its sixth sentence
contains 329 words. William M. Evarts will
never smile again.
Hon. D. U. Goodell, the Republican norair.ee
to the New llampf hire governorship, is the in
ventor of that fascinating and nseful article, the
"lightning applepapsr.r
Colonel Bod Ixgersoll, on being asked
what he thoncht of Cleveland's letter of accept
ance, responded: "It is the maximum ot ego
tism; the minimum of logic.'
Suppressed telegram "To Allen G. Thur
man, Fifth-avenue Uctel You will come right
home. Let some other folks do . the trarapinjr.
Mary T. Thurman." Albany Times (Dein )
I am opposed to giviog the Canadians the sen
timental satisfaction of waving the British fla?.
paying British taxes snd the aetnal e&sh remun
eration of American markets. James G. Blaine.
A gentleman at Republican headquarters
yesterday was commenting upon aa item in a
Chicago paper alludinc to Mr. Cleveland's scr
ees in reconciling all cf the Democratis l?:dr
who have been opposed to him since bis election.
"It is, he said, "a reminder of the story ot x
fishing party which went out in a toe. Thy
had a negro iu charge of the ordinary routice
work. The tieero fed overboard and the boat
was stopped and a rescue effected. One of the
party was indieoant at the delay ami wanted to
know why the boat wa stopped to pick cp the
colored attendant. 'Why.' answered one of the
part wby, he carries the bait!"1 Milwaukee
Sentinel.
A Democrat sends us a brief explanation of
why he will not vote for Cleveland this year.
He says four years ago his party went into the
fight with a motto like this:
EEFORM
nt.d
Cleveland
This vear he says the motto rnna entirelv dif
ferent, the eart being put before the hcre :n
this style:
CLEVELAND
nd
reform.
In other words, there is too mneh Cleveland ard
too little reform for him in lb& San Franeico
Chronicle.
r.csjA'jiis HarkijOX, Le
Will elevated b
To the jres5d?ner;
lirover Cleveland, he
Will return-eJ 1
To retiracy.
lliirjuo Jocrsfti.
A IUIigious Opinion of Them.
Central Christian Advocate.
Teat the "trust' is a combination agtloct the
general interest will sot be denied. If competi
tion is to be maintained in recard to labor, we
shall not allow the capitalists and manufactur
ers to destroy it in their field. They mut Ccd
some other scheme to give proper protection to
their interests. The people will not tolerate
combinations of capital when ther ean help it:
if we must have combinations at all thy prfr
that they shall bs for the beneSt of the working
men. The Democrats In Malno.
Cincinnati tVmmercial-Uarctts.
The Democrats throughout the Catted States
are bnsily acssrting that tbe-v took no interest
in the Maine election beyond goice through the
forms. But they do not tell the trnth. They
struggled with trantic erergv and poured forth
money, hoping to reduce the Republican major
ity, and It they hr.d done so there would have
been a rebel yell from Pennsylvania to Mexico.
Had the Idea.
San Franciftco Cbroniclo.
"That twenty-five-dollar suit yon are wearing,"
says the Democratic orator, "would only cost
you $20 if we bad free trade,"
"But 1 would be in big lack to have a dollar
to bey something, to eat. let alone baying
twentv-dollar suits of clothes, if we had free
trade," answerst he workingman.
Doing Go"- Work.
Elkhart BTiw.
The Indianapolis Journal is doing valiant
service for tee Republicans of Indiana anJ the
Nation. It is stanch, fearle and aegressive,
and il is treatiug the issr this campaign
with intelligence and vie apled with rood
Jndgment Mr. Halford jwing tho t tu3 he
is made of this year.
What It Means.
Alilwankre Sentinel.
When 800 ken and steel-workers in Milwaukee
issue an address denouncing the Cleveland free
trad ptlicy and urge workiigmrn to vote for
Harrison and Morton, it means that the Cleve
land blunder is stupendous.
A Necessary Precaution.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
United States Senators should not hurl ac
cusations of drunkenness against each other un
til the jugs are removed from the committee
rooms. Well, ot Much,
Louisville Commercial.
The most important point in the contest is
the tariff infinence. The manufacturers cf
Maine did not show much love for the Mills
bill.
Pour and One-Half Per Cent Compound Interest
It is not surprising that business men are now
turning their attention to life insurance as a
form of investment
In 18C5 a gentleman, then aged twenty-sevee,
applied to The Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York, for a $10,000 endowment policy,
payable at fifty, or at death, if prior. Premiums
paid in ten years.
He paid 10 annual premiums of $G90
,b so.yoo.oo
Less dividends drawn 2,-O.yo
The policy matured Anp. 9, 15S3, and r. .
the eornpatir paid in scttl?me.nt... '13,0..0
The $3,570.10 beinvc uncei airidead.
This policy has furnished insurance for twenty-three
years, and now returns in excess
of 41 per csnt. compound interest.
An investment that pays orer 4 per ttuL
compound interest, without the loss of a mo
ment of time for twenty-three yars, that is ex
empt from taxes, expenses and care to the in
sured, and that furaishes insorauee as a jratni
ty, ought to commend itsslf to every reasonable
xaaa.