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DISCOUNTING DISASTER
R<|ftilill<'tii» ForptuHlIni Trouble Id Ohio
Thla Kail.
Republican organs throughout the
country that have some political
shrewdness nnd foresight are already
apologizing for what they anticipate
In Ohio this fall. They have seen the
handwriting on the wall and they are
preparing to let themselves down as
lightlr as possible when the predicted
calamity comes. It is their mature con
clusion that there will be a dispropor
tionately large falling off in the repub
lican majority in McKinley’sown state.
This concession reflects credit upon
their Judgment, but is made with a
▼lew to meeting the inevitable with some
grace and equanimity when it is en
countered. It goes for the saving that
they carefully avoid the truth in deal
ing with this matter and adopt a theory
least shocking to their own sensibil
men.
The claim made by these men die- j
counting political futures is that the
fight in Ohio is between Foraker and
anti-Foraker elements. Adopting this ,
proposition without offering the slight
est evidence of its correctness, the as
sertion is made that Foraker is not so
strong a vote-getter as McKinley, that
the fire-eater does not deserve the con
spicuous place he is given in the strug
gle and that the republican campaign
managers arc making a costly mistake
in permitting him to occupy it. On his
shoulders is placed responsibility for
the deluge that is confidently looked
for. This is a cool and impudent pro
cedure. In every campaign speech
Foraker and all his helpers insist that
the relations between himself and Gov.
McKinley are of the most cordial char
acter. 80 far as their utterances and
their actions indicate they are working 1
in unison and accord. Bushnell wants
to be governor, McKinley wants to be
president and Foraker wants to be
United States senator. For them to
pull apart would be to deliberately
weaken the chances of each member of
the trio.
The anti-Foraker faction has always
been the McKinley following and for
the little Napoleon to weaken his party
in his own state would be a blunder of
which even he is incapable. The truth is
the masses are recovering from the re
lapse which gave the republicans the
benefit of their last tidal wave. Re
sults of democratic administration have
vindicated the principles that have
guided it. The people have warmed to
a national policy that issues to their
benefit and shuts otit the greedy power
which was directing legislation for the
further centralization of wealth. They
cannot resist the logic of better times,
more work, higher wages, greater busi
ness activit}' and general prosperity
that reaches to every nook and corner
of the land There will be a tremend
ous falling off in the republican ma
jority of Ohio because improved condi
tions have been making democrats; l>e
cause republicans are seeing the light,
and because they have in ex-Gov.
Campbell such a man of the people as
they delight to honor.—Detroit Free
Press.
STILL INCREASING.
Clporls iud Manufacturer (trowing Under
the Wllaon Tariff.
At the risk of infringing on their pa
tience we must again ask: What hare
our high tariff friends to say now of the
effect of the Wilson bill dn the manu
facturing business of this country? Are
they still of the opinion that American
mills and factories will not be able to
meet European competition In their
home territory? The new law has been
in force about a year, and what is the
result? The cotton mills of New Eng
land and the south are all running. The
weekly output of our iron furnaces has
for a couple of months been lurger than
it was at any period under the McKin
iej' bill. The flourmills of the country
are busier now than they ever were
before. Our wood-working establish
ments are behind iu their work and
steel manufacturers have orders enough
ahead to keep them busy for months.
The same is true of our woolen mills,
tobaeeo factories and manufacturing
establishments generally.
Trade has been stimulated and manu
facturers are exceptionally busy in con
sequence. They have been able to
meet European competition, not only j
In the United States, but in other!
countries as well, and even in Europe. I
Our exports of manufactures have been [
Increasing steadily for several months. ;
The only exception was in June.
They were smaller that month than in
May, but larger than in any other
month of the year. They were larger, |
too, than in June, 1894. From a little !
over f12,000,000 in February about the j
same as in the corresponding month of !
last year—they have increased steadily
month by month, not counting May,
when our foreign trade was so excep
tionally heavy that increase in the suc
ceeding month could not l>e looked for.
The official report for August shows
ft gain that month of about #2,800,000
oyer the sales of our kui-|>Iun manufac
turers in the corresponding month of
last year. As stated iu that dispatch,
our exports for the year to September
1 amounted to $129.440,Hitt as compared
with #118.050.145 in the irst eight
months .of 1894. If the same percent
age of increase is kept up to the end of
the year, the total for 1895 will f-x>t up
nearly f 195,vKK),000. or #10,000,000 more
than our exports of manufactures in
the best fiscal year of the McKinley
period.
Our manufacturers certainly have no
reason to complain of the results of
democratic legislation on the tariff.
They have been benefited and so have
their customers anil the country in
(general.—St. Louis Republic.
PROSPERITY AND PRICES.
The Drmnrratlr Tariff Keilure* the foe*
of Ncee**»ries.
When the southern cotton crop aad
the western cereals now coining for
ward are nctually marketed the coun
try has in prospect a season of (Treat
and substantial prosperity. It prom
ises to extend not only to manufactur
ing regions where the activity in iron
and the textile's is bringing in money,
but to the agricultural communities
whose trade does so much to increase
the comfort of the residents of all the
great cities.
It is not to be expected that the Trib
une should feel satisfied with such a
situation, but it is useless for it to at
tempt to ignore the fact that our ex
ports for eight months this year Bhow
a gain of eleven million three hundred
and thirty thousand dollars. This is in
spite of the home-market idea that we
ought not to try to trade with foreign
ers, but as it is bringing money into
the country and helping to make a Mc
Kinley calamity campaign impossible
the Tribune will have to take it into
consideration.
It will also have to take into consid
eration the proximity of the business
like announcements in its advertising
columns to the columns in which it
gives its own unbusinesslike views of
the tariff.
As every one knows, the McKinley
bill was drawn to increase taxes and
decrease revenues. It made duties
high to prevent importation. Having
discovered that the annual revenue
from the Wilson bill amounts to two
dollars and thirty-six cents per capita,
aguinst only one dollar and ninety
cents per capita under the higher du
ties of the McKinley bill, the Tribune
makes the preposterous assertion that
this increase is “drawn from the pock
ets of the people.”
In the very next column, however, it
advertises a variety of goods at Wilson -
bill prices, and in doing so utterly re
futes its claim that the Increase in rev
enue is an increase in taxes. When un
der the McKinley law did it ever offer at
seventy-three cents a yard such “body
Brussels carpet with border” as it is now
offering? When under republican
tariff duties did it ever invite the pub
lic to buy a suit of cheviot for ten dol
lars as it is doing now?
Instead of doing anything of the
kind it contended that “a cheap coat
makes a cheap tnan." That was ab
surd but logical McKinleyism, and it
will either have to go back to it or re
fuse to take advertisements offering
the public low-tariff bargains at Wil
son-bill prices.—N. Y. World.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
-Mr. IlarrisoD’s own city having
gone pell-mell for the democrats, an
other interview from Col. John C. New
is now about due.—Louisville Courier
Journal.
-There is manifest reason to be
lieve that Indiana is not in favor of a
third nomination for the presidency,
even when it means only a second
term.—St.Louis(iloT>e-I)emocrat (Hep.).
-Democrats are coming out of the
woods in droves with the advent of
good times. There was a change of
seven thousand votes in the democratic
direction in two years in Indianapolis
—St. Paul Globe.
-The democratic party has been
gaining in strength ever since the tide
of prosperity set in. The rank and file
are getting back to their moorings and
in 1896 another democratic tidal wave
will sweep over the country.—Arkan
sas Gazette.
-B. Harrison's political shrewd
ness seems to be in a good state of pres
ervation, whatever else may he said of
him. He has inspired a public senti
ment that he does not wish to be held
responsible in uny way for the McKin
ley bill.—Chicago Tribune (Rep.).
-A cross-roads republican organ
in Ohio oracularly avers that the im
provement of business is due to the
prospect of the triumphant election oi
William McKinley as president in 1896;
and we guess that its claim is about ate
near right as the vaunt of its repub
lican contemporaries that the better
times are the result of the election last
year of a republican congress which
will not meet until next December.—
Lansing Journal.
-The McKinleyites have finally
stated the case as they understand it.
They will demand in the republican
platform of 1896 a general revision ol
the tariff, but no increase, except that
the duty on wool shall be restored.
They will go into the campaign on a
platform of higher prices for clothing,
carpets and hats and caps. A plat
form and candidate running on the
issue of higher prices for necessaries oi
life will not get far in the campaign.—
Chicago Chronicle.
-\\ hen the returns are all in from
the elections four weeks hence the
republicans will probably realize that
victory in 1896 will not be quite sc
easy to achieve as many republican
statesmen and uewspapers have been
predicting. The notion that they can
elect anybody, on auy sort of a plat
form, next year, which has been preva
lent in some republican circles is ab
surd and mischievous, and the quicker
the party pets rid of it and takes an in
tellipent view of the situation the bet
ter it will feel after the election thir
teen months hence. —St, Louis Globe
I Democrat t.rep.j.
ARKANSAS STATE NEWS.
<lrlcatii»ft Odd Fellow*.
The grand lodge of odd fellows of
I Arkansas held their annual meetingafc
1 Little Rock. The following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
brand master, Dr. E. 11. Stevenson.
Fort Smith; deputy grand master. Dr.
J. 0. A. Sullivan, Waldron; general
warden, O. W. Scarborough, Newport;
general secretary, J. B. Freidheim,
1'amden; general treasurer, H. Ehrer
berry, Little Rock; representative to
the sovereign grand lodge, J. P- Paul,
St. Paul.
The grand encampment elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
A. S. .Tett, Fulton, grand patriarch;
Theodore Redway, Little Rock, grand
high priest: Henry Cohen, Hot Spring*,
grand senior warden; 0. W. Moriarlty,
Huntington, grand junior warden; J.
B. Freidheim, grand scribe; E. Ehren
berg, Little Rock, grand treasurer; J.
B. Freidheim, grand representative to
the sovereign grand lodge for two
years; T. Lone, Springdale, grand
marshal; (Jus G. Griffith, Little Rock,
grand inside sentinel; John F. Dan
iels, Newport, grand outside sentinel.
TrRln-^rfcLeii at Work.
The St. Louis and Hot Springs spe
cial south-bound, in charge of Con
ductor dames Brandon and Engineer
Frank Wilson, was wrecked about 8
miles north of Mai Tern, on the Iron
Mountain road, the other day. There
were about eighty passengers aboard,
who escaped injury. Fireman E. J.
Boling was the only one seriously hurt.
He was badly scalded about the head,
neck and arms, and received some in
juries about the spine and hips.
The wreck was caused by someone
placing a large square iron nut in the
top of a rail at a joint. The road makes
a sharp curve at this point, and there
is also a heavy down grade. The en
gine was made almost a complete
wreck. The baggage car was thrown
from the trucks and turned across the
track. The smoking car was thrown
from the front trucks and off the track.
Injunction Refused.
Judge Williams, in the federal court
at Little Hock, refused the motion for
an injunction in the case of the Con
tinental Cotton-seed Itelinting Co. of
Memphis, against the Standard Cotton
seed Co. of Little Rock. Last August,
while on a vacation in Colorado, Judge
Williams granted a temporary re
straining order, restraining the Stand
ard company from transferring any
patentable rights to cotton-seed re
linters transferred to it by James J.
Faulkner, of Memphis, and William A.
Rust, of Eau Claire, Mich. The other
day the restraining order expired and
the notice for an injunction to the
same effect came up for hearing.
Penitentiary Lessees Compromise.
The case of the state of Arkansas
against the James R. Miller estate was
compromised at Little Rock recently
by the defendant paying the state
527,000. The Arkansas Industrial Co.,
of which the late James R. Miller was
president, was for ten years lessee of
the Arkansas penitentiary. Some time
before the state abolished the lease
system it was alleged that the lessee
lost control of a number of convicts
on account of legislative action. When
the lease expired the lessees was in
debted to the state in the sum of S3u,
000. which, together with the interest,
made S40.000. This was the sum sued
for.
Arkansas Kndcavorers.
The fifth annual convention of the
Young People’s Society of Christian
Endeavor of Arkansas was held at
Bentonville. Senator Berry delivered
the address of welcome on behalf of
the city of Bentonville and Judge S.
F. Stahl on behalf of the Christian En
deavorers. There were several re
sponses. Rev. F. F. Carlton, of Fay
etteville, preached the convention ser
mon
state Officers of the Christian Endeavor.
At the state convention of the Chris
tian Endeavor society, at Bentonville,
the following officers were elected:
i resident, i. ,T. Connor, Fayetteville:
vice-president, Charles F. Cale, Beebe;
secretary, It. W. Porter, Little Bock
treasurer, E. Braley, Fayetteville; state
superintendent junior work. Miss Leon
Paul, Bentonville. The next conven
tion will be held at Little Rock.
With Convict Labor.
Auditor of State Mills has a scheme
for the business men of Little Rock to
build a railroad with convict labor.
He says the penitentiary board would
like to hire out (550 or 700 men, and pre
fers to work coal mines or build rail
roads. if satisfactory arrangements
could be made.
The “Mlue Sky
Ex-Mayor Laugbran of Hot Springs
seems to be in deep water in St. Louis.
He is charged with the “blue sky”
game—selling, or attempting to sell,
real estate when he had no title
thereto.
Alleged Murderer Apprehended.
James Grigsby, indicted in 1887 for
killing a negro in Sharp county, was
arrested recently in Lawrence county
and taken to Evening Shade.
An Karly Settler.
Alford H. Wallis, one of the early
settlers of Arkansas, died at hi# home,
near Malvern, of paralysis, aged T8.'
He was a citizen of Hoi Springs county
for about fifty years.
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These are the Bern Boots on the
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Furniture,
Stoves,
Tinware
Cultivators & Howeii
Barbed Wire
and Lime
a Specialty
The Highest Market Price
will be paid for
Chickens, Butter,
Eggs, Hides,
Tallow, Etc.Efe
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS Ilf
General \ Merchandise
CHEAPEST CASH STORE IN THE CIT1
J. W. BECK & CO.
DEALERS IN
Merchandise
Careful and Prompt Attention Given to Trade in Cotta
Hides, B urs and Country Produce. Consign*
nents of same solicited.
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4. W-^liLL, 1‘rmidrot. J.. UOl.LWAfcK. VUr-IWdent. CHAS. *!. SAKDKIiS,
Paid up capital, $50,000. Surplus. $5,000.
BANK Of EASTERN ARKANSAS
FORREST CITY, ARK..
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CORRESPONDENTS
Fourth Nattooal Bank, New York,
Continental National Bank, St. Louis.
State National Bank. Memphis.
German National Bank. Little Roak.
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L. K0I,L\VA(»R, of L. Ii« llwafre & Co.
\V. H. McDAMUiL, Capitalist and Planter.
N- W NORTON, Attorney nt Law.
A. BROKE l{, of Hooker & I,ewt».
(JHAS. L. KUGLESTON, Hrinkley.
^ M. M. BLOCK. Heal Estate beiler.VW^
’ OI Wynne, Love & Co., Memphis, Tenn.
EVERYTHING NEW AND FIRST-CLASS
TOLBERT & DUNCAN,
Barbers and Hairdressers.
North Washington Street, Forrest City.
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