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Mr, McKinley’s Speech. that instance we import $500 more than
Yesterday at the Piedmont Chautauqua our expert,
Hon. Win. McKinley, of Ohio, made a We do not contend that when the bal-
protective tariff speech, from which we : ance 0 f trade, a« it i, called, isjagainst us,
give copious extracts. Mr. McKinley s j are necessarily increasing our wealth,
effort was rather an apostrophe than an , hut we do say that the mere fact of im-
argument. He praises protection ns the • porting more than we export is absolutely
source of many blessings and a factor in ' D0 proof cither of sn increase or decrease
our national growth, but the connection in the gemeral wealth.
Retaliation on Canada.
The President’s message, printed yester
day, is of a nature to startle the country
into a realization of the actual relations of
the United States and Canada. It u
subject upon which most people have been
profoundly indifferent. They knew the
only Americans whose interests were really
affected by the fisheries dispute were a few
A Stubborn Prejudice,
Harrl»„ n ,, „
A few years ago it appeared that crema- Some time Bgo the T
tion was destined .to become very popular to call Bishop Vi nce ll#!|
in thie country. It had the support of Methodist Church, the'’ p
nrpRPn* i
between the alleged cause and the actual | Mr. McKinley’s speech was advertised ■ dozen ownera of fishing smacks, and looked
effect is not made clear by the orator. ^ by the enterprisiug management of the
Mr. McKinley reviews our progress ^ Piedmont Chautauqua as at philosophic dis-
since the war, and then tells " R cussion of the taxing puwijr of the govern
with fine emphasis that for it me nt. As a philosophic liffort it is a fail,
all we are indebted to the protective tariff. U re; but it must he said in justice
In a matter of such moment the distin- Mr. McKinley that he had a tough subject
guished gentleman’s assertion will pass for j an d that he handled a lot of well-worn
very little. He is, however, following in I sophistries with an easy grasp which indi
the beaten path of all protection orators, j cates great familiarity, and with an appa-
for it is their invariable habit to claim all rent candor calculated! to arouse the
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Mr. Randall improves steadily, but
slowly. There is no hope that he will be
able to take a hand in tho campaign.
Tale about the governorship of Georgia
in 1R80 Is at ibis time «s the pawing wind.
In two years men riscand fall in a country
like ours with a rapidity which knocks
prophecy silly.
the good things we’have as the fruits of a
protective tariff, and to treat our misfor
tunes as accidental or inevitable visita
tions.
Also, after the manner of other protec
tionist pleaders, Mr, McKinley attempts
to throw a halo of benevolence about the
system of over-taxation. None of these
eloquent gentlemen ever refer to the oppor
tunities it affords to monopoly, or to the
immense fortunes which have been accu
mulated under the mgis of protection by a
few individuals at the cost of the many.
The system is always upheld in the name
of the workingman. It is to give him bet
ter wages and more of the comforts of life
that a high tariff is laid.
Mr. McKiuley and his associates know
very well that the price of labor in this
country and the world over depends upon
the efficiency of the workman and the
supply and demand. If protection made
wages high they would be approximately
the same in all parts of the United States
for the same class of labor, and
yet in the protected cotton mills
of Georgia we find the average weekly
wages $3.53 while in the cotton mills of
New Jersey under the same protection
the average is $5.60 and in the cotton mills
of Arkansas it is only $2.35. AVhat makes
this great difference ? Why is it that the
average rolling mill hand in Rhode Island
gets $9.61 a week while a man doing the
same class of work in Maine or Kansas
"receives an average of from $3 to $4 less
per week. In almost every protected in
dustry there is found to be the same
striking difference in wages in d fferent
parts of the country, and yet they
all have the same “protection’’( 7)
against foreign pauper labor. The
example of one manufacturer who vol
untarily raised the wages of his employes
in proportion as the tariff pat money into
his own purse would be a more eloquent
appeal to the workingmen than all the
tariff orations Mr. McKinley could m
from now to the day of his death. On the
uav before Mr. McKiuley spoke at Salt
Spring, Judge Thurman spoke in Ohio.
He also touched on the relation of the
tariff to wages. Among other things, he
said:
Commodore Harmony U in temporary
charge of the navy. Ho is tho right man
in the right place during the prevalence of
tho war scare. Harmony can do a great
deal to preserve the peace.
The losses by the recent storm seem to
have been enormous. The loss at Pitts
burg alone is estimated at $1,000,000.
There is some compensation in the pleas
antly cool weather it left behind.
The Philadelphia Times says Mr. Sow-
den will be the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Allentown district of Penn
sylvania. Mr. Bowden is at present one of
the three Democrats who voted against the
Mills Mil.
When Mr. McKinley was declaring at
the Piedmont Chautauqua yesterday that
protection makes liigti wages, he should
have explained how it is that wages are
much better in free trade England than in
protected Germany.
Mil J. II. Baas, of Indiana, said to be
the greatest manufacturer of car wheels in
the world, Is in favor of the Mills bill, as he
believes it would promote the prosperity of
manufacturers. Men like Mr. Bass are
being heard from in many directions.
TnK Chicago Iuter-Oceau speaks of the
“unfortunate sentence" about trusts in Mr.
Blaine's Portland sjieecb, which shows
that it knows when its party is hit hard.
The blow must have an added sting in
coming from the hand of its worshiped if
“uncrowned King.”
Tuk Republicans have been talking for
months about the President’s “cowardly
surrender" to Canada. Now he has taken
their breath away by the boldness with
which he proposes to deal with the fish
eries trouble. It is in orderfor the Repub
licans to accuse him of unpatriotic rash
ness.
In answer to the assertion that the pas
sage of the Mills bill will cause millions
of sheep to be butchered, the New York
World points out that in the small area
ol Great Britain, densely jiopulated, 29,-
000,000 sheep are kept-more than two-
■ thirds the number in this country, with its
wide stretches of unoccupied lands.
Workmen in the highly protected in
dustries of Mexico receive 37 cents a day.
If they will take the trouble to write to
Hon. Wm. McKinley, House of Repre
sentatives, Washington, D. C\, he will ex-
plain to them how all workmen get big
wages where there are protected industries.
“ There arc men audacious enough to say that
high protective tariff Is (or the benefit o( tho
laboring man. Why, In the name of all that Is
common sense and reason, how can a laboring
man be aided by a tax, that begins with the
crown of his head and extends to tho soles of
his feet, and taxes everything that Is between
them. Ab 1 but, says some one, It cnah'es man
ufacturers in this country to pay higher wages
to his laboring men, and therefore Is a benefit
to them. My friends, did you erer know any
manufacturer that paid higher wages to his
hands because of an Increased tariff? II you
did you have met with something I have never
seen. There Is a man named Barnum in this
country, a great showman, a man who haa
gathered together lo hie show more curious
things than perhaps can be found Id any other
single place onlhe face of thsearth; but among
all bis curiosities be has never found euch a
curiosity as a manufacturer who paid higher
wages to bis hands because of a raise in tariff.
Mr. McKinley’s bold assertion that pro
tection has caused a reduction in the price
of every commodity that has been shel
tered by it was a reflection on the intelli
gence of his hearers. It is not necessary
to be a member of Congress to understand
that the cheapening of the price of all
manufactures is the result of improved
machinery, of new discoveries in the arts
and sciences, of increased skill. But it is
surprising that a member of Congress will
endeavor to palm off on an intelligent au
dience such stuff as Mr. McKinley’*, theory
that protection has cheapened manufac
tures. They have become cheaper in free
trade England as well os in protected
Pennsylvania, and in some industries the
price of the product has fallen much more
rapidly in England. Mr. McKinley makes
tlie usual protectionist plea for a home
market and treats the foreign market as if
it were of hardly any consequence. He
should have explained how the home
market is to be enlarged all on a sudden
to consume the products and pay I ha
wages of tlie 2,500,000 workmen in this
country who were supported last year by
our expert trade in spite of the crippling
it had endured from the Repubiicsn party.
But for a foreign market what would have
become of the 2,000,000 farmers who last
year produced the surplus of agricultural
supplies which they had to send abroad to
sell?
When Mr. McKinley draws his indict
ment against the law tariff periods of our
history, he is even more audacious than
usual in his generalities. He states the
broad proposition that because in some
such periods we imported more than we
exported, we were, therefore, impover-
hhed. A more glaring fallacy could not
he trumped up even by a protectionist
orator. Would Mr. McKinley say that when
a fanner sends $1,000 worth of cotton to
Liverpool and gets in return $1,500 worth
suspicion that this adroit debater may
actually have deceived himself.
Thurman in ThelV’ijqt.
The campaign is fully Though
the formal letters of acceptance of the
candidates have not yet appeared the
issues are practically made up and the
contest has begun in earnest.
The Republicans made the return of
Mr. Blaine the occasion to begin active
campaign work and Judge Thurman’s
Fort Huron speech may be considered a
sort of general order for the Democratic
columns to move forward.
Some surprise has been expressed that a
small city should have been chosen as the
place for the first set speech of the veteran
leader whom the Democrats have placed
beside President Cleveland. But a better
place could not have been chosen. The
Democrats ought to carry Michigan. The
chances are that they will carry it. Out
of a total vote of 405,470 in 1884 Blaine
had a plurality over Cleveland of only
3,308. The President’s administration and
his tariff message have strengthened him
greatly in Michigan as well as other States
of the West. The people of the West
know Jndge Thurman and honor him as
they honor few men in this country. His
speeches in the West are certain to brmg
fortli abundant fruit.
He talked to the thousands of
people who greeted him at Port Huron
in just the right way. He gave them an
honest, common-sense statement of the sit
uation. The 6hams of protection and tlie
fine sophistries of its orators lie swept
away by his homely maxims and his ap
peals to tlie experience of his hearers-
Judge Thurman does not treat the tariff,as a
very myetcrisu: cr profound subject. Thai
is the style oi protectionists. Only they
gain by mystifying the question. Judge
Thurman makes it verlj plain to the
masseB of the people,
a tax that to a
' p-spci-
iying the question. JuUg
tes it very plain to th
leople. Thp,tariff is a tax-
certaii^ All | CotUn.
.---- • jam. .-.v* i
unnecessary and oppressive. No good can
come from burdening the people with
superfiuons taxes, and we cannot grow ricli
or prosperous as a people by piling up in
tho vaults of the treasury tlfc money that
should be circulating in all the channels
of trade. The tariff does not increase
wages nor does it decrease the cost of man
ufactures. The old statesman makes these
things very plain as he goes along, and liis
words cannot fall withoat effect. He gets
close to the people when he addresses them.
His speeches.gain great force from the con
fidence of the people in the man. They
know him to be honest and incorruptible.
They are sure that he will speak to them
the plain truth os heseesit and that he will
espouse those principles which in his judg
ment will lead to the best and purest ad
ministration of the government. The in
fluence of such a man is great. It reBts
on the record of a long life spent in the
honest and courageous devotion to duty.
Judge Thurman bin excellent health
and the gleams oi humor which light up
his speeches show that his heart is fresh
and young. II* intends to take quite a
hand in this campaign. The people in all
parts of the country want lo see him and
hear him.
upon the quarrel as a little matter upon
which, as well as another, State Depart
ment officials might amuse their leisure iu
the practice of the arts of diplomacy. The
question has been regarded as a trivial, if
complicated, one of no general importance.
The President’s message will awaken
the people to the character of the work
the.Republican Senators have been doing.
In their eager desire to discredit a Demo
cratic administration on the eve of an
election, by aflecting to believe that
treaty it had negotiated was unmindful of
American interests, they have brought
about a state of affairs that may result in
grave disasters to the country.
The treaty negotiated by Mr. Bayard
did not give to Massachusetts fishermen in
Canadian waters all the privileges they de
sire. They will be satisfied witli nothing
less than an exclusive market for them
selves in the United States
and all the freedom of Canadians on
Canadian fishing grounds and in Canadian
ports. It was manifestly impossible to
make in their favor such a one-sided ar
rangement. If privileges were to be
gained for them in Canada, then priv
ileges which Canadians desired must be
bartered for them.
While American fishermen have perhaps
demanded too much, the Dominion gov
ernment in its dealings with them have
conceded too little. It has been arbitrary
in its rulings, has imposed unreasonable
fines for slight ofienscs against local regu
lations, and has persued generally a har
assing, unfriendly policy. The object sought
was perhaps to worry the UnitedStates into
making concessions as to the importation
of fish, and to a degree Canada’s policy
was the same, though not avowedly so, as
that the United States is about to inaugu
rate, upon a much larger scale, against her.
She has little right to complain, but it
would have been much better for both
countries if an agreement could have been
arrived at by peaceful conference.
Mr. Bayard’s treaty was made up of just
and proper concessions by both sides, and
involved dishonor to neither. It provided
method jn ,-hieh the fishing industry
could reasonably be expected to bo carried
on without the frequent collisions that
have caused ill-feeling between nations
whrse common interests demand that they
shojr'V Jilwayg be friends,
j - - ■RepuhlA^y..£en»L>».ouii ftwlb-
jeciion of this treaty a party quesUoJ.
TheV long ago decided that inanifestatfoi
of hostility and dislike toward Great Brit
ain would be likely to gain for their party
votes commonly cast against it, because a
large class of naturalized citizens and their
kinsmen of native birth cherish a bitter
animosity toward that power on account
of the wrongs of Ireland.
The rejection of tho treaty was an at
tempt to drag into our own domestic con
troversies the issues of British politics, aud
to emphasize the absurd charge so fre
quently made by Republican journals that
the Democratic party is devoted to the pro
motion of British rather than American
interests.
With *the rejection of tho treaty, the
United States and Canada practically enter
upon a state of war. They have no armies
in the field, but they will endeavor in
every way, short of bloodshed, to injure
each other—and -with the exasperation
growing out of mutual injuries, bloodshed
may come after awhile. Under the non
intercourse law, passed eighteen months
ago, the President was allowed wide dis
cretion. He exercised that discretion In
refusing to enforce the law while he nego-
strong scientific authority as being the
best means of disposing of the bodies of
the dead in a country where the popula
tion was rapidly increasing. On the faith
that the method would gain in popular
favor large investments were made in va
rious localities to prepare the most ap
proved appliances for incineration.
The result of these experiments
shows how averse is the popular mind
to this innovation. None of the cre
matories have been financially successful
Recently the New England Cremation So
ciety, one of tlie first of the kind to organ
ize in the United States, filed a petition to
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts for
leave to dissolve. In more than one place
crematories have been started and left un
finished because no assurances of support
could be had. A society was formed
year or two ago at San Antonio. It erected
a large and costly crematory near the city
The promises of support seemed sufficient
to guarantee the investment,
and yet the president of the
association has recently published a
statement to the effect that the enterprise
must be abandoned for the lack of finan
cial support. He attributes the failure of
the experiment in San Antonio to a gen
eral and deep seated prejudice against
cremation. Some of the members of the
society keep their connection with it so
close a secret that they will not tell
their own wives, and in the commu
nity the feeling against the cremation-
ists is strong. The same reasons which
led to the failure at San Antonio
would probably account for similar fail
ures elsewhere. There is a repugnance
to the burning of the dead which
is felt by an overwhelming proportion of
our people. It is idle .to reason against
it or to adduce arguments to show the ad
vantages of cremation. Sentiment is
stronger than logic, and prejudice has no
ears. Because all but a very few of our
people dread the thought of their own
bodies being subjected to this treatment,
and because they resent its application to
their beloved dead, all the scientific and
rational labor bestowed upon this subject
has been about as completely lost as the
money which has gone into crematories
that are seldom fired.
present campaign beca Use i"' 4
letter, giving his political
he substantially reitersjq
declaration of Dr. Burch Jj
we fear that T” ’
role of the china shop bull ul
It is the simplest thing in the world,'^ I traSoof' ^ ^ b ^ thc
cording to Mr. McKinlej.
A Grand Exhibit.
If there were no other assurance of the
success of the coming Georgia .State Fair
the entries for the prize for the best county
exhibit would be sufficient to guarantee
the most complete exhibit of Georgia pro
ducts and resources ever made. Already
eighteen counties have entered for this
friendly contest. They are Wilke?, Colum
bia, Warren, Hancock, Baldwin, Effing
ham, McIntosh, Liberty, Screven, Jeffer
son, Sumter, Randolph, Houston, Doug
lass, Troup, Talbot, Pierce and Butts.
It is probable that this list will be in
creased by five or six more counties.
Never at a StateFair or an industrial show
in Georgia have more than six counties
met in such a competition.
The eighteen counties which have gone
into this contest are among the best and
most progressive in Georgia. They are up
with the times in every respect, and the
variety of the products which they will
exhibit in Macon at the State Fair will
astonish most Georgians, to say nothing of
the outside world.
President Northen and Secretary Nisbet
are hard at work completing tlie prepara
tions for the great State Fair which will
he held in Macon in October. The proe-
pect was never so flattering for a full and
comprehensive display of Georgia’
ducts and resources.
This has been a prosperous year with
®nd their grand jubilee will be
held in Macon at the .State Fair.
I uk Birmingham Age vpeaks of the Re
publican nominee for Vice-President ,in
1884 as “John B. Logan.” This is almost
M.bad as the break of Mr. Joy, of Michi
gan, who, after a very elaborate eulogy,
nominated “James
tiated
a treaty that would
remedy
the
evils
which
caused
.it
to
(s
passed.
He has
done
his
best
in that
direction.
and
the
Such U the logic of his position, for in 1 ttonal BepobH^Tco^ ’ ’’ * If HW* “
Semite has rejected the treaty which was
the result of his labors. Nothing remains
but for him to enforce the law. The re
sponsibility for the consequences must rest
upon Congress. It would not befit the dig
nity of a great nation that it should utter
empty threats against its neighbors.
President Cleveland, then, will inaugu
rate a commercial war with Canada. He
says it will be waged vigorously, and asks
that hia hands be strengthened for it. He
wants liberty to choose the means which
will hurt the Canadians most and us least.
The Canadians will of course use those
which work the other way, and be-
tu.o'"' th" two a growing and piuu.able
trade of $100,000,000 a year will be wiped
out. The fishermen will be worse off than
before, and with increasing anger the pos
sibility of agreeing upon a fair basis of
settlement will become less.
The President will be subjected to sharp
criticism by the Republicans. They de
clare his message to have been written for
effect in our domestic politics. Having
heretofore had a monopoly of jingoism
they naturally resent any intrusion upon
their preserve. It is fairer, however, to
take it for granted that Mr. Cleveland is
A I'arty In Search ot n Candidate.
Th: Republicans sf Georgia are ousting
about for a candidate for Governor. Sev
eral months ago it was rumored that they
would nominate Ex-Goveinor Bullock,
and that thus the two candidates in the
famous contest of 1868 would n be
ro,ight,fjrc io .flier,'_jV ! % M yjrnor
Bullock heard that there was such a plan
on foot he announced that under no
cumstances could he be induced to make
the race. He furthermore declared that
lie should support Governor Gordon, be
cause liis administration entitled him
to a re-election. Soon after
Governor Gordon was unanimously
nominated by the State Democratic con
vention a volunteer Republican candidate
appeared in the person of Mr. Jesse Glenn,
of Whitfield county. The Republicans did
not, however, rally aionnd Mr. Glenn to
any considerable extent, but continued
their search for a candidate.
Some of their leaders thought the Hon.
W. L. Scruggs, ex-minister to Colombia,
would be a good man to lead their forlorn
hope. So a formal tender of the nomina
tion was made to Mr. Scruggs. He de
clined with thanks, and in doing so took
occasion to state that he intended to sup
port Governor Gordon.
Whether the Republican executive com
mittee has continued its efforts to find a
candidate after two such embarrassing
failures, wo are not able to say, but the in
dications are that if they are to have any
leader in the State campaign, Mr. Jesse
Glenn must be the man. Mr. Glenn seems
to be the only man in Georgia who wants
to make the race against Governor Gor
don. It is a striking evidence of the uni
versal regard for Governor Gordon in this
State that the most prominent Republican
leaders think he ought to be re-elected,
and will give him a cordial support. He
has been governor of the whole people,and
has fairly won the confidence of both
parties.
pa.gn can no longer be
bishop were an apo.-Js J
Christianity” we might u.T I
he has been “coMplfud. 1 *^!
no less a champion than jtj
Blaine. The Bangor gneMi I
ness. The New York S |
prevailing opinion of th t ,
portion ot that speech when it
Mr. Maine's defense of trut ,J
blunder In comparison win, J1
chard's celebrated remark
ism, and Rebellion sinks to
less pleasantry. •
The attacks which his c hi c j
trusts has provoked from thjj
and independent press in even!
country cannot worry Mr. t|
than, the ominous silence g|
organs at a time when he nesj
Mr. Blaine’s personal organ, J
has not been able to utter
weak little paragraph of * fe," j
subject, and that was in the J
apologetic explanation.. 8onI|
publican papers have said pfeJ
speech was a blunder which h
to do the party harm. Mr. Blail
the distinction of being the oob]
any party in this country ',
lifted liis voice in defense
His statement that they a- e |
attain with • which neifij
President nor any private cilij
particular right to interfere''
presumption that the people ml
norant or careless of the o J
these powerful combinations. '
dency in both Federal and Sn
ments is toward the preventiosl
combinations on the ground tbJ
pernicious to commerce and op;]
the people.
We cannot imagine how a to
the} office of Harrison’s Baidal
made than that which Mr. Blaioe]
himself in the Bangor speech.
|ir '’’ only anxious to perform his duty in carry,
ing out the laws, though it is very possible
that in this instance zest is added to the
pleasure with which he fulfills the obliga.
lions of his high office by the knowledge
that lie confuses his enemies at the same
time.
One nun, generally a Mexican, attends
to 2,000 aheep on Western ranches. It is
evident that free wool will not greatly af
fect American wage* in that part of the
oountry.
The death of Mr. Wm. II. Inman, the
head of the firm of Inman, Swann & Co.,
calls the attention of the public to the
remarkable success of the men who have
built up that great house. Wm. H. In
man and his nephew, John II. Inman,
went fo New York soon after tlie war
with verv limited mean'. Even in th.
New York sense of that day they were
poor. They prospered from the start, and
were soon in a position to hold their own
with the largest operators in cotton. For
the last ten years the firm has been a great
and growing power in New York, and
more than once it has controlled the en
tire cotton market. The younger Inman
hie become a railroad king as well as the
largest and boldest cotton speculator in
the country. In the recent August deal
he and his two associates are abelieved to
have cleared $1,600,000. Mr. John In
man’s wealth is variously estimated, but
it certainly goes “up Into the millions.”
The Colored Troops Impel
Some of our exchanges exprcJ
ion that Major McKinley’s viii; I
gia wil! produce no cflect whin
cannot ngreq to this opinion. B
coining appears to have had
effect upon tlie “colored troops’
lanta. They held a big mass me
evening of his arrival. Whiles
the train tlie colored brethren!*
publican mass, meeting whit!; .
great enthusiasm. All the q*
deavored to arouse the lesharg
voter and to impress upon hie
that they could expect a big
in State politics. They consiutre
r iv«! pi th: distinguished vist
man a good occasion for the
tlie campaign.
Colonel Jackson McHenry, '
leaders of tho Republican par.;
lanta, after rejoicing that Jhja
Icy was soon ti) be with them,
fellow patriots in the Republics! i
go to work and try lo get I
offices. The following were a
Colonel’s telling appeals;
Mr. George Thomas le our candldili
cress, and I want allot you to reiUtd
for him. De books will be open Wh
Pay your taxcaand register. We|s!a
candidate! for do Legislature, too, Ds
dat.
Derc's three thousand niggers rol
county and wo aint got er single
muhin’ else. [Laughter.]
Wo mua’ *lcct ’em, If wo kin- Hits
de nigger to quit votin' fur Inilepi
de—pendents too. [Great laughter.!
make nuthtn' by It.
De only way to git anything Is to
own color. De white folks ain' goln' w
no office. [A voice—dat's de troff, too.
I)e white folks usee de nlggen jo<
mauy horses. Dcy rides him In ereif
den dey ruba him down and puts bias
ble UU de next time. [Great lsoshlrr
plan**.]
I say* to you, pay up your taxes, nd
vote fur de bet’ men of yonr own tola
deonlleat way to gltilar. [Avolir-a
1*1
Col. McHenry was proceeding to
the boys.up on this line when hit **
saluted by tlie toot of a distant loo*
Ha than assured the crowd that th
was coming, and, with a wild i
“colored troops” rushed to the t*
to welcoiue “the ablest Bepobh
America.”
Hon. J. hi. Dr Free, of Montezuma, at
the solicitation of many friends, will enter
the race for the presidency of the Senate.
Mr. Du Free, though a young man, haa
had a long legislative experience, and in
point of service will be one of the veterana
of the next General Assembly. He has
mauy friends who would be glad to see
him called to preside over the Senate.
The New York Press believes'"
the fat” out of the monopolies *hi
paid to defend. It has mainlj
what circulation it has by iudui-
tariff barons to subscribe for»
copies for distribution among t 1
ployes. The Press prints a W
who have taken from fifty t®
copies for the campaign and
other manufacturers with a pi* 1 ' ‘
■bah do likewise. One of the*
letters was recently sent to Ml *•
quhar, of Yirk, Pa., the well too*
ufacturerof agricultural »acb
implements. He declined th*
proposition ol the Press. I" *
that high-minded journal v* 11 *
publishing a series of tbnsiv',
about Mr. Farquhar. A new»P*f*
resorts to such methods must be
plorable condition.
A New York hatter has le!' 1 -
and Ovt tor Harrison* A*,
understand that. The ibre’'
knows that the Republicans***
who will have all the hats to pff
election and he is bound to
trod* if he can.