The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-24
Interviews with Leaders Of Opinion and
Sketches Of the Leading Men.
THE BLANTON DUNCAN MOVEMENT.
Something About Salt and Iron Steamships,
the Cost Of Living and the
Evils Of GrantiSm.
DETROIT, Mich. August n, 1872.

this morning everybody in the liberal and demo-
cratic parties Is or for Grand Rapids. ON the Lake
Michigan side OF the State, where the Fusion Con-
vention win have been held before you receive this
letter As IN all parts OF the country, the union
between the liberals and the loc0S is complete
and harmonious in Michigan. Austin Blair has
become the head of the new party, and is strug
Cling up gamely against twenty odd thousand
regular republican majority. The liberals and
democrats think they will certainly carry the First
Third, Fourth and Fifth districts and hope 10 pull
down the State majority to 5000, If not to extin-
gmsh It. Both elections here happen the same day
Of November. The republicans are already FULLY in
the field, and they allege that they will still keep
the State by $1,000 majority. while sanguine radi-
Gals say they will get $4,000.
The republican party is paying Its whole atten-
ttOn to creating Bourbon democratic party, and
their candidate for Congress at Detroit showed
me yesterday blank bill heads, which were written
in i'll grammar Of his own making and printed at
his own expense, for circulation for signatures at
the brickyards and among the stevedores and mill
hands There was something udicrous In seeing
this man nnocently exposing his handicraft to a
newspaper correspondent. His name is Moses w.
Field, q trader on the wharf.
The leader of the Bourbon hosts here, who num-
her, perhaps, 100 in the whole State is W. w. Whoa
ton, that Mayor of Detroit who was involved In
some scandal by hanging too long to the
collections made last Fan for the sufferers from the
ares in Northern Michigan. He was grocer, and
was accused OF wishing to invest the money In his
own way in HAMS mess pork coffee and such things
as he dealt in, and thus giving the money turn
before 1t left his hands, The regular democrats say
they had to drop him for trading in his patronage
while Mayor Of the city.
Another great Bourbon Is, suspicousy, the
brother OF United States Senator Ferry, repub-
Mcan, and codcI to the senior Senator, Zach
Chandler. In short, the Bourbon movement here
Ia contemplate side show; but still, think, the
republicans will elect their Governor by reduced
majority and carry six out Of the nine Congress
sional districts Their candidate for Governor Is
respectable tobaccOnist Of Detroit, named Baglcy.
Chandler is the leader on one side, with COM
pact party; Blair on the other, with heavy odds
against him.
INTERVIEW WITH DUNCAN STEWART.
One OF the most remarkable men In Michigan is
Duncan Stewart, Of Detroit, q native Scotchman
and an intellectual and material influence here
for twenty-five years, which many politicians of
the most preferred grades might wish TO have. He
has been ut various times very wealthy, but within
q few months past Is said 10 have been badly
burned in the wheat market, and still he is push
ing In quest OF another fortune dropping wisdom
by the way. such talker-crsp, witty, wise and
TO the purpose-the West does not possess. He is
In one Baltic Nichol Jarvie and Richard Golden.
piles and piers Of Detroit RIVER Mr. Stewart is
very fat, round. solid man. short In proportion
ne ana ~ Ss
and, what with creases under his chin, healthy red
compile xiOn and a capacity Of wheeling doing BUSH
ness between sentences and talking with vigorous
snap and generalization. he Is Of more interest to
stranger than all Eben Wards ostcntatious energy
or Mr.. Chanders gross way of 0verruling things.
''Mr. Stewart" said your correspondent "how
comes it that you, the prime and chief free trader
dent 2"
"Because he knows the difference at least be-
tween revenue and tariff, and there Is some begin
ming with him, there is none with the other man.
And because he has suggested the most magnani-
% way o. %ed H .he 81
men who will express them. 1 can trust Greeley
because he Is bold and honest, and that is what we
want, with capacity to prove economical truths in
government"
''Can you elect him ?"
1--WE will give the other mans organization so
hard squeeze in Michigan that they will have little
room to pass between Greeley and fhe WALL"
people to be the prosperity Of the country and is it
not having its influence with the working classes
ssThe Country nourishes in spite of the admins
tratiOn and there never was a more ridiculous as
sumption than for q man who does not know one
results Of the natural development OF the land.
Whatever could have been done to embarass pros
held down to be picked by adventurers the Gus
tom houses construed to be slnecure places for
1ayorltes Ike Leet stocking; special interests
monopoly made the representatives OF prosperity,
while commerce and labor are passed by on the
ether side. There never were so many strikes be-
fore In the history OF any country and yet Presi-
dent Grants friends telling the laborer that he
'.Stili Mr. Stewart, are not your laboring classes
more than usually prosperousa Are not wages
..it is not the sum of currency that laborng
man gets per diem which is the index OF his prog
resist Is what he carries home In his Kettle after
fhc
increase OF five or six hundred per cent all round
in the necessaries OF his habiaton; the wood that
builds 1t kept back from Canada by protective
duty, while own sparse forests are being given
to the use for the benefit OF rapacious generation
OF monopolists who control the market. The wood
that built the wOrkngmanS cottage costs $40
thousand where it used to cost but So or IS. Who
rom rom three cents to twelve Who derives that
benefit upon taxing lighty The uel TO burn costs
four days. work per cord now where it used 20 cost
the workingman but one or two, and under the
stimulation Of monopoly the markets are over
stocked with steel, iron, fabrics and implements of
manufacture, and then Immediately the hands are
discharged so that they really at the present high
figure OF wages, kept ut work only part OF the
year and hungering the rest OF IL. This is the
trouble with the laboring classes. They work for
set OF people who mine and manufacture under the
stimulation OF a legislation they compel, and, in
work.
Stewart g'
ayes, but of less import and confined to a few
DTancncs In GlasgOW. lOr INSTANCE tle elgnt nour
law is admitted by the employers without bother
ing government after happy compromise, where
by the time OF labor is made nine hours, and the
ninth hour Is compensated for by increased pay.
All contracts which the employers made before the
s.rlhe are TO be worked out at the former rates.
NOW, IN America, where they are launching few
iron vessels on the Delaware, the iron men adopt
tnis dodge; They send the owners Of the ships TO
s,onsicss, 10 protest against any changes III tue
uuty on IRON while their contracts are pending. and
tcn promise In return to get subsidies for the said
SHIPS OUT Oh Tue people But with all this subsidz-
al far
grain Is carried ior lower freights to Europe on
The SUBSIDIZED shipsY Half the grain trade
OF the upper lakes goes to Europe In Canadian hot
toms, and merchants packages can be delivered ut
the harbors on Lakes Michigan and Huron for
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