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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19
Tho Mills Bill and It's Trainers.

To THE EDIroR-Sir. CLAY COOLING adj
dressed the "high tax free whisky party" here
Friday night and 10 prove that the Mills bill
was sectional aud Disseminated against the
North in favor of the South, said that "the COM
mittee Of congress, which framed the measure,
was composed of eight democrats and FIVE re-
publicans; that the republicans were entirely
excluded from the committee room; that six Of
the eight were, and are now southern men and
two northern men, and that six of them were
in the rebel army Please give the names and
residence OF the members who composed the
committee and the other facts.
Greenfield, Ind, Sept II. DEMOCRAT.
The committee on ways and means,
from which the "Mills bill' emanated, is
composed OF Messrs. Mus OF Texas, Nc
MILLS OF Tennessee, BKEcKENRrDcE
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Gen. HarrisoD's Letter.

Gen. HARRIsoN's letter of acceptance,
which was given to the world last week,
is not the letter of a statesman. 1t is the
letter of a demagogue. It is uncandid,
dishonest and sophistical in its treatment
OF the principal issue before the country,
and in its illusions to the other questions
involved in the present campaign it rises
to no higher level. 1t is a pettifogging
document from the first word to the last.
OF course that portion of the letter
which relates to the tariff will be read with
the greatest interest, because the country
has been curious to see whether Gen.
HARRISON would 60 to the extreme lengths
of the Chicago platform upon this subject
The impression which the generals tariff
utterances will produce upon the average
reader is that he is absolutely without con-
victions upon this question. He begins
by an effort to place his adversaries in a
false position-a position which neither by
word nor by action have they shown the
slightest intention or disposition to as
sumo. lie insists that the presidents
message, the Mills bill and the st. Louis
platform all mean free trade;" that they
are an "open and defiant assault upon our
protective system" and he tells the coun-
try that "less work and lower wages must
be accepted as the inevitable result
of the increased Offering OF foreign goods
in our market" which he assumes would
result from the remission of unnecessary
taxes. Now when il is remembered that
Gen. HARRISON and his party in Indiana
have been for many years demanding re-
auctions OF the tariff, and that he ran for
governor of the state upon platform de-
claring explicitly that the government
should in its revenue laws give the great
est possible exception TO articles OF prim-
airy necessity" (the object aimed at by the
Mills bilD, the utter insincerity OF his
present attitude becomes manifest. Gen.
HARRISON imputes unworthy motives and
hostility to the wage-workers TO his OPP
ponents for advocating the very
things which he and his party have adj
vocated in years past, which the great
leaders OF his party, including three presi-
dents OF the United States favored, and
which commission of republican pro-
tectionists declared only seven years ago,
after athorough investigation, would con-
duce TO the welfare OF the country. A
man with settled convictions would not
be capable of such fragrant Inconsistency
as this.
But the general is not only insincere T;
he is cowardly in his discussion of the
tariff issue. Declaring himself in accord
with the declarations of the Chicago
platform, he attempts TO break the
force of its demand for free whisky
by saying that an occasion Is
not likely TO arise for the repeal
of the internal taxes. Such con-
tingency, be says, is remote" and he
also goes out OF his way TO say that the re-
peal of the oleomargarine tax need not
enter into any platform OF revenue re-
duction." And yet the Chicago conven-
ton has said to the country, in plain
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The democrats increased their total vote
3,13s; the republicans, LIZA; the prohibit
tionists, 500. The republican vote is In
creased 81 per cent; the democratic vote,
IS per cent; the prohibition vote, 800
per cent.
Now these are the facts. The republic
cans have lost 1914 on their plurality;
they have increased their total vote 2 per
cent. against democratic increase OF 5
per cent, and a prohibition increase Of 40
per cent. and Mr.. BLAINE says there has
been political revolution!"
There viii probably be no political row.
olution IN Maine until Gabriel blows his
trump. But such changes as have oc-
cured since the last presidential year are
against and not in favor of the republican
party. The really significant thing in the
returns OF last Mondays contest is the ex-
traordinary gain in the prohibition vote.
A like per centage of increase would give
FISK 5000 votes in New York, $500 in
New Jersey, $500 in Connecticut. and
5000 in Michigan. II anybody has a
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Harrison's Chinese Record.

Gen. HARRISON says in his letter of &C
ceptance that the laws relating to Chinese
immigration would, 'if | should be
charged with their enforcement, be faith
fully executed. Such amendments or
further legislation as may be necessary
and proper to prevent evasions of the
laws, and to stop further Chinese immi-
grafton would also meet with my APP
proval."
1t is rather a novelty for a presidential
candidate to single out particular statute,
or class of statutes, and promise that il
elected he will faithfully execute it. 1t is
the sworn duty of a president of the
United States to execute every law on the
statute book, whether he is in sympathy
with it's object or not. Does Gen. HARRI-
SON mean to be understood, when he says
that he would faithfully execute" the
Chinese laws, that there are other laws
which he would not faithfully execute"
Such an inference would be entirely rea-
sonable.
But probably this is not what he means.
His laying stress upon his willing
ness to enforce these particular laws is
doubtless because of the fact that his per-
sistent opposition in the senate to their
enactment rendered it very uncertain in
the public mind whether, if he should be-
come president, he would not wink at their
violation and disapprove of measures in
tended to supplement them.
HARRIsoN's pro Chinese record is max
ing him no end OF trouble all over the
country. 1t renders him especially OBJ
noxious to the people of the Pacific coast,
but it is exceedingly distasteful to wage
workers everywhere. HARRIsoN seems to
realize this, and hence his desperate effort
to make voters believe that though he
was all wrong on the Chinese question
when he wasn't running for office he is
all right now.
But we do not believe that his attempt
to swallow his own record on this question
will greatly improve his chances tor
election. As the Alta California puts il:
California wanted Mr.. HARRIsoN's friendship
in 1852, not now. He may carry his opposi-
ton TO Chinese now 10 the extent of upsetting
n laundry-wagon, or putting the torch to a
wash-house, IL be choose. Nobody here cares.
Our people wanted him in 1882, and he was
against US.
So the wage-workers of the country
wanted him in 1882 and he was against
them. Senator THURMAN and the whole
democratic party were for them, but Sem
ator HARRIsoS and his party were on the
other side. They wanted a free immigra-
ton OF the Chinese so that the great cap
italists and corporations who run their
party could have cheap labor. They
wanted the Chinese naturalized so that
the party could have the benefits of their
votes, as il did have of the votes OF some
OF them, illegally cast in this city in 1850,
and which helped TO send HARRISON to
the u. S. senate. On this as on every
other question which has arisen in this
country since the war, the republican
party was against the interests of Ameri-
can labor. BEN HARRIsoN'sreeord is even
worse than that OF his party upon these
questions, and few fine words in his let
ter of acceptance can not make ii or him
any more acceptable 10 the workingmen
of the country.
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language, that rather than surrender any
part of the protective system, the repub-
lican party would repeal the whole in
ternal revenue systematic oleomargarine
tax, the whisky tax and ali. Gen. HARRr-
son says he indorses the platform, but be
also says that the policy it proposes
will not be carried out. We believe this
is the first time that presidential candi-
date has ever asked for the sufrages Of
the people upon the ground that the
policy which his party proposed would
not be carried ont.
The remainder of the letter does not call
for extended comment. The only passage
in it which viii attract attention is that
relating to trusts. BLAINE. the ''un-
crowned king" OF the party, says that they
are merely private affairs" with which
the president has no right to interfere.
Gen. HARRISON says that the Legislative
authority" should deal with them.
How he doesn't say The para
graph conveys no definite meaning
and was evidently not intended to. It's
obvious purpose was to neutraIize
the effect of BLAINE's defense Of
the trusts, so far as possible, with
out committing the writer in a way
that would arouse the suspicion of the
trusters, upon whose active support all his
hopes of reelection are based
Taking the letter as a whole it is a COM
monplace performance. 1t will not
strengthen Gen. HARRISON before the
country.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19

BEN BUTLER made a speech the other
day in Boston denouncing the Mills bill
and President CLEvELAND's tariff message.
Yet this same Ben BUTLER, in the demo-
cratic convention at Chicago four years
ago, offered the following resolution and
made long speech favoring its adoption:
Resolued That az materials used ia The arts
and manufactures, and the necessaries OF life
not produced in this country, shall come in
free; and that all articles of luxury should be-
taxed as high as possible up to the collection
point
This is precisely the principle which un-
derlies the Mills bill-free raw materials;
untaxed necessaries of life; high taxes on
luxuries. But BEN BUTLER, shameless
old demogague that he is, denounces the
measure. BUTLER never had any political
principles that he adhered to for twelve
consecutive months, and it is not surpris-
ing to find him in 1883 denouncing tho
very policy which he so strenuously adj
vocated in 1884. But he no longer has
any influence or following. Everybody
knows him as q political fraud, and al
most everybody knows that he got rich
out OF a bunting monopoly which owed
its existence to the high tariff. BUrLKR
will not humbug anybody this year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19
Living to the Farmers.

FORAKER has the gall to tell the farmers
that the tariff has given them "a better
price for their lands and their crops" and
"less cost for practically all they may have
occasion to buy" No man with a con-
science would tell lie like this, even to
gain the presidency.
Here are the highest prices paid in New
York for the principal farm products in
1860 dow tariff and 1885 thigh tariff }
Let the farmers study this table and ask
themselves how they are benefited by the
monopoly tariff:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19
The Result in Maine.

The usual republican game has been
.played in Maine this year by BLAINE and
his henchmen just as they have played it
lin former presidential years, for the pur-
pose of misleading the country as to the
Significance of the result, and influencing
the political situation in other states.
Scarcely had the polls closed the other
day when Mr.. BLAINE had a message on
the wires to Gen. HARRISON announcing
that the republican majority would be
more than 10000, and the largest given
since 1866. The chairman OF the
republican state central committee
sent out a similar dispatch, and
the republican papers of the country on
Tuesday morning brought out their
poultry and double-leadedt their editorials,
and made great fuss over the glorious
victory in Maine" Mr.. BLAINE said that
it was political revolution, " and no eff
fort was spared to convince the country
that Maine had really gone Oh bent"
for monopoly taxes and free whisky.
This is an old republican trick, and is
played every four years in Maine. The
republican majority is always, according
20 reports sent out election nights,
the Largest on record" Ali
the organs make great racket
the next morning, and keep
it up for day or two, until the official fig
ures come to hand, and then they usually
drop the subject, because the official figures
never agree with the first reports. But
the public Is supposed to accept these first
reports as true, and TO lose interest in the
matter thereafter. The republican theory
is that by claiming everything" the first
night all the moral effect of big victory
is gained, whether there is a big victory
or not
Well, the official figures of last Mon
days election are at hand, and they are
fearfully shrunken from the Blaine figures.
Instead OF republican majority Of "over
10000" as claimed by that prince of fab
ricators, the majority is only 1884. The
plurality is ls,495, as against plurality of
1900, at the September election four
years ago, a net republican loss of 1,2l4.
The following are the official figures OF
the state elections OF 1884 and 1888,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19

DoE'r fail 10 read the letter from Denver
printed this morning. IL throws flood
OF light upon good many things. 1t un-
locks good many mysteries. II explains
why all the millionaires OF Colorado and
the territories are straining every nerve
TO put Ben HARRISON in GROVER CLEvE-
LANDS place. II shows what an honest,
firm and courageous chief magistrate we
have to-day; what an. inveterate foe of
jobbers and ringsters, and what a stanch
and fearless friend of the people and de-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

erovernor-CoURTLAND C. MATsoN.
nant-Governor-WMLIAM r. MYERS
Secretary Of State-RoDERT W. MIERs
Auditor of State-CHARLEs A. MUSsoS.
Treasurer of Stste-THoNAs B. BYRNEA
Reporter Supreme Court-JoHN W. KERN.
Attorney eneral-JoHS R WILSON.
superintendent Public Observation-Disclosures Z.
uGRIFFITH.
judges of Supreme Court
First District-WILLIAM z. NIBLAcK.
Second Distriet-GEOsaE V. HovK.
Fourth District-ALLEN COLLARS
PRESIDENTIAL ELEcrORs
At Iarge-THoMAs R. COBB and JOHN E. LAMB.
First district, SAMUEL B. VANCE; Second district,
CUTLER 5 DoBBISs; Third district, CHARLES L.
JEwETT; Fourth district NICHOLAS CORRECT; Fifth
district joins K EAST; Sixth district, THOMAS j..
STUDY; Seventh district, DAVID s GooDINe; Eighth
II McHuaH; Tenth district DAVID d. DYxKMAS /;
Eleventh district, john n. TURNER; Twelfth dis
trict, JoE.S II. Bass; Thirteenth district. MARCUS
A o. pASSARn.
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THE SENTINEL does not base its asser-
ton that free wool would benefit the
American wool-grower on theory. II
bases it on facts and experience which
admit of no other conclusion. When
wool was free the farmer got better prices
for his wool than he has got since it was
protected. This being the fact. it is pretty
safe to assume that if wool were free again
the farmer would again get better prices.
And there is TO college lore" or Cheap
logic" about it either. college lore" We
have none, and 'cheap logic" we leave to
the monopoly tax organs. We deal ex-
clusively in facts. And here are some
files for the Journal to gnaw on:
In 1852 with wool on the free list, the
highest price at New York was As cents.
In 1860 it was 40 cents. In 1861 it was -
cents. In 1884, with wool highly "pro-
tected," the highest price was 50 cents.
In 1885 it was 81 cents. In 1886 it was 81
cents. Average highest price for the last
three years of free wool, 455 cents. Aver
age for the last three years of protected
wool, 35i cents. Difference in favor of free
wool, 10 cents a pound. Isn't that a
pretty good reason to believe that free wool
now would benefit the wool-grower? We
pause for a reply.
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right to be highly elated over the result
in Maine it is the prohibitionists. But
the democrats have every reason to be
satisfied, because the republicans have
carried the state by a smaller plurality
than they did four years ago, when they
lost the country.
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sOn the free list in 1860.

"On the Tree list IN 1851
And the cost OF the dutiable article that
the farmer buys is enhanced AZ cents on
every dollar by the tariff.
Doesn't Gov. FORAKER lie scandalously
when he tells the farmer that the high
tariff benefits him?
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fender of their rights And it shows, too,
what powerful influence the land grab
bers and cattle thieves of the West exert,
and what personal hazards public official
takes when he bids them defiance.
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THE Journal deyotes nearly two columns
TO more or less garbled quotations from
democratic newspapers and politicians to
prove that the democratic party is free
trade party. BY precisely the same meth-
DDS it could be proved that the republican
party is free-trade party. Editorial ex.
pressions by the hundred in favor of free
trade are to be found in the files of the
Chicago Tribune, st. Paul Pioneer Press,
Omaha Bee, Cincinnati Commercial and
other representative republican journals.
JAMES A. GARFIELD, whom the republican
party elected president, was an avowed
free trader. GRANT, ARTHUR, SUMNER,
HENRY WILSON and many other
republican leaders of recent wears are
on record as free traders, according to the
Journals definition. But the republican
party is not a free trade party. 1t is to be
judged by its performances and its plat
form, and they are both of the Chinese
tariff Sort The democratic party is to be
judged the same way. The presi-
dents tariff message, his letter OF
acceptance, the Mills bill, and the
st. Louis platform define the demo-
cratic tariff creed. In the face of these
authoritative expositions ofthe democratic
policy, ''the man or paper that says the
democratic party is a free trade party is
either dishonest or fool"
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ONE of the leading figures in the Chi.
cago convention was Gen. J. r. CHALMERS
Of Mississippi, who has since been NOM
mated for congress by the republicans of
his district. The republican press is quot
ing his utterances in favor of monopoly
tariff with great gusto, and evidently re-
CARDS him as a decidedly valuable acqui-
sition 10 the e. o. p. Yet this man CHAL-
MERs was a fire-eater before the war, n
rebel soldier all through the war, and a
kukluxer after the war. lie is one OF the
very worst specimens OF the genus rebel
now at large, and it seems very strange
that the so-called party of loyalty" should
take him so warmly TO It's bosom-or 10
would il the same party hadn't taken
MosBY, LoNGsrREEr, KEY, SETTLE, Ma
HONE, AcKERMAN and scores of other bright
and shining lights of the lost cause into
its affections just as heartily. CHALMERS
is in congenial company with these OLD
rebs, and we wish them and the G. o. p.
much Joy of his society.
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HARRIsoN's plan for disposing OF the
surplus now in the treasury is to use it in
the purchase OF bonds. The Journal says
there is no surplus in the treasury, but
let that pass.) HARRisoN's program is to
buy up the bonds at any prices the bond
holders may choose 10 demand. II is a
very nice program-for the bondholders.
But it is very bad one-for the people.
But as HARRIsoN and his party believe in
running the government in the interest Of
tn bondholders and moneyed men gener.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 10.

For PRESIDENT,
GROVER CLEVELAND of New York.
For VICE-PREsIDENT,
ALLEN @. THURMAN of Ohio.
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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
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cingie copy u 90
We ask democrats TO bear In mind and select their
own state paper when they come to take suhscrip-
: tons and make up clubs.
Agents making up clubs send for any information
desired. Adde'S INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL.
Indianapolis. ind.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-11-10
PENNSYI.VANIA.

PHILADELPHIA PA, Nov 6.-The present
delegation in Congress from Pennsylvania Is
composed OF twenty Republicans and eight
Democrats. Under the new apportionment Of
the last Legislature the districts were almost
entirely changed, and the election for Con-
gressmen to-day was the first under this new
apportionment.
Adams County-Cleveland's plurality prob
ably siightly exceeds 800.
Warren County-Harrison, l6OOplurality; Re-
publican gain, 3i3
phia-Chairman Cooper of the Re-
publican State Committee, cluims the State for
Harrison by about 5000 majority. This would
be Republican gain Of 1900.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 6-Thc returns from Al
legheny County are coming In very slowly. IT
is estimated that Harrison's plurality will
reach 15,000. In the Twentysecond Congress
sional District John Dalzel Republican, has
been reelected by an increased majority. Hon,
Thomas M. Bayne, Republican, has also been
reelected in the Twenty.thrd District. The
Republicans claim the election OF Joseph w.
Ray in the Twenty.fourth District, but the vote
will be close, and the Democrats still claim
Wampler's election.
The State Legislature delegation will stand
fifteen Republicans and one Democrat
The vote p0lled was very large. There wis
very little exctemrnedhd no i,Si6ie. -
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6--Carbon County,
Cleveland 300 plurality, Democratic gain l5s.
Center County, Cleveland 800 plurality Dem
ocratc gain 69.
Lehigh County gives Cleveland 1900 plural
ity, Democratic gain OF 2G2
Chester County gives plurality Of 400 for
Harrison, Republican gain Of s1i
Northampton County gives Cleveland, 3,10O
plurality, n Republican gain Of "a.
Harrison's majority in the city will reach 90,
OOl
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CALIFORNIA.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. G.-Returns from Atty
four precincts, outside Of San Francisco, give
Harrison 1,;72 Cleveland, 1,727. The same
precincts In 1884 gave Blaine 1893; Cleveland
l,014
NJ. NJ. Este, Chairman Of the Republican
National Committee, estimates that from un-
official returns from chairmen Of different
county committees that the Republicans will
carry the State by 5000 to 1900,
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, 1.-THE election laws
of California make rapid canvass impossible
1t directs that each ticket, which embraces the
candidates Of National, State and local Offices,
be entirely counted seratim, and iniiicts a pen
atty for sorting out the $ickets in order to count
the straight ballots first. II is seldom that one
hundred complete precincts are reported on the
night Of an election This, together with the
difference in time between California and the
East, and the necessary delays in telegraphing
over great distances, will tend to make the
Pacific Coast returns from to-day's election
tardy in comparison with those from points
further east.