The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-07-26

81 900 to any person who will furnish evil
dence that Gen. Harrison ever said anything
of the kind Nobody has applied Tor the re.
ward.
The Democratic W0Odchuck Hunt.
The explanation the boy gave for digging
SO zealously at a woodchuck hole, that the
was coming to dinner and the family
was out of meat, has been used to give point
to good many arguments. 1t was never
used with more effect, however, than, it can
be to illustrate the embarrassing situation
the Democratic organs have been in since the
Republican presidential nomination was
made. The need of campaign ''meat" was
apparent as soon as the telegraph announced
the composition of the ticket, and hot hunt
was at once begun in every Democratic news
paper office for any sign of woodchuck.
The record of General Harrison on the
Chinese question appeared to offer the best
prospect of finding woodchuck, and, accord
ingly the furnished Democrats went for that
woodchuck hole with zeal that put to
shame the boy whose household was out O
meat Spades, shovels, picks and muck
rakes were hastily seized and concerted at
tack begun For a time the fresh earth few
merrily and the workers were encouraged by
what they thought was whisk of the wood
chuck tail or CLEAN of a pair of ferret-like
eyes, But no woodchuck could be found
and they were growing weary when
they heard merry laugh from over the
Rocky mountains. and u voice say: "Ho
woodchuck in that hole, boys. We're entire
~ satisfied with Harrison's record. No use
digging any longer"
So the excavation around the Chinese
Aperture was hastily abandoned and the
whole woodchucks hunting crowd rushed
pell-mell for another whole which u Jealous
Democrat with muck rake had uncovered.
This time the woodchuck was going to
be the record Harrison made during the Ia
Dor strikes of 1886. 1t was decided to pro-
coed more deliberately as the tracks around
the hole looked fresh, and success with
proper caution appeared certain.
After learnedly discussing just how wood
chucks dug their holes and in what direction
this one had probably burrowed, they sta
toned frisky editor at the mouth with q
bag and begun to dig. But only three
shovelsful of ground had been throw up when
they heard loud ''haloo," and, looking up,
elbows resting on the top rail of the fence
and hand on each side of his mouth.
''There isn't any woodchuek in that hole"
be shouted, land if there was it would be
Just as much a Democratic woodchuck as a
woodchuck For / stood by Ben
Harrison in the labor troubles of 1886 and
approve everything he did"
With weary and Disguised air the Demo-
cratic hunters turned away from their latest
search, and as there were no more wood
chuch holes in sight, they sat down under a
tree to rest. They are sitting there still, con-
ruefully their blistered hands, and
wiping the perspiratiOn from their brows
with English made bandanas. They are
aware that election is coming just as certain
ly as the minister was coming to the boys
house, but what the Democratic family is 60
49, e.
is only one piece of advice that can be given
them, and that is this: When you dig for
don't dig at last years wood
chuck holes.-Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Cleveland's Supporters Abroad and at Home.
Whatever may be the result of the Presi-
Dental election Mr.. Cleveland has already
carried English sentiment in. his favor by his
Message. The English newspapers are
understand what his policy is, and means,
and would result in The London Times not
only praises him as a Free Trader, but COM
mends him to Englishmen, by explaining one
of his attempts to fool his own countrymen
by his assertion, in his Tammany Hall letter,
that 'those who taught him with being a
Free Trader are deceiving the country"
as to which the Times remarks, with deadly
truthfulness, that sit is certain that the ar
urges are those which Golden used to en-
ploy forty five years ago and which any Eng
fish Free Trader would employ now. Such
as that taxation ought to be
strictly limited by the needs of the country;
that it is unjust to tax the whole community
for the benefit of special classes; that import
duties STILES production and limit the area of
a country's markets, are purely free trade
arguments. AS such we are very glad to see
President Cleveland using them, though we
are sorry for the popular infatuation which
makes it dangerous to give them their right
NAME"
And the London News, while justly prais-
ing the dignity shown by Gen. Har-
rison in his letter of acceptance, adds
that: president Cleveland's speech is
more to the point. He discusses the prin-
ciples at issue in the struggle and shows that
he is the free trade candidate in everything
but name. The reservation is an important
one for American party purposes. The Pres
ident feels compelled to characterize the at
tempt to brand him as free trader as de-
ception, but for all that the electoral conflict
now in progress is Il conflict between free
trade and protection and nothing less. This
is very good conflict as things go, and like
warfare between good and evil, it threatens
to be perpetual. Mr.. Cleveland may find
more formidable antagonist in Gen. Harri-
son than we have been led to expect"
These are two very important contribu-
tions to the campaign between American
ideas and economic system and British Free
Trade 1t seems silly for the London news
papers to furnish such valuable contribu-
tons to the Republican campaign, but their
Indifference to the result of their
confessions aud opinions on Americans is $50
English, you know" 1t is idiotic but natur-
al. 1t illustrates the insular character of
the English mind. it's utter lack of tact and
in dealing with foreign questions,
which has so often ruined the most sagacious
diplomacy of exceptionally astute English
statesman.
ton to the Republican campaign made by
one of our local democratic newspapers which
furnishes the most startling, yet natural,
proof of the inevitable tendencies of the DEM
ocratic party, as ut present run by, and in
the interest Of the "Solid South" in repub-
fishing this clause from the Confederate Con-
viz,
The Congress shall have power
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and excuses for revenue necessary to pay the
debts, provide for common defence and car
ry on the government of the Confederate
States; but no bounties shall be granted
from the Treasury; ncr shall any duties or
taxes on importations from foreign relations
be laid to promote or foster any branch of
anu du duties, lnlpOStS anu eNcIses
shall be uniform throughout the Confederate
States
On which this comment is made by the
journal that rcvives this memorial of 'The
Lost Cause
This is free trade pure and simple; and
many of the gentlemen who framed and sup
ported the Confederate Constitution having
become influential in the House of Represen-
tatives, they have naturally endeavored in
h.. I.sl tn for
found practicable under the different circnm-
stances in which they are now placed, the
same idea which animated them in drawing
up the constitutional clause which we have
just quoted.
And another local democratic contempor-
airy criticises the publication OF this proof OF
the fact, as regards the Free Trade clause of
the Confederate Constitution, that "the Con-
federacy is in the saddle" and then kindly
copies the editorial in which this prophetic
clause is quoted.
How can intelligent, patriotic Americans,
who were loyal during the war and are
Americans always and to the core, sustain
the candidate who is the favorite of English