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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

The Lafayette Courier finds an argument
against free salt in a circular said to have
been sent out by ALEX KERR, Brother &
Co., of Baltimore, importers, which con-
tains the following:
Ocean freights have advanced, and the En-
glish salt-makers have formed a trust and are
putting the prices up, thinking the Mills bill
has passed.
THE Courier says this is ''the best argu-
ment in favor OF protection that has been
offered in this campaign" Ii so, the rest
must be very gauzy, indeed. The bare
idea of salt trust in England is enough
to make "horse laugh" Any combina-
ton to increase the price of salt in that
country would be impracticable, unless it
embraced the whole world, because salt is
admitted into England duty free, and if
the price were advanced by the home pro-
ducers, salt would pour in from other
countries and the advance would quickly
be lost under the pressure of competition.
If the Baltimore fellows sent out such a
circular as the Courier describes, they have
certainly hired themselves out to the re-
publican campaign committee.
Speaking of the salt tax, the Indianapo-
lis Journal said several years ago that it
had never found anybody who was not
financially interested with cheek enough
to defend il.
LEVI p, MORTON, republican candidate
Tor vice president, said Nov. %, 1886:
voted to place salt on the free list in 1880,
believing that the salt industry of the country
IL ,o1 fl,,f
farmers of the state of New York were entitled
TO the kind OF foreign salt which they require
in the manufacture of butter, free of duty.
Senator EUGENE HALE of Maine said in
the house of representatives in 1871:
| believe there is no one question about
which the reflection of millions OF people day
by day is so decided rs it is in declaring that
there should be no tax upon this article of SALT
beiiece this article ought 10 90 Oh The free list I;
that the monopoly 1rhich has obtained heretofore
for the ORORdGgG salt trOrkS-dS great and com
picte as any monopoly eUcr granted by the
TudOrs ia ERgiand's most despotic tiD,es-oWght
10 cease.
JAMES A. GARFIELD, in a speech in the
house, May is, 1872, said;
know that for nearly two years the whole
sale price of American salt in Toronto, Can,
was dollar lower per barrel than the same
salt was selling for on the New York side of
the lake That is, we produced it, shipped it
across, paying whatever portage, freights and
transportation were required, and then sold it
To our Canadian neighbors at a dollar per
barrel less than il was sold 10 people on our
shores. Certainly, gentlemen viii not want a
duty continued that enables that thing to be
done.
If the Courier thinks THE SENTINEL
argument in favor OF free salt is bad, what
does it think OF the arguments of LEVI p
MORTON, JAMES A. GARFIELD and EUGENE
HALE?
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the democrats are on their guard, and
are perfecting plans to defeat the whole
sale frauds contemplated by the republic
an managers, and to send the guilty
parties to the penitentiary. The negroes
who are being brought into the state for
voting purposes, and all others who may
be inclined to lend themselves to republic
an devilment on election day, would bet
ter have a care. And so would the repub-
lican manufacturers who are preparing to
bulldoze their employees. The disgrace of
1880 cannot be repeated in 1885,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
In the Clay County Coal Mines.

We give to-day the results of a careful
investigation made by special representa-
tive of The SENTINEL into the condition OF
affairs in the Clay county mining regions,
and the relations subsisting now and for
years past between the coal companies
and their employees.
The writer of this account was sent to
Clay county with instructions to describe
what he saw truthfully and impartially
70 nothing extenuate nor aught set down
in MALICE" to exaggerate nothing, to sup
press nothing; but to give the facts ex-
actly as he found them.
He was accompanied by the special
artist of THE SENTINEL, who made num-
Der OF sketches on the spot, which admir-
ably illustrate the text. The artist was
subsequently dispatched to Chicago, where
he made drawings of the residences of the
leading proprietors Of the Clay county
mines-Mr. POTTER and Mr.. LAWRENCE.
The illustrations constitute, we think, a
very interesting and suggestive feature OF
the article.
We believe no person Of ordinary
intelligence can read the story OF
The SENTINEL commissioner-fortif
as it is, by official statistics and by
other data from the most trustworthy
sources-without being convinced that
it is the mine-owners and not the
miners who get the STAT" out of the
tariff The palaces OF Mr.. PORTER and Mr..
LAWRENCE, and the shanties of ''WATsoS's
block" tell their own tale-a tale so plain
that "he who runs" may read it.
There is one fact brought out by our
reporters investigation that ought to lead
70 summary measures in the interest OF
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

ninety different industries, covering prac-
tically the whole field of labor, during
nine different periods from 1860 to 1880.
From this table the Republican writer
selected ten leading industries with which
tariff legislation has most busted itself
since 1860, and compared the wages paid
in each under the low and high tariffs
of 1860 and 1880 respectively; also
the general average of wages in
all the ninety Industries in the
same years. He also compared the tariff
rates upon the products of these same in
dustries in the two different years, and
the average rate upon all dutiable pro-
ducts at the same time. The results are
found below, the wages stated being per
week:
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The Higher the Tariff the Lower the
Wages.

A writer IN the Springfield Republican
presents some figures which prove to a
demonstration that wage workers derive
no benefits from a high tariff. The figures
are taken from the annual report of the
Massachusetts bureau of labor statistics
for 1884 They were the result OF search
ing investigation into the question of
wages in Massachusetts,, conducted by
CARROLL d. WRIGHT, then chief of the
Massachusetts, bureau, and now the U. S.
commissioner of labor Mr.. WRIGHT is
recognized the world over as q leading
authority in the field of labor statistics,
and no one will question the impartiality
of his investigations or the accuracy of
his figures.
One of the tables, in the report above
mentioned. gives the rate of wages in
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

So wool was practically free in 1861 and
the three preceding years.
The Journal says: "THE SENTINEL i'm
plies that raw wool had always been free
prior to 1860" The SENTINEL implied
nothing OF the kind, and the Journal,
figures to prove the contrary are entirely
superfious. TIE SENTINEL never states
things or implies" them, unless they are
true.
The Journal says THE SENTINEL mis-
stated the number of sheep in the United
States in 1850. The figures given by TIN
SENTINEL-viz., So, 1872, O74-will be found
on p. S33, vol. l. OF the Compendium Of
the Tenth Census" The department OF
agriculture estimates that there were
100000 more on the public lands in the
far West which were not enumerated.
The proportion of sheep to population,
however, was not materially different in
1880, with wool highly protected, than in
1860 with wool free.
HERE are three extracts from the Jour
MATS article which we place in parallel
columns for convenience, as the two on the
left completely answer the one on tbs
ripbt.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

The republican proposition to repeal the
internal revenue taxes on cigars, cheroots
and cigarettes means death blow TO the
cigar-making industry of The country, as
at present conducted. The cigarmakers'
union would be wiped out OF existence if
the republican policy were carried out.
TWAS for this reason that the cigarmakers'
international union, at, its last annual con-
vention, adopted a protest against the re-
peal OF this tax. Similar action was taken
by the cigar manufacturers of New York
City, at a recent meeting. At meeting of
the Central labor union OF Buffalo, held last
January, a protest against the repeal Of
the cigar tax was unanimously adopted.
JOHN c. DERNELL, secretary of this union,
says:
The cigar business of the country is now
firmly established, and the abolition Of the tax
will bring disaster and ruination TO the entire
cigar industry.
The repeal of the tax on cigars is not
demanded by anybody. Neither the to-
bacco growers, nor the cigar manufacture
ers, nor their employees, want it done.
The smokers OF the country do not ask for
it. They are entirely willing to pay the
tax, and at all events it is doubtful if they
would derive any benefit from its repeal.
So here we have tax Of which nobody
complains, levied upon an article which
all civilized countries recognize as a fit
subject of revenue, which is not neces-
sary OF life, and which three-fourths of
the population does not consume. And
the republican party-may the LORD have
pity upon it-proposes to repeal this tax,
so that it may have pretext for increas-
ing the taxes on clothing, and blankets,
and salt, and sugar, and lumberl
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

REPUBLICAN, demagogues like JOHN NJ.
BUTLER denounce the democratic party
for wanting to reduce taxation, and in
the same breath claim credit for the repub-
lican party for such reductions in taxation
as it has made since the war period. There
have been some reductions in our revenue
taxes since the war closed, but none
worth mentioning in our protective"
taxes. The reductions in the former were
made in the interest of the rich and not
OF the poor. The taxes were taken off OF
incomes, manufacturers, legacies and sue
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
No. 4,7S5
Ohio & Mississippi railroad
n,


Comes now the master and files his report
herein upon the various applications for coun-
sci fees in the matter of the proceeding TO re-
move the said receivers. And the court being
advised in the premises doth not approve the .tutt
amount of the allowances directed by the mas
ter; and doth now order that there be paid by
the receivers ont of the funds in hand TO
GEORGE HOADLY, WILLIAM L. MCCLINToCK,
BENJAMIN HARRISON, HENRY CRAWFORD,
ABRAHAM w. HENDRICKS, and THOMAS
COOPER CAMPBELL the sum of seven hundred
and fifty dollars each in full OF the several al
lowances therefor. [Chancery order book
"W," PIP. 4S4-5.l
From these extracts we presume our
contemporary will be able to see that
Judge DRUMMoND, the eminent and just
circuit judge" had nothing to do with the
matter; that the allowance was made to
BENJAMIN HARRISON individually for
NEARLY one whole weeks" service; and
that Judge GRESHAM, the eminent and
just district judge, knocked $3.50 off the
republican candidates claim, notwith-
standing the affidavit aforesaid. 1t may
perhaps be pertinent to add that we think
Judge GRESHAM was quite right, except
possibly that he should have knocked of
$3.50 instead of $3.50.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
W. T. SHERMAN,
Maior-General Commanding.

have again examined pages "a and 95, vol.
2, y "SHERMAN's Memoirs" first edition, and
BELIEVE THEY CONTAIN FAIR VERSION OF
THE FACTS. The dispatch of July %, 1864
sent by me to Col. JAMES A. HARDIE, in
spector-general, Washington, D. c. as undOubt-
edly correct, and resulted in the promotion of
eight most worthy colonies, whose names are
given IN the Memoirs" Yet, after twenty
four years of time, 1 regret that used the
name of Gen. HovEY to accomplish my pur
pose.
18TH think Gen. Horey made a mistake, but 1
also think he believed be had cause for griev-
ence, which at the time justified him in throw
ing up his command of division in the 23d
corps (ScHoFIELD'sl
He claimed to have some promise from the
war department or Gov. MORTON that his
Indiana division, formed on the old notion of
Gen. KNOX, of Revolutionary fame, of legion,
copied after the Romans, should remain intact
This was simply inadmissable. This, believe,
was the cause Of Gen. HovEY's dissatisfaction
with Gen. SCHoFIELD and myself.
don't think ever attributed TO either Gen.
HovEY or Gen. OsTERHAUs unworthy motives
for learing at tie time uhen zoe had an herc1lean
task ahead, bit thought 10 unfair to promote them
and neglect the hundreds Of most gallant and pa
tsent soldiers rho stood fast.
W.T.. SHERMAN.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
A specimen Friend of Labor.

NATHANIEL MCKAY, author of those
narrowing tales of poverty in England
which are now going the rounds of the
monopoly press, has good reasons for
wishing the defeat Of President CLEvE-
LAND. On the 4th day of last April bill
appropriating large sum of money 10 t =
relief of the said MCKAY was vetoed
the president. The thing was job of
worst sort, as the president showed in
veto message. As soon as it was ser
MCKAY went to England Ito inves
the condition of the working classes
country" He found it bad, of cot
now he is trying 10 make the pc,
lieve that because there is much
in over-populated England, q
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

THE attacks which the Journal is max
ing upon the postal service are simply
campaign roorbacks. The postal service
throughout the country is more efficient
to-day than at any previous time, as every
fair minded person who knows anything
about it will admit. The postoffice de-
partment is vast machine, and a stray
letter now and then out OF the millions
that pass through the mails every day is
no more reflection on the service than a
typographical error in the Journal is re-
Election upon its character as newspaper.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

The democratic campaign text book for
1855 is out. In urging not only every public
speaker, but also every person who cares
to have facts at his command in political
discussions, to secure a copy OF this book,
The SENTINEL wishes to be understood as
not merely advertising a campaign docu-
ment The democratic campaign text
book this year is much more than that. 1t
is a comprehensive political and econom-
zeal almanac, by all odds the most COM
plete political publication American cam
paIgns, prolific in such literature. have
produced. 1t will have value as book of
reference beyond the present campaign,
and Mr.. GEORGE f. PARKER OF New York,
its editor and compiler, is to be congrat-
ulated both on having done his party a
great service and on having put before the
public, in convenient form, an immense
amount of information about government
and legislation which viii be recognized
as valuable The book comprises fifty
chapters, with full index, and consists
of $50 clearly printed pages.
The SENTINEL will fill orders for this
book at the regular price, 81 each.
Address THE SENTINEL, indianapolis,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

The postal department has been free from
star-route scandals and all other scan
dals since it passed into democratic hands,
and is managed with economy, efficiency
and intelligence, as the records prove.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
What the Order-Book Really Shows


The correspondent of the New York Times,
sent out here to write up the democratic side
OF the campaign, rehaShes one OF the latest
Jewett stories thus:
The chancery order-book OF the United States
district court shows that Geu. HARRISON received in
addition 10 the special charge of 81 900 for service in
defense OF the receivers S2l, 900 at the final settle
ment.
The chancery order-book shows that the firm
of which Sen. HARRISON was a member,
HARRISON, HINES & MILLER, received the
amounts stated for longcOntinued services in
important litigation for the Ohio & Mississippi
railway, prOtracted over several years. The
same order-book shows that like allowance
was made to other attorneys, HENRY CRAw-
FORD OF Chicago, among them, and the allow
ances were made by Judge DRUNIdoND, the
eminent and just circuit iudge.-JOarRdL.
The chancery order book shows nothing
of the kind. When HARRISON and the
rest of the fee-grabbers made their de-
mand Judge GRESHAM, who was presiding,
Indignantly refused to allow the amounts
asked, and referred the matter to JOHN d.
Rowland, special master in chancery, to
investigate and report. The Judge further
required each attorney TO file "a written
statement, under his signature, setting
forth the time actually occupied by him
in the said service, and during how much
of that time he was absent from home, F"
etc. (Chancery Order Book w, p. 444. J
Mr.. HARRISON then made his now cele-
brated affidavit that his services for NEARLY
one whole week of time" were reasonably
worth the sum of 900" The master re-
ported that the services were worth 81 900,
and the evidence was sent in with the re-
port. What Judge GRESHAM thought
about it appears in the following extract
from the record:
MONDAY MORNING, April 16, A. D., 1877.
Court met pursuant to adjournment. Present,
Hon. WALTER @. GRESHAM, judge.
William King ct al.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
The Facts About Wool.

The Journal denies that wool was free
in 1860. This is mere bubble. Wool
was free to all intents and purposes in
1860. All the grades that came into COM
petition with domestic wool were adj
mitted free Of duty. These constituted
the bulk of our importations of wool, as
will be seen from the following official
statistics:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

cessions, PARTICLES Of luxury kept for use"
bank checks, etc, etc. The republican
party has reduced the rich mans war
taxes and let the poor mans war taxes
alone
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

We ask democrats to bear in mind and select their
own state paper when they come to take subscrip-
tions and make up clubs.
Agents making up clubs send for any information
desired. Adde'S INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL,
Indianapolis ind.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

The evidence is over
whclming that the wool
growing. sheep growing
and wooden manufacture
ing in the United States
are all due 10 a protective
tariff, aud that a repeal OF
the duty on wool would
be ruin0us 10 all Of them.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

According 10 the Journal wool was pro-
tected during thirty-six of the fifty years
from 1910 to 1860, and also from 1860 to
1885, and the fact that the increase in wool
growing was much greater during the sec
ond protective period than during the
first protective period proves that free
wool would ruin the wool industry of the
country. Do you grasp the logic? If not,
don't try to read the Journals tariff ar
ticles, for they are all built on this same
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE
MISSISSIPPI, IN THE FIELD, NEAR Ar
LANrA, GA, July %. 1864.
Col. JAMES HARDIE, Inspector-General, Washing
ton, D. c.:
IHAvE your dispatch of yesterday.
/ wish to put on record this, my emphatic
opinion, that it is an act of In
Justice to officers who stand by their
posts in the day of danger, to neglect
them and advance such as Gen. HovEY,
who left us in the midst of bullets to go to the
rear in search of personal advancement If
the rear be the post of honor then we had bet
ter all change front on Washington.
W. T. SHERMAN,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
WEDNESDAY. OCT. 3.

For PRESIDENT,
GROVER CLEVELAND of New York.
For VICE-PREsIDENT,
ALLEN G.. THURMAN of Ohio.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03

At Lsrge-THoNAs r. Corr aud JOHN Z; LAM
First district SAMUEL b. VANCE; second district
CUTLER s DoBBISs; Third district, CHARLES l.
JEwKTT; Fourth district, NICHOLAS CoRNEri Filth
district JOHN r. EAST; Sixth district. THOMAS j..
STUDY; Seventh district, DAVID 5 GOoDING; Eighth
district, SAMUEL u. PUETT; Ninth district, JOHN
j. McHUeH; Tenth district, DAVID ID: DYKENANi
Eleventh district JOHN n. TURNER; Twelfth dis
frict JOHN H. Bass; Thirteenth district. MARCUS
A o. PACKARD.
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We repeat, there has
not been a day since 1924
when there was not a tar
III on wool.
A report Of thu bureau
on statistics at Washing
ton says: The increase
in the number OF sheep
from 1910 TO 1850 was
only a little over 100 per
cent, while for the next
twenty-five years. from
1860 10 1855, the increase
was greater than for the
former period of fifty
years. viz. over lao per
cent?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-03
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

Governor-CoURTLAND G. MATsoS.
Iieutenant -GovernOr-WnLIAM X. MYEA
Secretary of State-ROBERT W. NIERs-
Auditor OF State-CHARLEs A. MUSsoS-
Treasurer Of State--IHOMAs b. BYREES
REPORTER Supreme COurt-JOHS W. KERN.
-General-JoHE r. WILSON.
Superintendent Public 1nstruction-ELNER L
GRITFTTH.
Judges OF Supreme Court
FIRST District-WILLIAME +. NIBLAcK-
Second District-GEORGE V. HOwK-
Fourth District-ALLEN ZoLLARa
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INDIANA STATE SENTINEL.
TERMS PER YEAR,

Entered at the POstofce at Indianapolis second
class matter
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-09-06
EDITORIAL BoUIDs.

The Congressional convention for
this district will be held In Alliance,
September IL.
THE election In Vermont takes place
tomorrow, II will probably go RepuD'
llcan, as usual.
Our Washington young man sends
us quite II special on Blalne's magazine
article. This dispatch looks TO us like
an advertising dodge.
JupGE THURMAN left Columbus at
3 o'clock last evening, lie left Pitts
burg this morning ut 3'l0 and Is now
well on his way to the Empire City OF
the Empire State.
Two citizens of Harrison county,
Georgia, have each become the others
father.ln.law. They lost their first
wives by death, and for second wife
each married the others daughter
Hon. DAVID II. GooDELL, the noml-
nee for Governor OF Conn, Is an exten'
slye manufactures at Antrim Conn.
lie Is 80 years OF age, He Is ~ present
President OF the New Hampshire stats
Temperance Union.
YESTERDAY at Newark, New Jersey,
Congressman breckenridge, of Ken
tuclty, and Butterworth, OF Ohio, had q
Joint debate on the tariff In the pres
ence Of 5000 natives, OF course both
sides cllim the best of the argument.
Mn. A. MCGREGoR, late Of the DEN
oCRAT has Just returned from u three
weeks visit TO relatives and friends ~
Goshen, Ind, The many staunch friends
Of Mr.. McGregor in stark county Will
be pleased TO learn that he Is In good
health. Speaking of Indiana politics.
this morning, he said the Democrats
we're feeling certain of carrying the
state. The party was stronger than
four years ago, and Gen. Ben, Harrison
has no elements of strength outside OF
his party
TIE Pottery manufacturers oy East
Liverpool are trying to boycotte the
Democratic paper there, the East Liver
pool Crisis, because that paper saw 70
10 publish the price paid for labor ~
East Liverpool of those who work In
the highly protected pottery industry,
We regret to see this exhibition OF pet
ty tyranny, In free country like ours.
IL Is claimed that the leading firm OF
pottery manufacturers In East Liver
pool, Knowles, Taylor and know.es,
have made 81 100000 profits, during the
past IL years, and that they are only
paying from 80 cents to ~ a day to
those who make printed pottery ware,
This same firm compel every laborer
who enters their employ to sign an
agreement that he will not join any .ia'
Dor organization during his service
with the firm.