The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-09-19

would have been secretary OF the interior
If Blaine had been elected. Who knows
but what Blaine would force him on Har-
risOn for the same place.
To show how Cleveland is admired by
the cattlemen, give the interview l had
last Sunday with an old acquaintance who
left Indiana twenty years ago with a mule
team, and who now owns several thou
sand acres and stock valued at present
low prices, at $500 l had not been with
him five minutes before, to my surprise,
he showed his anxiety for Harrison's cleo
toni say surprise, because he comes
from an old democratic family and has six
good democratic brothers in Allen county.
ITO = with Cleveland" he said, when
] attempted to enumerate the good things
the president had done for the West by
checking off land-grabbing and unlawful
fencing. '"To - with him." he con-
tinued. This fence business is what
makes me against him. You see, l had
ACQUIRED title to two miles of land on this
creek. Seven miles east of here is Running
creek, where bought two sections OF rail-
road land. Now, all ! had to do was
10 string two wire fences from my
home ranch to and inciosing my railroad
land and had eleven sections Of govern
ment land fenced up between my two
ranches, which made a good winter pas
ture when the range grass. is short. Three
months after Cleveland came IN L re-
ceived notice from the new U. :. marshal
TO remove my fence"
And did you do it ?n
"0f course did. What was the use to
kick against this obstinate president OF
yours when he had his mind made up TO
ruin us? That fence cost me $1,000, but
Il Ill loOl- fhnTa '
Nearly ali that land between my two
ranches has been taken up bv-grangers,
who have no business in this country.
They are crowding us all around. / have
been obliged to reduce my stock one-halt,
and if YOUR man Cleveland is reelected l
will have 10 become granger myself he
concluded with strong, brandlng-iron
language.
The Field and Farm, alluded to above,
which does not conceal its republlcanlsm,
paws this compliment to the land office
under Mr.. Stockslager's administration IN
Its issue OF Aug. %:
Somehow or other there has been less steal
ing ard less croOkedness IN the land depart
Snent of our government lately than there used
10 be. OF late men have been compelled to go
pretty near straight in obtaining titles 10 lands.
Mr.. Logan also says something about
the mining interest being affected by the
present administration. No doubt he OBJ
jtained his information from Twenty-Day
Senator Tabor. who, prior TO ~, kept a
miners store where Leadville stands To-
ziav. while his good Irish wife took In
washing. but who, alter striking it 1t to
the extent OF ten millions by grub
stalking poor miners, cast her OF because
she was too common" to 90 III society,
and married young woman who could,
and Joined the republican party, and paid
halt a million dollars for Iellers unex-
pired term in the senate. The democratic
party was good enough for him so long
as he remained poor. L don't say that
every man who makes million in this
country discards his old wife for young
one, but nearly every one joins the repub-
ican party, and there is not even demo
cratic quarter-millionaire in Colorado.
When John sherman was secretary OF
the treasury he construed the then tariff
clause on silver-lead-bearing ore thus:
when ores imported being more valuable
for silver than lead, to be admitted as
silver, which is on the free list. When more
valuable for lead than silver, then to be
taxed as lead ores" The republican tariff
Of $50 did not change this construction
and Sherman's ruling is still in force
y 4tACI It's OHC1dA4Ou AAEeiAAN oil tlAC SAANC4
lead-bearing ores of Mexico come in as
silver-free. Mr.. Tabor has few mines
producing this kind of ore, and the Mex
lean importation tends to lower the price
of lead, to the great relief OF the consumers
Besides it gives employment to thousands
of men in the smeltings of Denver, +
Paso, Pueblo and Omaha. Most of these
Mexican mines are operated by Amerl
cans. But Mr.. Tabor only realized 81 800.
900 from his mines last year, and wants q
tariff TO shut off all Mexican lead. There
are about ten other mine-owners who are
effected likewise. As for the miners, the
men who work eight hours in the bowels
OF the earth, in wet mines, and live the
other sixteen hours at an altitude of 1905
feet, il makes no difference how much
Tabor gets for his lead-they get the same
wages, whether IL is high or low. Indeed
the Leadyille miners had TO 60 on strike &
few years ago, when lead was at It's high
est point IN the market, to obtain living
wages. But these are not the miners that
Mr.. Logan met, but the poor millionaire:
who live in Denver. The miner with the
pick knows that protection will not in
crease his wages, but be knows that the
Mills bill will give him cheaper and better
blankets and clothing; cheaper tools, fur
his cabin. and he is not going to desert
the democratic party-at least, not unit
he too is millionaire. The miner of the
West is a democrat, Lake county LEAD
vile) San Juan and other mining coun
ties OF Colorado are democratic, and the
state is only kept republican through the
millionaires and the cattlemen who live
In Denver and the cowboys of the range
Montana IS democratic because the miner
of Butte outvOte the millionaires of Heleni
and cowboys Of the Yellowstone.
While Mr.. Tabor is the richest man o
the Rockies his knowledge is not equal t.
his pretensiOns. The many ridiculou
things he said and did when he first at
tempted TO pose as society man" an'
distinguish himself as a statesman would
I'll up a volume OF funny reading. Durin
his contest for the long term In the senate
before the legislature, he ran across Ton
Bowen and told him he had him down
'.Tll meet you at Phillippi," answered
Bowen, and, unlike Caesars ghost, van
ished to saloon. Tabor vanished to an
other bar-room where he met Jim Belford
known in congress as the Red Roarin
Rooster of the Rockies.
"Say, Jim, where in - is Phillippi
IL can't be a new mining-camp for know
them all, and Bowen wants TO meet M
there"
''Oh, it's new saloon in South Denve
kept by an Italian named Phillippi, and
would advise you to hunt him there.
hear he wants to compromise with YOU an
take the short term" answered tn
r. T. r. r.
And while Tabor was looking for Phil
lippl's saloon Bowen was fixing the eau
Gus. and Tabor did find Phillippi, but the.
presented him with the short term {