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THE Clermont Courier, published at Bata-
via, O., prints the facts relative to the Presi-
dents veto of the bill granting a pension to
the widow of Lieutenant Clinton D. Smith,
of Winchester, Ind, and adds some new ones.
Lieutenant Smith was born and reared "a
Clermont county, his father being one of the
pioneer settlers, and has many relatives and
friends still living there. The male members
of the family seem to have been men of mark
and highly respected. This veto, the Courier
says, has caused greater indignation in that
vicinity than any yet made by the President,
a number Of old soldiers, heretofore Demo
Gratis, having declared against Cleveland on
account of it. The Courier prints a state
ment from one of these. DIR. s.. S. Walker, a
~well-known dentist. He SAYS:
SIN view of the facts above given, and of
Grover Cleveland having without good cause
deliberately vetoed a bill for the meagre re-
lief of the wife of so gallant a soldier. | can
not, will not and shall not support Cleveland
for reelection, although an active supporter
of him four years ago. Lieutenant Smith
frequently visited at my fathers in his latter
years, and l know we'll his condition. His
agonies were intense; he would cry out in
pain, day and night, and 1 nave often heard
him walking the floor of his bed room hours
after every other noise in the house was still.
The man could not have lived any length of
time with or without the use Of morphine,
and to attribute his death solely to NOR
phine, self-administered, is as base a calumny
against a brave man as can be uttered. If
such damnable vetoes as the one in this case
are to be unrebuked by ex-soldiers and Union
men, then we may as well bid goodbye to
loyalty and patriotism in this country. His
wound and death were the price of his patriot
ism, and more than this, to lay down his life
for his country, can no man do. II his wife
and little ones are not a charge on the gov
eminent for which he fought (and died) to
save. in Gods name who are?v
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the like Of which shall be produced in the
United States to the value of one million dol
lars in the last census year, except where the
domestic article is nbeing taxed for the neces-
sary revenue, and upon a few articles of lux
ury."-See Report of Tariff Commission, ..
1107.
1t will thus be seen that Mr.. Philpott, who
furnishes literature for the present campaign
to the Democratic central committee, is an
o~ut-and-out free-trader and opposed to all or
any protection.
the Democratic State central committee is a
speech delivered by Thomas G. Sherman, to
the Harlem Democratic Club, April %, 1883,
the whole purpose of which was to convince
his hearers of the expediency of ultimate free
trade. This same Thomas G. Shearman was
also before the Tariff Commission in 1882, and
stated his views to that body on the subject
of revision of the tariff. Among. other things,
he said:
1--WE maintain, therefore, that the tariff
should be cut down by at least $3.50. 600, 900,
which would leave only sos, 000, 600 to be
raised in this manner. This revenue could
be raised by duties on eight articles, of which
only one would in any reasonable sense be a
protective duty. These articles are sugar, in
GLIDING molasses; coffee. tea, cocoa, intoxicat-
ing liquors, tobacco and spices" See Report
of Tariff Commission, p. 1906.
1t will be seen by this quotation that Mr..
Sherman, who furnishes arguments for the
present campaign. is an out-and- out free
trader, and advocates a tariff based upon the
policy established by the English government
that is, a policy that discards every protect
i've feature and raises revenue by a tariff up
on such articles as are neither raised nor made
in this country.
Another document which is given to the
public by the Democratic State central COM
mittee was written by Henry George, who is
now and always has been an avowed believer
in the doctrine of free trade, and makes no at
tempt whatever to disguise his position, but
wherever he goes openly proclaims himself
opposed to the whole system by which reve-
nues are collected through means of a tariff
on foreign importations of any kind.
The fact that these leading free-traders
furnish all the ume of the Democratic
State central committee in this campaign is
proof enough that the party they represent
and work for is a free-trade party. They all
declare that their ultimate purpose, in what
they are now doing and saying, is free trade.
If they did not believe that the tendency Of
the Democratic policy was toward free trade
would they spend their time in writing cam
paign documents for that partyG
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The proof against Bynum is now complete,
but we expect to make it still stronger. First,
the report of his speech in the Atlanta Con-
s~titution is corroborated by extracts from his
speech in the House. in which he used almost
the exact language employed in the Constitu-
TONS report. Second, the report itself, which
we have printed in full, shows q continuous
line of argument into which his misstate-
ments concerning Indianapolis exactly fitted,
and nothing else would fit. Third, the positive
statement of Mr.. R. T. Dow, a resident of At
lanta, who heard him speak, and says Mr.. By
mum was correctly reported in the Constitu-
ton, and that the report was made by a COM
petent and reliable shorthand reporter. This
makes a clear case against Mr.. Bynum. Here
is what he said:
"In my own city we have every kind of
mandatory, and every one of them have in
creased their output until we have a surplus.
and have to seek foreign markets. In eight
months we can manufacture more than we can
consume in a year. As a consequence, the
factory hands are turned out of work for four
months to starve. At the end of o year a la
borer is doing well if he is even. When he is
ont of work he is out of money. His grocer
will not credit him."
In few days we expect to be able to print
other evidence of Mr.. Bynum's Atlanta
speech. which will pin him down tighter than
aver
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POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

THE New York Democrats will hold their
State convention at Buffalo, Sept II
.'HARRIsoN's pluck will beat Clevslana's luck
is the wise prophecy of the Buffalo Express.
WIN. 81. ANDERSON, q prominent Democratic
politician at FindIay, O., will vote for Harrison
and Morton on the tariff issue.
Harris, the Prohibition candidate for Gov
ernor Of Illinois. is said to Do making speeches
quite as offensive as those from DR.. Brooks.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's economy net can
catch . so pension bill. and let slip q $22. 0OO,-
900 river aud harbor bill.-Philadelphis Press.
TIE Protective Tariff Leagues monthly re-
port shows the distribution Of over IL. oOO,O 900
pages Of high-tariff literature since the last re-
port.
The Chicago Journal thinks the Republican
platform in Indiana the best statement yet made
Of the party's attitude toward temperance re-
form.
THE latest political kink is a club composed of
men Who voted for Polk in 1914. but who will
vote for Harrison this year. 1t ia being organ
lied in an Illinois city.
GROVER C~LEvELAND's letter of acceptance
will be forthcoming as soon as the publishers of
the new edition of the cyclopedia reach the let
ter 'P"-Protective Tariff. -Pittsburg Chroni-
Gle.
JUDGE YELLoT. VINO was elected county Judge
of Baltimore county, Maryland, on the Demo-
cratic ticket, announces his purpose to vote for
Harrison and Morton because of the free-trade
issue.
SHOULD Cleveland be reelected it is under.
stood that Mr.. Charles A. Dana, Of the Sun, will
be offered the war ~portfolio. Mr.. Cleveland
will thus compliment q good lighter. Boston
Herald.
1>.Is~o p~Ah;hs<sA~;ek 80
Pennsylvania, is out for Harrison and Morton.
He says that as q Democrats aid society" he
can't indorse the prohibition movement any
longer.
BURT, the Democratic candidate for Governor
who has made, and 10 still making, o stronf
fight against the reduction of the tariff on those
articles.
IT is a fsct-a solid, substantial fact-that pro
lection has made the United States prosperoul
and its people happy. and that Is the fact tn,
Republicans mean TO keep constantly befor,
the people in this campaign Camden IN. j.
Courier.
.WE must reflect Governor Hill; he Is on
friend" say the brewers, and distillers, aud "a
Loom keepers of New York. "And we will he'll
Won by drawing votes from the Republican can
didate." say the Prohibitionists. Omaha Re
publican.
CHAIRMAN DIcKIE. Of the Prohibition nation
al committee. who lives in Michigan, says tha
the chief gain to his party's strength in tina
State this year will come from the Greenback
ers. The Republicans are going to stand b.
their old flag.
GATH has interviewed Dunlap, the Ne'
York halter. Dunlap said: 81 work zoo hands
At the last election l set in fer Grover Clsve
land and used my best influences with my me
! to accomplish his election. Now l don't thin
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the cities. Perhaps, however, he was address
ing himself to that class and trying to tickle
them with something to their taste. as he did
by slandering Indianapolis to a Georgia audi
ence. Mr.. Bynum may find that popularity
among the class which delights in personal
vilifcation and defamation is dearly purchased
by the loss of respect among honorable men.
His assertion that in 1880, during the cam
paicn for the Legislature which elected Gen.
Harrison to the Senate, the Generals law
partners induced Cinnamon at indianapolis to
take out papers of citizenship in order that
they could vote for Republican candidates, is
as base and cowerdly a lie as was ever uttered.
His entire speech was pitched on a low key.
and shows him to be as malignant in the
defamation Of character as he is reckless in
classifying the record.
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1.-THE main question at issue lin America
is ENGLISH FREE TRADE against the CONT
MENTAL SYSTEM OF PROTECTION. The
American election is infinitely more impor-
tant to Euglishmen than their own internal
politics just at this juncture. The re-
suit Of the American election will help to de-
eide many important issues in Great Britain"
London Sunday Times, July 10, 1883.
Protection to home industries I regard as
the most important plank in any platform
after the Union must and shall be pre-
served Gen. U. s. Grant, in 1888.
1T is my deliberate judgment that the
prosperity of America is mainly due to her
system of protective laws. Prince Bismarck.
1--WE should be slow to abandon that sys-
tenn of protective duties which looks to the
promotion and development of American in
dustry and to the preservation of the highest
possible scale of wagesfo for the American work
man.'-Benjamin Harrison.
mo mans wages should be so low that he
cannot make provisions in his days of vigor
for the incapacity of accident or the feebleness
of old age."-Benjamin Harrison.
1.-THE wages of the American laborer cannot
be reduced except with the consent and the
votes of the American laborer himself. The
appeal lies to him."-James g. Blaine.
W believe in the preservation Of the
American market for our American producers
and workmen."-Beniamin Harrison.
"This is not the time to weigh in an apothe-
cary's scale the services or the rewards of the
men who saved the Acknowledgements Har-
Tison.
Against whom is it that the Republican
party has been unable to protect your race?'
Benjamin Harrison to the colored voters.
eyes, I was q rebel and a Democrat, but /
thank God l have never been a Republican"
Rev. John A. Brooks, Third-party Prohibl-
ton Candidate for Vice-president.
"We don't want any Republicans in our
country. Senator Colquitt and Representa-
tive Stewart, of Georgia.
"And il one receives not enough it is be-
cause he did not serve long enough, and can
be be heard to complain if he gets a just rate,
equal to his fellow-soldiers, and for the re-
mainder of the relief necessary to his support,
he shall be allowed, as other citizens must, to
accept the charity of the local authorities.
&C. C. Matson, chairman of House committee
on invalid pensions, in his report on the do
pendent pension bill, April IA, 1888.
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GENERAL HARRrsoN's speech to the COM
mercial travellers on Saturday is the fortieth
address he has made since the nomination.
In those forty speeches he has touched upon
all the leading issues of the campaign; he has
expressed his convictions upon them in no
uncertain terms; he has in earnest, manly
and dignifed utterances refuted the petty
SANDERS circulated against him by foolish and
desperate Democrats. In those forty speeches
ne has struck not a single false note; not once
has made q mistake; not once given room for
criticisms chance for which his enemies
have been eagerly watching and hoping. 1t is a
splendid record, and has inspired Republicans
In distant States with a pride in their candi-
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date almost equal to that which the Hoosiers
felt when they urged his nomination at Chi
cago. They believed then that he was equal
to any emergeacy, and the result so far has
amply justified their confidence. Hoosiers,
and all. will feel a natural regret that they
are to hear no more of these strong and elo-
quent addresses for q time. but all will agree
that he has earned and deserves a rest. ALI
his friends, which means the vast majority Of
the American people. will Join in wishing
hin enjoyment and profit from the trip on
which he starts to-day, and will look anxiously
for his return to the active duties Of the cam
paign to which he ends so much luster.
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'OHIO STATE DEMOCRATIC
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 16, 1888.

COLUMBUS, o., Aug. Ito, 1883. }
"My Dear Sir--Presuming that you would
like to understand the situation in Ohio at
this juncture, l write to you in ~strictest con-
fdence on the outlook. On a recent trip to
New York and Washington we were deeply
impressed with the necessity of making an
intense and vigorous fight in Ohio. InfOrma-
ton from a high authority convinces US that
the greatest struggle ever made in American
politics will be fought OH Hoosier soil.
"The plan of the opposition is to
c~olonize every possible floating vote
from Ohio in Indiana. Those high
in the councils of the party look
to US to check this dangerous scheme.
Though hopeful of carrying the State, and
placing it in the Democratic column, our first
and greatest object should be to keep every
Republican at home. In order to do this will
compel US to incur a large expenditure Of
money. To obtain this We must look in other
directions than assessments on the State
ticket, which, as you we'll know, will produce
but a meager sum. You will no doubt be
annoyed by requests for donations from your
local committees.
eve sincerely regret that we are forced to
appeal to your generosity for our committee.
The only means we have thus far received are
donations of 500 each from q few postmas-
tiers. Letters in the nature of a demand were
sent out last year, which necessarily gave of
Tense to many, and a few indiscreet individ-
uals gave them to the press. Therefore, we
hope you will give your most generous consid-
Grafton. Letters of q similar character have
been forwarded only to those whom we regard
as the true and tried friends of our party.
knowing how well you appreciate the fact
that your term of Office, to a certain extent,
depends upon this years result, we communi-
cate with you freely and in strict confidence.
Anxiously awaiting your early reply, | am
truly yours,
~. B. TOWNSEND, Chairman"
The letter is significant in more than one
respect. First, it shows how boldly the Dem.
ocratic managers are violating the spirit OF
the civil-service law in levying tribute on
postmasters for campaign funds. Second, il
shows a concerted plan on the part of the
Democratic managers in Ohio to raise men
and money to assist in carrying Indiana.
The statement that ''the greatest struggle
ever made in American politics will be Tough,
on Hoosier soil, " and the pretense that money
must be raised to keep the floating vote in
Ohio at home indicates a plan of campair
| worthy of Seven-mule Barnum, Calvin S.
| Brice, and their coadjutors. The real mean
ing of the letter is that the Democracy have
no hope whatever of carrying Ohio, and thai
they intend to raise a corruption fund for use
in this State. This is a danger point which
Republicans must guard against. 1t may be
come necessary to make a hard fight in this
| State for an honest vote and a fair count, bu,
no matter how hard the fight it must b.
made
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HE trouble is that the tariff taxes are so
indirect, so well concealed, 90 stealthy, SO in
sidious that the masses of the people pay them
without knowing when or how.-Sentinel.
We do not often find as near an approach to
the truth in a free-trade organ nowadays.
The fact is that the heavy end Of the s'tariff
taxes is borne by foreign producers and that
part paid by the American people is so light,
so well adjusted and so easily borne that thew
do not feel it. The American people are not
asking for the repeal of these taxes. The de-
mand comes from foreign manufacturers,
American importers and agents of the Golden
Club.
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THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR FREE TRADE.

TIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR FREE TRADE.
The speakers and papers of the Democratic
party in Indiana deny that their party is in
favor of free trade, but it happens that their
documents and campaign literature are all
written by men who are open and avowed
free-traders. For instance: The Indiana
central committee of the Democratic party
are distributing a document written by Henry
]. Philpott, of Des Moines, la. This same
Henry j. Philpott appeared before the Tariff
Commission, at Des Moines, Ia, on the 18th
of September, 1882, and delivered a long ad-
dress to that body, in which he said:
'On behalf of the Iowa State Free-trade
League, / beg leave to submit to your consid-
Grafton a summary of facts and opinions bear
ing on the question of tariff revision. We de-
mand specifically that no sudden and violent
revision of the tariff shall be made, even in
the effort to reach free trade. We demand
that the first reduction shall take effect not
later than July l, 1883, and that free trade be
reached not earlier than July 1, 1887. nor
later than July 1, 1890, and after that period
no tax shall be levied on any foreign article.
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THE Atlanta Constitution of the 18th saws:

IHE AtanCa constitution or the lIth says:
Congressman Bynum's C%hautauqua speech
advertised him with his constituents to such
an extent that all his spare time is now de-
voted to explaining it."
This is the only reference the Constitution
has made to the speech since it's publication
or to Mr.. Bynum's "open letter" to the Jour-
nal. 1t is not a kindly reference. 1t does
not express any sympathy with Mr.. Bynum
d tion of the Constitutions report. Read be-
tween the lines the foregoing extract means
that Nr. Bynum's Atlanta speech was cor
rectly reported, and that those who heard it
have no sympathy with his present attempt
To oct out of il.
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COLONEL" FELLOWS, district attorney Of
New York city, whose candidacy. President
Cleveland formally Endorsed, is making DEM
ocratic speeches in Connecticut. Lets see;
didn't Mr.. Reform" Cleveland dismiss a dis
trict attorney in Pennsylvania last year for
pernicious activity in politicsi Come to think
of it, though. the Pennsylvania man made
Republican speeches, which is a very differ
emit matter, of course.
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IF the Democrats ever had the slightest
hopes of Minnesota this year, they are all
scattered to the winds nov. The row over
their State convention, and the defeat of
Mayor Ames, for the nomination for Governor,
has set the bosses of the party to quarreling
in a desperate way. Republican success has
always been assured in the State, but this
Democratic row makes the job of keeping
Minnesota in the Republican column COM
paratively an easy undertaking.
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70 the Editor Of the indianapolis Journals

10 The Editor or tho Indianapolis Journal
What was the tariff reduction on wooli in 1883.
the number of sheep in the United States in
that year and at the present time2 G. T. J.
WABASH. Ind
Prior to 1883 the duty on raw wool was 10
cents per pound. and IL per cent advalorem-
liz that year the advalorem duty was repealed,
leaving it 10 cents per pound. The number Of
sheep in the United States increased from 40
765. 900 in 1880 to so. 626. 626 in 1884 In 1887
they had decreased to A, 759. 3l4. The pro-
duction of wool increased from 1GO. 600. 900 In
1870 to 3Os. 900. 900 pounds in 1884, and decreased
to 2S5. 600, 900 in 1887.
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Don't you think an effort is being made by the
present administration to suppress the c~ircula-
ton of Republican papers in the SouthP We
hardly think that, but no doubt Democratic
postmasters and postal clerks in the South
are very willing to lose Republican papers,
and the postal service North, as well as South,
is so demoralized that it is an easy matter.
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REPRESENTATIVE OWEN, of this State,
earned another vote of public thanks on Sat-
urday, by his prompt and effective reply to
Bynum's attack on General Harrison. True,
it was not very difficult to do, for Bynum's
speech consisted almost wholly of falsehood
and Misrepresentation; but the promptness
and thoroughness with which it was done were
very gratifying. There was very little left of
Bynum after Mr.. Owen got through with him.
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IT sounds a little funny to hear a Demo
cratic organ claiming that its party is the
great friend of temperance, but that's the sit
aation things have reached in the present
campaign. The New York Graphic Dem
rays while radicalism for temperance is not
sinful it is bat fair to admit that the great
temperance party is the Democratic party,
and a vote for that is a vote that is sure to
anunf
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WAGES have declined Is per cent in Great
Britain since 1883. It is no wonder that
country is clamorous for free trade with Amer
lea. Something must be done to relieve the
1000, 600 laboring men who are out of employ
ment, and English statesmen look to the rich
markets of America for help.
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To the Editor Of the Indianapolis Journar

TO the Editor of the indianapolis Journar
Please state the present duty on sugar and
rice. and what change the Mills bill makes on
said articles. A READER.
MANHATTAN, Ind.
The present duty on sugar varies from l 40
cent per ID to 81 cents per Is, according to
grade. The Mills bill makes it l 1900 cent per
fb to 2 $40 cents per fb. The present duty is SO
per cent. ad valorem. The present duty on rice
is 2! cents per fb; the Mills bill makes it 2 cents.
The present duty is 113 per cent ad valorem.
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A SUBSCRIBER of the Journal at Florence,
Ala, writes: "Lhave not received copy OF
the Daily Journal for over a week. / take two
Northern papers, and seldom get either. A
friend of mine recently subscribed for the
Toledo Blade, and says he never gets II.