Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-10
Pointers in Politics.

The Supreme Court has given its de-
cision sustaining the Election Law.
Robert 5. Taylor is the Republican
nominee for State Senator in the 10th
District.
The Democrats, who assembled at
Peck in a representative convention
nominated Edwin Farley.
John j. Enright will speak next
Wednesday before the Yale people in
the interest of Free Trade.
Macomb county Republicans are
confident of having put mp an excellent
ticket Manley G. Percy and William
Gray are both strong men.
The convention of Republicans of
the fifteenth senatorial district met at
Richmond Tuesday. and nominated
Wilbur IL. Quinn. of Grant, st. Clair
county.
II. =. .Jenney has declined to accept
the democratic nomination for county
surveyor.-St. Clair Republican. The
outlook is discouraging. The rest of
the ticket might also decline"
The person that will vote for Justin
II. Whiting merely votes to uphold the
Construction policy" which If it had
succeeded would have left the country
III IL pdlllC, WlthOuO any lCS loldltUh
whatsoever.
Justin r.. Whiting is becoming less
and less in favor in the District. for no
other reason than because his record in
Congress is a blank. On the contrary
the manly bearing of James ;. Ayers is
winning him an increasing popularity.
Thos. b. Reed has said that his in
creased majority is due to the votes of
many Democrats who uphold him in
his effort to make the House of Repre-
sentatives a business body for transact
ing the cOuntry's business, not political
organ.
The Free Trade howlers, who are
continually crying that our foreign
commerce is being ruined should recol
lect that the commerce that passes
through the state of Pennsylvania alone
is. by statistics, greater than the entire
carrying trade on the oceans of the
world.
Hon. John X. Boies will address the
Yale public in the interest of Protec-
ton next Monday evening. We can
not speak too highly of Mr.. Boies as an
orator. The Tariff question will be
discussed infinitely and practically. 1t
will be a grand chance for fair man
to hear a fair discussion.
The question seems to reduce itself
to this. whether we shall have a great
foreign commerce as Free Traders
claim we would, where the American
profits at but one end of the trade, or a
magnificent domestic commerce as at
present. where Americans get the prof
its at both ends. a foreign commerce
must cripple domestic commerce.
The democratic party ''is most aw-
fully" in earnest to help the poor Ia
boring man; SO they claim. 1t profess
es TO be altogether against monopolieS
and all class legislation. At the same
time It was due to the imperative de-
mand of the whole southern Democra-
CIV that an import duty of 2 cents per
pound was put on sugar. Which will
iniure the farmer the most, to pay 2
cents on every pound of white sugar he
uses. when every individual consumes
much over a pound week, or a duty
of 3 or cents on jack-knife when he
purchases one in perhaps three years !?
This is a good illustration of the false
pretenses under which the Democratic
leaders are trying to catch enough
votes to retain their precedence in this
locality.
The loud cries for universal reform,
with which the Democrats are trying
TO call off voters. are mere pretepces.
This loud talk about 'poor, oppressed
farmers" by men who are not noted by
any means for q tender affection to-
wards poor people with whom they
come in contact in business must sure
" show its own Righteousness. There
are Just as many monopolists and cap
italists who vote the Democratic ticket
as the Republican. Look at Connecti-
cut. 1t invariably polls Democratic
plurality for Governor. Still Connecti-
cut is made up, almost entirely, of
manufacturers and their employees.
They vote the Democratic ticket; these
monopolists and capitalists! The large
Republican vote is entirely made up of
farmers. Does this look rs If the DEM
ocrats would bear out this one of their
claims to help the poor man., as they
call him.
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