Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-10-23
RATHER CLIMB. CLEVELAND

make good the deficits in the current ex-
penditures, swelled by the multiplying of
offices and the increasing of salaries by
the democrats. In making their plat
form the democrats overlooked those
two things.
The statistics gathered by the census
bureau disclose another condition of
affairs that will help the republicans in
this fight, and that is that the heaviest
county and municipal Indebtedness is
found in democratic counties and munich
palities. BY comparison of figures the
republicans are also enabled to show that
in democratic counties the tax levy is
much larger than in republican counties.
These financial matters have given the
republicans quite a boom among the
farmers. The agriculturiSts of demo-
cratic johnson county are asking why
they should be taxed about double the
rate levied apon their brethren in repub-
lican Hendricks. There is more active
thinking going on this year than ever
before in political campaign. Hith-
erto the Hoosiers have been pretty
tightly bound by party ties, and the
tran SER of political faith was not very
frequent. This year there will be very
great change, because the agricultural
| classes are comparing these facts as to
debt and taxation for themselves.
Indiana is just now going through a
transition from an agricultural state to a
| manufacturing one. The increase of the
manufacturing interests during the last
| ten years has been something wonderful.
Especially is this true of the last three
years, since the discovery of natural gas
Hence the tariff is cutting more of fig
| ure here than ever before. In the mat
| ter of emigration the republicans have
| lost much more largely than the demo-
Gratis. Fully one-half of the great re-
| publican majority in Kansas is due to the
| republican voters sent into that state
from Indiana. She has largely contrib
uted to other states and territories. In
| the past the immigration has been in IA
vor of the democrats, it being largely
! foreign. Thus the republicans have been
cut at both ends of the line. Matters
| have changed somewhat during the last
! three years.
| The new manufacturing interests have
| brought q very large increase of popu-
| lation, and that increase is favorable to
| the republicans. These new men have
come into the state talking tariff, and
/ their talk has awakened keen interest
! IN Gne SUBJECT, ScFerdi Oh bHe ItiOSt Llt-
fuential democratic papers of the state
have declared openly for the broadest
kind of free trade. The platform of tho
party does not go quite to that extent,
but the declarations of the party organs
show which way the drift is, and that
! has alarmed the labor element.
Early last spring the democrats set UP
the cry that the farmers of Indiana We're
mortgaSed to death. The statistics that
have been gathered disclose that
more mortgages have been paid off within
i the last two years than have
been filed, and the farms of Indiana are
carrying comparatively small amount of
mortgage indebtedness. The shrieks OF
i alarm and calamity sent out by the dem
ocrats are now working to their disad-
vantage.
Summed up, the situation in this state
is that the republicans will increase
their delegation in congress and control
the lower house of the general assembly.
besides electing their state ticket; that
the administration has grownin strength
and favor of the people, and that Indi,
ana is i'm favor of the doctrine of protec.
ftiOn.