The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-09-12


is Just what we expected from the character
of the nYn selected as the standard bearers.
The Rev. f. A. Smart, of Saginaw is
the Prohibition candidate for Representative
in Congress from this district But alas
for him, the radiant glories of the Congress
sional diadem are, by Bliss. totally eclipsed.
The Republican members of the House
of Representatives must not forget that the
c0untry-demands of them the passage, with
out delay. of the pending Senate bills for
the upbuilding of the American Mercantile
Marine.
We agree most heartily with our cotem-
pOraries who SO unanimously say Away
with the traditions OF the Senate If they
are to serve as an excuse for delaying pub
lie business. This is too busy an age to
waste time in useless traditions"
Il is a fact that in the United States for
the year ending June 80, 1890, there was
produced 9.571, 799 tons of pig iron. That
represents great deal of American labor,
and spread broadcast i'm our business de-
partments vast sums of money, yet our free
trade philosophers insist that the country
would he richer to-day If 1t had allowed the
men who mined the ore and worked furnaces
that produced the pigs to have remained
idle. and bought this iron from foreign pro-
ducers.
One Dick Croker. speaking of the result
of the Vermont election, says:
There was grand old party once
Where is that party nowY'
Well. to casual observer it looks as
though it was pretty strongly entrenched in
Washington, so far as its chosen leaders are
concerned, in all departments of the govern
to be pretty intelligent and exceedingly hap
by and prosperous, have been properly and
legally enumerated by the late census, which
shows them pretty numerous, while every
indication pOnts to the election of their
successors by that same grand old party.
almost without struggle.
The New York Tribune sums up the
opposition of the Democratic party to the
Lodge bill for honest elections tersely as
follows:
/. The Democracy's main reliance is the
Solid South.
?. The South is kept solidly Democratic
because the black citizens of that section,
most of whom are Republicans, either are
not allowed to vote, or If they vote, their
votes are rendered nugatOry by false count
ing and ballot-box stuffing.
B. The pending Federal Election bill, if
il became law, would allow these men to
vote without fear or trembling, and would
secure fair count of all the ballots which
they cast
4. Hence the Democratic leaders rightly
regard the bill as inimical to their party
The New York Evening Post, the lead
ing free trade paper in America, recently
devoted two columns to local news report
of the condition OF the dry goods trade this
fall i'm that great commercial center, fair
summary of which Is given i'm its head lines
to that article, which read as follows:
A Boom in Trade-Not For Years Have
Merchants Done Such Busness-lmpOr:-
ers and Wholesale Dealers and Jobbers
Rushed with Orders, and the Big Retail
Stores Thronged with CustOmers-The
Trade Revival Extends to All Parts of the
Country"
And our readers will not fail TO remember
that this state of things exists under opera
tons of what The Evening Post calls ''thc
ubiquitous war tariff" and which I'm the
same issue said twas destroying the trade
of the nation" Oh. Free trade cOnsisten
cy, thou art jewel" not of 1.-THE purest
ray serene"
The unanimous denomination of Col. A.
Il. Bliss was q most deserving compliment
20 our able congressman. A more efficient
and painstalxing representative the sth Con-
gressional district has never had. Col. Bliss
when elected to Congress two years ago set
himself to thoroughly know the district and
its needs, and whenever any measure came
before Congress, ''How will II benefit the
h district" was always the first question.
With democratic representative I'm the 10th
and 50th Congress- the question always
seemed to be can the Sth district be crippled
in any industry or product. Tarsney voted
against the pure butter or oleomargarine
bill. Bliss voted for the pure lard bill. |
Tarsney voted for the Mills bill which would |
have been blow at almost every industry |
in this district. Bliss voted for the Mckinley |
bill which will stimulate those industries. |
When disabled soldier asked that his pen |
sion claim be passsd, Tarsney paid no atten- |
ton TO his letter. Bliss unravelled the |
claim, found what evidence was needed and |
secured many worthy soldiers what justice |
and equality demanded they should have.
Tarsney is typical democrat. Bliss is a /
typical republican. The voters of the sth |
Congressional district will choose man who |
represents theIA in the reelection OF Col.
Bliss.