Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-10-03
Political Paragraphs.

SpSahClo iidNO bSCH say lhB 'h"t hOhN
of the necessities Of life are any high
er now than they were before the
passage of the Mckinley bill. If
these gentlemen are honest in their
statements they Will find that some
body has imposed on them, when
they go to buy their winter carpets,
as the prices of carpets are from 10 to
25 per cent. more this fall than they
were at the same time last year. This
is fact that any dealer in carpets
will verify.
Representative Mills about sized up
the financial situation when he said
in his opening speech in Ohio: "Let
US not be deceived by superficial APP
pearances. 1t is not the scarcity Of
money in the country, it is the scare
ity of money in the pockets of the
people who earn it that produces the
distress. If our circulation were to-
day double what it is, and it was all
in the pockets of O hundred thousand
people, our condition would not only
not be bettered but it would be worse
than it is. 1t is not the small circu-
lation, it is the small distribution
that plaques u.s."
The republicans are sending cam
paign specimens oftin.plate around,
accompanied by the statement that
it was made by Major Mckinley
personally. The Major certainly is
not a skilled workman. If he, with
out any previous experience, can
make tin-plate, why should the al
legged manufacturers of tin plate wish
to import skilled workmen from
abroad to do this work? There is
nothing but humbuggery in this tin
tin plate question, view it from any
standpoint you please, and the
American. users of tin in its various
forms are today paying out great
deal more money on account of the
increase in the price of tin-plate,
made necessary by the Mckinley
tariff, than will be necessary to pay
the wages of all the American labor
that will be employed in the tin-platt
industry for five years to come. Oh
fraud! one of thy most seductive
aliases is protective tariff"
1t looks very much as if the Blaine
boom was being manipulated solely
to keep other possible competitors of
the track in order that Mr.. Harrison
may get all the necessary wires laiC
for a denomination. When this be-
comes certain look out for a mutiny
in the republican camp, but it will b
too late, unless all present signs arr
at fault, to prevent the consumatior
of Mr.. Harrison's designs. W.
would much prefer Mr.. Harrison al
the republican candidate, as he repre-
sents everything that is most vicious
in the republican creed more full!
than any other one man in that party
and will therefore be the easiest maj
to defeat.
Some people are disposed to crit
J else Representative Mills because o
. his recent Ohio speech, which tool
the ground that the tariff is the su
preme issue in the contest between
the republican and democratic par
ties and that all other issues ar
secondary, but no good democra
7 should do so. Mr.. Mills is right
The tariff is the one issue upon whic.
. there is no division in the Democrat
ranks and for that reason, if for n
other, it must be kept at the from
Let us get possession of all branche
t of the Government first, then we ca
, take up and settle inside the party a
the other questions.
Senator Sherman has written LEI
ter that is far from taking the ros
view of the republican prospects i
Ohio that is prevalent, in the rC
publican press. 1t was written to
e republican departmental official, an
S was intended to be personally show
r by the receiver to every republica
It from Ohio that is employed by tn
g Government. In it the Senator say
that he regards it as imperativel
necessary that every republican vote
70 of the State of Ohio, now temperate
t, in Washington, shall at once retur
e to the State in order to help brace u
the weakened members of til
= party who are showing dispositio
= either to vote against their old part
l. or to stay at home. In consequent
= of this letter it is said that the depar
V mont officials have intimated tn;