The Portland daily press., 1891-07-15

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the New York Tribune that he regards Mr..
Mills as the logical candidate for Speaker,
and thinks If his party is honest and sincere
toward the tariff he will be elected. This is
pretty big If. The party never has been
honest and sincere toward the tariff when
national campaign was impending, and one
will be close at hand when the Democratic
representatives gather in Washington next
December to elect Speaker The Demo-
cratic party has always been free trade
party, and yet there has not been a national
campaign since the one in which Gen. Han
COCK was candidate, in which they have
not juggled with the tariff question. That
they intend to come out fatfooted on the
subject In the next campaign is not probable,
and hence they are not likely to elect to the
Speakership man whose declarations on
the tariff have been so direct and explicit in
favor OF free trade as have Mills's. C!eve-
land, to be sure, is a tariff reformer, but
Cleveland has never been guilty of any such
radical dellverances on the tariff as Mills.
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In connection with an article on the expor-
tation of gold to Europe. tie financial editor
OF the New York Sun has made some queer
computations with reference to the amounts
of gold taken abroad by summer tourists,
and generally omitted In all computations of
currency expectations In these days of fine
and fast ocean steamers people of wealth
and fashion no longer choose between
summer at the seashore and one in Europe.
They now take both. For them the year is
divided into four parts, spring in London
and Paris. summer in Newport or Bar
HarDor, an autumn at Lenox, Tuxedo or
Hemstead. and three winter months in New
York. In Europe they probably spend as
much or more as at either of the American
resorts. The financial editor of the Sun es-
Inmates the expenses of each Of these wealthy
tourists in Europe at 81 900 for the trip.
This is believed to be moderate estimate
The totalamount thus taken out of the coun-
try Will depend upon the number of these
wealthy tourists. The Sun estimates them
at one hundred thousand. This seems
large estimate at first; but when it is remem-
bered that big steamer will carry hundreds
OF passengers, and that big steamers are
leaving New York loaded with first class
passengers every day, the estimate seems
more reasonable. The amount of money
taken abroad by these tourists will then be
the immense sum OF $1O0,0O0,OO0. This
amount is virtually in gold, as our gold coin
is the only part of our currency that is on a
par intrinsically with European money. So
large an expectation of gold by the ordinary
commercial channels would attract wide at
tention. As 1t is, it slips out of the country
without especial notice, almost without de-
lection.
The Kentucky gubernatorial campaign is
proceeding actively in spite Iof the warm
weather. The Democrats learned consider
able unpopularity by opposing a constitu-
tional convention, and they have found it
necessary TO call their ablest Speakers into
the field. Senator Blackburn and Congress
mel ICarutb, Ellis and Stone, and all the
state candidates are now on the stump. The
Democratic candidate for Governor seems to
be la queer specimen. His name is John
Young Brown, and he is the individual who,
after his nomination, made the absurd as
sertion that the mission of the Democratic
party was second only to the mission of the
Christian religion. He is now having con-
siderable trouble with his war record. Sec
tional lines are not drawn. since the Repub-
ncan candidate for lieutenant governor Is an
ex-confederate officer, while many promi.
nent Democrats in the state were officers in
the Union army. But John Young Brown
is having trouble with his record because he
was neither one thing nor another in the
war. His friends are declaring that he was
Union man during the war. I his is done to
placate the Union element among Kentucky
voters. On the other hand there has been
resurrected lurid letter writer by Brown
in 1861, in which he declared that mot one
man nor one dollar" should be given to the
Lincoln government, and that any man at
tempting to join the Union army should be
shot down before leaving the state. Itmight
be supposed that Mr.. j. Y. Brown would
have gone at once into the rebel army after
making such declaration. In fact he went
to remote county of Kentucky and abode
In peace till the fighting was over a queer
specimen is this Democratic candidate for
the governorship Ut Kentucky.
Some testimony as to the effect of band
H.