The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-07-29
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

THE Republican party is in bad shape at
the North, writes a Republican correspondent
of the New York Tribune. He might Just as
well have added East, West and South, for the
G. o. p. is in bad shape everywhere.
SENATOR HALE makes a very big mistake, if
he really thinks, as he recently said, that reci-
procity is to crowd out the tariff and silver as
issues in the Presidential campaign.
THE news from every section of Ohio is en-
couraging to Democratic success. Of course
there is objection; some don't enthuse over the
platform, and others wanted another candidate,
but now that both candidate and platform are
accomplished facts, there is decided and praise
worthy disposition to lay aside personal preju-
dice and work for the good of the party.
ONE by one, the big Republicans are declin-
ing to accept the nomination of their party for
Governor of New York. The meaning is plain.
These gentlemen are not ambitious of leading a
political forlorn hope. nor for opening their bar
rels for nothing. New York is naturally DEM
ocratic State. and this year the party is so thor
oughly united that victory is assured in advance.
THE hardest thing for Republican speakers
and editors in Ohio to explain, is why wool is
cheaper now than it was before the Mckinley
bill became a law, instead of higher, as Major
Mckinley haa assured his wool-raising constit-
uents that it would be.
WILL the next Republican National Conven-
ton dare TO put the one cent letter postage
plank, which was conspicuous in its last platform
and which has been utterly disregarded by the
present administration, into its platform?
1T will certainly be queer if woman suffrage
becomes one of the issues upon which the next
parliament of Great Britain is elected, and ye
recent remarks of Lord Salisbury in favor O
the issue, and of woman suffrage, make it ap
parent that such an issue is probable.
If the European grain crop turns out to be a:
much of failure as is now predicted, the rank:
of the American Nobility, now headed by the
Cattle, Iron and Coal Barons, will have an ad
dition in the persons of the Corn and Whea
Barons.
THE farmers of Ohio will have an excellen
opportunity this Fall TO express their opinion o
the high tariff legislation of the Republican par
ty, which taxes them for the benefit of few
protected manufacturers, and there is little
doubt that the opinion will be most emphatical
ly expressed at the ballot box.
THE New York Herald has been doing bi
of excellent service for the poor of this country
by showing up number of the corporation.
organized solely to catch the savings of the
honest and industrious working man and woman
by glittering promises of great profits to follow
small investments in their stock. Only pape
as wealthy and as widely circulated as the Her
aid could afford to expose these concerns, which
are often bolstered up by the names and inf1u
ence of men of prominence.
WHEN the amendment to the Mckinley tarif
bill, providing for the payment of bounty tt
the American sugar producer, was before Con
gress, it was estimated, and so stated in publi
by Republicans, that it would not cost NOR
than 5000, 900 year, and long-headed Dem
ocrat, who predicted that the payments unde
the amendment, if it became law, would NO
be less than SIC. 900 900 for the first year. anc
after that much larger, was hooted at by til
Republicans. Now let us see which statemen
was nearest the truth. The Internal Revenu
Bureau at Washington has made up from officia
data an estimate of the sugar product of tn
present fiscal year and its figures are 536,71o,o 90
pounds, on which the bounty will be S11, ,134, ,ooc
or nearly twice as much as the largest Republ
estimate.