The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-30
WASHINGTON WAITS.
A GR1sT OF NEWS FROM THE POLITI-
CAL CENTER OF THE COUNTRY.
The Fight In Ohio Will Be On the Tariff
Issue-Free Silver Will Be Sidetracked
Iowa Will Go Democratic-Pro-
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the free silver platform, and to make
the campaign on the paramount issue
of tariff reform. The Mckinley tariff
has been made the issue by political
forces and conditions that are more
potent than the work Of the most cum
ming joiners of platforms.
In Ohio the real issue of the contest
tariff reform-has been ably pre-
scented in the speech of Governor
Campbell accepting his nomination:
and upon this question the contest
will be made. AS for free silver coin
age, it's chief danger comes from the
Republican representatives of the
Rocky mountain mining camps in the
United States senate. But for the
pressure upon the Republican party
of a political force holding not less
than eighteen Republican seats in the
senate this question would cause no
serious concern. In Ohio free silver
coinage is mere side issue which the
Democrats are rapidly repudiating,
and before the November election it
will become completely overshadowed
by the one imperious issue of tariff re-
form.
Acting Secretary Grant has APP
proved a change made by the Missis-
sippi river commission in the allot-
ments for river improvements. The
most important Of these changes is
the deduction of $4,000 in one sum
and $50, 1000 in another from the Or
iginal allotment tor Lake Providence
Reach and the application of these
amounts to general levee construction
and to the improvement Of Plum
Point Reach.
Reports from Mississippi show that
the negroes in the state have appar-
emily lost all their interest in their
right of suffrage. Only about one
fourth Of them have complied with
the new constitution, which requires
voters to register four months in adj
vance of the election. There is lit
tie hope that the Republicans will
ever be able to carry Mississippi, if
the strength, beauty and flavor" of
the party take so little interest in its
success as to fail to register.
The bureau of American Republics
is informed that a new cable to the
West Indies is among the probabili-
ties of the near future. Mr. f. n. CHS.
borne, the electrician of the govern
ment of Canada, recommended the
construction of a new line after visit
ing all the West Indies, and Lon
don syndicate is now interested in the
project. The line recommended will
be an extension of the cable between
Halifax and Bermuda, and will
terminate at Demarara, touch
ing on it's route Fortune
Island and the Island of Jamaica, and
passing through the Caicos passage.
Another breach has been made in
the disordered ranks of the Republic
can party of Iowa by the prohibition
question The Republican candidate
for governor has been nominated
again on q prohibition platform, and
one of the most influential Republic
cans of the state, II. w. Faulkes, of
Cedar Rapids, in communication to
the Chicago Inter-Ocean, predicts his
inevitable defeat. Mr.. Faulkes,
through the same source, gave warm
ing of the danger of prohibition be-
fore the Republican convention met,
but his earnest cry was unheeded.
He now declares that prohibition is
ruiniOus to the future of the Republic
can party in Iowa, as well as to the
progress of the state, and that in the
next election it will cost the votes of
thousands who adhered to the party
until the failure of it's prohibition
policy had become apparent.
IN Low Ne OF f1,'n Il OF
discomfort in Iowa eX-Congressman
Gear and other politicians who have
been hostile to prohibition have
been sent through the state to bring
back the Republican voters to their
party allegiance. A curious phase Of
the situation is the attitude of the
colored voters. who are determined in
their hostility to prohibition, and
who, it is feared, will vote as body
for Governor Boies, the Democratic
The colOred voters will
hold a convention at Cedar Rapids on
the 18th and 10Th of August, when
they will take definite action oh the
question. In the meantime the oppO-
sition of the farmers of Iowa to the
party of prohibition is growing in
force and volume.
The Illinois law intended to enforce
weekly payment of wages to employees
will be contested in the courts
by the corporations which it
affects. The grounds of objection
urged are that the law is unequal and
unfair in exempting farmers and
steam railroads from it's operations,
and that it subjects corporations to
expense, where large
numbers of men are employed, in
out weekly pay-rolls and
payments. There would
seem to be some force in the first OBJ
lection. Laws of this kind should be
general in their operation.
Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, thinks the
vice-presidency mot position that
any man would banker for" If there
really be one position in the entire
fabric of the Federal government that
doesn't enkindle hankering in the po-
litical breast, the extraordinary fact
well merits publicity in this season of
general news dizziness.