The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-09-29
VARIEGATED.
DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN NEWS FULL
OF DARK SPOTS.

Western Farmers Refuse to Aid Them
by Cooperation with the Third Party.
Losing Votes Right and Left in nIanufac-
turing States-Alarm About the South.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-The week has
not been a very satisfactory one to the
Democrats. 1t has been variegated, SO
to speak, with sundry spots which have
not been of a pleasing character to the
people managing the Democratic CAM
paign. They have had bad news from
the south, from the far west and from
manufacturing New York and New
England. True, they have had ''good
days." Occasionally breeze from the
states in which elections have already
been held has brought some cheering
sound of reduced Republican majorities,
but Immediately following those have
come large chunks of fact, showing nu-
merous OBJECTIONS from Democratic
ranks in manufacturing states, danger
to the Democratic party in the hitherto
solid south and an absolute failure OF
the attempt to scoop in the hitherto
Republican states Of the northwest by
way of the aid of the Peoples party, SO
called.
Western Farmers Refuse to Be Fooled.
Word comes from the northwest that
the hope which they had hitherto had
of fooling the Republicans by getting
them to vote with the Peoples party is
rapidly disappearing. The Republicans
there, it seems, are rapidly waking up
to the fact that they are being used to
produce Democratic success by the
attempt to get their votes for the third
party. People in the northwest have
painful recollection of Mr.. Cleveland's
administration, and when they recognize
that vote for the third party is in
directly a vote to put Mr.. Cleveland
again in the White House and his
methods in control of the land Office
they grow indignant over the attemp:
to use them for this purpose.
They Remember the Attack Upon Their
Homes.
The Cleveland administration, it will
be remembered, made a great deal of
trouble for the people of the northwest.
By an arbitrary and outrageous ruling
Commissioner Sparks, with the as
sent of President Cleveland, suspended
the issuance of titles to over 1000
homes in single day. These homes
were scattered through Minnesota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Nevada.
Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico,
Utah, the Dakotas, Idaho and Washing
ton. The titles of these homes were hung
upf for months and years upon the merest
technicarities, and the honest home
steader was branded as a dishonest
schemer. The northwestern people, it
seems, are remembering these things and
have suddenly awakened to the fact that
vote with the Peoples party would be
merely an indirect vote to put Cleve-
land in the White House again and
Cleveland methods in control of the
titles of their homes and the homes of
their neighbors.
No Wildcat Money for Farmers.
Another thing which they are begin
ming to understand is that vote for
the third party means vote for bad
money. Both the third party and the
Democracy are pledged to return to
the use of the miserable state bank cur
rency with which SO many farmers had
their fingers so badly burned many
years ago. They remember how they
and their fathers were swindled by
sharpers in the villages where they sold
their scanty farm produce by payment
in worthless or deprecated paper, and
they recognize the fact that vote for
the third party would be vote to help
re-establish this sort of currency, the
value of which no farmer could deter
mine from one day to another. Hence the
depressing reports which the Democrats
receive from the northwest. They see
that their scheme for capturing the
northwestern states or keeping the votes
of those states out of the Republican
column by way of the third party is a
dead failure.
The South No Longer Solid.
One feature of the news of the week
which causes the Democrats good deal
of anxiety is the report from the southern
states. The great activity which they
are displaying in the canvass in Vir-
ginia. West Virginia, North Carolina,
Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee shows
that they are alarmed about the condition
there. The third party is making such
inroads upon them that they are very
anxious as to the result. Congressman
Cummings, Democratic member of the
house from New York, who is just back
from stumping tour in Virginia, re-
ports great dissatisfaction in that Sec
ton over the record of the Democratic
party in the house over the silver ques-
ton. The third party is showing much
strength there on account of this.
Heavy Democratic Losses in New York.
The feature which distresses the Dem
ocrats most, however, is the New York
situation. There are steady and con-
slant losses of intelligent, influential
men, who absolutely decline to support
the free trade plank of the Democratic
platform. Not only are these men found
among the manufacturers, but they are
also coming to the surface among pro-
fessional men, lawyers and newspaper
men, and among the laboring people and
workmen in the great factories of this
and adjoining states. When such well
known lawyers as George Ticknor Cur
tbs, such editors as John Cockerill, such
manufacturers as Florien Grosjean, such
military men as General Beers, and the
thousands of voters of less prominence
who will follow their lead deliberately
and openly desert the Democratic party
on account of its tariff and financial
views as outlined in the platform, it is
not to be wondered that the leaders are
blue.
The free importations under the first
full year of the Mckinley bill were
$780,, 332y143 more than under the last
full year of the old law. The saving to
the masses in the duty on sugar alone
has been $75, 100000.
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