River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-11-03

COMMENT AND OPINION.

eE Cleveland SAYS he has not changed
the opinions that he entertained in
1855. Hence there is no reason why
the people should reverse the verdict
which they have rendered in his case
st. Louis Globe-Demoerat.
"a Hon. Wayne MaeYeagh, who has
been playing around the democrat.
ic back door in the shade for some
years, has now attracted little atten.
tion by going around to the front and
taking scat on the porch.
phia Press.
Is The appeal for funds by the demo
cratic national committee has not beer
wholly in vain. Mr., Cleveland has sent
in his check for ten thousand dollars.
1t win be remembered that he con
tributed similar amount toward his
defeat in 1858. Troy Times.
T~The democratic inillionaires are
begging five-cent contributions from
democratic voters instead of putting
their hands into their own pockets foi
funds Cleveland might contribute
that one hundred thousand dollars Inc
made out of his red top real estate
speculation at Washington City.-To'c.
do Blade.
There is said to be lack o;
money in the democratic committee al
New York A democratic campaign %
education without the efficient service
OF e barrel is novelty and will no
win over many converts. The dollar i:
the only effective argument the demo
Gratis have left.-Omaha Bee.
sS@Thc supreme court has declared
the Mckinley law constitutional. The
decision OF the h CHEST court in the
land. however, is of no more lmpor
tancc TO the free traders than the pro
tcctionist views of Thomas jefferson
James Madison, Andrew jackson anc
the other fathers of democracy. Al
bany Journal.
q Republican platforms Protection
to American industries. Democratic
platforms Tariff for revenue only.
The FIRST means goods used in Amer.
lea are To be made III America, and the
second means they are to be made il
Europe Goods made here means
wages earned here. Goods imported
means wages earned in Europe.-To
ledo Blade.
The democrats are in error who
suppose the hostility of the ex-soldier:
TO Cleveland is due to the fact that lgs
stayed at home during the war They
hate him because he accompanied hi.
vctoes of pensions by messages which
not only insulted the applicant but in
suited every other old soldier Hence
the soldiers are against him, and vii
work and vote to defeat him. st Louis
Globe Democrat.
ET5 The democratic party processes
TO be the enemy of all trusts, vet Mr.
Whitney, the representative of the
Standard oil monopoly, the greatest
trust in the country, sends ten thou
sand dollars to the democratic national
committee. Mr.. Whitney as gooc
democrat doubtless understands the fnl
measure of the democracy's real hos
tility to such ordinations. He knows
that it is hypocrItical in this rs in most
other things.-Troy Times.
eg~ Wayne MacVeagh has been s,ul
tifying mugwumP for at least eight
years. but the democratic bosses are
now trying to revive the dropping
spirits of their deluded and detected
followers by shouting that Wayne
MacVeagh is going to vote for Cleye
land" He voted for Cleveland in 1855
and in 1854 lie left the republican
party two years before Blunder Boles
did, and yet he is now claimed as a.
new convert to democracy, Why rot
warm mp Gov. Boies again, as a new
CONVEX t?-Iowa State Register.
Blatherskite democratic politi.
clans say that the Mckinley bill works
oppressively and makes the lot OF the
man who tolls harder. Edward AtlSin.
son. a free trader WHO is not running
for office and who does not think it the
square thing to tell lies even to back
mp a frec-trade argument. says: 1.-The
share of the annual product which Is
now falling to workmen, in the strict
est sense. Is bigger share of bigger
product than worlSmen have ever at
tanned before in this or any other coun-
try. San Francisco Chronicle.
ESThe democrats have taken to dis
cussing the tariff question in tie south.
ern states; but tins appears to be
"a wholly unnecessary proceeding. The
southern whites are mostly free traders
already, while the negroes well. il |
does not matter what they think on the |
subiees. since their vote does not count
ANYHOW. unless it is on the democratic
side. There can be no reason for this |
vast, of breath and time except it be |
done for effect-that IS 10 create an i'm
press ion that the democratic ma jority, |
which has been determined on before
hand, is the result of the conviction OF
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