Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1892-09-24
A BRIGHT. OUTLOOK
FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Victory is Assured if the Voters
Turn Out-The Tariff the
Prevailing Issue.

| A Washington special to tht
Helena Journal gives the following
news of the national campaign:
If we can get the vote out we
will beat the record Of 1885," This
is the expression of republicans ar
irving in Washington every day
from all sections of the country
IF we can only get out our voters, ,
is the one and solitary amplifica.
ton Of the positive statement upon
every hand that there is to be a
sweeping republican victory this
year. 1t thus, according to honest
reports, rests upon the leaders
themselves to determine whether
the victory shall be an ordinary
one or overwhelming, or a victory
which will in ultimate effect be a
defeat.
From nine -tenths of the states
comes the report that the tariff is
the prevailing issue, and that while
the deseltions from the republican
ranks Oh account Of the protective
principles Of the republicans are
exceedingly few and almost without
the knowledge Of any one in many
communities, those who are flock
ing from the democratic column to
resist the free trade platform adopt
ed at Chicago are numerous. The
reports from Nebraska, South Da-
kota, Kansas and one or two other
northWester states which promise
fusion on the part of the democrats
and independents and destruction
to the republican cause, are for the
most part encouraging. In most
instances fusion has failed. In four
cases out of five the result has been
the nomination of separate and dis
tinct tickets. The republicans
have been wonderfully successful
ia showing the farmers that fusion
was only intended by the demo
Gratis to use their co-operators to
pull the chestnuts out of the fire;
that the farmers were to vote offices
for democrats, and that really none
Of the agricultural principles were
to lie elevated.
The natural gas towns and cities
OF Ohio and Indiana have sent to
the friends of the administration
here the most encouraging reports
Of the effects of the new tariff law.
The population Of those places has
from democratic states
and democratic strongholds Of re-
publican states, and the men who
have come in to work have been
readily converted to the principles
Of protection. They have had their
wages raised by the operation Of
the new tariff law, are prosperous
and will support the party and
princi Piles which give them thrift
and happiness. Your correspond
ent within the past month visited
a number Of factories at Muncie
and other great natural gas manu-
featuring centers and talked to un-
skilled laborers who have for
months been regularly receiving
from 81 to $40 day net for the
simple labor Of their hands, while
skilled laborers - iron puddlers,
glass blowers, etc.-said they made
from $14 to $18 a day.
Many Of them were met and talked
with who regularly get over $500
semi-monthly for their labor. From
this they pay helpers salaries rang
ing from $75 to 5000, leaving the
head workmen from $500 to 1925
each for two weeks net. These
men were not rare, but frequent
The laboring men were never SO
A leading banker at
Anderson said that he had not
loaned dollar to farmer for six
months, while half Of his banks
which now exceeded those
Of any time in the past by large
amount, were from farmers.
New Railroad.
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