The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-10
oslE DOLLAR PER YEAR.

ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. :
In the next Democratic Nation
al Convention there will be 900
Delegates, Of which the Eastern
and Middle States, including Ohio
will have 266, the Southern States
3R, the Westeri. States 200 and
the Territories II. OF this num-
her 600 (tvo-thirds) will be nee
essary to make a nomination.
The South and w est are in favor
Of restoring silver to the place
itformerly occupied in our mone-
atary system as well as SO regulating
our tariff system, as to raise suf-
ficiency Of revenue from imports
to meet the necessities of the gov
eminent, giving adequate protec-
ton to industries which are not
as yet able to compete with for
ejgn industries o, like kind aad
character. and making free ofsdu-
ty such articles az come in COM
petition with those upon which
trusts and combinations have
been formed. While the East is
opposed to the West and South
on the question Of silver.it is in
a hE.ited sense in accord with
them on the question OF tariff ;
we say in limited sense because
we are aware of the fact that they
are equally as anxious to build
up the importers of Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, with
whom they are directly interest
ed, as they are 10 do justice to the
Americana consumer, and it is
from this fact that the masses of
, the West aid South are not at all
times ready to doff their hats to
an Eastern tariff resormer, For
twenty-four years the East has
been accorded the first place on
the ticket, with the South coming
solldly to its support yet making
no gains in the West, even losing
Democratic Indiana in the last
campaign, and only carrying New
Jersey and Connecticut in the
Eastern and Middle States and
the latter by less than 400 plural
ity out of total vote of I53.97S.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald says that in the National
Convention Hill will have .2S5
votes, Cleveland 265, and West
ern man $50 votes, giving to Hill
Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Mary
land, Mississippi, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina and Texas, and one-half
of Alabama, Oregon and Louisi-
ana; and Cleveland: California,
Connecticut, Delaware, Maine,
Massachusetts, Minnesota, New
Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island.
South Dakota, Vermont, Virgin
ia, Washington, West Virginia,
Wisconsin and one-half of Ala
bama, Oregon and Louisiana.
While either Cleveland or Hill
would if nominated receive every
electoral vote of the South, as we
are more deeply interested in see
ing the States freed from Federal
usurpation than We are in
questions Of tariff and finance, yet
we are not prepared to believe
that either of them, or in fact any
man from New York or the East,
will receive their support in the
convention. The South has nat
ural candidate in the person of
Arthur p. German, of Maryland,
whose matchless fight against the
odlous force bill has made him
the idol of every Southern home
and against whom no citizen of
the East or West, who cherishes
the right of casting his ballot free
from the dictation of Federal hay
onets can say anything. No NOM
ination can be made without the
help of the South, and no Demo
crat can be elected without South
ern votes, and it is time for her
to assert herself, and she should
do so byAcasting her 312 votes for
German, and if possible to nom
mate him or else 60 with the West
! and select Democrat in full ac-
cord with her views upon tariff
and finance. German, Boies,
Gray, or a dozen others who may
be named in the South or West
would carry Connecticut, New
Jersey or New York as easily, and
probably more easily than either
Hill or Cleveland, while the gem