Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-09-07

ment of honest majorities is to be reversed |
by ballot-box frauds and tally-sheets manip- |
ulation in the interest of the party or party |
faction in power.
states and the recent decisions of some OF
the state courts against unfair apportion-
ment laws, encouraging the hope that the
and partisan election laws and
practices which have prevailed may be
by tine states, the law made equal
and non partisan, and the elections free
and honest. The Republican party would
rejoice at such solution as a healthy and
patriotic local sentiment is the best assur.
ance of free and honest elections shall
again urge upon congress that provision
be made for the appointment OF non
partisan commission to consider the sub
lect Of appointments and elections IN
their relation to the choice OF fedora
officers
The Civil Service System
has been extended and the law enforced
with vigor and impartiality. There has
been no partisan Juggling with the law IN
any of the departments or bureaus, as had
before happened, but appointments 70 the
classified service have been made impair
TALLY from the eligible lists. The system
now in force in all the departments has,
for. the first time, placed promotions
strictly upon the basis of merit, as ascer-
tanned by daily record and the efficiency
OF the force thereby greatly increased.
schools.
The approval so heartily given by the
convention to all those agencies which con-
tribute to the education of the children OF
the land was worthily bestowed and meets
my approval, as does also the declaration
as to liberty of thought and conscience,
The safety OF the republic is an intelligent
citizenship, and the increased interest
manifested in the states in education, the
cheerfulness with which the necessary
taxes are paid by all classes, and the re
newed interest manifested by the children
ia the national flag are hopeful indications
that the coming generation will direct pub
lie affairs with increased prudence and pa
triotism. Our interest in free .puDllc
schools open TO all children of suitable age
is supreme, and our care for them Will be
jealous and constant.
The considerate attention of the farmers
of the whole country is invited to the work
done through the state Of agricultural de-
partments in the interest OF agriculture,
not only excluded by the great continental
nations of Europe, but their value dis
credited by the reasons" given for this ex-
clusion. All previous efforts to secure the
removal of these restrictions had failed,
but the wise legislation of the f1fty-hrst
congress, providing for the inspection and
official certification of our meats, and
giving to the president power to forbid the
Introduction into this country of selected
products of such countries as should con-
tinue to refuse our inspected meats, en-
abled us to open all the markets OF Europe
to our products.
The result has been not only to sustain
prices, by providing new markets. for our
surplus, but to add fifty cents per hundred
,1uf 70 ha rnf
ed meats. Under the reciprocity agreements
special favors have been secured for agri-
cultural products, and our exports OF such
products have been greatly increased, with
q sure prospect of further and rapid in
crease The agricultural department has
| obtained an agent in Europe, whose special
! duty it is to introduce there the various
preparations of corn as articles of food
and his work has been very successful:
The department has also sent skilled
veterinarians to Liverpool to examine, IN
| connection with the Britt b veterinarians
| the live cattle from the United States
] landed at that port, and the result In con
nection with the sanitary methods adopteo
1 at home, has been that we hear no mor'
| about the cattle being infected with pleuro
pneumonia. The judicious system O
Quarantine lines has prevented the lnfec
| tion of northern cattle with the Texa,
fever. The terff bill of 1890 gives better \
Protection to Farm Products
subject to foreign competition than they has
ever before, and the home markets for such
products have been enlarged by the estab
fishment of new industries and the devel
opment OF 9th rs.
we may confidently submit to theintelll
gent and candid judgment of the Ameri
can farmer whether in any corresponding
period so much has been done TO promote
his interests, and whether iii continuing
and extension of these methods there
not better prospect OF food to him thai
in the invitation Of the Democratic part.
to give our home market to foreign manu-
tacturers and abandon the reciprocity pol
lev; and better, also, than the radical an
untried methods Of relief proposed o
other parties which are soliciting LIS SUI
port. A..
value of the Nicaragua ship canal to on
commerce and to our navy. The prolect
not one of convenience, but of necessity:
! is quite possible, | believe, IL the Unite
States will support the enterprise, to 81
cure the speedy completion OF the Cant
without taxing the treasury for any dlret
contribution, and at the same Time 10 =
cure to the United States that lnfi uence !
its management which is Imperative.
1t has been the
Aim of the Administration
to make it's foreign policy not matter
partisan politics, but of patriotism and ~
tional honor; and have very great gratll
cation in being able to state that the Den
: ocratic members of the committees OF 10
eign affairs responded in true America
l spirit. | have not hesitated to consul
2 freely with them about the most confidel
7 tial and delicate affairs, and frankly CO.
fess my obligations for needed cooper
ton.
=, They did not regard a patient but tir
! insistence upon American rights ana upt
= immunity from insult and INJURY Tor OF
= citizens and sailors in foreign ports as
Z policy of Irritation and buster" IN
. do not believe, as some others seem TO 7
: lieve. that to be a Democrat one must tai
!, the foreign side of every Information
II question, if Republican administrative
l. is conducting the American side. DO n
L believe that d tame submission 10 insu
!, and outrage by any nation at the hands
% another can ever form the basis oil a la
ing friendship-the necessary element
mutual respect will be wanting.
a The Gillian Incident,
n now so happily and honorably adjuste
will, do not doubt, place our relatlo
r. with that brave people upon a. mo
'e friendly basis than ever before. This
d ready appears in the agreement since neg
\. tiated by Mr.. Egan for the settlement py
d commission of the long unsettled claif
10 between the two governments. The wo
TO of Mr. Hkan has been highly advantaageo
y to the United States. The conilden
y which | refused to withdraw from him
Oh been abundantly justified
to In our relations with the great Europe
rs powers, the rights of the United states a.
I'd Of our citizens have been insisted upon wi
be firmness. The strength of our cause, a
st not the strength of our adversary, .
or given tone to our correspondence. 4
Samoan question and the Behring seaqu
III ton, which came over from the pfeceui
d. administration, have been, the one settl
lv - 49, o.hn. 81, hraitIad Ia arhitratl