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politician He can come as near snatching
victory from defeat as any man living, and
it will DE strange il he does not come out
of his present embarrassing predicament
with a still stronger hold on the working
forces of his party and improved prospects
for the presidential nomination.
Senator German has none of the ele-
ments OF a statesman, but he is a remark
ably shrewd politician of the self-seeking
school. Tattooed all over with political
corruption and jobbery, and a conspicuous
embodiment OF all the qualities which the
American people do not want in a Presi-
efficacy of pipe laying and the suscepti-
bility of his party to machine influences
"a believe that he can be nominated for
President. He believes that the new tariff
bill will prove to be popular and that his
connection with it will inure to his political
advantage, and it is limited that he is pre-
pairing to execute a flank movement on the
silver question which will make him the
leader of the silver wing of his party. No
man has less faith in the honesty of the
people or a firmer conviction of their guilt
bility and a clearer conception Of the
adaptability of the Democratic party to
the purposes Of deceit than Senator Cor
man. and he is a past master in the art
of manipulating conventions. When the
time comes for a show of strength it will
probably be found that the willy and am
bilious corruptionist from Maryland is fully
abreast with either of the New York as
pirants. Regarded from the standpoint of
honest politics or good government this is
not an inspiring list from which to choose.
but the nance are that one of these three
will be the next Democratic candidate for
President.
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THE LYING OF DESPERATION.

The Sentiners SANDER designed to dis
credit Mr.. Henry with wage-earners is de-
fective. 1t is bungling in structure. prema-
ture in birth, and finally utterly baseless.
None but a barn-joiner at lying would be
so stupid and inapt as to put an oath into
the mouth of a man who is known to thou
sands of people as a man who never
"swears." 1t is premature in birth because,
to have had any effect whatever, 1t should
have been reserved for two or three days
before the election, when it's refutation
could not have been general. But the main
defect is that the SANDER, like the Senti-
is baseless and irresponsible. Indeed it has
come to such a pass with the Sentinel that
its godfathership of a SANDER discredits it.
Mr.. Henry has been employing labor for
several years, and he has started enter
prises in Anderson which have given en-
ployment and the highest wages to more
and these factories would have been so doing
now if Representative Bynum and his
party in Congress had not frightened man.
ufacturers and dealers with a threat of a
revenue policy which would so cheaper
goods that no man would make them to fill
warehouses or purchase them to hold for
retailing. Now that they have passed such
a bill, in part, as will admit European COM
petitors to the American markets on much
more favorable conditions than ever before,
and must give up a part of these, manufac-
In spite of the dull times, Mr.. Henry is the
manage of a company which is opening an
addition to the city which has paid $50, 600
as wages. But for him that amount of
~pney would not have been expended. Mr..
n Ty is a public-spirited and energetic
,citz, n of Anderson-a resident of the dis
tri.. zach he will represent. While his OPP
ponept has never contributed SO much as
his il iluence to enterprises which build up
towns. Mr.. Henry has been a leader and
also a loser when the Bynum policy closed
ldctOricS. MT. henry was prominent among
those who took steps to relieve the needs
of labor in his locality. Did any one hear
of Mr.. Bynum doing anything of the kind?
Mr.. Bynum has been in Anderson and
seen the averted faces of the workingmen
whose protest against the repeal of the
Mckinley law called forth his insolent re-
tort last December. The wages of all of
those workingmen hav been reduced and
foreign wages raised, that they may be the
same in both countries, and knowing this,
these people nave shown the nonresident
representative that they have had enough
of him. Finally, realizing this, in the des-
peration which is born of forlorn hope,
Bynum and his postoffice gang have had
this SANDER concocted and served up in the
cauldron of Islander, the Sentinel.
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The three most prominent men in the
Democratic party at present and all as
pirants for the presidential nomination in
1896 are Cleveland. Hill and German. Sem
ator VOORHEES, has been in public life longer
than either of these. but for other obvious
reasons besides his failing health he is
not a presidential possibility. Ex-Governor
Gray probably imagines himself in the
presidential class. but it is all in his mind.
Governor Matthews is a promising young
ster. but he has his record yet to make
in the national arena. Secretary Carlisle
is. in some respects. an ADLER man than
any Of those named, but he is handicapped
by his variegated financial views and his
vacillating administration of the Treasury
Department. There are some fairly able
Democrats further South, but their local
ity is against them. The party would be
glad to see an ex-confederate in the White
House, but hardly dares to try the expert
ment of putting one there. 1t prefers to
let them be the power behind the throne.
Secretary Gresham has his lightning rod
up. but the old time party leaders will see
that it is not in working order.
Of the three leaders in the race Mr..
Cleveland has some obvious advantages.
The prestige of success is his in no small
degree. and. Notwithstanding all that may
be said to the contrary. the power of pat
aora ;c not 20 ha ,,pIarrafa1 Tho oct
that he was beaten in his fight with Con-
gress and that his popularity with his party
has greatly waned will make him the more
anxious to regain his prestige and reassert
his leadership. 1t can be accepted as a GER
tainty that ne will not be content to end
his public career by retiring under the
shadow Of defeat at the end Of a presi-
Dental term which he began on a tidal
wave of political popularity. He will not
be satisfied with a second term and will
prove a formidable competitor in 1896.
Senator Hill is at present the most inter-
esting figure in American politics on the
Democratic side. There is scarcely a
parallel in our political history to his
rapid progress in the Senate from a posi-
ton OF universal distrust to one Of recog-
nized leadership. and his recent nomina-
ton for Governor shows that he is more
than ever the idol of the machine wing
of his party in New York. That he desires
to be President there can be 10 doubt,
though 1t is very doubtful If he desired a
third gubernatorial nomination in New
York as a stepping stone thereto. He has
used that stone twice already and has ex-
hansted whatever it had for him in the
way of political advancement. No presi-
Dental aspirant was ever placed in a more
embarrassing position than that which Sem
ator Hill occupies to-day. If he declines
the honor which has been thrust upon him
by his party he puts himself in the posi-
ton OF refusing to obey a call to duty
and OF virtually declaring that the Demo-
Gratis cannot carry New York. If he ac-
cepts and should be elected he will be no
nearer the presidency than he has been
before. and IL he should be defeated II
would probably be fatal to his presidential
| asnirations. Senator Hill Is a very shrewd
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WILSON'S BAD TASTE

Washington Post.

washington Post.
We really think that Mr.. Wilson might
have refrained from abusing the institu-
tons of his own country for the delectatlon
of foreigners. He might have stuffed him.
self witt beef and turtle and tnankea ms
for a British audience the cheap fustian
with which he is accustomed TO whoop up
the credulous rustics of his district in West
Virginia 1t does no great harm, here at
home, to tell a crowd that monopoly has
its grip upon the peoples threats, that
bauched and that even the ermine is
dragged i'm the mire Of corruption. The
crowd understands that kind of h~og-wash,
knows ii for mere campaign buncombe and
is no more disturbed by il than by any
other unmeaning and unregarded noise. But
to say such things to an 4 assem6iage OF
class who believe in Ida Wells. who think
that wild Indians Turk in the outskirts
of New York and who are firmly convinced
that the American Union is an ignorant.
vicious and rotten blunder-this, it occurs
to us, is hardly the kind of thing for a
representative citizen OF the United states
to do. Nonsense of that kind is harmless and
innocent enough at home, especially from
gentlemen like Mr.. Wilson. who. only a few
higher protection on their local Industries
than the Senate amendments of last winter
ventured to suggest But when II comes TO
in the hearing Of strangers who have no
means of gauging its stupidity. and who
we think there can be but one opinion as
to Mr.. Wilson's taste and proper feeling.
Straus, of course, doesn't count in this.
He has gone abroad for the purpose or
carrying Mr.. Wilson'S bag, and looking
down his throat when he eats. and sttenS-
ing to the warming pans. ETC., and ,nci-
dentally reveling in the social crusts and
bones that Mr.. Wilson throws his way.
But Mr.. Wilson himself is a person TO be
taken seriously. He is a man OF weight and
cosequence. And we think we speak for
thoughtful people in general when we say
that he might have been in much more
useful and creditable business than that OF
accusing mis- fellow-citizens, aspersing the
integrity of his country's institutions and
inviting foreigners to regard us as a nation
of corrupt, degraded and degenerate slaves.
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1t is in the nature Of things that Senator
Stewart, of Nevada, should come here or go
anywhere to advocate the free coinage of
silver in the ratio of 16 to l.. Silver is the
chief product of the Senator's State, and il
ket price of that article by a coinage law
which would make 60 cents worth of silver
bullion a legal-tender dollar. but why should
mines, who works for wages or a salary
and is paid in money which has full pur-
chase power the world over. desire to
would have less purchasing power than a
money based upon gold?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

The constitutional convention of New
York has finished it's work and submitted
it to the judgment of the people. Out Of
more than four hundred amendments pro-
posed and considered. thirty-one were
adopted. Some of these were of local APP
plication and others of general interest,
among the latter being amendments for
bidding the use or acceptance for himself
or another. by any public official. of a rail-
road pass or telegraph frank: prohibiting
pools. lotteries, bookmaking and every form
of gambling; establishing the principle of
civil-service reform and competitive exam
nations for appointment and promotion in
all subordinate positions in the State gov
eminent; the separation in the larger cities
of municipal from State and national cleo
tons, and surrounding all elections with
new safeguards. All these amendments are
in the line of the best thought of the day
and could be adopted advantageously by
other States.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

The testimony of Southern papers and
ship owners as to the immense saving of
property caused by the Weather Bureaus
advance notice of the recent hurricane is
only one of many evidences of the practical
value of that branch of the public service.
1t is worthy Of remark, by the way. that
the Weather Bureau. like the railway mail
service. the life saving service and other
valuable features of administrative de-
%velopment. belongs to the period of Re-
publican rule from 1861 to 1854, during which
the country and the government made such
marvellous progress. 1t would be difficult
to name any feature of the public service
which now marks the superiority of the
United States 10 other countries that does
not owe its origin and development to the
Republican party.
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Ex-senator Edmunds stated a good point
tersely when he said 1.-The reciprocity por-
ton of the Mckinley tariff was a reci-
procity of exchanges and not of COMPETE
ton" 1t is one thing TO secure the free
admission Of American products into
foreign countries by the partial opening Of
our doors to foreign products. and quite
another TO throw our doors wide open to
foreign competition without securing any
advantage or equivalent in return. The
reciprocity treaties negotiated under the
Mckinley law opened foreign markets to
American producers. while the new tariff
law. coupled with the repeal of the, reci-
procity treaties. %surrenders that advantage
and opens American markets to foreign
producers.
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The Hon. Simon Wolf, a w~ell-known

The Hon. Simon Wolf, a ~well-known
Hebrew, of Washington, d. c., repudiates
the charge of a Chicago insurance agent
rejecting upon the character and in
tegrity of Jews as insurers. Mr.. WOLF says:
The writer has been engaged, as part of
his general practice, in fire insurance for
the last sixteen years and more; he has
had as much experience in dealing with the
insured as any man in the country and
ne can. unhesitatingly state, and it can be
proven from the records, that there is abso-
lutely no truth in the statement made by
Mr.. Hines.
Sensible people know that wholesale and
indiscriminate charges of the hXpd referred
to are apt to be most unjust. There are
honest men and rascals in all nationalities
and, in a general sense, in all religions,
and 1t is illogical, as we'll as unjust, to
confound the innocent with the guilty.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

A statement of the statistics of farm
mortgages in Michigan. just issued by the
Census Bureau, furnishes cumulative evil
dence as to the wholesale lying that has
been one on this subject during the last
few years. The statement shows that II
per cent. of the farmers in Michigan hire,
by them OF the latter more than half W
their farms entirely free from incumbrance
and the aggregate amount of incumbrances
on all the rest is 30 per cent. of their value.
Each owned and incumbered farm, on the
average. is worth s2.74S. and is subject to
a debt of Ssse. The figures show that farm
ing in Michigan is very far from being
played out.
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1t is believed the figures will be reversed;
that the Republicans will elect eleven OF
the thirteen Representatives. There Is
cause for this great revolution in political
sentiment. Indiana. by reason OF its coal
deposits and its developments Of natural
no mean rank. Its farmers have felt the
beneficial influence OF the markets thus
established at their doors. but the threat
OF free trade shut the manufactures after
the election OF 1892. and the closing OF the
manufactures ruined the markets for the
products of the farms and gardens. OBJ
9ect lessons like these cannot be neutral
Izeu Dy Democratic speeches. Democratic
newspapers. or any other nstrumentality
devised by the ingenuity of campaign COM
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banquet the ninetieth birthday of ex-Gov-
ernor Fetch, of that State. The venerable
gentleman belongs TO a school of states
men who served the country honorably so
long ago that even their names have passed
from the public mind. Governor Fetch
came from Maine. his native State, TO
Michigan in 1888. and was elected a member
OF the first State Legislature in 1885. After
hlling other public offices he was eleN ted
Governor in 1916 and United States Senator
in 1A1. After this he held a long line of
public trusts. all with distinction and with
out STAIN Among the letters read at the
banquet given in his honor was one from
his college classmate and colleague in the
United States Senate. ex-SenatF Brad
bury, of Maine, who is three years his
senior, being ~ninety-three years old. The
two are sole survivors of the Senators of
1871, although the Hon. r. w. Thompson,
of this State. considerably younger than
either of them. served in the House five
years earlier.
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when it was refining upon the basis of a
year ago. This is because the prudent peo-
pie who passed through the experiences Of
the past season have not so much money
with which to purchase sugar and like ar
ticles and have done less preserving. If
country was 17.76 per cent. less IN 1893 than
1t was in 1892. there may be expected to be
a falling off in the consumption of sugar.
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Pittsburg acknowledgement.

PittSburg
Undoubtedly ex-President Harrison will
reconsider his determination not TO make
any speeches in this campaign outside of
his own State and Ohio. He should re-
spond to the demand made for him to help
the election of his friend Morton. General
Harrison is so engaging a speaker, he pre-
sents the issues so dispassionately and
fairly, he is so far above the ordinary run
of stump speakers that his appearance in
the field would be very effective. The out
look i'm New York is promising, but not
SO as to warrant neglect of any agency
that can advance the cause. Hill is a
fighter, and his opponent does not claim
special qualification in this regard, except
the possession of a fair amount of prudence
and far-reacbing political sagacity.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

Remember Maynard,' Is a good watch
word in New York State this fall. May
nard was Hills creature, and Hill himself
planned and ordered the theft OF the Dutch
ess county returns which gave the Senate
TO the Democrats. IL there is such a thing
as a conscience among the Democratic
voters of New York, they will now take
their vengeance on the master as they
served their rebuke upon the man last
wear
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

Inquiry of several of the leading retail
grocers In this city has ELECTED the fact
that considerably less sugar has been sold
by them du ing August and September
than was sold during the corresponding
months OF 1898. What is true of Indian
apolis is true beyond DOUBT OF the rest OF
she country. and to the tact of a falling
on in can te attributed the
fact that The Sugar Trs st found stocks
seeanulatins On IT. hands two weeks aso
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

The Democratic organ is quick to quote
Boss Havemyer, Of the Sugar Trust, to the
effect that the Mckinley law was better
none of them can remember that ne said
that the Senate law putting 40 per cent.
ad valorem duty on raw sugar would make
per cent. higher.
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They Must Have Grinned.

PlttSDurg
Prof. Wilson'S illusion that we could
'compete for the markets of the world"
in any other way than that so success
fully invented and followed by the English,
must have raised a smile with the dis
tinguished company and this must have
turned into a strong grin when the unfortu-
nate professor foundered into the astound-
ing admission that I'VE are being sobered.
though unappalled. by the truth forced upon
us. that Of all human governments a free
government is the most complex and diff
cult. and, judging from the worlds exper-
fence the most uncertain and short-lived."
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Tae Flood-Tide I'm Indiana.

SYRACUSE en- VI Post.
The revolt against the Democracy in In
diana is developing such proportions that
careful men now predict pretty nearly a
clean sweep of the State by the Republic
ans at the next election. In 1892, when the
tidal wave went over the country. Cleve-
lands majority in Indiana for President was
only a little over 1000. 1t Is true that In
that year the Democrats elected eleven OF
the thirteen Representatives in Congress-.
but by naajoritics so small that this year
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UDset Mt Inst.

He set up states at the primaries.
And winning, set up a cneer;
He set up his sons in business,
And sometimes set up the beer;
But he weakened and he sneakened,
And far from home did rove,
When the wife of his bosom asked him
To set up the parlor stove.
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Our Daniels Gyrations.

Scranton PaD Tribune
One year ago Senator Voorhees,. as chair
man of the finance committee, was making
the welkin ring with his denunciations OF
the free silver pirates of the West. Now,
out on the Hoosier hastings. he is unleash
ing the scorpions of his wrath against
the avaricious gold-bugs and hearttess Shy
locks Of the East. Senator Voorhees, never
tethers himself permanently 10 one side OF
a debatable issue. All flesh is grass and
all creation is his pasturage.
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A manufacturing concern whose rating
by Bradstreet's is, capital paid in over
100000 and surplus over 100000" writes
TO an advertising agency in response to a
request for continued favors: The present
tariff law is such - seriously to jeopardize
the future is to bring forth we are not
contemplating doing any advertising what
ever A law which hurts the manufacture
ing business. the advertising business and
the newspaper pushes all at once may be
said to kill three birds with one stone.
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Not So MUCH. After All,

1.-THE living skeleton tells me that he beat
the lottery" said the india rubber man.
1902" said the fat lady.
eyes. He was showing a roll Of bills as
big as his arm"
"Oh, was that all%" And the fat lady
looked coyly down over her shoulder.
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Hearts Desire.

Weary Watkins-How would you like to
be disposed of when you are dead?
Hungry Enthusiastically, 1 would pre-
fer bein' picked in alcohol, but 1 am so
hungry to-day that I would jest as soon be
efuffad
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-01

The wage of the glass-workers in En-
221z per cent. to meet the 2215 per &c,
cut in this country. which shows that the
Bynum theory does not work both ways.
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statesman who is in the business for rev.
enue only. while Charles L. Henry has ia
ken a leading part in promoting industries
and enterprises which have given employ
ment to more than a thousand voters.
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For the organ of a man who has not
given a worker in the Seventh district a
days employment in a year to assail Mr..
Henry, who has paid 5000 as wages since
June. as not being a friend of labor, is
enough to make the cats laugh.
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Senator Voorhees, says the hard times are
caused by 1.-The scarcity OF money In the
hands of the people," Even he knows there
wants it ''in the hands Of the people," with
out any legitimate means of getting it
there.