The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-08-24
GROWERS DILEMM A.

| "Butler OF South Carolina. r
''pettigrew Of South Dakota. Il.
Harris Of Tennessee, ID.
Coke Of Texas, u.
| "Hunton of Virginia H.
..c,n,,,s, Vacancy IN VAS Washington.
Carey of Wyoming X.
Vacancy to he filed.
Here are fourteen Democrats and six
teen Republicans. with three vacancies in
states now partly represented by Repub-
leans. Rhode Island has already elected
i Republican successor to Mr.. Dixon and
Oregon has chosen a Legislature which
Will re-elect Mr.. Dolph. CHANGING over
| the list. not Il seat now held by Repub-
mean looks shaky. and on the contrary
/ there Is reason for believing that all the
vacancies will be filed by Republicans,
and that Protectionists. if not Repub-
| Leans. are likely to come from Alabama,
New Jersey and West Virginia. with the
possibility of one from Tennessee But
| IL any event the Senate will be close aud
the PopuliStS now there will continue TO
receive attention far beyond their merits,
unless they improve by experience.
Another Important lesson of the hour
is harmony. Men who are Republicans
III the main should be wholly so this
year. 1t was the irapartyism and side
issues which gave the country TO the
Democracy iii 1872 and what fearful
price the people have paid for it, Re
publicans will never join any other party
SO long as the country or the prosperity
OF the people are III danger Therefore,
the few who have undertaken to smash
the Republican party in order to absorb
it. should first smash the Democrats. the
Populists, the Anarchists. and every
other element which. through combna-
tion with the Others is Il national mem
baya hrnp
enough to danger this year SO that they
will have little patience with those who
make diversions when all good men
should stand in line. Let all the new
hopes go until we have made freedom.
peace and prosperity secure.
Black Week in the History of the
Democratic Party.
John Russell Young the distinguished
Washington correspondent. iii writing
from the capital to the Philadelphia Star.
says that the week in which the Presi-
The debate that followed in the Senate.
will be known IN American history rs the
"black week. His ten points against the
Democracy are as follows
Never. not even when President John
son fought Congress. have we had such
flow of scandal as this now oozing from
Washington Let us sum it IN:
Il The President writes to Mr.. Wilson
a letter. saying in plain words that tariff
reform. as he called the misera bic bust
ness. has been sacrificed by the .perfdv'
of Democratic senator's
II. lie appeals to Mr.. Wilson to save
his honor as 4 Democrat in this-that
having pledged the country in favor of
tariff reform, these pledges should be re-
deemed
Ill. The country is not considered in
these entreatles-simpiy the pledges of
Democratic leader to his partisans.
" senator German. speaking from
his own knowledge, and summoning other
senator's as willing witnesses. AYERS that
the tariH Dill denounced by Mr.. Cleveland
as 'perfidy' had been submitted to tha
President and approved
" While the President. in Difference
10 Z recently developed New York nnhlic
opinion deprecates' the income tax If ;s
shown that he had suggested such q fax
III public message
~. The Presidents demand for free
coal Is declared by his political friends to
be in the interest of a Nova Scotia coal
Syndicate owned by personal friends
The direct result of free coal will ha tha
destruction Of one of the most important
industries Of Pennsylvania, to enrich rho
syndicate. tue
wi. 1t appears that before Mr.
Cleveland was nominated he was st.a,i
up by two Louisiana senator's. tha lata
Kandall Gibson and the present Justice
h!te. and compelled to promise .nrn-
lection to sugar. pio-
Ill. The outcome is that everv noor
man IL the United States must nav fro,', rou,
TO . cents pound extra for sugar to en
aDie few planters in the tropical sections
OIL louisiana to compete with tho We,
lndla Islands and Brazil
lA. lhe Sugar trust. q concern loroo
~ owned by aliens, gave money in tho Ia, sc. sc
cent elections in return for concaSsin,,
worth ..I to g. them $3O, 100000 d year. 'si'A
eenary and infamous combination has ~ 81
ranged in the same manner for 4 mononnI,, 1I,-
worth several millions. opois
This may be called the Black woo,.
single star" eo pv
Marshfield and Pullman.
In answer to the senseless charco
by the Democratic press that M; ~
ham is the Pullman Of Wisconsin, ~ ~
EvenIng Wisconsin prints the follnu;n
excellent editorial: ioiio"i ing
mere IS not q man in Wiscons;, .h
mas less nonsense about him ar w no +;
more more approachable than Mai. Irnh.,ls v -
Inc democrats may give him as manr
aristoeratic titles as they please hnt LILLY hs
VIII continue to be, as he is now, n.,s onl ne