The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1897-08-13
4 VANISHING PARTY.
v1lEE TRADE DEMOCRATS GROWING
BEAUTIFULLY LESS.

aange of Views Shown by Southern News
Yapers-Demand For Protection Litera-
sare = Relapse OF the Popocrats = Still
stick to Silver.
The Louisville Courier Journal an
1ounces with considerable satisfaction
hat the Popocrats-by which it means
The Bryan Democrats-arec rapidly 60
ing over to protection. 1t instances the
pcent protection votes of six Popocratic
United States senator's and adds that
he drift toward the advocacy Of high
thrift Is not exclusively in the senate.
y is seen in Kentucky, where the Popo-
wats are seeking subsidies on hemp and
sther articles. "But more remarkable
and pronounced demonstration, the
Courier-J Journal adds, ''is to be found
N the silverite press of the south and
west
1t then quotes the reports of the
American Protective Tariff league,
which show q large increase in the
number of newspapers which now take
me leagues literature. Five years ago,
when the national democratic conven-
Zion adopted tariff for revenue only
plank, its advocacy was matter Of
course, and offers of tariff literature by
she league "were replied to in thou
sands of instances by bitter denuncia-
tion and epithets, but recently some
1000 favorable answers to the leagues
sirculars have been received, very
large proportion of them from newspa-
pers that were formerly orthodox in
their democracy. The change noted was
greatest in the south. In Alabama 16
Democratic and independents request
cd the leagues publications; in Arkan-
sas 10 Democratic and independents;
N Florida, 2 and 4; in Kentucky, II
Democratic; in Maryland, 5; in Mis-
sissippi, II Democratic and independ-
ents; in Missouri, 80 and O.; in North
Popocrat and 3 neutrals; in Tennes-
see, 10 Popocrats and 8 independents;
in Texas, 83 and 10; in Virginia, 10
and 2. Secretary Wakeman of the league
says that the vast majority Of these pa
pers openly proclaim that they are for
free silver and protection.
The satisfaction of Mr.. Watterson's
paper over the relapse of the Popocrats
TO what he calls the heresy of protection
ia the fact that, from his standpoint it
yakes them farther away from the Dem
ocratio party and leaves the faithful
few who train with him ard Grover
Cleveland with an undisputed claim to
be the genuine Democracy. 1.-THE Ma
sional Democracy, says The Courier
Journal, "alone represents the great is
sue of free trade, to which all countries
must inevitably come" The claim of
the National Democracy to represent
Tree trade may be allowed, but it must
be admitted that the representation is
getting to, be very small. The party,
excluding what The Courier Journal
oalls the Popocrats, is becoming small
by degrees and beautifully less. AT the
rate it is dwindling there won't be
much left Of it in the next presidential
campaign but vanishing point.
IT may be true that all countries will
ultimately come to free trade-in the
millennium-bu at present the progress
'msthat direction is like that of the frog
pnt orr Tie well-it gets up two steps
and tumbles down three. Within the
past few years all the leading nations
except Great Britain have increased
and strengthened their protective sys-
tems, and in England there is strong
party which is demanding protection
for agricultural products in order that
the British isles may become self sup.
porting in the matter of food.
The growth of the protection senti-
ment in the southern states Of this union
is veus gratifying. Although it is large
svSamong those who are tinctured with
the Sree silver heresy it is none the less
welcome, for protective legislation just
Mt this present moment is a possibility,
while free silver legislation is not. The
former is a practical issue, in the ct
iectuation of which the Popocrats can
greatly aid, while the latter is merely
theory. Minneapolis Tribune.
VIII M. Clemens catalogues in The
Home Magazine some of the plumbers