The true northerner., 1897-10-27
POLITICAL OUTLOOK.
REPUBLICAN PROSPECTS EVERY
WHERE BRIGHT.

The FulhIled Promise to Restore Pros
perity Has Had u Good Enect-Free
Coinage Issue Has Dropped Out Of
sight-De mocrats In y Trap.
The Republican outlook in Ohio and
in other states in which elections are TO
be held this year is a particularly
bright one. There Is generally a reac-
tion after an election for president. and
Republican defeat this year would be
in accord with that general experience.
But there is no sign Of such defeat The
Republicans promised last year to re-
store prosperity, and they have kept
their promise. After the sad experience
Of the people as result of having pun
ished the Republicans for bringing the
nation, under the Harrison administra-
tion, to the highest degree of prosperity
ever before known, there is no probabil-
ity Of a second costly and colossal blum
der of that kind.
The opposition offered to the Repub-
licans this year is based ON mere per-
sonalities The Democrats have no is
sue. In Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and else
where the free silver coinage issue was
pushed to the front at the start. But
that is gradually being dropped as much
as possible out of sight. 1t is recognized
as having no force or strength. The tar
iff is hardly mentioned. The Dingley
law has already proved such blessing
to the country that even the Democrats
recognize the supreme folly, not to say
ridiculousness, of attempting to make
that an issue. What is there left? Alb
solutely nothing of importance In Ohio
it is personal warfare on Senator Han
na, in Massachusetts Speaker Reed is
dragged in, while in Iowa the Dem
ocratic campaign has practically col
lapsed.
There is nothing more amusing than
the trap the free silver Democrats have
dug for themselves on the silver issue.
Their chief argument heretofore and
the only one which secured them any
number of votes was the allegation that
the prices of farm products and other
things as we'll as wages had declined in
company with the price of silver. So
far as wages were concerned there was
no truth whatever in the statement. 1t
was equally false as regards farm prod
ucts. But misleading table was insert
ed in Coins Financial School, and
widely used by the silver men, which
gave some plausibility to that assertion.
Wheat was made the principal basis for
the table. This year wheat has gone
up to dollar and silver has declined to
40 cents. But other farm products have
also advanced with the decline in sill
yer. The illusion has been dispelled,
and the men who put free silver to the
front early in the spring are now anx-
ious TO side track that issue, but they
can find nothing else on which to make
a canvass Hence they are floundering
around in most amusing manner
In Ohio, where the staple farm prod
ucts have advanced in price SO that the
crop of last year would be worth $47,
626, 260 more if sold this year, the free
silver cry has become ridiculous. Sena-
tor Foraker, who has been canvassing
in that state, declares that there is not
the least doubt of Republican success.
Similar reports come from Iowa and
other states. Such victory will do much
to increase prosperity by showing to the
world that the protective tariff and
honest money policy, of the Republican
party is to be permanent t-Philadelphia
Press.