The L'Anse sentinel., 1897-05-08

S-AmU. ana wnen represent
SE%tyNFTFTy1 atives of other parts
gn9Ss-.,FN u of the world begin to
NlIy' dIlE " complain about it It
Is safe to assume that the purpose of the
bill is being accomplished.
Twenty per cent OF gain In twenty
weeks is a pretty good record for any po-
liticaI party to make in work. This Is
the gain which the Rhode Island Repub-
lcans made in the recent State election
over the vote for Mckinley in 1896. This
Is the only spring election in which ma
tional politics has cut any figure, the
elections in the cities having hinged upon
purely local issues which had nothing to
do with the growth or otherwise of Re-
publican or Democratic sentiment from q
national standpoint.
Democrats Tired OF the Pops.
The Democrats are getting tired of their
bewhskered allies in the late election.
Not only have large majority Of the par
" in the House of Representatives re-
pectfully declined to follow the sockless
Simpson, but leading Democratic news
papers of the Populist tainted sections are
beginning to swear off from supporting
Populsts. The Topeka. Kan, Democrat,
q representative Democratic organ which
supported Bryan in 1896, says: "Fusion
Is dead in Kansas. A united Democracy
and no further fusions with the selfish and
arrogant Peoples party. The supreme
duty of the hour for Democrats in Kan
sas Is to cut loose from the fostering
corpse of the Peoples party. The ranting
Populists with full power to act have tried
their hands at State government"
Great minds will differ. Mr. Bryan
assumed in his utterances regarding the
recent elections that his cause and him
self have been vindicated. On the other
hand, that sterling Democratic paper, the
Macon. Ca. Telegraph, which expresses
the sentiment of the genuine Southern
Democracy. says: THE Democratic sue
cess of Monday shows Enthusiastically that
Organism and Altgeldism are done for in
this country"
washington had two distinguished peo-
pie in one day recently-Robert Fitzsim-
mons and William ]. Bryan. or the two
F1tz attracted the far larger crowd and
awakened more enthusiasm. He was
greeted at the depot by a brass band,
while Mr. Bryan's only music was that of
his own horn which he never neglects to
blow.
Democratic officials In Trouble.
Democratic statisticians whom the
cleveland administration foisted upon the
government through the civil service sys-
TEN are getting themselves into bad odor.
secretary of Agriculture Wilson recently
suppressed "single tax" document is
sued by one Of these gentry, while cor
respondent Of the Chicago Inter Ocean
comes to the front with figures to show
.nat the statements of the chief of the
bureau of statistics of the Treasury De-
partment regarding expectations Of man.
fractures are grossly inaccurate. Stats
ucian Ford recently asserted that the ex-
ports OF American manufactures for the
calendar year 1896 amounted to $685.
eozooo. and were a considerable increase
over those of the last year of the McKin-
ey law. In answer to this the Inter
ocean correspondent asserts. and sup-
ports his assertions with official figures
.nat the exports Of American manufac-
lures In 1895 were only S13S. 493, ,637. Fig
ures, 1t Is said, won't lie, but to make this
statement accurate, It should be added
'aat the people who deal with them
should be truthful.
:, Ihe Union soldiers Jared badly under
.ae Cleveland administration. More
tnan thousand of them were dismissed
irom the Government service in Washing
"n city alone by that administration and
comparatively few soldiers appointed to
wi the vacancies thus created. One of
.ne irst things done by the new admins
sa,on was to set about reinstating these
sha hssed soldiers. Secretary Wilson of
"e Agricultural Department reinstated
:, uosen or more in his department during
.h he nrst week in April. and the heads of
s o'ner departments are following the
ns ame pian, 80 that 1t is probable that
os' OF the dismissed soldiers will be re-
b.,1 beu TO their positions during the FIRST
year OF the new administration.
Democratic Disse nsion..
=, eam Randalrs famous remark nbout
he wings of the Democracy ''fiapping TO-
S,ner s;., would scarcely apply to the con-
In'oh OF the remains of that party TODAY.
~ M tne House Of Representatives where
r' randall was once SO prominent n fig
IN rs IN democratic ranks, the party is d.
IT., ueu INTO almost infinitesimal factions
ne Bailey and Bryan factions are con-
a,s'y at war as to the control of their
s'ue OF that body and as to the methods TO
e pursued. Another factional question
- .'n as TO whether the alliance with the Pop
~. s,s's shall be continued. and In regard to
.uis there is wide difference of opinion
.uu much bitterness. The question of pro-
Meuon and free trade is making a wide
y.eacn ., IN the party and the various fac
, ons are being again rent in twain by this
issue. a,s Add to this the great and incurable
u.,,sion ,n,n on the financial question and II
vii oe seen that the once strong Demo
.sauc party has absolutely lost its cohe-
N..ness or definite purpose of action.
oaning eg has so alarmed the element which |
,... ,v.lolied the Popocratic organization of
,ts ,ts' Iaii as the prospective dissolution of
~ partnership which then existed. The
" 81 s'iveritcs see that without the Pcpu- |