The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-05-20
A Whole Cargo of Good Things, Every
One of Which Is Worth Reading and
Remenbering-Rep Always
Gain When National Questions Arise
MeIville's Manifest.

fiIN4W WIG tariff is to take care
of American citizens,
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SNn1hH-E te{TE SFET;a atives of other parts
EaS;: es sdn the %9r ,sd nssi I, to e
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-
litical party to make in work. This is
the gain which the Rhode Island Repub-
Leans 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 mad nothing to
do with the growth or otherwise of Re
publican or Democratic sentiment from
national standpoint.
Democrats Tired of the Pops.
The Democrats are getting tired of their
bewhiskered allies in the late election.
Not only have large majority of the par
ty in the House of Representatives re-
spectfully declined to follow the sockless
Simpson. but leading Democratic news
papers Of the Populist tainted sections are
beginning to swear off from supporting
POpulists. The Topeka. Kan, Democrat,
a 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
Of ho a. no
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 INDICATED. On the other
hand, that sterling Democratic paper, the
Macon. Ga, Telegraph. which expresses
the sentiment of the genuine Southern
Democracy. says: 'The Democratic sue
cess of Monday shows Enthusiastically that
Bryanism and Altgeldism are done for in
this country"
Washington had two distinguished peo-
pie in one day recently-Robert Fitzsim-
mons and William ]. Bryan Of the two
Fitz 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
Clevela ad administration foisted upon the
Government through the civil service sys-
tenn 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
that the statements of the chief of the
bureau of statistics of the Treasury De-
partment regarding exportat tons of man
ufactures are grossly inaccurate Stats
tician Ford recently asserted that the ex-
ports of American manufactures for the
calendar year 1896 amounted to $685.
962,50o, and were a considerable increase
over those of the last year of the McKin-
ley law. In answer to this the Inter
Ocean correspondent asserts, and sup
ports his assertions with official figures,
that the exports of American manufac-
lures in 1896 were only $13S. 49,, 637. Fig
ures. it is said, won't lie. but to make this
statement accurate, it should be added
that the people who deal with them
should be truthful.
The Union soldiers Jared badly under
the Cleveland administration. More
than thousand of them were dismissed
from the Government service in Washing
ton city alone by that administra ton and
comparatively few soldiers appointed to
I'LL the vacancies thus created. One of
the first things done by the new admins
tration was to set about reinstating these
dismissed soldiers. Secretary Wilson Of
the Agricultural Department reinstated
a dozen or more in his department during
the first week in April, and the heads If
the other departments are following the
same plan. so that it is probable that
most of the dismissed soldiers will be ro-
stored to their positions during the first
half year of the new administration
Democratic Diss nsion.
Sam RandalTs famous remark ahor+
the wings of the Democracy 'fappino 70
gether would scarcely apply to tha con.
dltion OF the remains of that party TO-DAY
In the House of Representatives rharo
MI Randall was once so prominent atfo-
ure IN democratic ranks. the party is d.
vlded into almost inhnitesimal factions
Inc Bailey and Bryan factions are con.
stantiy al war as to the control of their
side OF that body and as to the methods r.
be pursued. Another factional Question
is as to whether the alliance with the pom
ullsfs shall be continued. and in regard r.
this there is wide difference of opinion
and much bitterness. The question of nro-
lection and free trade is making a wide
breach IN the party and the various far
lions are being again rent in twain by this
issue. Add to this the great and incurable
division on the financial question and If
VIII be seen that the once strong Demo-
cratic party has absolutely lost it's cobe-
slVenesS or definite purpose of action.
Nothing has so alarmed the element which
controlled the Popocratic organization of
last fall as the prospective dissolution Of
the partnership which then existed. The
Tree silverites see that without the Popu-