Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-08

would abolish the civil service law by a
nearly unanimous vote till toward the close
OF the administration. Then they would
vote with equal unanimity to restore it.
No means of wiping out the law being at
hand they bear it's 'inf1ictions' with a fair
degree of complacency and hope the gates
will be opened for them outside the law.
So they wait and they will not forget to
vote in November.
1t may surprise statesmen in Washing
ton to hear that the folks in this country
do not care to hear tariff talk. Several of
the campaign orators have confessed to
me that their last years speeches, fur
bished up a trfie with trimmings about
good times, do not strike the popular
chord. The orators don't understand it,
The explanation is simple: The people
of this section are satisfied with the
new tariff, and with it's results. Being
the elementary principles of protection and
Tree trade They do not attribute the de-
ficfency in the worlds wheat supply to the
Dingley law, but they take advantage of
that deficiency in a practical way and give
the D1nSley law its share of credit for the
general Improvement. The farmer Is not
growing because he marketed his wheat
az ninety cents instead of 81 bushel
me wool growers are feeling Just as GOOD
as the wheat raiSers. 1t would not he nee
essary now to send buyers out through
Holmes county to pay big prices for sheen
as / am told done in 1890. to show the
immediate benefit of the Mckinley law
Nor would Calvin s. Brice's brilliant
serene of supplying political peddIers with
tinware to be offered the peonIe at fonr
times the market price as an illustration of
the effect of that law work this wear Con-
oitions are normal, and there is little room
Tor hysterfcal politics.
Wool Growers Greedfness
80 long as Judge William Lawrence and
David Harpster endure the Ohio wool
grower will never feel that he receives
his full dues from any political party. A
golden fleece clipped with silver shears
would not exceed their measures of his
need. But wool which fetches 10 and 20
cents a pound is not so bad. Last year one
or the delegations which came to Canton
brought sleeps skull and pelt as an en-
blem of the condition Of sheep husbandry.
This year the emblem would be wether
sympollcal OF increase and a fleece The
WOOL grower. 1t Is true, still mourns the de-
crease in his flocks. but that is something
ne does not expect a national admins
tration to cure IN half a season. He is
In good humor over the announcement
crease of the flocks. His good humor is
helping to prevent any big slump in the
vote which Major Mckinley received
am informed that the Lnwilingness of
the people to lear tariff talk extends to
an unreadiness to hear anti-silver talk.
Their views have not changed. The verdict
they gave last November would not be
modified, but they can't be made to think
n,
democratic orators are less frank, yet they
confess a Eesitancy on the part of the
masses. However, they stick vaIorously to
1t. Here. as in other parts of the state,
the republicans would like the democrats
to make more aggressive fight. They
need the friction of a sharp contest to
make sure of their vote coming out. So
far 1t has been lacking. This week the
booming Of big republican cannon is to be
heard all over the district, Senator Fair
banks In Canton, Knute Nelson and Thurs
ton at other points. The broadside has to be
fired in the air.
The enemy has thrown up no intrench-
ments and has no artillery in sight Never
theless the democrats hope to make a
point on their legislative ticket.
Some disaffection exists among republi-
cans over one of the republican candidates.
The Foraker men and the Hanna men are
CO. operating only on the surface. The
local leaders tell the visitor otherwise but
they do not deceive themselves. Canton
has two men who have faith enough in
democratic success to become senatorial
candidates. One is John C. Welty, who
has prominence in state affairs. He Is
willing to take election from a democratic
legislature to fill out the remnant of John
Skerman's term, which would be wrested
from Mark Hanna IL the republicans lose.
Gen. l. R. Sherwood Is more distinctively
free silver candidate. The free silver ell
ements are not fused as solidly rs they
were q year ago. Coxey has some of the
populists with him IN holding out against
fusion with the democrats.
CHAS. NJ, PEPPER