The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-05-07

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sS-Es,m111a '11""p- and when represent
%&s= %>ssf f1DE lEE1TR atives of other parts
a1la6 6eNnEr- l|lE y of the world begin to
WlHtln allR 4 - 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 pretty good record for any po-
litical party to make in work This is
the gain which the Rhode Island Repub-
licans made in the recent State election
over the vote for Mckinley in 1896 This
is the only spring election in which ma
tlonal 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
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,
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 viudicated. 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 unmistakably 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 J. Bryan. Of the two
fltz attracted the far larger crowd and
awakened more enthusiasm. He was
greeted at the depot by 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 statistcans 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 a cor
respondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean
comes to the front with figures to show
that tha ta tom TO Of ho 81 +bo
bureau of statistics of the Treasury De-
partment regarding expectations of man.
ufactures are grossly inaccurate. Statis-
tlclan Ford recently asserted that the ex-
ports OF American manufactures for the
calendar year 1896 amounted to $685.
s62,oOo, and were 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, ,493, ,637. Fig
nres, it is said, won't lie, but to make this
statement accurate, it should be added
tnat the people who deal with them
should be truthful.
Ihe Union soldiers Jared badly under
the Cleveland administration. More
tnan thousand of them were dismissed
from the Government service in Washing
ION city alone by that administration and
comparatively few soldiers appointed to
MI the vacancies thus created. One of
the hrst things done by the new admins
tratlon was to set about renstating these
dismissed soldiers. Secretary Wilson of
Tue Agricultural Department renstated
aozen or more in his department during
me nrst week in April, and the heads of
Tue other departments are following the
IL
nost or the dismissed soldiers will be re-
stored to their positions during the first
Aa'i year OF the new administration.
Democratic Dissensions.
Sam RandalIs famous remark about
the wings Of the Democracy "fapping to-
sether' would scarcely apply to the con-
qiuoh OF the remains of that party to-day
~ ~ the House of Representatives where
WI. RANDALL was once SO prominent fig
u!e III democratic ranks, the party is di-
". aiueo into almost infnitesimal factions.
nhe Bailey and Bryan factions are con-
s!antiy at war as to the control of their
sue or that body and as to the methods to
oe pursued. Another factional question
is as to whether the alliance with the Pop
uiists shall be continued, and in regard to
.nis there is wide difference of opinion
ana much bitterness. The question of pro-
-, enu Tree traue Is making Wlue
nteach IN the party and the various fac
!iohs are being again rent in twain by this
issue: Add to this the great and incurable
,r un,sion on the financial question and it
"Aii pe seen that the once strong Demo
s.auc party has absolutely lost it's cohe-
sSsehess or definite purpose of action.
Nething has so alarmed the element which
Ion'foled Is the Popocratic organization of
.h .asl 1all as the prospective dissolution of
ne partnership which then existed. The
atee silvertes see that without the Popu-