The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-06-06
POLITICAL AND INDUSTRIAL.

The Sultan Of Turkey is now recep.
tive candidate for Democratic sympathy.
The party that regrets the settlement
of labor strike il short on excuses for
existence.
The political organization that thriyes
upon disorder and discomfort is not the
proper governing power for a healthy
nation.
Mark Twain's Presidential candidacy
had the humorous right of way until it en-.
countered the Sioux Falls and Cincinnati
proceedings
A decrease of 2si, 900, 600 pounds in the
quantity of wool imported in year shows
the value of protection to wool to the
American farmer.
Indications are that our total foreign
| ,auo Io' ,"u iIsuai year enulng June 80
next viii be $500. 900. 900 larger than in
the year ending June &c. 1899.
We have imported $40, 900 wort h
moro free goods this fiscal year, up to
April 80, than in the corresponding ten
months of the last fiscal year.
Hon. John q. Carlisle no longer regards
himself as a resident of Kentucky. Mr..
Carlisle has not had high opinion of his
old political associates since Organism
prompted them to throw stale eggs at him.
Chairman Kerr, of the Democratic con
gressional campaign committee, says that
he has sent out practically no IL tol speech
es this year. There is no demand for sill
ver literature, the subject being dead
one
Tennessee produced nearly million
tons more coal last year than in 1895.
That ought to be an industrial object les.
son to the South, especially as practically
the whole oft was used at the factories
of that State.
just at the present time the Democratic
party is long on sympathy for the export
trade. This is the same Democratic party
that declined to exhibit any sympathy or
mercy for the American laborer when ii
framed and enacted the Wilson tariff bill
Having nothing else to kick about the
Democrats are complaining again about a
surplus in the Treasury. 1t takes Dem
| ocratic Administration to do away with
| one, aud at the same time, to do away
with the surplus savings of the wage
| eaIners.
Tho Illinois Republicans have ruined a
large batch of Democratic expectations by
holding harmonious convention aud blao
ing an excellent ticket in the field The
indications are that this is going To be
record breaking year for Democratic
disappointment
The only piece of national legislation
FOR which the Democratic party has been
responsible, since the election of Abraham
Lincoln, is the W ilson German tariff bill,
measure despised by its authors, hated
by its sponsors, and which wrought min
to thousands OF those who tried to be its
friends.
Birmingham is shipping three train
loads of pig iron per day to New Orleans,
where 1t Is loaded on vessels for the for.
eign trade. THIS in measure accounts
for the expansion sentiment in Alabama.
The only regret in this connection is
found in the fact that the output of the
Birmingham furnaces is carried abroad
in foreign bottoms.
II it were not for the good times, il it
were not for the Chicago platform, If it
were not FOR their past rec lrd, if it were
not that Mckinley has been such n
promise keeper, il it were not that the
American people know good thing when
they have it. and If II were not for few
more IFS, it would DO safe to bet money
on Democratic success this fall.