The age-herald., 1900-10-14

here and there yet be those who go away to make purchases, believing that no good goods can come out of Birmingham. wholesaler was complaining to me yester- day that certain corporation commissaries would go away to buy their goods rather than buy at the same prices from the wholesalers here. If that be true it should be remeded at once. There is too much of feeling here already that some of the big corporations be alien enterprises own ed and controlled away from here. These concerns need local support and they should patronize local wholesalers. In- deed nothing so builds up a city or a sec tion as reciprocity in all things. No man or concern can succeed without the coop eration and support of his neighbors.
 
 That reminds me that the people of the Southsde-especially the Highlands-are yet infested with the COW nuisance. The pound keeper must either have big guar- anteed salary or else he must be million aire and care not for the dollars 1 count ed seven cows in one fepceless front yard yesterday afternoon destroying grass that cost almost dollar per blade. To drive them. away only meant an early return. Either the pound keeper must get in ac- tion or the fences must be reinstated.
 The political situation throughout the United States Is assuming decidedly favorable aspect to the Democrats. MT. Stevenson, the Democratic nominee for Vice President, has just completed trip through Maryland and declares that Mary land is sure to go Democratic, He also counts confidently upon Delaware. MT. Bryan is now campaigning Ohio and the Democrats of that state claim that they .xnrin ,it ha ,I.aJo prise by carrying the Buckeye State" by a good majority. Such predictions are looked upon by calm politicians on the out side as rather optimistic. The Democratic leaders, however, assert that the vote con- trolled by Jones of Toledo added to the Democratic vote of the state will make it Democratic this time. In Indiana the out look as likewise attractive. and 1t is sure thing that If the Democrats carry either New York or Illinois Bryan and Stevenson will be elected. Croker continues to assert that the Democrats will carry New York City by one hundred thousand majority If Croker knows what he is talking about, New York state will go Democratic. The bets, however, on the Stock Exhange are ten to seven that New York will be Repub- lcan.
 At national headquarters in both Chicago and New York the respective campaign committees sending out highly -colored claims. The Democrats claim Bryan will be elected easily and the Republicans claim a walkover for Mckinley It is rather too late in the campaign for an outsider to make predictions but it does look as if the contest is to be very close one.
 
 Pending the Presidential election, busi- ness enterprises throughout the country are somewhat at Standstill, though money is said to be plentiful in New York and rates of interest are low. The Republi- cans claim that hints of money will be turned loose to build manufacturing enter prises if Mckinley is elected On the other hand, the Democrats claim that equal sums will be invested, and just as soon, if the Democrats are successful. They claim that all the talk about calling in loans and in- vestments in the event of Bryan's election is the merest bosh. The same anti-Demo- cratic talk was indulged In during the sum mer of 1884, pending the contest for the Presidency between Cleveland and Blaine; vet the country was never in better con dition nor money easier than the first two years of Cleveand's first administration. It is the same old cry of the politician and of protected business interests.