Republicans are very indignant at the no...

Republicans are very indignant at the nomination of Barkworth But what is their bark worth ? Our republican chronic grumblers say the new tariff law is badlypunctuated. Possibly. But the McKinley law is badly punctured and its the puncture rather than punctuation, that disturbs the political orthography of the protection howlers. -Adrián Press. Republican organs continue to agonize over the reduction of wages which is the result (in the sweet by and by) from the new tariff act. How soon this agony might be terminated, and the question settled once for all, and, no doubt, to the entire satisfaction of all laboringmen, would those manufacturers who voluntarily raised wages after the passage of the McKinley act, reduce them now and no othcrs. When Judge Peffer first entered the senate there was a disposition to smile at him as an unsophisticated crank. Since he has foisted nearly hiswhole supply of sons and daughters upon the salary list and has established cozy relations with the sugar trust, the senators with one voice proclaim: "He is truly one of us: a senator by election, habit and inclination. Ingalls' seat is not vacant." - St. Louis Republic. A tremendous cackle goes up, from the republican press on the election in Maine. What, Maine - Old Maine - gone republican? Great Cain! Maine, state of Jim Blaine, smartest cuss in out of the rain, gone republican1 What a gain! The factthatold reliable democratie Maine has given a republican majority will have a prostrating effect on the democracy everywhere. Can it actually be that the report is true, or is it some horrible nightmare? It will be noticed that while Maine has rolled up an abnormal , republican májority, it does not i sult from any abnormal increase in : the republican vote. The ( can gain is but slightly in excess of the usual gain from one election to another. The returns show that nearly twenty thousand democrats failed to go to the polls and vote, but they have not deserted to the republicans. They are still true to democratie principies. VVhen the senatorial and representative nominations shall have been made, the democrats of Washtenaw will have before them the full list of candidates for the various offices, from the state to the county. Thus far no mistakes have been made and none will be made. The nominations from governor to coroner are of excellent character and there can be no reason why any democrat should vote against any candidate on his ticket on the ground of personal unfitness or lack of ability- Gen. George Spaulding has been seeking a chance to run for congress for twenty years. His friends have always claimed that he was a great runner. Well, Tora Barkworth has been nominated just one day, and already the dust is settling in the eyes of the Monroe longseeker. Little joy is he wished in his race by James O'Donnell and A. J. Sawyer and Ed. P. Alien. He is all but left at the post, and will never reach even the distance pole. - Free Press. Even the cloud-capped granite hills of Vermont have succumbed to the under wash of the republican party and tumbled to a republican victory. What! Vermont gone republican? Now the gods forefend! 'Sdeath! However, since Vermont has been carried by the republicans for the last thirty-five years, perhaps it is just as well not to salt her down with many tears, but in the language of the poet, "Let her rip." Meanwhile let our republican friends who are hugging themselves over Vermont and Maine, turn their eyeballs toward Arkansas and Alabama Gentlemen, do you see anybreachin the foundation or superstructure o the rock-ribbed, mountain-buttress ed democracy of those states? There are just now in sight two local and purely selfish issues of such a nature as will no doubt ; gest to republicans the possibility of trading promised national legislation which would defraud the people, for votes whereby the g. o. p. may be re.established in control at Washington. The philanthropic sugar producers of Louisiana will make that state republican for the consideration of a bounty on sugar, and the wavering mining camps of the west will stay in the republican fold, provided they are promised legislation which will give thern two prices for their product. The republicans being no theorists in this kind of legislation, having had thirty years' experience in such bargaining at the people's expense, the necessary promises will no doubt be forthcoming. Harper's Weekly in a recent editorial comparing and contrasting the tariff laws of 1890 and 1892 makes the following comment upon the advantages which may confidently be expected from the new law: "In the fust place, the law has made cevtain the repleiiislmient of the Treas. ury, and removed all risk of a further increase in the permanent National debt. Again, it insures the cheapeninjf. to a substantial extent, of a multitude of the necessaries and comforts of life, reducing the cost of living for every household, without weakening the resources of the government. Clothing of every description, cloths, dress goods, blankets and carpets will be cheaper and better everywhere for its passage. Imported food, wools and lumber, china and glass ware, pocketknives and table-knives, nearly all the completed goods the use of which is so large a part of civilized life, together with the materials of which they are made. share in the large reductions of duty. These changes alone will certainly. within a few months, make every man's daily earnings more valuable to him than now. But they will do far more than this. They will do much to revive depressed industry and to restore general prosperity. A pretense is made by a íew manufacturers of antieipated distress from the reduction of certain protective duties, but for this we can find no foundation in the law. But the brightest feature of this tarifl' is found in the fact that it is a turning-point in the history of our economie legislation. It signalizes the final stage in the most costly experiment ever tried by a peaceful nation. The experiment has failed. In the new law the nation has turned its face toward justice, toward economical rruth, toward lasting prosperity, toward ultimate freedom of trade; and the movement henceforth will be in that direction."