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18
Month
September
Year
1894
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"Democrat ruin of our industries," bewails the Grand Rapids Herald in its editorial columns, and on the adjoining page, with big display heading, tells its readers that Philadelphia capitalists contémplate a new factory in the Valley Cijy, to employ 1,000 men! How consistent the radical sheets are. - Big Rapids Herald. There was a partial eclipse of the moon on the night of the i4th. There will be a total eclipse of the Republican party of the second congressional district, on the night of Nov. 6, visible whether cloudy or fair, to those who sit up late enough to get the election returns. It will be one of the grandest displays ever seen in this latitude. Republican papers continue to denounce the favors shown to the Sugar Trust in the new tariff law. Bul the country does not forget that four republican votes cast with the great majority of democrats in the senate would have prevented any such iavors. With the whole body of republica-n senators voting with a very few recreant democrats, the j casion for denunciation came. - Grand Rapids Democrat. At the democratie congresslonal convention, held at Adrián, yesterday, Hon. Thomas E. Barkworth was chosen as our leader. That this result is pleasing to the Sentinel, its readers will not need be told; for, while studiously avoiding the discussion of the names spoken of for the honor, this paper has indicated the kind of a man it would prefer to support by steadily upholding principies which are personified in the candidate the convention has given us. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. The republican senatorial convention in the third district of Michigan, which lies in the city of Detroit, developed a fine old row, Saturday, which resulted in a split and the naming of two candidates. It was an outgrowth of the bitterness existing between the McMillan and j Pingree factions, and is a fac-simile of what is liable to happen at any time in various quarters, resultlng from the wide-spread opposition to the machine and its methods. The fight in the third will result in the election of a democrat. So the Wilson tariff is a sectional measure in favor of the South, is it? Let us see. The McKinley law gave a bonus of $1 1,200,000 to sugar planters last year. The treasury report shows that this was distributed among less than 600 persons, making an average gift of some $20,000 to each planter. One Louisiana planter received some $200,000. The Wilson bill wipes out every vestige of the sugar bounty, and now the Louisiana sugar planters are pronouncing in favor of the McKinley bill. That's the way the Wilson bill favors the South. - Pontiac Post. The income tax seems to be studiously avoided by all republican stump speakers. Why is this thus ? Í The party is known to be "agin" any other tnethod of taxation that does not discrimínate in favor of the dear plutocrats upon whom they are wont to lean so heavily in their fat frying campaigns. Is it not a sin to be laid at the door of democrats in this campaign? Evidently they fear it has too many friends within their own party to permit of its being made an issue with safety. It was the only thing done by the democrats in the late session that was not attacked by Reed in his Maine canvass. The tin industry would be ruined declared the McKinley parasites and high protection organs generally, if the wicked democrats "tinkered" with the tin duty. The Wilson bill reduced the duty nearly one half, and yet here is a bit of news from Anderson, Indiana, that gives the He to the calamity howlers. It is as follows: ''The new tin plate plant at Middletown, owned by the Irondale Rolling Mili company, will be put in operation tomorrow for the first time. The opening will be attended by a gathering of all the tin plate manufacturera of the state, in honor of whom the company will serve a banquet in the afternoou. The plant will, when in full operation, employ 400 skilied workmen at good salaries. It is very complete in every department and the only plant in Indiana fcüat makes tin plate from the billet." The honor of the calamity prophets is waning. Franklin McVeagh, democratie candidate for United States senator in Illinois, said in a recent speech that the only objection he had to the incorue tax was that he would be obliged to help pay it. He said farther, that that was probably the real reason of most of the opposition thereto. The millionaires and men of great wealth generally, have been so accustomed to government favoritism, that they cannot appreciate the equity and justice of such a measure. They will have an opportunity to study it in the time to come, however, and it is to be hoped that they will become so reconciled to it that the government will not be obliged to rest under the imputation of having placed i temptation in their way which caused them to commit perjury, as i some of their friends fear. What a calamitj that would be ! The primary elections in the famous Ashland district of Kentucky, Saturday, for the purpose of determining who should be the ! ocratic candidate for congress, resulted in the defeat of Breckenridge. This is right. Breckenridge ought to have had sufflcient sense of the eternal fitness of things to cause him to withdraw from the public gaze, after the publication of the scandais connected with his name, without this reminder from the people. The result shows that the people desire in those who would represent them, not only abiüty and close attention to their interests, but high j moral character and private worth as well. This is as it should be. The idea which soraetimes obtains that a man niay legitimately do in his public capacity what would disgrace him as a private individual, or vice versa, is falacious and wrong. The result in Mr. Breckenridge's case shows how the people regard this question. They were unwilling, notwithstanding the recognized ability and faithful public service of their representative, to condone his gross private faults and bear the odium of returning such a man to congress to renresent them.

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