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Outlook Bright

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Day
21
Month
September
Year
1892
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Public Domain
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New York, Sept. 12.- The scènes at the Republican headquarters are inspiring. The crowds of people who come and go, the presence of such men as Senator Platt, Whitelaw Reid, Warner Miller, General Clarkson, es-Senator Spooner and others ■who have contributed to Republican success in the past show how thoroughly the Republicana are united and how earnest they are in this early stage of the campaign for success. Scènes About the City. Walk about the city and you are more iinpressed than ever with the c,ontrast between the condition of the Republicans and the Democrats. Republican banners float to the breeze every where. On aristocratie Fifth avenue you find Harrison and Reid banners, and in the less pretentious streets and narrow passageways of the city those names spring up again and again, as if by magie. Look down the streets as you pass and you are impressed with the holiday appearanco caused by the prevalence of banners and flags. And the larger proportion of these which bear the names ''Harrison and Reid," shows the advan;tage which the Republicans have in the matter of activity. A Democratie lïanker's Views. An official of one of the largest banks of New York city, speaking of this subject said: "Nothing has impressed me more strongly than the contrast between the course of the two parties in this particular. Banners don't vote, to be sure, but they indícate a great deal in the evidence of enthusiasin in the parties they represent." 'How do you find the business people feeling on this subject?" I asked. I conf ess that I was not a little intere3ted in his reply, for he is a Democrat and I was curious to see how a Democrat who is brought into close contact with the great business element of New York found the situation. Business Men Expect Republican Success. "The business people," he answered, "apparently expect the Republicans to succeed. I notice that the Democrats in the business world take very little interest in the campaign. Even those ,who inake professions of a belief in Democratie success when they are concerned admit that they have little confidence in the result. All the people who are willing to bet on the result are on the Republican side. Democrats who talk about betting on Cleveland back down if they are pushed into the corner." Prosperity the Cause of Democratie Apatliy. 1 was curicras to know what was tlie real canse of tliis apparent apathy on the part of the Deinocrats. An investigation shows that it grows largely out of the tariff situation. Caref ui inquiries into the oondition of the manufacturing industries of New York state show that they are flourishing as they have never fiourished before. And their prosperity is attributed to the tariff system which Mr. Cleveland and his followers are pledged to destroy. Investigations into the condition of the various manufacturing interests have shown this to be the faot. The clothing manufacturera, the glove makers, the cutlery manufacturers, the pearl button factories, the great shirt and collar manufacturing establishments of Troy, the iron and steel industries, the tin plate manufacturers, the clothing manufacturers and dealers and many other industries of this character report increased production, increased wages, increased profits and redneed prices to the public for goods they manufacture. The exporters report improved markets and better prices for American production, both in Europe and in Central and South America. The most striking argument, however, in favor of the McKinley Jaw comes f rom the Democratie commissioner of labor, Peck, who reports inereased wages for more than a quarter of a ïnillion workmen, amonnting to over $6,000,000 under the first year of the McKinley law, and over 30,000,000 increase of inanufactures. Harmonions Republicana. Another extreme] y encouraging feature of the situation to the Republicans is the thorough harmony in Republican ranks and the thorough lack of that article in Democratie ranks. The conference at the residence of Whitelaw Reid, the Republican candidate for vice president, in which Senator Platt, General Clarkson, Warner Miller and others met the president with great cordiality, shows that the New York Republicana are thoroughly united and thoronghly in line for Republican success. ün the other hand, the apparent lack of harmony on the Democratie side causes great depression among the leaders and in the rank and file of that party. Democrats All at Sea. ' The Democrats are all at sea as to what their course will be. The Cleveland element has evidently lost hope of success in New York state and has little expectation of carrying Connecticut or any of the New England states. The New York Sun (Democratie) admits that even New Jersey is a doubtf ui state, and that it is not improbable that the Republicans may win there. The talk of carrying certain western states for the Deinocrats f ails to arouse any enthusiasm here. The Sun persistently denoaiinates the attempt as "rainbow chasing" and a mere waste of time and mouej'. The Ncwspapet I'uiul a Failure. 1 That the Üernocrats of the country take no stock bi the proposition is shown by the failure oí the effort of a hundred Democratie newspapers to raise a corruption fund for this purpose. It is now nearly a month since this proposition Ws put on its feet and the country was eppealed to for subscriptions. More than a hundred daily papers have lent their plaintive appeals to the chorus of demands, but without success. The eubscriptions which come in are of the ten cent order, and the total amount ' raised, aside from the subscription of the newspapers which are "working" this scheme for their own advertisement, amount to only about $10,000. Senator Platt Hard at Work for Harrison. Senator Platt has done what everybody who knew him expected. He has taken off his coat and gone vigorously to vork for Republican success. He speaks out f rankly. He says that while he did not desire the nomination of Mr. Harrison, he recognizes him as an able, pure and fearless leader, one on whom the party can fully rely. As a Republican Mr. Platt says he has never had any thought of ref using his active support to the nominee of the Republican party. President Harrison's Letter of Acceptance. Nothing that has appeared since the cainpaign opened has attracted more attention than President Harrison's letter of acceptance. It has proven a most telling document, and one which it is feit must prove extremely valuable to the party. His clear statement of the benefits to manufacturera and workingmen already feit under the McKinley law, produces marked effect, while his ehowing of the growth of our foreign commerce under reciprocity is equally eonvincing. His commendation of Mr. Blaine in the good work he performed while a member of the cabinet, both as to reciprocity and otherwise, is very gratifying to the admirers of that great man. One important service that the letter has performed is to bring to the piiblic attention the dangers which threaten the business public in a return to the old state banking system, as proposed by the Democratie platform. The proposition for a commission toconsider elections and apportionment methods takes away from the Democrats the scarecrow of "force bill," and shows that neither the Republican party nor its leader want anything more than fair treatment for all sections and all citizens.

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