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Barkworth Appears To Be A Man

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Day
19
Month
September
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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who has been too fond of wrltlng letters. It was President Cleveland who denounced the present tarüi law. Will the Argns iplease make a note of that fact. And now Tne Courier praises Gen. Spaldlng for his silver views, which are diametrie.aüy opposcd to its own. - Ypsilanti Sentinel. Oh : By goeh ! The government is only $17,00,000 short lor the first half of the fiscal year. That's nothing. The rai.se in priec of wool, now tha't it is 011 the free list, will soon make up that trille. Death has stepped into the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republie the past year and removed 7,238 of the old veterans. The roster now shows 360,083 members of the order in good standing. In Maine, besides electing all iour congressmen, and their state ticket by over 40,000, the republieans elected every state senator and 137 out of 151 representatives. "Whew ! But that was a cyclone. Have you notieed how the price of wool igoes up now that there is iio tarilï on it ? You haven't ? WU, that's funny ! The Argus said Iree wool wooild ralse the pa-iee, and the Argus never tells a lie you know. Keaders how does the new tariff Buit you, sugar advanced from 5 to 7 cents per pound ? - Broadway, (Va.) Entei-prise. Tlie new tariff is a eweetencr and no niistake. And it eeems they are ïinding it out even way down in' 'Ole Yirginny." The people should not forget that the last legislature, whicli was repubHcan, consumed two months less time a,ml made better laws. than did its predecessor, wliich was democratie, and known ito fame as the squawbuck lesrislature. ExPresident Harrison delivered some excellent short talks to the people in Prof. Wilsou's district in V, i Va.,'and they seemedto be pleased to hear him. thou.sands gathering wheretóstï-ainstopped. He can make the best and clearest short speech of anybody in the country. It has been stated from Washington, D. C, that the old soliers in the pension department are being continually dismissed by Hoke Smith, and confedérate soldiers put in their places. In all upwards of 2,000 old so'diers havo been kicked out of place since Oen. Harrison ivas president. A prominent demoernt said to the Ypsilantian Tuesday, that hc was go'ns to vote for every man. on the republlcan ticket avIio lives outside of Ann Avbor. He wants to teach liis brelln-en of that city not to be so hosg'.sh about noniinations. Kepublieanra should take the hint.- Ypsilantlan, Compete reimus trom Vermont give (hè republicana a plurality of i's. ::.-,!,, r,nd a niajority over all of i'T.MlO. The vote was republican, t2,736, democratie li,."?80. Ixss to the demócrata oí 4,963, and a gain to the republicana oí 9,274, making a change oí I U237 votes in the little state of Vermont alone. Col. Tlios. G. La-wler, Oí Rockford, III., who lias been elected commander oí the (í. A. R., is a natlve oí Engwhere he was toorn in 18i4. coming to this country wlien a cliikl. and being educated at Rockford. He enUsted as a private in Co. E. 19th 111. In t'y. and saw mucli hard service, coming out of the war a colonel. He is a worthy veteran. Wonder what the farmers, voters, housekeepers, etc. tbink about the I faot that as soon as the new tariiï b!ll beeame the law sugar went ap in pric?, and French brandy, ILquors, cordials and other spirits, used espeeially by the virh. went down CO cents per gallon. The are -taxed on their neceesitles, by the new bill. and the rii-h relieved of burdens on their hixurles. Dece.ncy still rules in Kentucky. Tlie peojile of One congressional tlistrlct, at least, have given out to the world that no man can be grossly minoi-al and still retain tlie respect of, andbe continued in oifice by them. W. C. P. Breckenridge was defeated last 8aturday in the jirimary eleetions by his eompetitor W. C. Owens. by a ' rfandlione majoi-ity. Vale Breckenridge ! Ta ta AVillie ! Fice -vool ; cheap raw material ! Tliat's the (present trend of democratie tariff tinkering. The farmer can now get jnsí about one-third ior his woói iliat he could during the republican tariíí. He has to sell gradea that lie l'ormcrly received 30 i ruis per H. lor, at 10 cents per Ib. .w how much cheaper caoi he buy a Kuit of all wool clothes ? "Will some one answer who has liad experience and knows ? Before Mr. Strons would accept the chairmanship oí the democratie átate central committee he made the leaders of the party Kive liim a bond that he should ïiot toe held personal y responsable for the expenses of the campaign. Tot the empty honor of allowing his name to be placed on the ticket for the short term senatorship he dldn't .propose to foot all the bilis of the campaign. They don't appear to get the start of Mr. Strong very much, 60 far. The Detroit Free Prese claims that James O'Donnell, A. J. Sawyer and Edwaid P. Allen are practical'y against Gen. Kpalding, and on the sly aiding Kr. Barkworth, the democratie nominee for congress in this district. AVhat arrant nonsense. But tln'ii, if democrats choose to hang any hop on that sort of aid, let them do it, by all means. Neiilier of the three gentlemen referred to are in llir least disgiuntled,. but on the contra i-y are talklng and worklng lor the fiuccess oi the entire republican ticket irom top to bottom. Mr. Ikukworth can count that ns being a sublime truth. ïlie lal)oring men of this city who have been led to believe that a protecthe tariff pa'Otects labor, will do well to study the class o men employed to do ibhe work on the cainp-us at the présent time.- Ann Arbor Democrat. A proteetive tariff has as rauch to do witb. the employmeñt oí men on the Vniversity campus, as the king of the Hottentotts does with base liall. But the thousands of men wlio had plenty of work under the McKinley bill, and have been out of WOTk ever since the democrats carried congress and went t,o tinkering up the "Wilson bill, wi'-l believe that the 1 aiirf has some influence on wages ajid it wül be difficult to make them see otherwlse. It is a íact that lias had a practical demonstration with them. And they tu-e, walting Etnsloufily to enter their protest at the ballot box.

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