THE DALLES WEEKLY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1892.
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THE CJIP.OX-
Mr. Blaine, writing in the North
American Review regarding the present
political canvass, presents very clearly
certain features which are the reverse of
discomforting. Mr. Cleveland has re
constructed the platform of the demo
cratic party in certain important par
ticulars; for, under the leadership of
their candidate, the democrats have
turned their backs on free trade and are
headed for a low tariff on manufactured
products and free raw materials. It is
true, as Blaine says, that the two great
parties are closely in line on many
points, and the rage of partisanship has
greatly abated. But there is another
feature of this notable article of Mr.
Blaine. It shows by its deductions that
Mr. Cleveland sways the democratic
party, which obeys his masterful hand
with complete docility, evidence of
which we have seen in Oregon this week.
Mr. Harrison, on the contrary, is an
able artisan directed by the imperious
It is frequently stated by democratic
orators, as by Judge O'Duy last night,
when attempting to explain how, inthe
event of free trade or low tariff, our
manufacturers could continue to pay
higher wages than their European com
petitors, that the great superiority the
American manufacturer has in the use
of improved machinery would more than
give him an equal chance against for
eign cheap labor. Our democratic
friends apparently think the foreign
manufacturers are asleep or very stupid.
There is one fact which lias come under
our observation that will show the fal
lacy of this idea.
Some few years since, American man
ufacturers had a practical monopoly of
the pressed glassware business, and man
ufacturers at Rochester, Pa., Wheeling,
W. Va., and Steubenville, O., exported
great quantities abroad. They could
sell the pressed glassware much cheaper
than European manufacturers could
their blown glassware. It did not take
very lone for the foreigners to send to
this country for molds and other tools
for making pressed glassware, with the
result that today, with their cheaper
labor, they have entirely taken away
this foreign pressed glassware trade that
American manufacturers formerly pos
sessed. The democrats also state that, inas
much as the American mechanic is so
much superior to the foreign mechanic,
he is able to turn out more work,' and
eo need not fear that, in the event of
low tariff or free trade, his wages would
be much reduced. This is also an error,
that the
arm of the republican party. A more
striking contrast of two methods of wise j as is clearly shown by the fact
n . 1 .lyinf n.T'ii tit-', nnnniin i.nn V . . !
people conld scarcely be presented. Mr.
Cleveland rules his party; Mr. Harri
son's party rules him. It may be
doubted whether the democrats have
had such a leader before since the days
of Jackson ; certainly the republicans
have never had a director of works at
once so obliging and so competent as is
the present occupant of the white house.
For Lincoln and Grant led their party
with power and determination.
The game of bluff attempted to be run
by the democracy of Alabama, Arkansas
and New York, to suppress United
States marshals at the election on Tues
day, has caused Attorney Gen. Miller to
issue an order which closes as follows:
"The laws must be enforced. Marshals
are warned under penalties of the law
against any interference with the rights
of citizens, and at the same time will
guard and protect such rights at any
cost. Instructions in accordance with
these views will be sent to United States
marshals in all parts of the country." In
reference to the question as to whether
the United Slates marshals have a right
to be within the guard rail of polling
places, it has been answered in the attorney-general's
circular of October 31st,
and the statutes are so clear and ex
plicit there is no room for discussion.
foreign skilled mechanic as soon as he
arrives in this country and finds em
ployment in his line of labor can, and
does, perform his work in a generally
satisfactorv manner at from fifty to 150
per cent, advance on what he made in
the old country. It seems to us that
the sensible thing for the workingman
who is getting two or three times as much
for his labor as the same claes of work
men in Europe, and who has comforts
j and even luxuries not enjoyed by the
j latter, "to let well enough alone" and
not "lose the substance while grasping
for the shadow," or chasing after rainbows.
In a campaign speech at Geneva, N.
Y., Congressman Dingley of Maine said
that in 18G0 the whole annual value of
manufactured products in this country
was only $800,000,000, while now the an
nual value of the manufactured products
of the Empire state alone was over three
times that sum. It is not well to pause
to consider whether it were wise to over
throw a policy of protection that had
brought about such marvelous industrial
progress. From all over the land come
proofs that the people are alive to the
great debate. Protection or ' free-trade
is the real issue. Shall we help Great
Britain at sore cost to our own people,
or shall we be just to ourselves? Shall
we love our neighbor across the ocean
better than we love those of our own
household?
The report on the internal commerce
of the United States, by the chief of the
bureau of statistics at Washington, says
that the value of the commerce passing
through the Sault Ste Marie canal, to
and from lake Superior and beyond, in
creased from $2S,000,000 in 1881 to $128,
000,000 in 1891. This increase ia largely
in goods tor the great farming region of
the -northwest, and in the products of
their farms coming eastward. The poor,
plundered bread-winners, ground down
and robbed by protected monopolists,
manage to hold their own tolerably well,
even to gain a trifle. ' Strange to say,
their gain under this wicked McKinley
tariff actually increased.
Congressman Ellis was one of the
speakers at the Portland Jubilee. He
made a good hit on the recent fusion,
likening the democratic party to one who
had to mortgage his assets. The demo
crats, he said had mortgaged themselves
to the populists, in the hope that their
combined assets might prove adequate.
He spoke enthusiastically of the repub
lican vote the interior counties would
give, ana wanted to see a 10,000 major
ity in the state, to put an end to the talk
about Oregon being doubtful. Hon. M.
C. George made a brief, but brilliant
speech, and then Senator John H. Mit
chell was introduced. He was greeted
with a tremendous ovation, many rising
and waving welcome. Owing to the
lateness of the hour, it being 11 :30, he
did not make a set speech, but acknowl
edged his reception, warmly eulogized
President Harrison as a soldier,- as a
president and a patriotic American.
The senator predicted a sweeping re
publican victory, including New York,
Indiana and AVest Virginia. It was
with three cheers for the ticket that the
big meeting broke up.
REASONS THAT SWAY VOTES.
Au interesting symposium in the Nov
ember issue of the Forum contains con
tributions from Messrs. James Schouler,
J. H. Schiff, Franklin MacVeagh, John
Claflin, II. W. Cannon, Gen. A. C. Mc
Clttrg, the Rev. David Swing and the
Hon. David Dudley Field, each of whom
tells "for whom I shall vote and . why
The expressions come pat to the hour,
and as the sight contributors are evenly
divided as to their preferences, four on
each side, the utterances may be assumed
to comprise a pretty fair statement of
the situation.
The four favoring Mr. Harrison's elec
tion are Messrs. Schiff, Cannon and
Claflin and Prof. Swing. Mr. Schiff
thinks that the moment the democratic
party gets into actual power it becomes
"a threat to the substantial interests of
the country." Mr. Claflin basis his
preference on the tariff and silver ques
tions. Prof. Swing, on the other hand,
finds that the tariff issues "do not fig
ure" in the pending case, as "both par
ties are bound to the practice of the pro
tective doctrine." He does not wish a
change in the methods employed, be
cause "it will cost less to go on than to
retreat." Mr. Cannon's reasons for pre
ferring Harrison are personal respect
and a belief in the principles of the re
publican party.
Mr. Schouler likes Cleveland because
of "the superior strength of the princi
pies he represents." and because his ad
ministration was "wis.1-, sagacious, for
bearing and courageous." Mr. Mac
Veagh's preferences have already been
made public, though he chrvstalizes
them here in nine reasons, five based
upon a preference, for the democratic
partv and four upon Mr. Cleveland's
superiority. Gen. McClurg likes Mr.
Cleveland for his attitude on the tariff,
force-bill and pension issues. Mr.
Fields choice is made because of princi
ples rather than men. Mr. Harrison
holds. that the government should take
care of the people ; Mr. Cleveland, that
the people should take care of themselves.
As the contributors to this edifying
symposium are evidentlv sincere, their
utterances form an interesting illustra
tion of the diversity of opinions which
go to sway an election.
It might not be a bad idea for all
voters to draw up similar declarations of
political faith before going to the polls
Then, at least, thev would be sure that
they had such a faith, backed by reason
and studv of facts.
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l'ASSENGEl' AXES.
Four years ago Mr. Cleveland, by rea
son of his official position, took no ac
tive part in politics. This year Mr.
Harrison, because of his office and his
deep ufHiction, can give absolutely no
thought to the progress of the campaign.
Those who remember his felicitous
speeches in 1888 feel that there is a dis
tinct falling off in interest because of his
silence.
From the editorial tone of some of
our contemporaries it is to be inferred
that the editors have already brought
out and dusted off their woodcut chanticleers.
It might, have been expected. Two
years ago Chicago women began to wear
stand-up collars and four-in-hand ties,
and now they are registering as voters.
- Not a few throats in New York state
"are becoming seriously irritated by cries
of fraud.
The situation has so developed in the
past 24 hours as to give the supporters of
Harrison and Reid every assurance of
success. Early in the campaign the
democrats made so much noise and such
extravagant claims, that their chances
were over estimated. Added to this was
the uncertainty of the strength of the
people's party. That organization,
founded solely upon the discontent of
the people, was so active, so belligerent,
so confident of success in the south and
west, that the complication of no major
ity for either in the electoral college
seemed possible, thus ensuring the
election of Cleveland by the democratic
house of representatives. It seemed as
though Cleveland thus had two chances
toone. But the situation is now entirely
altered.
The democratic party must go to the
polls tomorrow and meet the electors of
the nation squarely on the issues of the
unconstitutionality of protection .and the
restoration of bank scrip. It makes no
difference, of course to the hide-bound
partisans, what the party'platform says.
They would vote the ticket if it said all
domestic manufacturers should be fined,
and money should be made out of tan
bark; but the thousands of thougtful
and somewhat independent voters, upon
whom they counted with so much con
fidence, do care what are the declared
principles of the party whose candidates
they are asked to support, and will vote
accordingly.
The extravagant claims of democratic
success in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Indiana have been abondoned, and the
party is now facing the grave danger of
losing Connecticut, New Jersey, Dele
ware and West Virginia. The recent
desperate effort to transfer the Oregon,
Idaho, Colorado, South Dakota, Kansas,
Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota demo
cratic vote to the peoples party, with
the hope of throwing the election into
the house, is a practical acknowledg
ment that New York is looked upon as
lost, and that there is no hope for Cleve
land in the electoral college. ' -
Electoral Vote, 1803.
Under the new apportionment the
states will be entitled to electoral votes
this year as shown below. The states
giving pluralities for Cleveland in 1888
are printed in italics: those giving plu
ralities for Harrison, in Roman. The
new states are printed in small capitals
STATES.
2
cr.
Alabama 11
Arkansas 8
California It
Colorado 4
Connecticut 6
Delaware .- . . . . 3
Florida 4
Georgia 13
Idaho 3
Illinois 24
Indiana 15.
Iowa 13
Kansas 19
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 8
Maine 6
Maryland 8
Massachusetts lo
Michigan . . 14
Minnesota a
Mississippi 9
Missouri 17
Montana 3
Nebraska S
Nevada 3
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 10
New York 36
Nobth Dakota 3
North Carolina 11
Ohio 23
Oregon 4
Pennsylvania.... 32
Rhode Island 4
South Dakota 4
South Carolina 9
Tennessee 12
Texas 15
Vermont 4
Virginia 12
West Virginia 6
Washington 4
Wisconsin . . .- 12
Wyoming 3
60,113
27,210
7,080
13,224
336
3,441
12,902
60,029
22,042
2.34S
31,721
79,901
38,666
54,760
23,252
6,182
31,457
22,903
36,965
55,375
23,701
27,873
1,939
2,370
7,149
14.373
13,118
19,599
6,769
79,458
4,427
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