VICTORY IN ILLINOIS.
CARTER H. HARRISON THINKS THE
STATE IS DEMOCRATIC.
All Ttint I Needed 1 to Open the I'o
pis' Eye with an Old l'uahinned Ring
ing Campaign The frealient't M'cnk
ami 8teenon'a Popnlarlty.
From the tone of eastern exchanges
received by The Times it is evident they
do not fully realize the importance of
the "old northwestern" states in this
year's contest for the presidency. The
"old northwestern" states here alluded
to are the five of which Illinois is the
geographical center and Chicago the
metropolis Indiana, Michigan, Wiscon
sin, Iowa and Illinois. Indiana has been,
pending several national political con
tests, a doubtful state, with a disposi
tion to go Democratic, more because of
the strong hold upon fts affection secured
by the old Democratic warhorse, Thomas
A. Hendricks, than because of any gen
eral change of political sentiment The
other four have no very prominent man
under whose leadership the Democracy
could or would rally and stand shoulder
to shoulder.
These four states have been considered
Ay the Republicans safely and securely
theirs. They have thought Illinois their
impregnable Gibraltar. Silently, in
sidiously, slowly and almost impercepti
bly at times, however, the foundations
of their fortification have been under
mined, and during what are termod off
years the whole superstructure has
seemed ready to topple over. The causes
of this disposition to disintegration are
inherent in the very makeup of the
party. The bulk of its members, rank
and file, imagine themselves thinking
men, and are prone to run after new no
tions and to bow down before political
fads. They think themselves men of
moral ideas, and as such are easily ready
to ally themselves with those who are in
pursuit of catching ephemeral itms.
CARTER H. HARRISON.
Political ideas and great fundamental
political truths are rarely one and the
same. The Democracy boasts not of
ideas. It intrenches itself behind a
breastwork of fundamental truths.
These are and have been ever one and
the same, varying somewhat as times
change, and expanding more or less as
men grow and wax in education and ex
perience. Democrats are satisfied with
the doctrines of Jefferson, of Jackson
and Tilden, and run not after new
things. If they are sufficiently moved
to go to the polls they vote straight in
off years as well as in presidential years
The Republicans, on the other hand,
priding themselves in their progressive
oess and independence, are apt to run
after new tangled isms in off years an.
then satisfy their political consciences
by voting straight at presidential elec
tions. The east is far more homoge
neous than is the west, and is more un
der the influence of neighborhood opin
ion. Even in Illinois, an old state com
pared with those behind her, men are
known to each other only for a compara
tively short time, and are less afraid of
the charge of having changed an opin
ion. Having deserted their party dur
ing an off year and thereby permitted a
Democrat to get into office, Republicans
find such Democrat to be an honest man
and that their affairs have not been
mined.
The political monster heretofore seen
through the mists of party prejudice now
becomes a man and a fair one. They
drop insensibly away from their party
and drop into Democratic folds, or uiort
probably they stay away from the polls.
Ihi process goes on very slowly, but
jteadily, and has a more lasting effect
than when men ran o3 in masses lifter a
favored leader. Iowa fell off from tho
3epublicau party because of prokilji
don. There is a well grounded hope
;hat the falling away is permanent.
Wisconsin in the off year deserted the
Republican party because it proposed
:o rob the parent of the control of ttie
-sducation of its child. Wisconsin Deia
crats are confident they will carry the
.tate for the national Democracy thb
ear.
The same contest has been mad:; in
'llinois, but has not as yet been decided,
it was a drawn battle. The opponerts
t paternalism laid down their arm,
jut have been keeping them bright ami
n good order, and this year will renew
ho engagement with undiminished
courage and 6turdy resolve. The Ke
mblicana are trying to Aolge the ue.
Their leaders declare it is dead. Tba
Republican press, which two years r.go
tad the "little red school house stand-
.ng out on each page of every issue, now
jeely promise that the obnoxious ft-a-mres
of the compulsory education l.;w
ball be modified. But the largo and
determined Lutheran electorate and the
nuge Catholic population refuse to trust
Sbeta. They fear tho too freely cfTcted
wooden horse." The Lutherans have
ireretofore beeu stanch Republicans.
They do not object to paying their taxes
for the support of public education, but
they prefer to send their children to
their own parochial schools and pay for
their tuitioi..
The compulsory education law do-
nmila tli.it every child of a certain ago
shall each year ntkiid a public school
twelve weeks, but permits that i cer
tiflrnte cf attendance for a like number
of wee'ts rt ft private school rhull ex
empt the child'M parents from fine, pro
vided such school shall be approved by
the regnlnr board of education, and that
certain elemeutary studies shall be con
ducted in English.
The Lutherans object to both of theso
provisions. They claim that it is diffi
cult for them to force their children to
continually speak German ; that the
tendency is to speak tho dominant lan
guage of tho country, and that the habit
of acquiring tho elementary studies in
German alone grounds tho language
into their minds so they will retain it
through life; that pride of appearing
well among the larger American popu
lation tends to make all American bom
children of foreign parentage acquire
English and speak it well, in spite of
their use of their own language in the
parochial schools; that therefore the
compulsion to study the elementary
courses in English is a needless act of
tyranny. They claim, too, that so long
as they pay their school taxes the at
tempted espionage of school boards into
their parochial schools system is unre
pnblican and naked tyranny.
The Democracy holds that the natural
guardian of the child is its parent, and
while the stato may possibly have the
right to compel a reasonable amouut of
education, it has no right to demand
through a school board by whom that
education should be imparted. That a
certificate that a child has been to
school twelve weeks in the year is as
much as the state should demand. It
does not believe In a paternal govern
ment, and holds that the home and the
family should have the right to have
inscribed over the doorway "lutraro
non" to every one, except under necessi
ties of public safety.
The obnoxious clauses in the law were
forced by a Republican legislature and
signed by a Republican governor, now
again candidate for re-election, nd at
the last legislature, though promises
were made to expunge the obnoxious
features, it was a promise made only to
be broken. The Lutherans will vote for
the Democratic candidate Altgeld al
most to a man. They will more than
probably carry to him from 20,000 to
000 votes heretofore solidly Republican.
Now, look back twelve years. In 1SS0
Garfield's majority in Illinois was 40.000:
Cullotns a little less. In 1SS4 BiuineV
majority ove Cleveland was ."-,122:
Oglesby's, over your correspondent, II.
500. In 1888 Harrisou's over Cleveland.
22,103; Fifer over Palmer, 12,500. The
Lutherans at each of these elections
voted a straight Republican ticket.
There is reason to believe that to a ijihu
the German Lutherans will oppose Fifer,
and it is hoped that a heavy percentage
of the Swedes and Norwegians of the
same church will rally with their Ger
man coreligionists.
State pride will carry many wavering
and weak kneed Republicans to Steven
son. All men respect and honor Cleve
land. But, on the other hand, Harrison has
winning ways to make men dislike him.
Reid's name falls out west as a cold
blanket But Adlai Stevenson appeals
largely to men's hearts. He is known
to be a frank, kindly man who belongs
to the people is one of them. In this
respect the Democratic ticket is stronger
than the Republican. No Republican
ever speaks with any warmth of either
Harrison or Reid. All they ran ay is
Harrison has given a clean administra
tion. But what president gave a cleaner
one than Cleveland? No Republican
will deny that the country will be safe
in his hands. It is a common expres
sion among business Republicans that
no harm will come to the country with
either Harrison or Cleveland.
There is as yet no enthusiasm in poli
tics in this state. The skirmish lino has
not been thrown out. The cleanness of
the last two administrations to a great
extent tends to repress any marked en
thusiasm. This condition continuing
will have a worse effect upon the De
mocracy than upon their opponents.
Why? Decorous quietude tends to keep
men in accustomed lines. Now, there
is a general tendency among the young
men to lean toward Democracy; pos
Bibly from the natural disposition of
young men to set up for themselves and
to show themselves free from leading
strings. In the east young men go west.
In Illinois young men stay in the state.
These young men delight in the excite
ments attending a presidential election.
They are disposed to join in n hurrah.
Without this hurrah they will be apt to
vote 03 their fathers have done; with it
they will gravitato to tho Democratic
party. There is an army of young men
in the 6tate who have never voted for a
president. Their first vote for one is to
them a momentous thing, and they will
wish to cast it to the tune of political
music.
A chan.ro cf 11.03S votes from those of
1SSS will carry Illinois from Harrison to
Cleveh'.nu. These will easily be fouud
among the Lutherans and among he
young of all kinds if there be but itusiT
enough to put lifu cud metal in their
heels. A cold campaign will give the
state to Harrison mid Reid, but not to
Fifer. He is doomed. A red Lot caia
paign will give it to Cleveland and
Stevenson. !St:tte pride can be aroused
with the name of Adlai Stevenson. A
campaign full of dash and noise wih
cause the young to rally about their own
ItUow ciuzeu. LlevelauU s name liiu
administration are a bettor theme for o
stump speaker than that of Harrison.
The national committee should !.A-
well to it that from the opening of tin
campaign to the day of election thi
western prairies should hear the rattle
cf musketry and the roar of cunuon.
T . . . . . ... ,
uixnocrnuo c;iouai committees nave
heretofore found delight for their ma
nipulations only in the east. The Repub
lican committees have had able repre
sentatives in the west. The result has
been marked. Let the Democratic com
mittoe awaken to the fact that Illinois is
a battleground where victory may be
Won or lost. Carter H. Harrison in New
York Herald.
AN AtLEEODIED INFANT.
839
How our infant industries expect to
be helped along.
A MIRACLE WORKER.
The ateKlnlejr Hill Make Goods Cheap
and MakeeCtonds Dear.
Ask the first protectionist you meet
why American manufacturers need pro
tection, and he will say that without
tariff foreign manufacturers would put
goods into the American market at
prices so low American manufacturers
could not live.
That is the only excuse for a tariff,
The only necessity is to protect Ameri
can manufacturers against low prices.
The tariff is intended to secure for the
American manufacturer better prices
than he could command without it. He
is supposed to distribute a portion of his
returns in better wages to his men.
Manifestly a tariff whirti does not ac
complish this pnrjiofe of maintaining
prices Is a failure. Americau manu
facturers do not have to lo protected
against hiath prices. High prices lenefit
them. It is high prices thev are seeking.
Free trade, we are told, would "flood
the country" with cheap goods; out
manufacturers could not meet these low
prices and live. Hence the tariff.
This has been tho argument back oi
every tariff bill which has been pushed
through congress. This has been the
burden of every argument in behalf of a
tariff from Hamilton to McKiuley. It
was this dread of cheap clothing which
inspired every speech Mr. Harrison made
in the campaign of 18!3, and every Re
publican orator sought to terrify the
American workingmeu with the specter
of cheap goods bringing low wages.
But now consider the arguments with
which the Republican journals are
loaded. The whole theory of protec
tion as taught prior to 1800 has been
abandoned, and today we nre told that
low prices are not an injury, but a
benefit to the country; that low prices
are always accompanied by high wages,
and that the McKiuley tariff secure
both these boons for tho American peo
ple. Louisville Courier-Journal.
Bheehaa It a Democrat.
Since the Chicago convention the at
titude of Mr. Sheeh&n, though he was a
sorely disappointed man, has been such
as to insoire a hiarh amnion of Ms lnva.t?
and zeal, even' among Democrats whe
naa Deen xactionauy opposed to nun.
He has certainly displayed an honorable
and unselfish suirit. and bis enorcv ami
good example in tbe early days of the
campaign win not ne rorgotten. In hlf
own county of Erie Mr. Sheehan will,
we have no doubt, rive satisfartnrt
proofs of his earnestness and good will.
ana tnrougn the state his influence will
be exerted to the advantage of the
ticket Rochester (N. Y.) Herald.
One Keault of Protection.
That which chiefly conspires to make
Pennsylvania the seat of bitter strikes
is the fact that in its mountainous min
ing sections the land affords few re
source for locked out men. If en
forced idleness in summer is to remain
a standing result of overprotection the
deserted farms of New England offer
summer refuge for the unemployed In
industrial establishments, attended with
the best of moral, sanitary and money
saving results. Boston Globe.
The Milk In the Cocoanut.
Republican organs ore making a great
ado over the appropriations of the pres
ent congress, which threaten to reach
those of the billion congress. While we
would like to soo much smaller appro
priations, it must not be forgotten that
Crar Reed's billion dollar congress cun
ningly increased the permanent expendi
tures with pension bills, sdgar bounties,
river and harbor steak, etc.; so that the
bands of the present congress have been
tied. Saratoga bun.
Another Nail iu UarrUon's CoUiu.
Here is another ugly uail for the pres
ident's political coffin. He cannot af
ford to lose Indiana, yet it is plain that
it is impossible for him to carry it. Dud
ley is not to manipulate the blocks of
five this year, and the secret ballot
checks the course of corruption. Har
rison has made enemies, the Blaineitee
are after him and Hoosierdom is in the
hands of his foes, Maiiuoketa (la.) Sen
tinel.
A Rooky Moad to Washington,
It is a noticeable fact that Republican
organs and stump speakers are this year
bending their energies not to the gam
ing of new converts to the faith, but are
endeavoring to inspire a little enthusi
asm iu the breasts of "the old guard
and to will buck the runawuy sheep into
the fold. Alton (Ills.) Sentinel.
Hill Will lleln.
If Senator Kill should decide to take
on ocean trip he will remain away but
four or five weeks, and will actively par
ticipate in the campaign on his return,
Oswego (N. Y.) Palladium.
Get Keadjr to Shell Out.
Mr. Harrisbu, through Mr. Carter,
will soon begin the "fat frying" again,
and notice is hereby given to the tariff
beneficiaries to shell out. Cleveland
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that distressing " bearing-down "
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