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IT "WAS A LANDSLIDE. Republicans Make a Biff Sweep in Most of the States. Xbe Next Congress Goes to tho G. O. P. Morton Defeats Hill In New York State Officials and Leglsla- tares Elsewhere. Washington. Nov. 9. The following table shows the political division of the various state delegations in the Fifty-fourth congress as made up from late returns and the gains in each: Gain. States. Sep. Dem. Pop. Sop. Dem. Pop. 1 1 Alabama .. Arkansas California. 6 Colorado 2 Connecticut. 4 Delaware 1 Florida. Georgia Idaho 1 Illinois 20 Indiana 13 Iowa 11 Kansas 7 Kentucky 5 Louisiana.., Maine 4 Maryland 3 8 S 1 11 0 11 1 5 S Massachusetts J.1 ichlgan Tliunesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire. New Jersey New York North Carolina.. North Dakota.... a 14 Ohio 20 10 ' 2 1 Oregon. ycnusylvania.. .. Uhode Inland.... South Carolina.. South Dakota... Tennessee Texas Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia... 6 12 isconsin Wyoming 1 Totals.... 244 103 9 The Senate. Washington", Nov. 9. Reports re ceived up to9 o'clock Wednesday night indicate that the next senate will have 40 democrats, 41 republicans and 6 pop ulists, while the attitude of the suc cessor to Senator II arris, of Tennessee, is still in doubt. In this classifica tion Senators Stewart and Jones, of Nevada, who were elected by the republicans but have announced 7-ts w v... .W-W..-,-, ,, , STATE HO.VVE FOR JUVENILE FEMALE OFFENDERS AT GENEVA, ILL. To be located on a tract of land of flftv-onc and a half acres oa a blu9 overlooking Fox river. The dimensions of the building ar to be 375 by 62 feet. It will be supplied - ita steam heat, electric light, electrio alarms for'doors, most approved plumbing and a pure and ample water juppl, their separation from that party, and Gov. Tillman, who will doubtless be elected by the so-called independent democrats of the South Carolina legis lature, are placed in the populist col umn. Tillman will probably vote with the democrats on organization and Stewart and Jones, of Nevada, and Peffer with the republicans. This would throw the 'balance of power into the hands of the populists. THE STATE ELECTIONS. I-cvl r. Morton's Enormotw Plurality The CSreuter New York. New York, Nov. 9. The total cor rected vote for governor of New York btate, Sullivan county out, stands as follows: Hill, 514.073; Morton, 607.419; Wheeler, 27,106 total. 1.1CS.G00. Mor ton's plurality, 158,846; Morton's ma jority, 120,239. Returns from all except a very few missing election districts show an ap parent plurality in New York eity for consolidation, or "the greater New York," of over 86,000, while the rapid transit measure shows an apparent plurality of S2.400. West Virginia. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 9. The democrats haven't a plank from the wreck in West Virginia. Returns compiled from nonpartisan sources dhow that the state senate will be a tie and the republicans will have a ma jority of 19 in the next house of dele gates. These returns are official with one or two exceptions, and a republican senator will certainly succeed Senator Camden. The total of republican ma jorities in the four districts is over 0.000. William L. Wilson is defeated by over 2.C00 in the Second district. Illinois. Chicago, Nov. 9. The plurality for Henry Wulff, republican candidate for state treasurer, is now estimated at l0,000. The whole republican state ticket is elected. The veteran Spring er, who has represented the Sangamon district in congress for nearly twenty year.-, has been retired for a new man and a republican. It is likely that the next general assembly will be com posed as follows: Senate Republic ans, 28; democrats, 23. House of rep resentatives Republicans, 109; demo crats, 95. Indiana. iNDiANAroi.is,, Ind., Nov. 9. The partial returns received from Indiana indicate that the state is republican by at least 40,000. The legislature is republican in both branches. There will be in the house about sixty-five republicans and thirty-five democrats; In the senate about thirty republicans and twenty democrats. Obio. Columbus, O., Nov. 9. Chairman Dick has received unofficial returus rom nearly every county in the state. The republicans have carried sixty- eight of the eighty-eight counties, giv ing Hon. S. M. Taylor (rep.) for sec retary of state 183,910 plurality over Milton Turner (dem.). Iowa. Des Moines, la., Nov. . The latest returns show a republican plurality of 75,000, the election of the entire state republican ticket and a republican delegation to congress. Michigan. Detroit, Mich,, Nov. 9. The latest returns indicate that Michigan has given a republican plurality of 80,000, not more than three counties in the state showing democratic supremacy. Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Nov. 9. Wisconsin will send a solid republican delegation to congress. Edward Sanerhering is elected in the Second district. If the ratio of gain in the earlier returns is maintained the republican plurality in the state will be between 40,000 and 50,000. The legislature will be repub lican in both branches. Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 9 The state gives Nelson (rep. ) for governor about 50,000 plurality. Minnesota elects all of the seven republican congressmen. The legislature will be heavily republican, sending a republican senator to suc ceed Washburn. Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., Nov. 9. Nearly all of the state has been heard from. The figures received indicate the election of Holcomb (pop -dem.) for governor by a small plurality. The republicans have probably elected five out of the six congressmen, with the result in the Sixth still in doubt. Outside of governor the republican state ticket is elected and the legislature will prob ably be republican on joint ballot. AValte Defeated. Denver, Col., Nov. 9. Returns are very complete. They place Mclnt3re's (rep. for governor) majority at 20,000: Shafroth's, 14.4S0; llowen, whom the republicans admitted would be de feated, has 1,794 majority. There will be a republican majority of 17 on joint ballot in the state legislature insuring the return of Senator El O. Woleott. Kentucky. Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 9. Upon the face of the returns Owens now (at midnight) looks the winner by a ma jority of 119. Iiis friends are claiming his election, and Denny's followers charge brazen frauds in two coun ties in the district. Louisville. Ky., Nov. 9. The re publicans are in a happy frame of mind over the general result. Esti mates on the state show that the dem ocratic majority will not reach over 2,000. The democrats have elected four judges of the court of appeals as follows: William T. Reeves. Thomas H. Pa.vnter, Sterling 1$. Teney and John Ii. Grace. The congressional delegation will stand: Democrats, 6; republicans, 5. California. San Francisco, Nov. 9. About one half the entire vote of California is counted and the result indicates that James II. Itudd (dem.), candidate for governor, has a plurality in this city of about 10.000 and will prob ably be elected by a plurality of between 6,000 and 7,000. The re turns now indicate that the repub icans have elected six out of seven congressmen. There are still no re turns to indicate the complexion of the legislature. Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Nov. 9. The next congressional delegation from Penn sylvania will probably be twenty -eight republicans to two democrats. Erd man's majority in Berks county will be nearly 3,000 and Congressman Mutchler claims the election of Hart in the Eighth district by from 71 to 250. Kansas. Topeka, Kan., Nov. 9. The total vote in Kansas is about 290,000, al though the accurate returns will not be known for several days. The re publican state ticket has polled about 146,000 votes, the populists 114,000, democrats 24,000 and prohibitionists 6,000. The republicans have elected seven congressmen and the populists one. The republicans have elected 91 members of the legislature, which gives them a majority on joint ballot of 47 over both populists and democrats. The Dakota . Grand Forks, N. D., Nov. 9. The latest estimates give a republican majority' in the state of from 5,000 to 10,000. Pierre. S. D., Nov. . Sheldon (rep.) is elected governor by not less than 10,000 plurality. Both republican can didates for congress are elected, and the legislature is overwhelmingly re publican. Missouri. 0 St. Louis, Nov. 9. The state demo cratic committee concedes the election of a republican legislature. It has also conceded the defeat of R. P. Bland for congress in the Eighth district by a plurality of 19 votes. The commit tee still claims the reelection of Dook ery in the Third district by S00. New Jersey. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 9. On Joint ballot the legislature will probably stand: Republicans, 52; democrats, 20. The republicans elect congressmen in all but the Seventh district. Tennessee. Nasiiville, Tenn., Nov. 9. Official and unofficial returns from fifty-three counties' out of ninety-six give Turney (dem.) 58,395 and Evans (rep.) 49,149. Returns are coming in slowly. Both sides are still claiming the election. Idaho. Boise, Idaho, Nov. 9. Definite re turns come in slowly. The republican state committee is satisfied that the entire republican state and congres sional tickets are elected. The legis lature will be republican. In Other States. The Texas legislature is democratic. The entire republican state ticket is elected in Montana. Late returns from New Hampshire give the republican state ticket 10,000 plurality. The legislature is repub lican. The election of a fusion legislature is indicated by the returns from North Carolina. The judiciary is probably democratic. Evans (dem.) defeats Pope (ind.) for governor of South Carolina. In Wyoming the legislaure will elect two republican United States senators. Connecticut has elected a republican governor and legislature. Delaware republicans elect the gov ernor and congressmen. The legisla ture will be republican, which insures a republican successor to United States Senator Iliggins. . Partial returns from, New Mexico in dicate the election of T. B. Catron (rep.) for delegate. Returns from the major portion of Oklahoma territory make it positive that Flynn (rep.) delegate to congress, will have fully 5,000 majority. The territorial legislature will be very close, with the balance of power in both houses in the hands of the popu lists. The vote of Massachusetts, with the towns of Boyleton and Goshold miss ing, gives Greenhalge (rep.) 18S.020; Russell, 123,938; Richardson. 8,129. Greenhalge's plurality, 64.0SS. The legislature is overwhelmingly repub lican. In the state of Washington the next legislature will be republican by at least 20 on joint ballot, insuring a republican United States senator to succeed John S. Allen. The populist vote throughout the state leads the democratic by several thousand. OLNEY ON ORGANIZED LABOR. lie Says Men Should Not Re Discharged for Ilelonglng to Unions. Philadelphia, Nov. 9. The contro versy between the receivers of the Reading Railroad company and such employes as are members of the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen has prompted an expression of opinion from Attorney General Olney in the form of a letter to Judge Dallas of the United States court, before whom the case is pending. The difficulty be tween the Reading and the employes reached a crisis on August 15 last, when General Superintendent Sweigard sum moned before him eleven employes and notified them that they should abandon the brotherhood as a condi tion of retaining their places with the railroad company. Vigorous protests were made against this alternative and the brotherhood urged the receiv ers to withdraw it, but in answer the receivers, on September 17, wrote: The policy of this company Is well known to be that it will not consent that persons in Us service shall owe allegiance to other organiza tions which may make claims upon them which are incompatible with their duties to their emploj ers. This position was taken ad visedly, and we have no Intention of departing from If Attorney General Olney' letter is an exhaustive discussion of the questions presented, and he reviews the various problems and the consistent solutions to be applied in every aspect. In sub stance he holds that labor unorganized is practically powerless; that in combi nations such as this lies the only safe guard of the workingman in his deal ings with organized capital, and that his right to belong to Buch a union beneficial in intent and purpose is a legal right which he cannot be de prived of. ASKED TO INTERVENE. China Appeals tu the Powers of Europe la the Interest of Peace. London, Nov. 7. The Daily Chron icle says: "If China desires peace, she should address her request to Japan and not to Europe. However unpleas ant that task may be, it is to the vic tors that the vanquished must ap peal. Shanghai, Nov. 7. The Chinese troops under Gen. Sung have evac uated Chin-Lien-Cheng and .now occu py the mountain pass on the road to Peking. Orders have been given to all military commanders to defend Peking at all hazards. The Japanese are marching northward, aiming to get behind Gen. Sung's army. It is ex pected that all foreigners will be re quested to leave Peking within a fort night. London, Nov. 7. Special dispatches received here from Tokio say that all idea of a Chinese raid upon the Japan ese coast has been abandoned and that orders have been issued to re move the torpedoes from Tokio bay. Navigation into the harbor is now de clared to be free. The decree forbid ding the sale of gunpowder in Japan has been cancelled. I GEN. HOWARD RETIRED. Order Issued by War Department Sketch of Ilia Career. Washington, Nov. 10. A formal or der was issued from the war depart ment Thursday, retiring Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, commanding the depart ment of the cast. Thanksgiving In Illinois. Springfield, 111.. Nov. 8. Gov. Alt geld has issued his proclamation ap pointing Thursday, November 29, as Thanksgiving day. - PRESS OPINIONS. Comments of Democratic Journals oa the Elections Cause of the Defeat. 'Democratlo defeat results immediately from deplorable and inexcusable divisions ia the party ranks and more remotely from a se ries of blunders at Washington In which Orover Cleveland was the master spirit of evil. "If he had had a proper appreciation of the foe that was to be encountered when the demo cratic party set out to destroy the protective tariff robbers of this country he would have summoned congress In March. 1893. If that had been done, the mandate of the people, as given In the elections of 1890 and 1802, would have been far more potent than It was In 1894. when congress tardily got to work on the Wil son bill; and many a man who, this year, sulked or held back or openly traded with the enemy, would nave ucen in line uoing ioyai j Service In the cause of reform. i "The almost Inconceivable folly and stupid- Hy of that delay was the fault of Grover Cleve land alone. Nearly all of the other blunders I by the democratic party grew out of this ono fatal mistake. Started wrong, it went wrong, j and at every turn It was given a further lm- j petus In the wrong direction by some mis- I cnlovous utterance from the white house. I "The Inability of the democratio president to work harmoniously with a democratic con- gross, and all of the scandals and heartburn- i lags naturally growing out of such a condltioa of affairs, produced Innumerable factions and j gave renewed courage to a party that had been j twice repudiated by overwhelming votes. He- , publicans win now. not because they deserve I to win. nor because they constitute a majority j of the people, but because their opponents are i rent by feuds and jealousies, most of them . foolish and all of them despicable." Chicago , Herald. i A Slaughter-House, Indeed! ; For an entire year it has been perceptible . to the close observer of passing events that '. the democratic party was marching through a slaughter-house, and Tuesday it seems to nave ; steped into the open grave that yawned to re- ! ceive it. There is little likelihood that it will be resurrected thence until it has had a new i birth of integrity and courage and a thorough , reorganization. To this complexion have less ' than two years of incapable leadership re- duced a great army and a noble cause that. ) upon lines of conviction, swept the country ia . It-W) and l9i j "The victory of the republicans has been so ' far-reaching and complete as to sink mere per- 1 sonal incidents and local Influences quite out of sight. There will be a special tale to tell to ! account for a particular defeat here and there; : and for the reduction of this or that majority: i but the democratic collapse is too universal to be ascribed to anything other than universal i and profound dissatisfaction. Never in tho ! history of the country have the people been so ' disappointed In work of their own doing, and never before did they make such haste to undo ' it. With some the object of distrust has been j the administration with others the congress, with all. the party organization wherever it ; showed itself. i "The industrial panic was succeeded by a political panic, and panics of all sorts are un- ; reasoning. They can only be met and turned : by quick, resolute action, and this quick, rcso- lute action was wholly lacking at Washington i and everywhere else. The president set the i paceof disaffection. It was eagerly taken up by the rank and file. Faction once in the sad- i die. rode booted and spurred down the demo j cratlc column, toppling over ii its mad career ' the just and the unjust, the meritorious and ' the recalcitrant. The slaughter has been in- j discriminate. Tho grave Is hardly wide ' enough to hold the f lain." Louisville Courier- ' Journal. i Internal Discord. "Out of Tuesday's election the democracy : brought the assurance that any other party I ever organized would have been hammered I Into a memory by the multiplied difficulties j which had been falling In a rapid succession of ! blows since the 4th of March. 1893. In the largest democratic state there was an outbreak of the implacable quarrel between ! the president of the United States and the lo- j cal leaders. As If that were not enough, the j dlsrlosures of astounding corruption In muni- j Clpal government had aroused the decency of j New York city as it never was aroussd before, ! even in Tweed's day, and the indignation was ', Tented upon Tammany, the controlling force in I local affairs. The states which are adjacent to 1 Manhattan Island are powerfully affected by currents of opinion In the metropolis. New Jersey and Connecticut are provinces of which New York city is the capital. "In the general canvass all the adventitious elements In politics were with the opposition. The tickle and thoughtless were affected by the cry of demagogues that the party In power was responsible for business troubles. Weak hearted democrats stayed at home. Protec tionist barons were encouraged to pour out their boodle into the hands of their political agents. Seltlsh offlceseekers who had been disappointed wreaked their petty malice on party candidates. There were diversions on the details of a currency policy. Enthusiasts were not satisfied with the moderate reforms of the new tariff. The rich classes objected to paying a share of federal expenses by means of an Income tax. Worklngmen were pressed ! with appeals on the tariff issue from one side and on the use of law to repress the violence of strikes from another side. Farmers were dis couraged by the low prices of wheat and horses. "Klections in tho off year always bring trouble to the party which has won In the presidential year. Internal discords oxer the distribution of offices hure not had time to heal. Dissatisfaction ulwavs reigns in that section of opinion which has not learned bet ter than to expect miracles of prosperity from the operations of government- This is an off year when such consoquences are extended and Intensified. It would not have proved a lowered demo cratic vitality if the losses had been much greater. Against such odds In the temporary conditions tho resistance made to the on slaught of protection, paternalism and pelf is ample proof of tho marvelous vigor of that party which has guarded the traditions of free dom for a century through victory and defeat. "The lesson is that democrats must unite, subordinate minor differences, repress In dividual Jealousies, agree up n a policy and stand a compact and organised force against the enemies of free Institutions. "Democracy is strong enough at any time to assert victoriously its lnherltel right to con trol tho government H founded. Tuesday It was at its lowest ebb. It cannot again be as near to weakness and exhaustion. Yet It lost nothing that it cannot easily regain, and that it will not regain with its revived powers in 1894 So much Is retained, such an Impressive demonstration of indestructible strength has been made, that the future Is more our own than it was In 1891 "St. Louis Republic. Now that the election is over, it is expected that Gov. McKinley will return to Columbus, O. II is private secretary, who has been running the executive department of that common wealth for the past three months, is said to be in great need of a vacation. The governor will, no doubt, find the work of performing the duties of his ofllce very irksome after his recent ex perience, but his secretary is certainly entitled to a little rest, and it is only a matter of common fairness that he should have it. Chicago Herald. It's a lucky thing for the coun try that there something over two "years more of Grover." So long as he is in the white house the protection robbers will not make great headway in their designs upon the public treas ury; for which may we be trulythank fuL Chicago Times. It will take readers of the cam paign columns in the republican pa pers several days to become thorough ly disinfected. It has been a malarial visitation more offensive than usual, and it will Require longer for the nauseating effects to be dissipated. Chicago Herald. HOW THE MINORITY WINS. Democratic Defeat Due to Division of tba Party. There is no reason why minor dif ferences of opinion should keep apart the masses of the people who have a common belief in the true principles ot popular government. The party of the monopolists, of the corporations, of subsidies and taxes always hangs together. It is singular that the co hesive power of public plunder should be stronger than the cohesive power of popular principles. The monopolists, the trusts, the sub sidized interests, the protected classes, the tax-eaters, the people who live by the sweat of the brows of others, never separate into factions nor divide their votes. They are a unit in political ac- tion. With the sole object of plunder of taxing the people to raise boun ties for their enterprises of industry and speculation enriching themselves by the spoliation of the country, they have tho organization and discipline of a pirate crew. They never "bolt," they never run third tickets, they never separate to be beaten in detail. It is amazing that there should be two or three parties of popular rights and but one party of the spoils. It is strange that men with great common beliefs and aims, who have no selfish interest in politics, who have nothing personally to gain whether their'party is in power or out of power, should fail to act in harmony at the polls, while the spoliator, the plunderers, ! Alpena, Mich., one at Philadelphia, the mercenaries never permit their j and one at Scranton. This shows a greed and rapacity to disturb their wiie distribution of manufacturing oneness of purpose or to produce dis- I revival. New knitting mills are pro integration in their ranks. jected at New Haven, Athens, Ga.; The people separate into political ' Canton. N. Y., and Reading, Pa. En factions orer the shades of meaning in ; largements are noted at Carroll, la.; language by which the most important J Ypsilanti, Mich.; Troy, N. Y., and principles of government are ex- i Wakefield, IL I. pressed. The spoilsmen concentrate In its news from the milling points their forces and are sure of victory ; the trade organ reports fift3--two cases against the divided ranks of the peo- j of new mills, enlargements and re ple. They stimulate the differences j openings and nine cases of shut-downs of honest factions in order that they ; from all causes. may gain their ends through lack of J The report from worsteds says that concerted action among those whom "the new fast-running loom is the real they have considered to rob and de- t factor in this problem. We have seen stroy. ' j the superintendent of one of the mills Every republican victory in the na- ; running these swift looms and he an tion and in the principal states that i swers us that he could make the goods has been gained within the last twen- I for ten per cent, less if necessary." ty-live years is the fruit of democratic j In the cotton department thirty-two divisions or of divisions between fac- new mills and enlargements are re tions that should have been united in i ported and no shut-downs. The new support cf democratic principles. I mills are scattered from Texas to T. heir victories have been those ol a united minority against a divided majority. The republican party is a minority party. It exists because the majorit5 holding essentially a common political faith, disintegrates at the ballot box, and votes a plurality ol ticlsets to represent the same sub- until alter another presidential elec stantial truths of popular free govern- j tion will not assert that the Textile ment. The republican victories are the victories of a compact minority over the divided majority. The democratic defeats, wherever they have occurred, were " those of a great, magnificent party, holding political beliefs of un questionable truth and value, but sep arated into factions, with opposing sets of candidates representing identic al principles in politics. The people will not come to their own they will be the prey of spoils men and bandits as long as they fail to become organized and disciplined for their own protection, as their enemies are organized and disciplined. The many will be defeated and robbed by the few as long as they do not com bine to resist defeat and robbery. The men who have lived and ac quired wealth and power hy subsidies, bounties and gifts from the govern ment of which they seized control from the hands of the masses will re tain their usurped domination until the people shall join in a revolutionto be accomplished by their united forces, with one purpose and a common ob ject. Chicago Herald. REPUBLICAN ROTTENNESS. Periods of Misrule of the Party Daring: the Last Twenty Years. The republican party lost control of the popular branch of congress for the first time since the beginning of the rebellion, in the election of 1374, just twenty years ago, and since that have had full control of the govern ment only during two congresses, the Foty-seventh and Fifty-urst. The j the good effects of democratic laws. Forty -seventh congress was organized i Louisville Courier-Journal. on the first Monday of December, liSl, j Importations of goods requiring with Warren J. Keifer, of Ohio, as ; ten hands to make indicate tlia.n a speaker. The Fifty -first congress was j thousand hands in this country are organized on the first Monday in De- j earning enough to live, support fami ceniber, 183J, with Thomas Ii. Reed, of j lies and have something left to spond Maine, in the chair. ! on something be3-ond bare necessities. During the Forty-seventh congress! We have never yet enjoyed a period of profligacy ran riot, and the apnropria- j prosperit- without the accompaniment tions were increased so largely that j of increased importations. Theie is public sentiment was outraged and the ; nothing so indicative of returning party was not able to again carry the j count T3' in a congressional ciccuuu uu- til 1SS8. when Harrison was elected president. Upon the face of the re turns there was a small republican majority- in the congress elected that j year, which alter me organza nuu m December,lSS0,was increased b3' throw ing out several democrats and seating republicans in their places. With full power in their hands the republican proiligate3 proceeded to make the best of their opportunities. All sorts of appropriations were asked for and allowed until more than a billion dollars had been disposed of besides making continuous appropria tions, which mortgaged the revenues of the country for live years in ad vance. The result was such a revolu tion in sentiment that the democratic majority of the Fifty-second congress was greater than it had been ever since the republican party was organized in 1S5C Kansas City Times. The trouble with McKinley is that ho is out of date. His philosophy, his deportment, his attitudes, hia smile, even his carefully cultivated re semblance to Napoleon Donaparte, all have lost their hold upon the public mind. The country has marched on and left him far behind, lost in ec static contemplation of a tariff scheme which events have discredited, which tiittnrr haa exDoseJ and which is to day as hopeless as anchronism ia ; statecraft as the stinkpot or the boom- erar.fr ia ivarfare. Washington Post CALAMITY AND FACTS. Industries Retiring Cnder the Influence of Tariff Reduction. Two months ago a tariff bill became a law. The calamity howlers went out to fill the air with the distress of manufacturing industries. Pittsburgh reports that the iron busi ness is reviving and that new mills are being built. A spirit of confidence pre vails. New England's strong point is textiles. Here are a few extracts from the last issue of the Textile World of Boston. First is this gen eral review of the situation: "As compared with a year ago the increase In general trade Is quite marked, end wcolon and cotton makers arc in a decidedly superior r I nneit(-in In ttnmn ri;npptl thrt ftitll.irtnn in better than it was a month ago." In looking forward to next year, the organ of the textile manufactur ers says: "Will the foreign manufacturer supply sjca a larce portion of the demand, on account of tfie reduced tariff, as to leave the domestic t manufacturer with only a limited market? We believe not, and as time goes on we notice th.it j tUere is not as much fear as there was regard- in,-; foreign competition." In reviewing the mills which make knit goods, the editor says: "It Is a conspicuous fact that the best ciuinned mills have the most cheerful thirds I to say of business as It is, and the -bluc' re ports ccme froai the smaller and not "up-io- j jute' plant;.' J Among tha in the colum new woolen mills noted ns of the Textile World are one at Northbridge, Mass., one at Massachusetts. It is cot well to predict that Filley. McKinley and lieed will consent to anything reasonable, but we suppose that tbc most abandoned liar among the howlers who are desperately striv- j ing to stop the business of the country orld is edited bv a Hritish hireling-. a doctrinaire college professor or a southern niossback. It is highly re garded by manufacturers and dealers and must be reliable in its news re ports, if not in its opinions. The re ports all show confidence and activity in textile manufacturing. There is a growing certainty that a reformed tariff will build up better home markets for manufacturers and all other producers. Foreign manu facturers cannot sell staple goods here unless they can supply better qualities at lower prices. That they cannot do. American intelligence and energy, the superior quickness of American labor and the advanced ef ficiency of American machinery have the home market beyond competition. We shall always import some things, no matter how much we manufacture, but there will be far more manufactur ing umler a reformed tariff than under a trade killer like the McKinlcj law. St. Louis Republic. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. There lias never been a campaign in this country where the republicans have resorted to such wholesale lying. Illinois State Register. Denjamin Harrison is deftly try ing to hedge on his tariH views, but the country has not had time to forget that he signed the McKinley bill- Detroit Free Press. The republicans, as in the panic, attribute the bad effects of their own laws to the democrats, while they are always ready to claim for themselves prosperity at home as the report of in- creased imnortations. Utica Observer. Oa twelve months' notice we can raise twice as much wheat, corn and cotton as we ever raised. On a notice of thirty da3s we can have ready a bigger output of manufactured goods than the extreme point of any past pe riod. Give us customers and we will have the goods ready. Not a hundred farms in America are cultivated to one-half their capacity. Scarcely a mill in America runs Bteadily for six jnonths at it3 extreme capacity. St. Louis Republic. Stocks and values in coal fields have advanced since the Wilson bill went into effect, though half the tariff on coal was removed by it The dole ful predictions that went up from that moribund organization of greed and stupiditv- known as the Ohio Wool Growers' association have only served to increase the contempt into which it had forced itself. The wool market has been firm er and more active under the in fluence of the law which places that commodity on the free list. It declined steadil3 under the ruinous policj- of McKinleyism and now it is advancing. The Wool and Cotton Reporter tells of unprecedented prosperity in the woolen mills. The largest tin mill in the world is now in process of erection at Pittsburgh, and yot every man who buys a tin roof is getting it for one dollar a box less than he did under the McKinley law. Detroit Free Press.