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Show DEMOCRATIC. That is How the Registration Gains are Figured. FrOvd City Furnishes a Nett Gain of Nearly 200 Over the Last Year's Registration. Special to the Morning' Democrat: Salt Lake City, June 30. The Utah Commission has received reports of the recent registration from nearly all the precincts in Utah County. Tiie figures are as follows: Alpine 88 Pleas'tGrove. 273 American:.,. Pro vo Bench. 00 Folk...,.., 340 Provo 1001 Benjamin..., 00 Spanish Fork. 430 Cedar Fort..; 27 Santaquin. . ., 127 Clinton 28 Springville. .. 583 Fairfield 21 Salem 9!) Lehi 322 Spring Lake.. 13 Lake View. . 50 Thistle 85 Payson 375 Lake Shore... 78 The net gain of these precincts over last year's registration is 458, of which Provo furnishes 184. The total gain in the county will be 500, Prominent pol--iticianSjOf both parlies concede that the gain is almost solHlly DeaaoGtotiw Three Hundrad Delegates Elected. Special to Morning Dispatch. Salt Lake, June 30. Enthusiastic Democratic primaries were held in all the precincts of Salt Lake county tonight to-night and 300 delegates to the convention conven-tion to be held here on July 6, were elected. The city council met to-night. The usual number of petitions and reports were acted upon. The Mayor and council accepted the invitation of the Patriotic Order of Sons of America to participate in the celebration on the Fourth. WOOL AND THE TARIFF. r At his home in Fostoria, Ohio, Secre-'tary Secre-'tary Foster makes the following remarks re-marks about the farmers: "This district is a large wool-growing one, and for years the flockmasters have gone down in their pockets to pay the expenses of David Ha rpstek and others in Washington. Wash-ington. I, like other Republicans, have listened to their plea for piotection for their wool, and w e have done our best for them." Hakpster is one of the three political polit-ical shepherds, and another member of the little group, ex-Controller Lawrence, Law-rence, boasts that he wrote the wool schedule of the McKinley tariff. "v have done our best for them," says the secretary of the treasury, and our readers read-ers know how the three shepherds and their alliea have sought to prevent the - j importation of wool by increased duties and tricky clauses, the effect of which was not forseen by other persons. The following quotations from the Boston Commercial Bulletin's wool market mar-ket reports of June 20th show what the prices of Ohio and Michigan wool are now and what they were one year ago and two years ago at corresponding dates : OHIO ANI MICHIGAN WOOL. Ohio XX Michigan X. Cents. Cents. JuneL0, 1.H90 35 32(a). June 23, 1890 34 30&3C June 20, 1891 32 ...2728. The Ohio wool grower already knows something about these prices, but la-may la-may not be acquainted with the following follow-ing figures, taken from the treasury re- ) ports, and which show the imports of i " clothing wools and of wools of all kinds, in pounds, from January 1 to May 1. CLASS ONE CLOTHING WOOLS. 1H. 1891. First four months of the calendar year. 4,383,091 18,140,228 TOTAL IMPORTS OF WOOL. 1890 1391. January 7,917,747 11,881,683 February 5,214,604 11,789,010 March 6.726,104 17,318,183 April 8,466,401 15,333,776 Total 28,324,8.56 56,322,652 The price of Ohio wool has fallen in one year from 34 to 311 cents, and the quantity of similar wool imported since January 1st is four times as great as the imports of the corresponding period last year, while the imports of all kind of woof hare been doubled. - ' Do the three shepherds and Mr. Foster Fos-ter think it will be an easy matter to explain these things to the satisfaction of the Ohio wool growers without reminding re-minding chem of the promises and assertions as-sertions that were made last year. Mr. McKinley's chosen representative among, the newspapers of Ohio said in October last: "The specific object of the new tariff on wool and woolens was to raise the j farmers' wages. They have been increased in-creased 25 per cent., as to wool, through and in anticipation of the new tariff." And now a prominent Western Republican Re-publican writes to a Republican member mem-ber of the McKinley- ways and mean3 committee concerning the sharp "disappointment "dis-appointment of wool growers in Ohio and Michigan" on account of the price of wool, and says : . "Can you give us any explanation as to this state of things? It is so contrary con-trary to general expectation and so damaging to all argument or effort in favor of protection that the friends of protection and those who have advocated advo-cated that side of the issue before the farmers may be considered well-nigh dumbfounded at the situation." The three shepherds must try to prove that the money for which "the flock masters," as Mr. Foster says, "have gone down in their pockets" was not spent in vain. |