Show ILLINOIS The Democracy of Illinois is getting itself together for the fall campaign Its grand achievements in 1890 whereby it elected a state treasurer a small majority of the Legislature a United States Senator and fourteen of the twenty Congressmen encourage it to hope that this year in addition ad-dition to electing the state ticket and I enough of the holdover senators to insure the defeat of Senator CULLOM in 1S95 the electoral vote of the state will be cast for the Democratic nominees Illinois has heretofore been Republican and is assumed to be Republican still notwithstanding not-withstanding the vote of 1890 But there is no real reason to suppose that the causes which led to the revolt of that year are not still in operation The state Is a grand portion of the west and the west is growing grow-ing impatient of Republicanism It has had as much of it as it can stand It has discovered dis-covered that Republicanism first and last means northeastern domination and that the manufacturers moneylenders and mortgageholders of that section have no other use for the Republican party but as a buttress for their sectional supremacy Illinois is the leading agricultural state of the Union and therefore the fittest representative of agricultural interest It should ba the key of the political situation in the west because its Republican masses are chafing under the arbitrary legislation of the dominant party It is called a rich state and it is a rich state but it is staggering stag-gering under a heavy real estate mortgage burden of hundreds of millions and railroad rail-road and county indebtedness of enormous extent besides which must come out of the sweat of the people The Republicans of Illinois helped to encourage Congress to pass the McKiNLEY act by inserting in their ptatform of 1890 a resolution in favor of the protective tariff policythe very policy which accumulates wealth at the east and mortgages In the west by taxing western agriculture for the behoof of eastern manufactures They now find the servility of their declaration was very illtimed The people were in no mood for it nor are they now They are not is favor of a protective tariff for the perpetual enrichment of one favored section sec-tion of the country and there are good reasons rea-sons for their saying so with even more emphasis than heretofore Tho Republican majority has been c d running down in a remarkable manner man-ner of late years It declined from 41000 in 1SSO to 22000 in 18S3 and in a vigorous campaign conducted by Governor PALMER and other leaders of the Democracy on the question of western disenthrallment from northeastern domination it emerged ten years later from the shadow of Republicanism Republican-ism It is true the victory was won on a narrow margin but considering the great odds it was noble and magnificentachiev ment So encouraged it is no wonder the Democratic party of Illinois felt restless and anxious for a renewal of the battle confident of the result |