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Show THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION. elections will take place ou Wednesday next, and the politicians poli-ticians are now watching the little state with eager eyes. The campaign has Leen a hot one, and has been fought out on the lines of protection and free trade and all signs now point to a grand republican victor-. The democrats j have made the McKi.vley law the object ob-ject of their assaults, but as that law has already promoted in a material degree the industrial interests of the Btate, these attacks have fallen very j flat To give a single instance of the j benefits to that state from the McKinley law. a Belgian linn, with a plant worth 2,000,000, used to export fine grades of j j am to the United States. They found, after the passage of the McKiuley law, j that - if they were to keep American j trade they would have to come to America, Amer-ica, and hero they are. They selected , W'oonsocket as the site for tehir works, I and already have four buildings, w ith extensive machinery, in operation. When their works are completed they i will .-mploy several hundred skilled operatives op-eratives at high wages. But for the McKiuley Mc-Kiuley law this firm would have re-Uained re-Uained in Belgium. This is an argument of more weight than many Fpprches. i . |