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Show TIN I'l.lTi: I UIIIO. TDK cjnilgii In Ohio seims to have ueTehiied Into n Uln-ct lisue on "tin plate." And the question bolleil down means lni ly, nre Amerlcaus ruduclug tln-plste or are they nut? Thu till-) late schedule of Hie McKtn ley bill went Into tltV-cl on July 1st ol this turrtntiar. There were such Urge stocks purchased ly American courumers of till teforu the new law became o'ratlre that the supply lias tatted up to tho 1 resent time. That Is why the tsrge firms engaged In the manufacture of cans uinuot give any decided answer to the tin query. I'nlli r and Wrlghtoo, a itoston firm, engaged exclusively In manufacturing articles ma le of tin, state, In a letter to Hie Au'tonaf Vui-Uorur of New York, that they have not bought any llti-ilatu since July 1st. I'revlous to that dale they laid In ft stock for six months, which still supplies their demand. Hut they itite Ihey adverllnd for any part tf lO.OHJ Jioire of American litis tiiuttl In nualltvauil irho to tho Kns. Il.h. They ruelvtd tto replltatxceit some aliertliiug toy platen, Iietltrsfrom various olhir firms, on gigwl In i int.tng meits nud fruit a, to the .Vufsoiiuf iToesonr have teiu 'lublhheJ, auJ all more or leas are In tho same strain as that of the Hostou tlrpi. Howevtr, Ihosu who havu not laid In supplies, say Hint they havehad to pay targe odvancts In pilco for llu I Into since July 1st. Ou Ilia oilier hand, J W llrltton.of Clovilaud, O., resl lent of the American Amer-ican Tin 1'lste Manufacturing Aseocl ntlon, saj s th it already Mt boxes or tin plale are being turned out wi tkly It Is estimated, he s-i thai 1 1 i.fio-t Dili) of American got I lis g- - U J.uropu for lju alonu sin e ttie si Hiiro are lu Walts iJS tlu 1 1 tto mill Thos.i nlllls shlpieil tl .1 u l twin II nf tin to America last yeir, for which I2u,00i,o-a)nr American gold wa paid Mr. Million la of opinion that In ft short lime we can become entirely Independent Indepen-dent of Welsh tin producers. He says that after the first altempU to pro-iluielrouaul pro-iluielrouaul sleet In this country a similar state ofatTsIrs existed as In the tin Industry now. Hleel rails formerly cost 1120 it Ion, but In Dfleen )ian they were sold fur $30. It Is po-thli tin insy cost n little more under the McKlnley kill, bul In the end tho Industry In-dustry will a iseeed an 1 llubocomeas cheap proportlinatelyassUst rails. Huttonlurn to the Ohio campaign, It la charged that the Itepubllcans In that Htate produced su.ne tin mile partly from the luipurled article, an I used It lor campaign purposes. Mauy of Hie biding Denim rstlo paiers lii Hie country took up the matter, and In a sensational niaunsr, descrlbej how the plot wu hatched at I'lque, Ohio, with the all of Hie Cincinnati Corrugating Company, whoso tin works are situated In that town. The whole trouble w ai occasioned by a misconception nf the word tin. It ajqicars that In the trsle there are two sieclea of Ibis article, one known ssttrue, the other as bright tin. The latter Is used for manufacturing domes-Ho domes-Ho atlliles, the other fur roofing purposes. pur-poses. TheMcKltilsyltcslntlhlodld not claim that they produced bright tin, but they nroJuced Icroe tin, anl sent specimens of It to many newspapers. news-papers. No belter way of explaining the Ohio bubble can be Aloplel Ihan by reproducing Ibe atlllavlt of the forcunn of the works at l'lqua. litre It la: "rcniunallraipeared liefore me John K. McCabo, who beln duly sworn, de-poselh de-poselh an I siy that ho Is tho foreman of the galvsntslng and tlnnlnj dspirt iiisnts ot tho Clnclnmtl Corrugating Coin-piny,aul Coin-piny,aul tint on Kept II, IV1, the tint tern lilitua milo bv tho Cincinnati Corrugsting Ooiuptny wsre nude un ler his supervision, an 1 that the sheets use I Ihimanlslncolnci'itlug unlsr amaiil'a silMirvlalon, wsro or steel rolls 1 by thu H pis Hilling Mill Ciinpinyi that tho pot hotting the lmth for coating un talnl three thousand pounla, coniposeil oftbousjst protsirtl ins of pig tin from Callfirull,aiil AmerlJin lea.l that on Sept. IS, i'ul, Major William McKlnley, In my presence and tint ol many olhsrs, coaled In the regular way rive sheets of s'eel plale, by dipping In the aforesil I ji.it oontilnlng the aforssild mixture of California tin an I Ainorlcati lea ! and, fiirthormore, that all eosUng done un ler atfl nit's suparvlslon since al the works nf Ibe Clnelnnstl Corrngittng Compiny tiss been dons at and with material heretofore doscrllieil. Join F. McCinr, "iwuru to lief ire me by John F. McCabo, Mc-Cabo, and by him signed In my pros-once, pros-once, this "UJ day ofhept., 1WI. "J. II. llanil, Voury l'ublle, Mhinl County, Ohio." The battle In Ohio I one of tho fiercest ever fought In Hist Htate. l.very point that the -'!.tlcsl ihetur Iclan can make Is availed of on both sides. Kvery rnaueuvre Ihat thu strat -glst cau suggist Is carried Into t ractlce. rac-tlce. On Oct. 8, the rival candidates for governor will meet fur debate at the campus of the Ada (Ohio) Normal Collige. This Institution Is attended by over dots) of the sons and daughters of Ohlu farinsrs. Campbell will open with a -ech of sixty five minutes, tils opMneiit wtlt rtply Inoneof ulmty mlnutis. Cain) bell will itosowlttl a twinty-rtre mlnutosjisecli. |