Show A WEIGHTY POLITICAL FACTOR oneff one ot he material causes that led to the unexpected victory of the democrate in illinois has not we believe received due recognition it is true mr wanamaker hinted at it when he dolefully commented that the result of the national election was a tale of two cities the enormous democratic vote 70 to in N now ew york and Ch chicago leago but oven even he did not undertake to explain how the returns from chicago came to tell such a tale we suspect that th the 0 world a fair project had much to do with it it to is fair to assume that the residents of chicago and by this to is meant also the vast army of workmen workman now congregated gre gated there are interested far more in the success of the great exposition to which they have set their hands thin than in that ot any political party this year next year or lor for several years to come 00 me equally reasonable is the view that hat the maintenance of the high tariff would be calculated to militate against the a success of the pair fair so far as foreign exhibitors are concerned the natural argument with all such W would be that since they were in a large measure excluded from froin bartlol plating in american commerce and trade it would be a waste of time and me means ano to make a display of their products at an american exposition isit Is it not probable that an appreciation of this fact caused the worlds world a fair city to undergo such a wonderful political overturn over no great acuteness of mind is necessary to an understanding of the irony of inviting a foreigner to compete in the display while denying to him the privilege of competing in the market and the average chicago mind keenly alive to the immense monetary gains that must come from the exposition if it is successful was doubtless ready enough in such a con ting eacy to sink partisanship without murmur A london financial paper thinks there is nothing extravagant in the statement that of foreign money will be left in america as the harvest of tho exposition and americans will be bo literally burlener burl burdened ened with money seeking investment when that hat aim a im m or the full amount whatever it is that the fair will bring is safely lodged within our borders the tune that the republican state of illinois will sing may be pitched in an altogether different key to that just given in this year of grace 1892 |