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Show THE ELECTION'S IMPORTANCE. The worst feature of the Eastern campaign is tho reported apathy of both parties; this is a bad sign for the Republican party, because a few dollars dol-lars in sight a few days prior to election is enough to fully awaken the Democratic hosts. It is .a bad sign, for It shows that the people do not take Interest ienough in politics. Every man ought to bo a partisan in a presidential election year. The election of Grover Cleveland and a Democratic Senate and House twelve years ago, cost the men of this country countless millions of dollars. Almost Al-most the same situation is presented now. There is the same threat to tear the present tariff to pieces. With the election of Judge Parker, the effect will be seen almost immediately. Manufacturers Manufac-turers will work up the stock they have on hand and then slow down and thereafter only All orders. or-ders. They will take no chances on possible hostile hos-tile legislation. With the slowing down of the factories and mills, there will at once follow a falling fall-ing off in the railway freights; then loss men will be needed in the construction and repair shops, then the forces in tho iron and coal mines will be reduced, and If la safe to say that should Judge Parker be elected, there would be quite one million less employed on his inauguration day than on eleotion day. That alone would mean a loss to working men of $2,000,000 per day, or enough in a year to buy an empire. That one mil'-ion mil'-ion of men would be forced into competition with the other laborers with the result-that the wages of all would be reduced. It would mean, too, that five millions of our people would be distressed, (fov one working man represents four otL ers, wives and little children). This would come, too, merely in the fear of what might be. Should the fear be realized by the passage of such a tariff as low as it Is outlined in the St. Louis platform, other woes would follow to which the first would bo but a trifle. It is disquieting then to read that a general apathy seeihs to prevail throughout the North and d d West It Is the more disquieting when we know that tho South will be as solid as over for the Democratic ticket. They do not need any excitement ex-citement in the South. All that is needed there 1b for a w Democrats to vote and certify up the returns. When Republican vote3 threaten to become be-come troublesome in those states, they simply are not counted, and it requires but a few votes outside out-side to elect a President. Every northern Republican should be on the alsrt. In Utah every sheep and wool man, every sugar beet raiser, every lead-silver miner, every stock man, every manufacturer, every merchant, every professional man, every real estate man, every landlord, every laborer -should be a committee com-mittee of one, from now until election day to see that every vote possible Is cast for the Republican ticket. |