| Show DULL TIMES The feverish state of things in this city leads to many wild and groundless i rumors and each simple act of a prominent prom-inent man in his private business is seen to be full of strange meaning The occasion occa-sion for these remarks is the rumor on I the street yesterday that exMayor Jennings Jen-nings had discharged a number of hands from his employ because they were Getiles A DEMOCRAT reporter hearing hear-ing of the rumor went to see Mr Jennings Jen-nings but he was at his farm and Mr Frank Jennings was at his woolen mills I This morning we saw Mr Jennings and he denied the rumor and said if it had N been done he knew nothing of it This must be accepted as authoritative and final The rumor can only have grown out of the boycott talk with which the town has been deluged The boycott business busi-ness is boyish in its method and puerile in its aim even when the Young Mens Mutual Improvement Associations pass unanimous resolutions in its favor The manner in which to restore business is to obey the I laws for it is FO ridiculous to think that i one of the strongest governments on earth I is going to surrender to the cries of a distressed business whose distress is i brought about by the men who do much of the business as not to be entertained a moment For Cleveland to do so would show as much imbecility in a Democratic administration as there has been in a Republican one Whatever way things are to be settled let them be settled permanently that this continual hubbub may cease If people wont see and must be told it is as well to say at once and without any more warning that the thing is being settled and settled in favor of the United States A dozen prspositions have been made and but one entertained that one is surrender and obey Among prominent Peoples Party menthe men-the fact is known and they see the necessity ne-cessity of obedience to the General Government Gov-ernment and dare not disobey counsel They dare not undertake to save their church nor to save themselves them-selves They may deny the fact but the fact remains and can be proven Why not manfullv ac knowledge the situation and say to the ninetenths who are not being oppressed we no longer ask you fo bear the oppression oppres-sion we have brought upon you This view of matters has been proposed and is it not better to be doing In endeavoring endeavor-ing to come to a settlement of this vexed question let both parties not forget that when Grover Cleveland was Governor of New York and without a thought or aspiration for the Presidential Chair neither the twentyfive millions mil-lions or more of capital at the back of the Elevated Railroad nor the threats of fifty thousand Democratic voters in New York City could for one moment swerve him from his line of duty which duty was the execution of the laws These are things to be fully considered and weighed before final action I ac-tion is taken no matter what the action may be |
