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THE EDITOR GETS MY GOAT.
Madison county, Indiana, was a Democratic stronghold outside the mill towns, and a few farming townships.

Free silver orators were telling the farmers that under a gold standard no factory could run.

The farmers could see the smoke of the tin mills which had built a great city just beyond their corn-fields.

The silver men explained that smoke as "a dummy factory set up by Mark Hanna with Wall Street money to make a smoke and fool the people into thinking that it was a real factory and that industry was reviving under a Republican tariff." The orators said the best proof that it was a sham mill lay in the fact that the plutocrats claimed it was a tin mill, while "everybody knows it is impossible to manufacture tin plate in America." My method of getting votes for the tariff was to take young Democrats from the mill and transport them to Democratic rallies in the far corner of the county where they heard their Democratic orators saying that the mill was a sham put up to fool voters and that it was not manufacturing any tin.