The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-16
Political Notes.

Ten. Sam Gary, the OnlO OfeenDackef; HAS
returned to the Democratic fold.
The Ohio Greenbackers put full state
ticket in the field on Wednesday, headed by
Charles Jenkins for Governor.
HoadIey's nomination for governor of Ohio
is 'as good as secured, y remarks the Colum.
bus correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
cjaI Gazette.
A Republican paper in Indiana says that
W. W. Dudley, the present commissioner of
pensions, will be the next Republican candi-
date for Governor of Indiana.
| President Arthur has notified the working
mems organization at Washington, which had
asked that an extra session of Congress be
called to consider the labor question, that he
will not call an extra session.
Judge Hoadly, the leading man in the con-
test for the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Ohio, and Judge Foraker, the Re-
publican candidate, both live at Walnut Hills,
Cincinnati, and in the same voting precinct.
The Germans will have considerable to say
in the next election in Ohio, and as yet there
is no indication that they will trample each
other under foot in their eagerness to vote for
the Scott liquor Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Press of Wednesday, appeared with a
column of political news headed "Iilden' S
Hand at Work. notwithstanding the Repub-
| lican party agree that Mr.. Tilden's hands are
paralyzed If he were sound, wouldn't he
make things howl?
Ex-Congressman Yeats, of North Carolina,
says the Democrats will carry that state with
out difficulty He regards Mahone's recent
disaster in Virginia as likely to discourage
| coalition movements in all the other Southern
States where it has been attempted.-BdHl-
more Day.
The New York World thinks that if Ohio
should go Republican in October it would
have no material effect on the Democratic
chances next year. The New 4ork Sun takes
just the contrary view. Success is always
better than defeat at any time, and the San
is probably right.
| OF the sixteen Democratic members of the
next Congress who have responded to the New
York Heralds circular of inquiry, ten are for
! Carlisle Only three are for Randall. The
| Republican monopolists will have to stir
themselves if they want to wreck the Demo
cratic party by eecting Mr.. Randall Speaker.
atlanta Constitution.
/ The exact amount that Howgate stole from
| the signal service appropriations is not known
| 1t has been varouSly stated as being between
one hundred and fifty thousand and quarter
of a million of dollars These robberies took
place inside of eighteen months, and they were
effected by means of false vouchers, which
never could have been accepted without Off
/ cial collision.
Ex- United States Senator Stephen w. Dor
sew. one of the star-routers, in a recent inter-
view said :-"There are some things the lay
man does not now understand which will APP
pear in different light when a certain paper,
| or rather an agreement, made on behalf OF
! Garfield in behalf ofthe New York politicians
! IL ho
/ Presidential canvass, is made public. If this
paper is published, it will be a curious revela-
ton in the light of events subsequent to Gar
fields election
The Republican county convention in Ohio,
where Mr.. John Sherman presided the other
night. adopted a resolution in favor of the
protection of American labor. The only true
and genuine protection of American labor
against ''foreign pauper labor is to prevent
the foreign labor from coming into this coun-
try. We take it no protectionist certainly no
employer and manufacturer, is in favor of this
kind of protection. Protection against low
priced goods, not low priced labor, is the pro-
lection they call for-DetroH Free Press.
The Iroquois Club of Chicago, the leading
Democratic club of the Northwest, has before
it a resolution, to be acted upon at its next
meeting, in which the club declares it's ''un-
/
| cial freedom and revenue REFORM and its
"deep and abiding conviction that taxation
! having for its purpose any object other than
revenue is unwarranted by the constitution,
and is robbery masquerading in the garb OF
! law" The resolution further urges the cleo
ton of ''sincere, intelligent and courageous
! revenue reformer'' as Speaker of the Forty
| eighth Congress.
| Very few men can attain the great office of
! President of the United States. If President
Arthur and his successor who is to be chosen
/ next year serve out their terms no more than
| twenty-five men will have held the position in
| the first century after the organization Of the
| Government, and of these only seventeen will
have been elected, while five reached the
place by accident. In a whole generation
six or seven men may get into the Presidential
chair, so that the chance of the average legally
qualified citizens for becoming Chief Magis-
| trate of the Republic is not nearly so good as
his chances for becoming a ten-fold million
aire.
Mr.. Hendricks, in a conversation with a
correspondent of the Chicago Herald, denies
the statement that there was a studied dis
courtesy on the part of Mr.. Tilden towards
him at the time of their meeting at the historic
Saratoga interview after their nomination in
| 1876. Mr.. Hendricks says that he made only
| one or two slight changes in his letter of ac-
! ceptance after the interview with Mr.. Iilden,
and that the object of the conference was not
/ to subordinate the views of one to the other,
but simply to write with a common under
standing. He has not seen Mr.. Tilden since
| 1877 but his relations with him are of the
most pleasant kind
Boston Herald, ind: The more carefully
one examines the tariff bill recommended by
the tariff commission and the tariff act as
passed by Congress, the stronger becomes the
conviction that the pretended reduction of
duties is an insincere evasion of the demand
| of the country for revenue reform. The re-
! auctions of duty that were recommended by
the commission and have been made by Con-
| gress will do no good to the consumers or to
the country at large. They apply mainly
either to articles which are produced as
cheaply at home as they are abroad, and Oh
which the duty has therefore been merely
nominal or else they apply to articles on
which the duty had previously been high
above the point of prohibition, and in regard
to which, even after the reduction, the duty
still remains so high as to exclude foreign COM
petition On cotton goods, for instance, the
duty has been lowered on the common coarse
grades which are not affected by protection
and whose price is not influenced by the duty.
But on finer cotton goods, on hosiery, laces,
trimmings, &C., which are affected by the
duty, the rate has gone up from 35 to 40 per
cent The same is the case with the duties
on wooden goods. On cheap woolens the duty
has gone down, but is still so high as to ex-
clude importations.