The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-10-18
Political N otes.

The Republican Convention of the Third
District of Maryland, comprising the first
nine wards of Baltimore, on Saturday nomi-
mated Samuel G. Pentz, for Congressman.
John P. ST. John has written very strong
and forcible letter refusing the request of GER
tain Republicans that he shall withdraw as
as the Prohibition candidate for President.
When the Katholische Volks Zeitung, a
paper published in Baltimore, was distributed
in Youngstown, Ohio, last week, it was found
to contain a circular denouncing Cleveland
and endorsing Blaine. The publishers deny
all knowledge of the circular, and declare
that the matter shall be thoroughly investi-
gated.
The New York Union League on Thursday
evening of last week, by a vote of abont 400 to
100 adopted resolutions indorsing Blaine and
Logan. Upon the completion of the vote n
member sprang to his feet and called for three
cheers for Cleveland and Hendricks, which
were given with a will, and the meeting ad-
iourned amid loud and excited talking and
much confusion.
The Anti Blaine Republicans of Connect
cut to the number of 100 have issued an ad-
dress against Blaine. The address reviews
his record, and among the signers are the
Rev. DIR. Anderson, of Waterbury; DIR. Bin
ney, of Berkeley Divinity School at Middle
town, Connecticut the Rev. Joseph IL.
TwitcheIl, of Hartford DIR. George I. Ladd,
professor of moral philosophy at Yale; ex-
Senator Chaplin, of Pine Meadow; Charles
+. Atwater, Of Birmingham, president of the
Howe Pin Company; L. W. Russell, of
Hartford president of the Connecticut Cen
eral Life Insurance Company, and C. b.
Whiting, secretary of the Hartford Fire In
surance Company; Morris +. Tyler, president
of the Southern New England Telephone Co.,
and S. l.. Clemens, Mark Twain,) of Hart
ford.
Everett p. Wheeler, counsel for the Civil
Service Reform Association, on Saturday last
wrote to President Arthur that ''the business
of the Pension Bureau is very much in ar
rears. Colonel W. W. Dudley, Commissioner
of Pensions, is now absent from his post, en-
gagged in conducting the canvass Of the Re-
publican party in Ohio, to the entire neglect
of his official duties. We see it publicly
stated, and not denied, that he has given
orders that applications for pensions in Ohio
and Indiana shall be taken up out of the order
of filing and have preference in their exami
nation over those filed from other States
AS counsel for the Civil Service Reform As
ISOLATION, | respectfully ask that an immediate
examination Of these charges be made
From the baltimore SIN of Saturday =
The significance of the Cleveland and Hend-
ricks demonstration in New York Thursday
afternoon lay not in its large proportions, but
in the fact that it consisted in great part of
influential Republioans-business men-who
supported Garfield in 1880. There has been
a great change in sentiment since the boom
year. Business men now see reason to hope
for an improvement of the situation by Il
change in the federal administration. The
protection policy of 1880 has not brought
prosperity; the Democratic nominee is
''safe man. the civil-service statutes will
prevent wholesale discharge of government
employees by the Democrats if successful; the
use made by them of their present majority in
the House has been wise and moderate, and
the sectional feeling of former years has paled
away 1t is time to try ehaIgei Ia the heads
of administration, and New York Republicans
are not afraid to do it,