Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-24
Dana Figuring on the Result.

NEW York. October 2Sd-para's leader
dOublc-leadcd. to-day says: 1t will now be adj
nlitted by every candid and close observer that
the recent election in OHIO turned chiefly upon
the question of Protection VS.. Free Trade, that
issue having been projected with peculiar en-
phIsiS by the defeat of Efurd in the district
which IS wont to be overwhelmingly Demo
cratic. No evasion OF this primary and vital
point i'll the controversy between the two great
parties will hencefoTth be possible. The only
Northern States in which the Democratic party,
weighted with stolid, gross and offensive can
didate. and discredited by the aggressive anti
protectionst attitude of its majority in Congress.
has now any chance ut all Of winning are,
Indiana. New York, New Jersey and Connect
cut. Admitting, for the sake of argument,
that Cleveland will gain the Solid South.
he must, 10 be elected, carry the first two
or the last three of the four States men
toned. There is no reason 10 suppose the
instincts of SelfpreSeyation VIII be even less
operative upon the large manufacturing inter
ests OF Indiana, than it proved the other day in
Ohio: while in Connecticut, New Jersey and
New York that instinct must, fIom the nature
Of the case. lie more intensely stimulated and
CecisiVely potent The shrewdeT Democratic
managers cease to count seriously upon the Gd-
hcsiou OF Connecticut, and we believe that New
Jersey, in which they eVlnce greater show oil
confidence, is almost as certain TO disappoint
them. II is equally preposterouS to assume the
mighty manufacturing industries which have
peopcd and enriched so many inland towns and
cities in New York can be for one moment
blinded to the real issue in this canvass. The
skilled WOrkmcn of Our factories were never 50
perfectly alive to their fundamental interests.
Nobody can gull them into committing suicide.
Cleveland will come down. to Harlem bridge
buried by the men who Will brook no tamper-
ing with the earnings and security OF American
labor, under an adverse majority so huge that
no efforts, however desperate III the cities of
New York and Brooklyn will avail to disinter
the corpse.
Advice to Ministers from the '%Enderen-
dent
New York October 23d.-The Independent this
week says II there is mortal i'll existence who
can show 10y evidence when would be received
in any petty court among the HottentotS that
the confessed debauchee, Grover Cleveland. has
repented and reformed, and that during his OIL
ciil career as Mayor of Buffalo and Governor of
New York. he has lived Il pure, temperate hie
let that man come forth and tell the truth If
this evidence is not forthcoming, then let every
reader OF the hidepeRdcnt who IS q clergyman
tell the truth it is found in the Bible III regard
to the Seventh Commandment next Sabbath to
his people. As it is the last public opportunity
he win have probably before election, let him
speak and tell the truth, as becometh bold de-
fender of the household, against the disgusting
and disgraoiug immoralities of Grover Cleve-
land.
Political Outrage in North Carolina.
WrrNIxGTGN. October 23d.-Iate last night,
while General Alfred NJ. Scales, Democratic
candidate for Governor, was addressing large
meeting including many ladies, i'll front OF the
City Hail. q procession of negroes, who had
been attending Republican meeting in another
part of the city, passed within few ieet OF the
Democratic meeting, and acted IN suGh uis
orderly manner that they compelled the meet
ing to suspend proceedings. stones were thrown
at the speakers stand, one of them narrowly
missing General Scales, and one striking IN the
breast of Colonel John \. Staples, Democratic
candidate for Elector at large. The affair has
created intense indignation, and there is much
excitement on the streets to-day The meeting
appointed a committee to wait upon prominent
white Republican leaders, and inform them
that they would he held responsible for any
repetition of the outrage.
Beeoher and Ioy.
PlilLNDELrIIa October 23d.--A Press Detroit
special says: James T. Joy is eXpecteu . pnck tn.s
wrxsl, from England, and viii probably have
something to say about Reeeher suse OF an aiter-