The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-01
THE CAMPAIGN.

think General Hoyey's nomination for Cover
nor the weakest one that could be made, anC
poor substitute for Porter Hovey's nomi
nation will open the hoodgates of very I'M
desirable personal campaign. j. C. New
Chairman Huston, Bruce Carr and othel
members Of the Indianapolis gang will be sick
of their bargain. There is great dissatisfac-
ton throughout the State, in fact enough, with
the best reasons, to convince me that the
high handed manipulations are not relished,
and that more vigorous protest will be per-
ceptible in the counting of votes in November.
In short, | firmly believe the action of the late
Republican convention has made Republi-
can defeat in Indiana absolutely certanin."
Judge W. Z. Edison, a distinguished Indi-
ana Republican, has come out for Cleveland
and Thurman and the Indiana Democratic
State ticket. He declares that the nomina-
ton by the Republicans of General Hovey for
Governor has changed the Republican cam
paign from an aggressive to defensive one,
and that the local option plank adopted by
the State convention will certainly defeat
Hovey.
PUT Up OR SHUT Up
The Utica Observer DEM offers a vara-
ton of the put-up- or-shut. up argument in pol
itics. The manager of and large stock
holder in the Utica Globe Wooden Mills has
been saying that the election of Cleveland
ees of the mill, but also upon the stock of the
company. The Observer announces that it is
authorized to offer to take Mr.. Middleton's
mill stock at par in case of Cleyeland's cleo
ton, if that gentleman will bind himself to
transfer it for that price. To bind the bar.
gain the Observer offers to deposit So. 600 If
after Cleveland is elected, the proposed pur.
chaser or purchasers fail to take the stock
and pay for it par, the $1,000 is to 90 to Mr..
Middleton.
SENSATION IN KANSAS.
The Journal of Caldwell, Kan, for MANY
years the leading Republican paper of South.
ern Kansas, made sensation Thursday of
last week by coming out fat footed for Cieve-
land and Thurman and the entire Democratic
ticket. In Its leading editorial it charges that
the Republican party has deviated from the
paths OF political rectitude and absolutely re-
pudiated the various promises made in the
past with reference to tightening the burdens
OF unjust taxation. 1t lauds the executive
acts OF President Cleveland and denounces
as hypocrltes those who accuse him of being
free-trader.
THE GERMAN-AMERICANs ALIESATED.
Francis johnson, of Lafayette, Ind, ex-
member OF the State Senate and editor of the
Deutsch Amerikaner, says: "The platform
adopted by the recent Republican State con-
vention in this State will ALLEVIATE n large por-
ton of the German American vote from sun
port of the Republican ticket Local option
will not win. Since Porter's refusal to run
and the shelving of Col. Robertson, to whom
the party owed the gubernatorial nomination,
| consider Indiana safe for Cleveland and
Thurman.
ON THE SIDE OF BUSINESS INTERESTS.
The Boston Herald makes the announce
ment that Mr.. Marshall Field, the head of
the great Chicago mercantile house of Field.
Letter Co., who is . life long Republican
and protectionist, announced his intention
while i'll Boston a few days ago of voting for
Cleveland. He does this on the ground that
President CleVelands administration in its
policy on the tariff question is distinctly on
the side OF the business interests of the coun-
try. MIR. Field says that there is no free trade
81 all TO be apprehended from ID, but that
there is just that wise and moderate reduction
of the rate of duties which is needed at this
luncture, and which must be had if the nation
is to escape serious difficulties. He thinks
the Republicans have made a great mistake
IN allowing the Democrats to take the lead of
them In reformation on this point Mr.. Field
has been for years power in the business and
politics of the Northwest, and his support of
MIR. Cleveland is another proof of the spread-
ing detection In the Republican party Of that
section.
CAN'T STAND THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Alfred L. Sinker, New York broker. and
formerly senior member of Sinker, Davis &
Co., OF Indiana, prominent manufacturers,
will support Cleveland. He said to an inter-
viewer II shall vote the Democratic ticket
next fall for the first time in my life | ana.
for tariff reform, and can't stand the RepuAli-
can platform. | think, too, Cleveland has
made good President and will be ssrong
enough to carry out his reform ideas. Har-
rison was my lawyer for twenty wears. The
labor people are against him, and ghen in
Indianapolis recently found the Germans
and others would oppose him because of the
temperance peoples Endorsement of him and
the free whisky plank. The Turner's are
against him, and | was told of a single club,
with membership of nearly three hundred,
which was formerly Republican, but will now
vote nearly all for Cleveland
FAyORs A REDUCTION OF TAXEs
The Democrats of Franklin county, Pa.
held their convention last week at Chambers
burg, and nominated full county ticket,
One OF the nominees for the Legislature is
Mr.. John Wilhelm, leading citizen and
prominent Republican of Greencastle, who
tavors a reduction of the tariff and supports
Cleveland and Thurman. Mr.. Wilhelm has
been Republican since the formation of the
party, and his refusal to support the Chicago
nominees OF his party is an event of more than
usual political significance in county where
party lines are strictly drawn. Mr.. Wilhelm
is a farmer.
FROM PROHIBITION TO CLEVELAND.
Benson j. Losing, the venerable historian,
for many years a leading Republican, but who
OF late has cast his fortunes with the prohibi-
ton party, recently addressed Cleveland
and Thurman ratification meeting at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y.
SORRY BLUNDER.
The Chicago Tribune, the leading Republi.
can paper of the Northwest, declares in re.
gard to the high tariff platform, that 'sthe
Senators realize that the Mckinley platform
was sorry blunder, which must be rectified.
As party of blind, unreasonable opposition
to the Democracy the Republican organiza.
ton could not long survive. 1t must be pro.
gressive and take affirmative action TO meet
changing conditions and new needs, or it will
perish"
MANUFACTURERS FOR CLEVELAND.
d. W. Minshall, a leading manufacturer of
Terre Haute, Ind, and an influential Re.
publican, has declared for Cleveland and
Thurman. He says he cannot stand the ut.
terances of the Chicago platform on the tariff
question.
Mr. John Stephenson, the noted New York
car builder, and Republican since that party
was organized, has announced his purpose to
vote the Democratic ticket this year. Mr.
Stephenson is one of the best known manu-
facturers in America, and he does not believe
that protection protects" His cars are to
be found in every prominent city on the globe
where street cars are known, and this is his
fifty eighth year in the manufacturing business.
His mandatory occupies eighteen city lots in
Twenty-seventh street, between Madison and
Fourth avenues, and he employs from three
hundred and fifty to four hundred men the
year round a large percentage of them being
skilled mechanics. Yet Notwithstanding the
vast extent of his manufacturing interest he
does not want any more protection.
Ex-Judge Henry Hilton, who has large
interest in several wooden mills and manufac-
turing properties throughout the country, in a
conversation at Saratoga with representative
of the New York Herald, unhesitatingly and
unqualifedly pronounced himself in favor OF
President Ceveland's tariff policy.
ADVOCATES CIEvELAND's ELECTION.
William Everett of Boston is a type of one
class of recruits to the standard of administra.