Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
POLITICAL POINTERS.

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Senator Edmunds is going to take a,
active part in the coming campaign. 81
will begin campaign work as soon as con
gress adjourns.
A straw indicativeo of the political wine
comes from PIaneviile, Mass. The tow
has mugwump club of sixty-five mem
bers, who all voted for Cleveland in 1884
In 1883 every man viii vote for Harrison
and Morton.
Out OF forty-tive voters in the new
Republican club at Port Even, N. Y.
seventeen had been Democrats until this
summer. This is one of the little straws
which show which way things are drift.
ing in New York state
At Joliet, Ill, the Stone City Pro
tectlve Tariff club has been organized
among the wage workers of the rolling
mill, with 600 members. mostly Demo-
Gratis. Joliet, usually Democratic by 400,
will go republican by a substantial ma
jority.
The Republicans of Florida are going
to make big effort to redeem the state
this year. They have only 3,73S ma
Jorlty to overcome, and they believe that
northern immigration since the last cleo
ton will more than counterbalance that.
In any event it will cut the Democratic
margin down to very narrow limit
y prominent New Yorker offers to bet
$1,000 that twenty-five present members
OF congress who voted for the Mills bill
VIII not be returned at the next election.
lie says he can name the men, but he
VIII not make his bet dependent that
specifically. He further ventures the
suggestion that at least eight of the New
DIRK Democrats who voted for the meas
ure will be defeated if they are candi-
dates for reelection, and that the defeat
OF Fitch, the Republican from the Tween
ty-thlrd district, who voted with the
Democrats, is certain.
James \. Whitney, a weaIty New
DIRK lawyer announces his conversion to
Republicanism after twenty-four years
OF solid support of the Democratic party.
lie said it was because of the tariff issue.
Il am q worry much better Democrat
than Grover Cleveland is he said II
am high tariff Democrat, Thomas
Jefferson declared that the war of 1912
was blessing to the country, because it
protected American industries and gave
an impetus TO American manufactures
'iitNAi thSt Notita llOt nave TGcelVp1
without it. This was carrying high ia
riff views somewhat to an extreme. but
as protection Democrat, am willing |
to follow where Thomas Jefferson led"
In one issue of the Buffalo Evening
News there are dispatches telling the |
story OF notable conversions to Harrison. |
Morton and protection in the villages of |
Hinsdale and Corning and the CITY of /
Hudson in the same state. At Hinsdale |
William Beekin, until recently a promi- |
nent member of the Young Mems Demo |
cratic club, is out for the Republican
ticket, on the tariff issue. At Corning
William T. Mcnamara, leading Young
lawyer who stumped the state for Cleye-
land and Hendricks in 1884, was twice
the candidate of his party for the assem-
bly,, and had seat in the last Demo
cratic state convention, is making
speeches for Harrison and Morton and
spreading Observation-Disclosures the en-
envy. At Hudson Hon. Benjamin Raw.
who represented the Democracy of CO.
lumbia county three years in the lower
house Of the New York legislature and
two years in the state senate, has Joined
5he Harrison ranks.