The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-08
POLITICAL. CHANGES
out of the Party of High Tariff
and Cheap whiskey.
From tie N. 7. Ecening Post.

A correspondent at Kansas City asks us to publish
| q list of names of prominent men, formerly supper
LII ntantoP 10 s,,nndprt Syereiard o Thy,reo
this year in order to offset list that the Republican
We have not kept such list ourselves, but we find
one in the Dover N j., Index, which we copy, pre-
summing that 1t is correct as far as 1t goes:
Henry S. Hotchkiss, of Brooklyn, late Republican
member of the Legislature; Crawford D. Hening, of
Pennsylvania, winner of the first literary prize of
the Protective League in 1887 whose further studies
made him a tariff reformer; Owen Lovejoy, of Illi-
nois of the abolitionist of the same name; A r.
Anderson, representative from Iowa, who, although
| elected as an Independent has heretofore always
declared his entire sympathy with the Republican
party; Calvin Edgerton Rev. DR.. Theodore L. Cuyer
| Seth Low, late Republican Mayor of Brooklyn, N
Y; Ashbel p. Fitch the only Republican Congress
man nov in the House from the great city of New
| York; ex-Gov. ID. T. Farnsworth, of West Virginia.
| Arthur T. Lyman, q prominent Republican manu-
facturer of Boston, Mass; Major AID. Pierce. late
Illinois District; Judge Frank T. Reid, Republican
candidate for Governor of Tennessee in 1854 F. S
Christensen formerly Assistant Secretary of state
of Minnesota; W. L. Garrison, of Massachusetts, son
| of the great abolitonist.
| Marshall Field, the famous dry goods merchant of
Chicago an earnest supporter of Blaine in 1884, an
nounees his intention OF voting for Cleveland and
thurman. so also does r; b. Lhuroer who hoids
| New York that Mr. Field holds i'll the dry goods
trade at Chicago. Mr. Thurber in published letter
says that he voted against Cleveland in 1884, but
| that he shall vote for him this year.
John Stephenson, who built the first tramcar for
the first street car road established anywhere in the
world, in New York city, for the New York and Har
| lem Railway Company Fourth Ayenue) in 1884 is
conspicuous convert from the latter day Republi-
canism TO the party of Cleveland and tariff reform
Mr.. Stephenson has voted for every Republican
nominee for the Presidency from Lincoln to Blaine
inclusive, but announces his firm determination if
his life is spared to vote for Cleveland and Thurman
| this time. Benson ]. LOSING. the historian, and
heretofore strong Republican has left his party
and Joined the Democrats; he declares that the Re
publican party has come to be clog upon the wheel
| of American progress
J. E. Stanley, lifelong Republican of lewiston
Me-, is out for Cleveland and the Mills bill. Mr.
Stanley is an extensive manpfaeturer OF dry plates
Republican, believes in the Mills bill, and is only
sorry that it does not go far enough He lives in
Lewiston. James Dempsey, manager of the Lewis
| ton Bleachery and Dye Works, and Republican,
| is also in favor of the Mills bill
Enoch T.. Hncks, of Bridgeport, Conn, head of
the firm of Hincks & johnson, the largest carriage
manufacturers in western Connecticut, and always
and tariff reform as he made known very plainly in
| speech delivered the other evening before the
voted Tor Blaine in 1891 but the Republican plat
| FORM declaring for free whiskey and against lessen
ing taxation ON the needs Of life, was more than he
A telegram from Grand Rapids, Mich. says that if
| the exodus from the Republican ranks continues ut
| party in western Michigan when the time comes TO
vote. A few days ago VIM. Widdecomb, cashier of
the Grand Rapids National Bank, oncea Republican
candidate for Mayor: and always prominent and
influential man in the party; DR.. c. s. Hazeltine, of
the wholesale drug firm offerkins Hazeltine & Co.:
Eli f. Harrington for many years one of the propri-
etors of the Eagle the Republican organ in western
| Michigan; S. NJ. Leman, wholesale grocer; w. W.
Hyde, Assistant District Attorney in President Ar
| thurs day, and Others announced that, in their
| opinion, the Republican party was without virtue
or wisdom, and that this year at least they would
be found in the ranks and behind the Cleveland
| banner. Now Charles W. Black general manager
| OF the Oriel Cabinet Company, employing 800 men,
and power among the young men of the city,
comes forward and declares that he does not like
| the Republican candidates. and is not in harmony
with the platform, and will vote for Cleveland and
tariff reform. L. ). Provin of the leading real
estate in the city, regrets now that he voted for
Blaine four years ago. and will his conscience
by casting his ballot for Cleveland and tariff reform
| in November. Fred Bradstread and Christian Melvy,
| of Ishpeming, Swedes. and influential with their
| own countrymen, large mine owners and labor en-
poyers, were delegates in the Democratic State Con-
| vention and shouted with the loudest for Cleveland
| and Burt.
This list is obviously incomplete 1t should in
clude the of Frank X. Stockton, the novelist
K. +. Tucker partner in the firm of Brewster Il
Co., noted carriage makers of this city, who has
voted for every Republican candidate for the Pres-
! dency from Lincoln TO Blaine Robert Beakie u
| large woollen manufacturer OF Hyde Park, Mass.
| who believes that the Mills bill will help his bust
ness; Rev. DIR. VIM. De Witt Hyde, President of Bow
don College, and Profs. Pease and Woodruff of the
Bowdoin Faculty; John Marshall Brown. of Port
land Me-. one of the leading Maine soldiers, and
ton Waterman of the public grounds at Harrisburg,
Pa who has resigned his Office because he proposes
| to take the stump for Cleveland and Thurman on
the tariff issue; Frederick A Benjamin of Sratiord
Conn, "a Lincoln Presidential elector and Repub
lican wheelhorse from that time till this year, and
John Wilhelm, prominent farmer in franklin
county, Pa.