Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-10-18

Ex-SOlicitOr of the Treas
uryJOrdan Repudiates
ee g His Party. aa1
Republican Protection Means
Plumber
Words ofa Friend of Lincoln, Chase
and Seward,


Words ofa Friend of Lincoln, Chas,
and Seward,
New York Herald.l
Edward Jordan. the friend of Abra
ham Lincoln and Solicitor of the Treas
ury under Secretary Chase, denounce!
the Republican party of to-day as 6
humbug and has lett il to vote fol
Grover Cleveland.
| The greatest blow that has been deal
the Republican cause since the cam
paign opened in this vicinity Is thai
which Edward Jordan, one of the
Oldest and most hOnOred of the early
founders of the "Grand Old Party
aimed at its fraudulent professions, pro
testations and doctrines in this city.
Every Republican statesman in the
country knows Edward Jordan, Solici.
tor of the Treasury under Abraham
Lincoln and Andrew Johson.
Every public man of standing in the
national government and the House OF
Representative for the last twenty.
eight years knows Edward Jordan,
who was made Solicitor of the Treasury
by Secretary Chase and who was sum.
moned from Portsmouth in the south.
ern part of the State of Ohio, to take
the important office at time when the
country was rocked to its very centre by
the conflict between the North and the
South.
Mr.. Jordan is at present practicing
his profession in this city at No. l60
Broadway, and was found there yester-
day by Herald reporter. He is fine
looking old gentleman, with face and
head strongly resembling those of the
late Charles O'ConOr when he was
about sixty years old.
When called on by the writer, Mr..
Jordan was engaged in consultation
with some professional friend, but al
though very busy the moment the
question was put to him about his pro-
posal to vote for Cleveland his face lit
up and he became interested at once.
us it true, Mr.. Jordan, that you, who
have been so prominent Republican,
have left the party?" said the reporter.
ut is, sir" replied he in courteous,
though positive accents, II have left
the Republican party, so called, because
it has abandoned its principles and has
repudiated the faith ofits founders.
II was an active member of the Re-
publican party for many years and only
ceased to be one when 1 found that the
speculative and certain manufacturing
classes were entrenching themselves in
a tariff ring which they deemed to be
and which [ knew was
ruinous to the country. Of course, I
could not return to the Democratic
party at once, because it was no better
than the Republican party;
but after the election of MIR. Cleveland
l observed with pleasure that his ad-
was gradually bringing it
back to first principles and making it
like the great and useful
Democracy of my younger days.
"At last his great message on the
tariff was sent to Congress and / saw at
once that he had forced the Democratic
party into it's proper position as the real
protector of the American people.
Then knew that Grover Cleveland
was the right man to elect as President
Of the United States. saw at a glance
from his message and letters that the
Democratic party was once more the
of the rights of the nation
at large and not of any part to class
thereof, and that the Republicans and |
Democrats had changed places.
'Then [ left the Republican party |
md cast my lot with the Democracy
ed by Grover Cleveland.
1.-THE word protection as used and |
applied by the Republicans means
The platform of the Demo-
Gratis means protection.
"The absurdity of the outcry against |
he Mills bill appears to me species
If insanity. It certainly is nonsense.
The Republicans themselves must be
ware of this. for they above all others
ully comprehend that the Mills bill !
s good measure and will be attended
~ beneficial consequences, not to labor
llOne, not to capital alone, out to both.
"At first the willy and designing find
t easy to appeal to classes and to indi-
,idual manufacturers who have grown
lp and come into existence under the
policy and class and special protection
# the Republican party. These classes
md individuals can be shown that they
will suffer little at first by reason of
he Mills bill and other proposed Demo-
ratio measures suggested by the st.
Iouis platform. But let me ask, what
re the Mills bill and the plank of the
PLATFORM for? Are they not for the i'm
of the country at large and
lot for classes; neither for labor alone,
Tor capital alone? Both must and will
cap the benefits to accrue from the pro-
,osed policy and the legislation under
he administration of Grover Cleveland.
1.-THE greatest good for the greatest
lumber and for the entire nation is the
'hject of the present Democratic ad-
This is genuine protec-
ion, by which and under which the
many and not the few will be served.
IN the other hand, the protection of
is designed and intended
o take of and enrich the few at the ex-
,ense of the many; therefore it is plum
Ter! H..
'The Republicans now are not i'm
with the Republican party
# Abraham Lincoln's time.
1.-THE Republican party is the party
# class and sectional ideas; the Demo-
ratio party Is the party of and for the
people. Therefore I am Democrat!v
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