New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14
POLITICAL CHAT AND PLANS.

A meeting Of Democratic Protectionsts who
will vote for Harrison and Morton land Miller, too
In all probability is being quickly and even secretly
organized in this city, and call will soon be
issued. 1t will be similar in character TO the
recent great meeting in Philadelphia and is indeed
ins prcd by that gathering. Admission TO the secret
preliminary meetings is solely by cards. issued only
after careful inquiry among the merchants AMI
manufacturers Of Democratic faith but Protection
principles The chief arguments used to secure
Joint public action is that the issue IS, CONNER
cially well politically, SO momentous that
every citizen owes II TO the others 10 express
publicly how he means to vote at the coming cleo
ton individuals and single concerns hesitate TO
express their opinions for fear Of injury 10 their
business and, indeed, have no means of expressing
sentiments without seeming to obtrude them But
the proposed call and the public meeting TO follow
will give proper opportunity for no uncertain speech
Some Of the most interesting political meetings
now held nightly In Ncw-York do not get reported
I'm the newspapers. They are numerous and fire.
quent, II small, and the speeches If brief are
telling, for they consist chiefly of the actual OK
per!ences of the workingmen who talk and who
have labored both In Free Trade Europe and Pro
tective America. 1t IS common to hear rough
handed men declare in dialects which reveal their
English, IRISH or Scotch origin, that they were
master workmen at homo with twelve hours OF
labor, instead of ten as here, at five shings
day wages, where they get 49, with black
bread TO eat instead OF wheat bread and no schools
for their children, whereas free are supplied
hero
Nathaniel Mckay is preparing large wagon,
with transparency on either side with pictures
contrasting the conditions Of the laborer abroad
and at homo. From this wagon, drawn every day
during the campaign through tho manufacturing
districts of the city, he viii have his pamphlet on
Free Trade Toilcrs,' showing In detail the wretchcd
condition Of the worklngmcn in England, distributed
In any number TO anybody who wishes to read
He has already printed and given away 100000
of these lie adopts this Of distribution here
because satisfied that many packages sent through
the post do not reach their destination.
Neighbors Of mine in Brooklyn, Mugwump,
the other a Hill Democrat, have each thrcc-ycar-
old boy, and tho pair great friends, but as
all children OF spirit will, they occasionally have
their mimic fights. Each father has niclnamcd his
child after his political leader, and the nelghbors
now think the fights between "litte Ceve and
Dave" the most natural things in the world Cleve
had wealth OF golden locks, which Dave was
constantly envyng, and one day after reconciliation
had followed warfare a small scale Cleve con
sented to be shorn OF his locks by Dave, who
fastened tho curls to his hair In the belief
that they would grow there. Now the mother OF
Cleve goes about calculating over the loss OF her
darllngs curs, "A plague on both your houses
while the Hin Democrat tells his Mugwump friend
that "thars the way Cleveland will be shorn by
Hill I'm November" This reads like fable after
the manner Of the modern political Aesop, but II
is literal fact.
After Mr. Clevelands declarations to L" Boss' Hugh
Mclaughlin and william a. Furcy, Of Brooklyn, be-
fore the State Convention met, that Mr.. Hill ought
not TO be renominated, 1t is hard TO see how he
write any Endorsement Of Hill II is understood
that Mclaughlin and Furcy stated to several persons
that. having gone TO Washington on invitation OF
the President he had said to them It would be
impossible for the Democracy and the Independents
consistently TO support both himself for President
as a civil Service and tariH ref0rmer and Mr. Hill
for Governor on his spells and tariff record, fer
one or the other was sure 10 be knitted" and he
thought II would be himself The sangy word is
not OF Clevelands coinage, but Of his application,
and his friends thus far the men who arc doing
me kninng" And unless the President stulfikes
himself and writes an Endorsement Of Hi, as he
wrote one OF Fellows. the threat Of retaliation will
be secretly, II not publicly, carried out There
never was an organization better equipped for whole
sale secret slaughter than that OF the saloon keepers
their machinery for this sort Of retaliation work is
perfection itself