The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-21
POLITICAL NOTE AND COMMENT.

THE Republicans circulated Clevelsns free
trade message as one of their campaign docu.
ments in Maine, and it made them hundreds of
votes.
PROF. DAVID SWING, Of Chicago, says the
efforts Of the Democrats to exalt the bandauna
must be set down as Q failure. He will vote for
Harrison.
A NEBRASKA former has bet his wife on Har-
rison's election. He figures it out that IL be
loses the times are likely to be so hard that he
couldn't afford a wife anyway. Great head.
GENERAL HARRISON denies that he ever said
that . dollar a day was enough wages for a
workingman. Well. we will believe you, Mr..
Harrison. New Haven Register Dem.
New YORK Democrats are not Offering TO bet
on Cleveland since they heard from Maine. This
shows what they think OF the Maine election
better than any labored Democrats editorials.
Peoria Transcript
The inventor of the Gatlirg gun, for many
years an ardent Democrat, has deserted his
party and declared for Harrison. The Cleveland
boomers should beware of him, for he is loaded.
-Philadelphia Press.
THE conflict between free trade and protec-
ton 10 irrepressible and must be fought out to
the bitter end. We spit upon compromises and
propose neither to ask nor to give quarter.
louisville Courier-Journal.
Another New Jersey Democratic newspaper
has come ont for Harrison and Morton and pro-
lection. 1t is the Railway Csnsor. edited by
Joseph T. Crowell, one of the Oldest Democrats
in the State. He has preached simon pure De-
mocracy many years, but he cannot stand free
trade.
A DEMOCRATIC workingman in New York ut
tered a sound argument when he said: Il would
rafhar nav 4 canf for . Asp,ar mel oni
establish an industry worth $50, 200. geo annually
to this Nation than continue to support 100. 00l
Enelishmen In making tin plate, when that mum
Der OF Americans want employment"
/ APPRECIATE the great importance OF the
approaching canvass TO all the producing classes
of our country. They mus. now definitely
choose between a line of public policy which by
successive stages will lead them TO sharp and
hard competition with European labor and CAPT
tai and a policy always supported by the Re-
publican party OF fair. impartial protection "a
every American production by reasonable duties
on imported eoods.-Senator Sherman.
In view of the desperate efforts which the
Democratic managers are making to prejudice
workingmsn against General Harrison, it is
timely to recall the declaration of Chief Arthur,
Of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
that Harrison is a first class man. and the
workingmen CT the country will support him,
and that there Is nothing In his record thai
should prevent any Republican workingmsr
from voting for him-"-Boston Journal.
THEODORE A. CASE, OF Ellington, y. Y,
writes to the Buffalo Express that he has beer
acquainted with Rev. John A. Brooks. third
| party candi date for Vice president, for several
years. and has repeatedly heard him say that
during the war he was a rebel and joined the
confederate army, and did what he could TO aid
the confederate cause. This statement, Mr..
Case says. Was once made in the presence Of
himself aud Governor Sherman, OF Iowa