The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-04


wages, the Manufacturers are ready to meet
European competition without protection.-Lou-
isville Commercial.
JUDGE THURMAN and his bosom friend, Allen
o. Myers, are kicking against Canada because
the Grand Trunk railroad charged taem full
fare from Port Huron to Chicago when they
thought they we're violating the interstate-com-
merce law and riding on free passes
GEORGE W. CABLE gays: II am not a party
man, but 1 believe in parties, and I 90 with the
one that is going my way, or the nearest my
way. In this fight I expect to see the party OF
freedom win. for the party that 10 living on its
past ID o decaying party. IL cannot long sur
vive."
a leading Democrat in Brooklyn, N. Y. and
did hard work on the stump for Cleveland four
years ago, is working just as hard against him
now, and saws that . vast majority of the work
lnemen in his district are going to vote for Har-
rison and protection.
IT is reported that a pressing letter from
President Cleveland himself was sent to Judge
Thurman, calling on the old Roman to make a
speech in New York before the Democratic
State convention should be held This looks
queer. AS Queen Gertrude says of the play,
lis tneE6 no OuelSe III hI-AlQa0y Times
(Dem.)
THE Montreal Star, though full Of dislike for
General Harrison, Mr.. Blaine aud the Repub-
lican Senators, thinks that while Mr.. Cleveland
desired very much to s'dish the Republicans"
it yet lis inconsistent with the dignity of the
President of the United States that be should
turn his state messages into mere campaign
Sheets
GEN. b. F. BUTLER dislikes and repudistes
Clevelands free-trade heresy, saying: II be-
lieve if the President had observed and known,
as i know, how much q protective tariff has
done for American workingmen. his tariff mes
sage would never have been written. 1t is not
his fault, but the laborlng mans misfortune,
that he did not know the facts
SAMUEL WALLACE, ex-member Of the Pitts
burg City Councils. aud who only last week was
q delegate to the Democratic congressional con-
vention of the Twenty-fourth district, into
which he has moved, has declared for Harrison
and Morton. Mr.. Wallace is q glass-cutter by
trade, and his conversion is due to the free-trade
policy OF the Democracy.
WRITING to a Democratic campaign club ct
St Louis Senator Vest says: 'Mr. Cleveland,
by his message, for which | sincerely honor him,
has challenged the protected industries of the
country to q fight OF determination. The fight
Ito the death The party has one man.
therefore,, who is n OF afraid to tell the truth
This is an agreeable surprise. -Boston Adver
tiser.
AT the Fifth district reunion. held in Wash
ineton. Kan, a vote was taken for President
with the following result: One hundred and thir-
ty-hve Illinois soldiers gave Harrison l34 votes
and Cleveland i; sixty-ive from Indiana went
solid for Harrison; one hundred and twenty from
Iowa voted Harrison ll6, Cleveland 3, Fisk /;
OHIO went ~ tor Harrison and / for Cleveland.
This is a straw that shows what the boys who
wore the blue think about Harrison.
SOME one asked why Judge Thurman is called
the "Old Roman" and the innocent question
has caused our Democratic friends no end of
perplexity. The New York Sun frankly con-
fesses that it doesn't know, and a satisfactory
explanation OF the title has yet to be vouch-
safed. The Troy Times thinks it is because he
is SO musty on the important questions of the
day. but there must be some other reason than
this. good as it is.-Rochester Democrat
THE New YORK Democrat, with an engaging
frankness which all OF the third party people
will not appreciate, says: 1T must be remem-
bered that in this canvass the Prohibitionists
and Democrats are allies, and that both are
seeking q common end. viz, the overthrow of
the Republican party. This is the main issue.
and consequently Democratic newspapers and
orators should refrain from attacking the Pro-
hititionisrs and their principles"
EDITOR Bowen, Of the New York Independ-
ent. has called the Republicans Of Windham
county to a Republican rally at his own Rose
land Park. Wednesday. 1t begins at 1870 A. NJ.
and will last till nightfalI. The speakers are to
be Candidate Morton, Senators Joseph r. Haw-
ley, William NJ. Evarts and George F. Edmunds,
Congressman Mckinley and Russell. Governors
Foraker and Taft, Judge Shipman. William E.
Simonds and others.
WITH sbject and profuse apologies to the bak-
ing powder companies, the Nebraska State
Journal offers the following diagram, showing
the relative chances fog election of the various
Presidential candidates: