Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-07-13


Already shops and fOundries are clos.
ing because the duty is not high enough
to keep these foreign goods out Low.
er the duty still more and .he conse.
/ quencc will be to either close up these
industries or work for starvation wages
This is not our contention, and this i,
not our Interpretation Of H. This is the
voice and the clamor Of the industrious
labor Of the North. This is the voice
Of that factor that must determine the
fate Of the election. 1t looks as If the
solid South were 10 be purchased this
time at too high a price. The solid
South is for free trade. The President
or the party that has thrown down this
guage Of battle this critical year is Meth
er wise nor polite The Catholic
Weekly.
The Republican National convention
has nominated Senator Benjamin Iiarri-
son as its candidate for the Presidency.
The nomination is unguestionably a
strong one. The platform is singullrly
explicit; contrasted with the Democratic
platform. it joins issues now first dis
tinctly presented. In such contest as
opens up, principles, not personalities,
should be dominant, as We believe they
will. Given this, and We shall have a
clean campaign, with less of asperiiy
aud detraction than have characterized
our Presidential contests for long Sc
ries Of years. The Christian at Work
Evangelical
President Clcvclaud's uncle has an
nounced that he will not vote for his
nephew. The gentleman's name is Hon.
Lewis +. Allen, of Buffalo. He says
he voted for VIM Henry Harrison
"Old Tippecanoe and Tyler, too"-and
il going to vote this fall for Benjamin
Harrison and Lew F. Morton. Mr.
Allen has done more than talk. A few
nights ago be organized in Buffalo a
Harrison club for campaign work, and
secured list Of thirty-eight in one night.
The people outside of Indiana are
thinking great leal about the Demo
Gratis carrying that State in November,
but this is what General Browne, a con
gresham from Indiana, says about the
Republicans chances: They viii carry
Indiana, New York, New jersey and
Connecticut, and, when the Den ocracy
wakes up the morning after the clec
ton, they will be the most surprised
party this country has ever seen. Gen
Browne knows the Indiana voters much
better than many wise ones now discus
sing the situation.
The National Visitor, Of Peoria, III
owned and edited by John A Mango,
late chairman of the Democratic Con
gressional Committee of that district,
comes out squarely in support of lIarri
son and Morton.
Ie George w. Smith, of Herki-
nsig, N Y, has renowned his
sYiarfison and Morton. Judge
Smith is acknowledged to be the ablest
Democratic organizer in lIcrkimer coun
ty He spoke for Seymour in 1868,
for Greeley in 1872, for Tldeu in 1875,
for Hancock in 1880, aud for Cleveland
in 1884. In 1876 he was the Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the Her
kimer, Lewis and Jefferson district, and
in 1886 the Democratic candidate for
the same office in the IIcrkimer, Otscgo
and Schoharie district. He represented
Herkimer county in the Assembly in
1888, and was his party's leader in that
body.
Another hotter from Rochester n. Y
Levi J. Dcland, late a member of the
New York Democratic State Committee,
says he will not vote for Cleveland be-
cause he does not like the Democratic
rec trade platform
Hiram Sibley, the noted scotsman of
Rochester, n Y, and Democrat, has
declared for Harrison and Morton.
On nc day when Seth Low, the Re
publican free trader, announced that he
would not support Harrison, Hon.
Orange Noble, one of the most conspicu-
us Democrats OF western pennsylvania,
yho was the Democratic candidate for
State Treasurer in 1882, came over to
he Republicans on account of the tariff
ssue The realignmcnt of parties is GO
ne vigorously on, and the Republicans
re apparently gaining much more than
hey lose by the change. st. Louis
ilobe- Democrat.
John W Hindmarch, a lifelong
Democrat of Washington county, Pa,
nd recently Democratic candidate for
county office, announces his purpose
o vote for Cen Harrison. because he
annot sccept the free trade platform of
he Democratic party.
Rev Sam Small says North Carolina
silI give %, 900 votes for the Prohibi-