, 1888-07-26
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auil Chinese meeting in Sydney,
Australia, on June 9th.
The Hon. J Il Wade. OF Cleveland
q we'll known iiuaucier. has al
Ways voted for the democratic ticket
viii vote for protection this fall.
G. C. Shayne, the we'll known New
York fur manufacturer. ardentIy
supported Cleveland four years ago.
He will vote for proection this fan.
When Cleveland was governor of
New York he voted the bill the legis-
lature passed to reduce the working
hours OF street Car drivers from six
teen hours a day to twelve hours.
The wheat crop promises 10 he e.
normous in the Willamette Valley
this year, and with even moderately
good prices ought to make brisk
timss this fall.
Washington Territory is proudly
boastful. 1t leads every state and
territory in the yield of potatoes per
acre. Its capacity is gwen at i52
bushels per acre. Oregon follows
with l22 bushels.
A man cannot be d protectionist
and democrat. Ex-Mayor and ex-
Congressman ScovIll, OF Buffalo,
n. Y, announces himself as a pro
tectionist-demcrat" The World says
that means that he is republican.
Tbar. yuas IN ,r,,D;z,1;o,, e .-nnO
Cleveland republicans" in Buffalo
four yeats ago. They are mostly
Harrison republicans now, and the
Boffdlo NelUS, which formerly sup
ported Cleveland, is their prophet
Henry George is out of the work
ing party aud is now advocating
free trade. When editor of the San
Francisco Post he favored Chinese
immigration. The two go hand in
hand aud are opposed to honest la
Dor.
The London Economist says that
on the adoption of free trade in the
United States depends the greater
share of English prosperity for a
good many years to come. We sup
pose Mr. Mills knows for whom he
is working.
The contract for carrying mail
from British Columbia has been Sc
cured from the Canadian govern
ment by Goodall, Perkins & Co. The
mails, which have heretofore been
carried overland, Will leave on every
Friday by steamer
A remarkable feat in locomotive
construction was performed at the
Baldwin Locomotive Works a few
days ago, an entire locomotive
weighing 110,0U0 pounds having
been bnilt and turned out of the
shops ready for use in five minutes
less than seventeen hours.
Chauneey NJ Depew, being inter
viewed in London on Monday, said
"We've a splendid ticket, rafting
platform and Il clean-ou issue.
think We are going to win. Blaine
is going TO stump the country, and
in case of our success, will be Secre-
tary of state, L have no doubt.
The tourists on the juno trip of
the steamship Ancon hearing that
the people of Juneau wore trying to
raise funds for the erection of a
Presbyterian Church, contributed
S223 towards it. The response was
hearty and undepominational, Jews,
Episeopalians, Methodists, Baptists,
Presbyterians and others contribu-
ting
''Brick" Pomeroy warns the demo-
Gratis that they shave a lot of grass
down which they will have to get IN"
If they desire success this fell. He
cites the fact that Harrison's nomin-
alton will cali the mugwumps home
and that he will get much of. the
greenback and labor vote, besides
holding the regular party vote to a
man.
Hardly day passes without the
record of some prominent New York
democrat abandoning Cleveland and
free trade and going over to Harri-
son aud protection. The conditions
of the campaign are exactly the re-
verse of 1884, when the mugwumps
abandoned the republican party.
Now the protection democrats are
abandoning the tree trade party
Toledo Blade.
l believe Harrison and Morton
were nominated by fair and. honor
able means, and I am with them
through thick and thin. I intend to
take the stump for the ticket In both
Ohio and Indiana. l will in my
speeches call the farmers attention
to the false doctrine OF the democrats
that free trade would be for his beni.
fit. l will show him that just the
contrary would ba the case John
Sherman.
There are too many little boats
fitting to and fro across the interna-
tional boundary line in full sight of
our field glass, undisturbed by the
custom authorities of either govern
ment. There are too many little men
with pigtails hanging down their
backs jabbering around among the
woods, and too many men with mys-
ferrous bundles and bales travelling
back and forth.-Biaine JonnsL
The Boston Record says: ''One Of
the most influential of the seeding
democrats is aIr. d. A. Buckley. edi-
tor Of the Cambridge (Mass.) Ne,rs
Said he to Record reporter last
evening: Il have been denocrat
as long as I Tan remember aud for
eisirsy Ola consecutive years have
voted the straight ticket, but I can
not go for free trade. This year l
am going to vote The republican tick
ct"
The hop growers of Washingte~
territory are highly elated over the
prospects of an enormous yield this
wear. Never before IN the history of
the industry in this section has the
appearance of the hop crop been so
faYorab!e for heavy yield at this
time of the season as at present
Growers expect full yield in all the
,,ro1utDn Districts OF the terrific