Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-08-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

TIE COncOrdia Iron Company, at Co
lumbia, Pa, has blown out its furnaces,
because of the uncertainty of the iron
market caused by the tariff agitation.
Mr.. join T. Dunn, ex-Speaker of the
Legislature Of New Jersey, prominent
and influential Democrat, has declared
himself for Harrison and the protection
of home industries.
r. H. GUFNNIP, in 1884 Chairman of
the Chemung q. " Democratic Coun-
| ty Committee, is out for Harrison and
Morton, and offers to bet from 81 900 to
$4,000 that Cleveland will get left.
ANOTHER straw indicative of the po-
litical wind comes from Planeville, Mass.
The town has Mugwump club of sixty
five members, who all voted for CleVe-
land in 1884. In 1888 every man will
vote for Harrison and Morton.
TIE Mugwump newspapers are much
infiamed by Congressman Reeds pleas
ant remark that If the Democrats really
believed that the Republican party ad-
vOcated free whisky they would desert
their own party in body and come over
to the Republicans"
A. E. STRICKLER, Of Boston, who was
sent to Europe last year to represent the
Chase Lasting Machine Company, was
then an ardent Free Trader. He now
writes home that his observation of the
pay and mode Of living of foreign work.
men has converted him to Protection.
AT the recent conference of window
glass workers and manufacturers it was
agreed that should there be reduction
of the tariff ON glass the manufacturers
would be entitled to reduction of wages
How are the Free Traders going to an
swer the argument in favor of a protect
i've tariff found in that!
CONGRESSMAN BAYNE recently order
ed 100000 copies of Major McKinley's
tariff speech put up for mailing. which
he sent broadcast through his District
The other day it was discovered that the
Public Printer had struck off McMiIlen's
speech instead, and these Free Trade
documents had gone out instead.
AND still they come That is the man.
ufacturerS and workingmen who former
ly voted for Cleveland and do do not wish
to have anything to do with Free Trade
politics. The latest conversion is the pa
per manufacturing firm of DOty 4 Me-
Farlin, of Brooklyn, and their one hun
dred and eighty employees, all for Harri-
son and Morton.
AT East Cambridge, Mass, the Work
ingmen's Protective League has nearly
one hundred members who have hitherto
affiliated with the Democracy. Among
those who spoke at a meeting on Tues
day was ex-Alderman Michael Corcoran,
of Cambridge, who declared that he had
voted for Cleveland in 1884, but would
never do so again. He was followed by
a carpenter named Hurley, also Dem
ocrat, who stated that he could not vote
for Free Trade.
B. +. PEIXOTTO, of New York, rep
resentatiye workingman, was for nearly
eight years L.. Consul at Lyons, France,
and made a study of the labor question
not only of that country, but of Germany.
Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, and
England. He SAYS the wages received in
Europe are from One-half to twO-thirds
lower than those paid in this country,
and that it would be suicide for Ameri-
can workingmen to vote for party which
seeks to place them on level with the
pauper labor of Europe.
CLEvELAND'S administration has hired
a British dredge to deepen New y Ork har-
Dor, and about one year ago let out con-
tract for army blankets to a British firm
because. exclusive of the tariff, it under
bid American competitors 80 cents per
blanket. Cleveland's administration also
pays big prices to British steamers for
carrying the mails, and Cleveland'S Post
master General is on record as being OPP
posed to paying proper compensation ex-
clusively To American steamers for like
service. In fact, Cleveland's admins
tratiOn seems to be saturated with anglo
mania of the most virulent and damaging
type to honest Americanism. No Won
der the English papers like him.
So StHb6OTaly hare all efforts 10 reform
the present condition been resisted by those
Of Our tellOr-citi-enS thus engaged that
they ctIH hardly cOHp PLAIN Of the suspicion
entertained tO certain e-rtent that there
eriStS dH organized combination all along
tie line tO maintain their GGtc0ntdge.-
President Cleveland's Message.
TIE Democrats of Alabama are adopt
ing system of terrorism. A Republi-
can meeting at Birmingham was broken
up by an armed Democratic mob, head
ed by number of county and city Off
cials.
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