The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-07-14
Political Notes.

The Democrats will Tip.a- canoe iuto the
Wabash Canal next Observation-Disclosures
Plain Dealer.
The Independents of Massachusetts have
determined against taking separate action
this year, and in favor of direct support of
the candidates of the Democratic party.
Judge Aaron Weland, one of the leading
Republicans of Minneapolis, Mimi has bolted
the Republican ticket. He says he does not
believe in IL high protective tariff, and that
thousands of Minnesota Republicans are Of
his way of thinking and will vote for Cleveland
and Thurman.
The independent colored political associa-
lions of Virginia have appointed delegation
of 10 to attend the National Conference of
Independent Colored Men in indianapolis on
the 18th inst, and have also adopted resolu-
tons endorsing President Cleveland. j. M.
Turner, ex-Minister to Liberia, says that the
Indianapolis meeting will be composed entire
" of colored men who have left the Republi-
can party.
A dispatch from Springfield, No., to the
New York Herald says; "Hurrah for Cleve-
landr' This ejaculation, coming from the
lips of Colonel FL. +. Fellows, president of
the Springfield Wagon Company, the largest
mandatory of the kind west of the Missis
sippi, was directed toward the surprised ears
of the Herald correspondent Saturday morn
ing. Colonel Fellows was one of the five Re-
publicans of Greene county who dared to vote
for Lincoln in 1860 and was a few years ago
elected mayor on the Republican ticket.
''Are you going to vote for Cleveland" asked
the reporter.
"Yes, sir; as between the two tickets have
no hesitancy. As manufacturer | indorse
the Cleveland idea of tariff reform, looking
not to my own interests alone, but to those
of my employees and the laboring niensftf gen.
eral. If reduction of siiestsfisf would par
alyze the industries Of the country, as claim
ed, why don't the Republicans allow the
Democrats to carry out free-trade measures
and thus kill their party? The fact is, the
Republicans are afraid reduction of the
tariff would enhance the prosperity of the
country and rebound to the glory of the DEM
ocratic party. | say, Hurrah for Cleveland
and Thurmani'
The Hon. Oliver Il. Dockery, Republican
nominee for Governor of North Corolina, ad-
dressed Republican mass meeting in Raleigh
Thursday evening last. He said nothing of
note except that he was in favor of giving
the niger full rights at the ballot box and in
the courthouse, but beyond that he would
pull the niger back as quick as any man.
The ringers" composing three-fourths of
the duultiCCf otOO0 d{SadStf nho thC doCotAOu
arises who is trying to pull the ''niggern
back? Dockery also said that the man who
reported him as wishing ''to see the day
come when white and colorgl children would
90 to school together was an unqualified liar.
Thirty-five thousand dollars have been
subscribed by the members Of the Reform
Club of New York to be expended in distrib-
uting documents showing the necessity of re.
visions in the tariff laws. There are over one
two hundred members ofthe organ
ization, which is by no means political
body. Indeed, practical politicians are
not admitted. Fully four hundred Of the
club are Republicans, who believe in radical
modification of the tariff regulations. At
present there is no limit to the membership
list, and there won't be either until the club
has reformed this little matter of the tariff,
remedied several other crying evils in Amer
lean politics, and in short, gotten things gen
orally in something like decent order.