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

Harrison ran against Blue Jeans Williams
for Governor of Indiana. But the people
preferred hard hands and blue jeans to kid
gloves and blue blood, and elected Williams.
Allen G. Thurman and Benjamin Harrison
were both United States Senators when the
Chinese question was under consideration.
Thurman led in the fight against the Asiatic
plague. Harrison voted on every occasion
to place the Chinese on a level with white I'M
migrants.
General Harrison has many personal pecn-
liarities, among them being Discrimination
TO shake hands. He has II poor memory for
names and faces, aud il is related Of him that
prominent men in his own State have been
introduced to him three times in one day
before he could recognize them.
The Young Mems Independent Club of
New York, which did such effective work in
the campaign of 1884, and, in fact, in every
campaign since then, is once more hard at
work, and proposes to do much in the election
this fall. They have Endorsed Cleveland and
Thurman, and have already set the machinery
in motion to gain to the Democratic standard
bearers the votes of all conservative citizens
in the city of New York.
General Harrison appears in the canvass as
the representative of high and higher protec-
blOuy anu vi lEcc WHISKY oh0 1ObaSNOf LoehOA
than of lighter duty upon any class of arti-
cles produced in this country. In other words,
he is for an average tariff tax of AZ per cent,
instead of 40 per cent; and of profase
and consequently demoralizing expenditure
of surplus, instead of leaving it in the peck
cts of the axpayers-Hnper's Weekly.
A significant political sign of the times is the
admission to the County Democracy Commit
tee of the It'll Assembly District N. Y. of Mr..
Z. NJ. Knor and fifty associates, who some
time ago left the Democratic party and aifil-
lated with the labor men. This accession
will greatly strengthen the committee in the
district, which is entering very theoretically
upon the national canvass, under the direc-
ton of ex-senator Durham and Mr.. James
w. Boyle.
In an editorial on ''the duty of the hour, !"
the Boston Herald, Independent, says: =
snow let the Democratic campaign managers
bend their energies to spreading the gospel
of tariff reform. Their candidates and their
platform are squarely committed to it, and it
is the one definite issue of the campaign.
The workingmen need to be enlightened on
the subject in order that they may be satisfied
that the maintenance of the war taxes is pre-.
judicial to their interests, as well as to all
other classes in the community. Let there be
no hocus pocus, no equivocation, no juggling
on this question. Give the facts squarely and
plainly and plenty of them. Tracts are worth
more than transparencies. Circulate the
documents. That is the way to win"
The question before the country has to do
with two conflicting economic systems. Shall
the war tariff be maintained for protection?
Or shall war tariff taxes be reduced in accord
ance with the revenue-tariff doctrine of the
Democratic party? This is the issue, and it
is great one. Itinvolves more than appears
on its face. Whoever will study it carefully
will find in it two conflicting and never to-be-
reconciled theories of government-the Ham
iltonian and the Jeffersonian. One side up
holds the right to tar all the people for the
benefit of some of the people. The other
side denies the existence of such right.
One side advocates protection for projections
sake. The other side asserts that Terenue
is the only object of lawful taxation and that
to tax for any other purpose is usuTpatiOn.
It ought to be possible for great nation to
discuss and settle this question without any
display of unseemly passion.-N. 7. Star