Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-08-27
Political Notes.

The New York Sun says: President Cleveland
has enhanced the ardor OF the democrats In charge
or the national campaign oy sending them his
check for $4,000 A very cordial letter accom-
panied the Presidents contribution. The mem.
bers OF the Cabinet have also sent very liberal con-
friends % Of the President in wasSington $4,000
has thus rlr been handed In. All the contTitu-
tions have been accompanied by encouraging let
ters One letter said that it wouldn't be Reces-
sary for the democrats to threaten TO 'fry the
tat" out OF the manufacturers-that the friends OF
Mr.. Cleveland would see 10 II that the COMMITTEES
had all the money necessary for the legitimate ex-
penses OF the campaign.
The clans are beginning to gather at Saratoga
Springs for the republican convention, which viii
be held tomorrow In the Casino A New York
Herald dispatch from there says: Warner Miller,
more genial and approachabie than he ever was
before In his life is on hand already with an In
promptu speech accepting the gupernatorial norai-
nation The one thing that bothers Mr.. Miller md
his friends Is the doubt as 70 wheCher q high
There Is prospect OF q great deal OF truuD,sple er
thea platform. The country deleeates headed by
Miller want 70 make THE issue In tns state this fall
the church anu temperance against The saloon,
This they think win offset the whisky plank In the
national platform and draw democratic temper.
anee VOTE IN a,xs ixe snrinSer - Was tSe s..
at the banner-raising OF the Twenty-hrt
Ward Democratic Association In Phiiadelphia
saturday evening. Several hundred People
listened to him IN the open air. Mr.. Spinner
said It was all q mistake about protective tarifI
protecting, and wanted 10 know II some philosopher
got IS week and mill hands In Georgia only 81
Mr. Blaine, he said, tried TO solve the whole labor
question by saying that wages were twice as much
to-day in New England as In Oid England, but did
NOT add anything about low wages In the southern
states "If he Kept this back knowingly he did q
great wrong" said Mr. Springer.
The democrats OF his own county at large con.
vention at Allentown, Pa, Saturday, passed reso
lutiOns condemning Representative Sowden's
course in opposing the Mills bil and refusing tc
present his name 10 the convention for renomina-
tion. Mr. Sowden was present and made q useless
fight He was given an hour In which to plead
why sentence should not be passed upon him. His
defense was not satisfactory. There was much ex
element. The resolutions ind0rsing the President
and all his acts ended follows: THAT the
OF william II. S0wden In voting against the Mills
bill be disapproved OF and condemned"
The republican ratification at CARRIED Place
Cincinnati, Saturday night was immensely a.
tended. speeches were made by Governor For.
aker, Major Calkins, OF Indiana, ana Hon. Ben
Butterworth.
Robert Cowdrey, candidate for President on the
| union labor ticket, spoke at Chicago SATURDAY
afternoon. He denounced both the old parties and
At Knoxville, Tenn, Hon Sam W. Hawktns. re
publican candidate for governor, made nle initia
speech saturday night TO several thousand people
On the 15zth ballot In the I'd New YORK dls
tTct republican convention, Freder1ck kanson, ex
senator for the Jefferson OsWego odisSncts was nom
Representative Niils said IN chicago Saturday
the presaaenty nss'ase saiss y sxscus' u IA
Al Sprin9Aeia III, the uliuoas lsss Prsss. here
tofore demOcrstac. has declared for HaFFhon anf
In the the flru North Carolina district, nihu WIN,
has been nominated by the rspabucanA