Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-08-02
POLITICAL POINTERS.

The November election comes on the
anniversary of the battle of Tippecanoe
Seven leading manufacturers of Cohoes,
y. Y, all Democrats hitherto. are now
for Harrison and Morton on the protec-
ton issue.
Hon. John Scoville. of Buffalo, Y. Y,
who gave $4,000 to the Democratic
campaign in 1884, will not give a cent
to the Democratic cause this year, be-
cause he has decided to support Harri-
son and Morton.
\ pious Bourbon free trade editor
down in Evansville. Ind, on hearing of
the passage of the Mills bill, thus rever-
emily O. expressed his gratitude in the
columns of his paper: 1T would be ap-
propriate if the churches of Christ to-
day were to offer up praise and thanks
giving to God for this initial step towards
the emancipation of The People from
the grinding rule of those Princes of
Mammon, the Protected Pirates of the
land"
Some of the Democratic newspapers
are supporting the Mills bill because sit
is step towards free trade;" while others
support it because sit is protective
measure" The Democratic mind is
easily satisfied with anything that passes
under the Democratic name.
T. H Bechtel. of the firm of Jones,
Bechtel, Scheibly & Co., of Philadelphia,
will vote for Harrison ahd Morton. Mr.
Bechtel, who has been a lifelong Dem
ocrat, is a brother of Judge o. p. Bech-
tel, of Schuylkill county. He says the
time has arrived when business men
must look out for their business inter
estS, and he proposes in this campaign
to throw his influence in favor of the
protective tariff.
The Boston Herald independent
Democrat) says: 'On the whole, we
should say that the Democrats are not
in a position to say much against their
Republican brethren on the subject of
the railroad influence which made itself
so prominent at the Chicago Conven-
tion. No less than seven of the ten
members of the Executive Committee
who will have charge of the Democratic
campaign are prominently identified with
railroads, and Chairman Brice is popu-
larly supposed to have made fortune
of something like $10,000,000 through
his connection with Southern railway
properties"
In 1884 the Democratic majority in
Virginia was GAL; in West Virginia,
4,221; in Tennessee, 9,1S0.
1t is estimated that 80 per cent. of the
commercial travellers of the country will
vote for Harrison and Morton. These
energetic business men understand trade,
and know what is good and what is bad
for it.
Mr.. Thurman, who thought he was
standing on the banks of the river Styx
month or two ago, and only waiting
to be ferried across, is getting ready to
eat roast OK at barbecues, dance at pic
MICS and be the premium attraction at
agricultural fairs.
The probable Republican control in
the Illinois House, and the assured Re
publican majority in the Senate preclude
even the possibility of the election of a
Democrat to the Senate to succeed Sen
ator Cullom, whose term OF Office expires
March 1, 1889.
A prominent Massachusetts Democrat,
who has been visiting the interior of
New Y York State, says he is astonished
at the number of Democrats who are
deserting the Cleveland ticket. He
thinks that it is due to Cleveland's un-
popularity where he is well known rather
than to his free trade policy.
Investigations made by the correspon-
dent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch at East
Liverpool, Ohio, show that six out of
every seven of its voting population will
support Harrison and Morton. There
are thirty-one potteries in East Liver
pool, which is one of the chief centers
of the industry in the country Most of
the workmen are naturalized English
men. The passage of the Mills bill in
the Democratic House has unified them
in support of the party of protection.