The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-09-01
Political Notes,

ShoeSthat once cost $3.50 now cost So. so
because there is no duty on hides.
Omaha Herald: The Republican party
wants the price of necessaries kept up, but
promises to cheaper whisky.
Macon Telegraph 1t was a f'hard CIDER
Harrison campaign in 1910, and now it is a
Stree whisky Harrison campaign.
Boston Herald: ga great cause and great
leader" These are the elements of Demo-
cratic success to which Speaker Carlisle points
with pride in the campaign.
Omaha Herald: Among the notable fail
ures of the campaign has been that of the
attempt to make people believe that tariff
reduction from Al to 40 per cent. means free
trade.
Pittsburg Post: This is fight for bread
and butter on the part of the workingman,
but he wants Chinaman Harrison to distinctly
understand that he isn't in favor of oleomar-
garine.
Ex-Assemblyman Jay Dimick, of jefferson
county, New York, has departed from the
Republican ranks and joined the Democracy.
Mr.. Dimick made the announcement to the
WATERFOWL Grange.
Newark Journal Patrick Ford has under
taken to deliver the ''Irish" to the Harrison
Blaine combination. If his terms be cash in
advance he is lucky; but if they be c. o. D..
he will be badly sold.
Word was received at national Democratic
headquarters Tuesday that the leading Scan
dinavian newspaper published in Minnesota,
the Svenska Folkes ridning, advises its read
ers to vote for Cleveland.
Cleveland Plain Dealer: If it should hap
pen that Harrison is elected in November and
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the real President will be the Secretary of
State, and that will be Blaine.
Washington POST Very business like meth
DDS attend this campaign. Chairman Quay
has assessed Philadelphia manufacturers
mittee, headed by Hamilton Disston, to raise
the money.
The New York Free Trade Club has chal-
lenged the American Tariff League to adebate.
Henry George will be the champion of the
former, Colonel Ingersoll will be the cham
pion of the latter. The debate will probably
take place at Cooper Union some time this
month.
The National Democratic Committee plac-
ed four new documents in the field on Wed
nesday. Two are printed in English and two
in German. The English documents are
"What the Pension Records Show" and the
speech of General Collins at the St. Louis
Convention The German documents treat
upon the tariff
The Democratic State convention of Della
ware was held in Dover on Tuesday. John
b. Pennington was renominated by acclama-
ton for Congress. The following Presiden-
tial Electors were nominated; Caleb p.
johnson, of New Castle; Robert Hill, of
Kent, and Robert Ellegood, of Sussex. The
platform adopted endorsed President Cleve-
lands Administration and approved his pa
triotic utterances and determined attitude on
the fisheries question.
The indianapolis Journal kept standing
reward of $4,000 in its columns for many
weeks for proof that General Harrison ever
said that one dollar per day was enough for
a working man, and were he the Governor Of
Indiana he would shoot down the strikers or
force them back to work. Edwin T. Gould,
a Knight of Labor, of Indianapolis, having
collected statements from Is men, who say
they heard General Harrison make the re-
marks in question, will demand the $4,000
reward from the Journal proprietors.
Ex-senator Warner Miller was nominated
for governor by the Republicans of New York
on Tuesday. Col. Stephen Van Rensselaer,
Cruger was nominated for Lieutenant Gov
ernor William Rumsey, of Steuben county,
was nominated by reclamation for Justice of
the Court of Appeals. The platform adopted
accepts the Chicago platform; pledges the
electoral votes of New York state to Harrison
and Morton; approves the rejection by the
Republican Senate of the Fisheries Treaty;
condemns Governor Hill vetoes of the High
License bills; demands further legislation to
prevent the importation of contract labor and
a revision of the naturalization laws.