Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-31
Pith and Point of the PO.
litical Battle.
THE PRESS AND PLATFORM.
Democratic Doctrine on Tariff Re.
form as Taught by the Great
Leaders East and West.

luck shows no signs of growing less
Boston Globe, (Dem.)
During the campaign Mr.. Blaine has
scarcely made an allegation or presented
q statistical statement to the people
without getting incontinently tripped up
on his alleged facts and igures.-[Chi-
cago News, Ind).
Again the stock market, that ther-
mometer OF trade, shows that business is
uncommonly brisk this fall. The Re
publicans will have awfully hard work
getting up their business panic this time.
4 Boston Globe, (Dem.)
Hon. Levi P. Morton's letter of accept
ance is simply bond-holder's ideas of
national politics, and of course he is i'm
mensely pleased with the Republican
party and it's platform, and no less so,
doubtless, with its candidates. Arkansas
Gazette, (Dem.)
The proper and important thing to be
done at Washington this year is to re-
duce the surplus. Neither Republicans
nor Democrats should be permitted to
handle one dollar Of the peoples money
that is not actually needed for the pur-
poses of government Philadelphia
Record, Qnd.)
n cAOlU tiLuC aSO tu0 AsOPuUAiOoho h0N
q good deal to say about Governor Hill
cutting Cleyeland's throat in New York.
Since Hill went down to Indiana and
tried his hand on Harrison's jugular
they are not much delighted with his
throat-cutting skill.-[St. Paul Globe,
tDem.)
When it comes to twisting the British
lions tail President Cleveland exceeds
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twist that makes the lion howl forces
shrek of agony from the Republican
leaders. The first pressure doubled up
Senator Edmunds like jackknife.
Arkansas Gazette, (Dem.)
Viewed from every standpoint, the
business outlook is satisfying, and it may
now be accepted as settled that peaceful
political contests, and even political
revolutions, do not hinder business
growth, business solidity and business
prosperity in this free Govern
ment.-[Philadelphia Times Qnd.).
1t is a sad commentary on the insrati-
tude of the masses that while the Repub-
lican party is posing as the only friend of
the workingmen the laborers of New
York decline to support Laborer I'M
porter Morton and the laborers Of Indiana
are bitterly opposed to Chinese Harrison.
-[St. Louis Post Dispatch, (Dem.)
We have Democratic President,
Democratic Cabinet, Democratic
House, a Senate which is on the verge of
being Democratic, and now we have
Democratic Chief Justice. And still
the country is safe. People are going on
attending to business as usual, and
everybody seems to be happy.-(Cincin-
natl Enquirer, (Dem.)
There are many Democratic employers
of workingmen who earnestly favor the
policy of raw materials on the ground
that it would promote their interests.
But they do not resort to intimidation or
to any other illegitimate means of influ-
encing the votes of their employees.
They would not be Democrats if they
did.-[Philadelphia Record, (Ind>.
We should be sorry to have the least
harm come to Portland or any New Eng
land town. But why was not this
"winter seaport of Canada" considered
when the Republican Senators in caucus,
under the lead of Yankee politicians like
Evarts, Edmunds, Hale and Ingalls,, re-
solved as party expedient to defeat the
fishery treaty.-[New York Herald,
(Ind.)
While the tariff issue is being fought
out in the presidential canvass, with
which it has no direct or practical con-
nection, the Congressional districts,
which have nearly all to do with the
making of tariff laws, are in large degree
being left to drift. 1t is not unlikely
this may result in some surprises about
the middle of November, unwelcome to
some, and strokes of luck to others.
Which way will the balance lean?-
philadelphia Ledger, Ind.)
The price of bread is going up. The
nickel loaf now brings 61 cents. Is this
due to the present tariff, and is it popu-
larly considered blessing to American
labor? Mr.. Harrison says high prices
indicate high wages and are to be de-
voutly desired. Information as to where
the increase of wages comes in connec-
ton with the high price Of bread would
be welcomed. Is it among the bakers,
the mill hands or the farm laborers.
kansas City Times.
James G. Blaine and Patrick Ford are
singing doleful duet over the Presi-
dents message on the Fisheries ques-
ton. There's more actual fight in one
paragraph of the message than in all the
anti-British twaddle which James and
Patrick have invented in twelve months.
Just watch the effect on the Senate when
the Belmont bill, to carry out the aim of
the message, reaches that body. There
will be rapid eating of belligerent
terms.-[Denver News, (Dem.)
The majority of the Senate should go
back little while and consider the
instantaneous effect of the Presidents
message on the country. Nothing that
any other President since Mr.. Lincoln
did was so heartily approved and ap-
plauded as was Mr.. Cleveland's appeal
to Congress to vindicate the dignity OF
the country and to return in kind the
Canadian unneighborly treatment OF
our people. Mr.. Sherman should re-
member all this, and not lay too much
stress upon the fact that Maine is safely
Republican anyhow. Some other State
may be made unsafe by an unwise course
of proceeding. Philadelphia Telegraph,
,Ind.)
Republican Inslncerlty.
The insincerity of the Republican posi-
ton upon the tariff in this campaign was
shown in q very amusing manner at a
public meeting in Buffalo last week.
There was joint debate in that city
on the 4th instant, for which 4,SO0
tickets were issued the Democrats re-
ceiving 2, 400 and the Republicans 2 400:
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