The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-05-26
Political Notes.

What's the use of the Republicans holding
national convention, anyhow ?-&. Pdul
Globe.
Carl Schurz said in Berlin last week that
if Blaine were renominated he would return
at once to America and work against the Re-
publican ticket.
OF all the false pretenses, says VIM. R.
Morrison, with which protection mocks its
victims, the assumption that labor is helped OF
protected by taxing its earnings is the film
siest.
No matter who may desert or who may
falter, says Mr.. Carlisle, the great fight for
reform will go on. This country does not
belong to either the monopolists or the COM
munists, and the people will save it from
both.
Mr.. Blaine may be his own Burchard, after
all, this time. The country is not paying
much attention to Volapiik this season, and
'nothing to add to-" nothing to subtract
FROM" though not alliterative, are costly,
compared to "yes'' or 'no," in plain Eng
lish.-PhiladeIphia Ledger.
On Wednesday the Pennsylvania Demo
csatic State Convention met at Harrisburg.
The platform endorses Cleveland and the
Mills Tariff bill. r. Milton Speer and A. F..
Heating, the latter of Pittsburg, were nomi-
mated for electors at large. For delegates at
large to St. Louis, Lewis C. Cassidy, Charles
E. Boyle, VIM. L. Mutchler and VIM. L. Scott
were selected.
Seth Kinman, q veteran scout, has present
ed every President from Buchanan to Arthur
with a chair made by himself from the horns
and hide of elk and deer he has slain. Mr..
Kinman is making one of these chairs for
President Cleveland, but trouble from an old
gunshot wound has delayed its progress. Seth
need not hurry. Any time in the next four
years will answer.
What Protective Tariff is doing for the
Millionaire, will be seen by the following =
In the speech of Hon. William l.. Scott, of
Pa, he remarked that Zone of the members
of the Edgar Thomson Steel Works Company,
(Mr. Carnage, had admitted to him in the
Capitol that he had drawn out in one year
81 800, 900 as his share in the profits of the
concern These are the men who clamor
for the maintenance of high tariff.
George William Curtis, having been inter
viewed, says she thinks Mr. Blaine will be
the Republican nominee for President, and
Mr.. Cleveland will defeat him. Mr.. Curtis
thinks the Mugwumps will support Cleveland
rather than Blaine, but if some one besides
Blaine is the Republican nominee, the Mug
wumps will probably vote the Republican
ticket Mr. Curtis thinks this will certainly
be the case if Gresham is the nominee.
Democratic members of the House COM
mittee on rivers and harbors are dismayed
by the changes made in the bill by the Senate
committee, and express an intention to Wig
orously oppose most of those of Importance.
1t is asserted that the New England appro-
priations have been in many cases increased
even beyond the estimate made by the engi-
neer officers and those submitted by the de-
partment, while Southern items have been
.ruthlessly cut.
The Harvard Union had convention in
Boston Friday evening of last week, to nom
mate candidates for the Presidency of the
United States.'' The result of the canvass
made of the college and law school was an
nounced, as follows: First choice-Cleve-
land, Alb; Blaine, 25l; Sherman, 48; Depew,
AZ; Lincoln, Al; Gresham, 10; Hawley, 10;
Carlisle, 6. Second choice-Sherman, LOG;
Depew, 81; Cleveland, 81; Blaine, 40; Lin
coin, 80; Carlisle, 40; Edmunds, 80; Hewitt,
"a; Gresham, Sc.
William j. Stevens, chairman of the Re-
publican State Convention of Alabama, q
negro, in speech insisting upon the nomina-
ton of reputable State ticket, used the fol-
lowing language;
ave cannot disguise the fact that the
meanest and most unmitigated rascals in the
country were the Federal officers appointed in
Alabama under Hayes, Garfield and Arthur.
The election of Mr.. Cleveland was blessing
in disguise to US. I'VE are free men in this
Convention, and we will act as may seem best
in our judgment, with none to modest or make
us afraid"