Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-10-04
THIRD PARTY POLICY.

Northern States the Prohibition party
draws most of its votes from the Repub-
licans, while in the Southern States
whatever strength it has is mainly drawn
from Democratic sources. If the Third
party, therefore, made an aggressive
campaign in both Northern and Southern
States which are more or less doubtful,
as, for instance, in New Jersey and New
York on the one hand and in Virginia
and North Carolina on the other hand,
it would seem to be clear that its lead
ers are actuated, as they claim to be, by
zeal for the cause of temperance, and not
by any speciaLhatre of either one party
or the other.
The fact is, however, that the whole
strength of the Third party canvass is
being put this year into the Northern
doubtful States, or those which Demo-
Gratis think are doubtful, while in the
Southern States that Republicans class
as doubtful, no canvass at all is made
by the Prohibition managers. In other
words, the Third party is acting, in this
campaign, simply and solely for Demo-
cratic success. When we say this we
do not mean that the rank and file of
the party are actuated by any such mo-
tive The majority of the men who
vote the Prohibition ticket, do so from
pure, if erroneous, motives. But the
managers find it easy to direct the can
vass as they please, and they do please
to direct it as we have said.
A confirmation of this view is afford
ed by an interview recently had with a
Third party leader in Virginia, and
printed in the Harrisonburg Republican.
When asked why the Prohibitionists
were not active in Virginia this year,
this leader said: 'The National Com
mittee are making special effort and
spending their main strength in certain
States, New York, New Jersey, Connec-
ticut, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and
Minnesota. Our party wants these
States to go Democratic. You see, if
the Republican party loses those States
it loses the election and goes to pieces.
If it succeeds in this election it regains
firm power. Our hope for 1892, to have
any prestige in that election, is to burst
up the Republican party"
"You will probably not poll your full
vote in Virginia on that account, will
your"
"Oh, no. In the North we draw most
of our votes from the Republican party,
while in the South and here it is the re-
verse. 1t won't do to get too many
votes in Virginia, else the old State
might 60 Republican"
This interview, which comes from the
editor himself, sufficiently explains the
purposes of the Third party leaders. In
cidentally, too, it throws some light on
the recent Grain bow chasing" expedi-
ton of Col. Brice, Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, which
was made to just the Western States
named in this interview as those in
which the Prohibitionists hope to draw
off enough Republican votes to help the
Democrats into power.
ARE the manufacturers of this coun-
try realizing 'inpnpe1lSe proftS2" Are
they the millionaires of the land? You
can count almost upon your fingers and
thumbs, and without counting them
many times over, all the manufacturers
of this country who in manufacturing
have accumulated a fortune equal to
million dollars, and in nine cases out of
ten either those men or their fathers
have struggled from the bottom, where
poverty pinched the hardest and where
privation was the greatest, up to their
success. They have been workmen at
the bench, at the loom, in the factory,
in the shop, in the mill, and what they
have got they have obtained in man.
ner which the common judgment of
mankind says is honest and fair. There
is not laboring man in this country
who, when he comes to think of it, lev
els, his claim that men are obtaining the
rewards of investment without the rem
ditiOn of a fair equivalent therefor
against the manufacturer. No, they
are not the millionaires. Who ever
heard manufacturer called a "king?"
We hear of cattle kings, and wheat
kings, and iron kings, and cotton kings,
and railroad kings, but you never hear
that word applied to manufactured
Speech Of Hon. 0. II. PJatt, Of Conn.,, in
Senate, Feb 7, 'SS.
IT is estimated that fully $4,000 per
sons assembled at the Polo grounds, in
New York City, on Saturday night, to
hear Republican speeches by Hon. Jas.
c. Blaine, Gov. J. B. Foraker, Gen. A.
B. King, of Maryland; A. r. Morrison,
of Arizona, and John Finnerty, of Hi
nois.
THERE is standing challenge in the
Office of protection newspaper in the
city of New York, with the samples
ready to be shown to any free trader, to
show that clothing in this country is not
as cheap as it is in England. The truth
is that everybody, except the dude and
millionaire, can be clothed cheaper than
in England, and wooden clothing, too;
and l apprehend that we are not very
anxious to reduce the tariff duties for
the purpose of benefiting the dude and
the millionaire Speech Of Hon. Oyp0Ie
" DIOH oF TuuuecficJif i'm Senate Eab