The Democratic advocate., 1888-01-07
Political Notes.

The report that Senator Sherman had init
mated his intention TO withdraw from the
Presidential candidacy in favor of Mr.. Blaine
is contradicted Mr.. Sherman will remain 9
candidate for the nomination
Miss Phoebe Cousins announces that she
will be an independent prohibition candidate
for Governor of Missouri. She is an ardent
supporter of President Cleveland's S tariff pol
icy and is opposed to removing the tax from
tobacco and whisky.
A Democratic Mayor and Democratic
Board of Aldermen were elected in jackson,
Miss, on Monday for the first time in fourteen
years. Up to week ago there was no ticket
in the field against Mayor McGill, but the
murder of Willie Mitchell and the outrages OF
Christmas Eve, for which not an arrest was
made, aroused such feeling that an entire
new city ticket was elected. William Henry
was elected Mayor. The colored people alb
stained from voting.
The Medicott Company, of Windsor Locks,
Conn, manufacture fine wooden knit goods.
According to the Springfield Republican, this
company imports 70, 1000 pounds of Australian
wool each year, and on this they pay duty
of 10 gents . pound, $1,000 year. Mr..
Charles Z. Chafee, principal stockholder and
president of the company, and a staunch Re-
publican and strict protectionist, says he buys
this Australian wool because that particular
quality cannot be obtained here at any price,
Who pays the 81 900? The consumers, and
nobody else. This is only one case where the
public good demands revision and reduction
of the tarif.-BostonT Transcript, rep.
The qualification of the Minnesota delega.
ton in the House in favor of tariff revision
by the announced determination of Mr. Lind,
a Republican, to vote for large reduction OF
the tariff is q circumstance Mr.. Randall will
have to take into account in undertaking to
impose the Republican policy on the Demo
cratic party. Mr.. Lind was nominated as a
high tariff man, but seeing the drift of opinion
in the Northwest he now favors free lumber,
free coal and free salt, and will not under any
circumstances favor free whisky. As Senator
Sabin, one of the Republican Senators from
Minnesota, has also announced his purpose to
vote with the Democrats il necessary TO Sc.
cure revision of the tariff this session, it is
possible that Mr.. Blaines policy will not fare
as well in the Senate as it has been assumed
that it will. The attitude of the Northwest
on the tariff issue is anything but satisfactory
to Eastern Republicans.
The Gsth General Assembly of Obi o met
on Monday in Columbus. u. l.. I.ampson,
Republican, was elected Speaker of the House,
In the Senate there was split among the
Republicans in selecting officers. Thirteen
members of the Republican Senate caucus
made nominations for officers Saturday night,
selecting J. c. Richardson, of Hamilton, for
President pro TEN. ana I. J. Hayes, of Law
renee, clerk. The other Republican Senators
who claimed to have been ignored in caucus,
combined with Democratic members Monday
morning and organized the Senate by eeeting
7. F. Davis, Of Washington county, President
pro tem., and Judge Lowry, of Hardin county,
clerk. The same combination elected all the
other Senate officers. One of them, Fl. L.
Korte, of Muskingum, Reading Clerk, is a
Democrat, and was Secretary of the Demo
cratic State Committee two years ago.