The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1888-09-01
US In support Of Cleveland and tart Il

hous In support Of Cleveland and tariff
reform.
Among the visitors at republican head,
quarters In New York, on Tuesday, was
Attorney General Kitchener, Of Indiana, the
personal representative Of Gen. Harrison,
whose mission, of which no secret was
made, was to seek Col. Quay's assistance In
preventing Blaine from coming west and
repeating the laundering speeches he has
been making east. The prominence at
tempted to be given to Blaine in the can,
vass is known to be extremely distasteful
to Gen, Harrison, and the probabilities are
that, except making few speeches on the
Pacific coast, he will be virtually choked
of.
Congressman Ermentront, of the old
Berks district, In Pennsylvania, who had
been elected and re- elected for twenty years
In succession, was defeated for renomin-
alton on Tuesday, on account Of his vote in
congress against the Mills BILL Randall
Ism, among the democracy of Pennsylvania,
is about played out
1tappears there are great many manu-
facturers of New England and New York
who do not belong to the great optopus.
The New York Eoeninq Post publishes
list of 1913 prominent New England and
New York manufacturers who fully en-
dorse the principles of the Mills bill by
commencing Its removal of the tax on raw
materials, whereby they would be enabled
to compete In meme and foreign markets
with other manufacturing nations. They
denounce the present tariff system as
''wrong-not protective systematic OPP
posite of what protection would be II right
ly applied-a patchwork of bargains and
disastrous in its results" The list justifies
the statement so often made and never
successfully contradicted, that the only
manufacturers really opposed to tariff re.
form as proposed by the Mills bill are
such as are linked together in huge syn
dicates and trusts, who alone see ruin In
the Mills bill--ruin to their unconscionable
system of public robbery.
Ignatius Donnelly, the shakespeare
iconoclast, has accepted the nomination Of
the Union Labor party of Minnesota for
Governor, and as he Is placed on tariff
reform platform, and has always been
known as a Democrat, he will also doubt
less be nominated by the Democrats, thus
assuring his election almostlbeyond doubt
Samuel B. Uncapher, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
sends communication to the Chronicle
Telegraph, of the 81, announcing that him
self and "a other voting members of his
family, all workingmen and heretofore re-
publicans, had " Topped over to Cleveland
and Thurman.
Neal Brown, prominent republican
lawyer of Wausau, Wis., has got tired of
following the high tariff flag and has come
out squarely for Cleveland and Thurman.
The S0enska FOlkes Tjdning, the leading
Scandinavian newspaper published in
Minnesota and hitherto strongly republi-
can, comes out for Cleveland and tariff re,
form, and says: Heretofore scarcely
democratic scandinavian in Minnesota
could be found. This year tidal wave
has set in that is turning nearly all the
Scandinavian votes over to Cleveland"
Hon. Jay Dimmick, lately republican
member of the assembly from Jefferson
county, N. Y, is out for Cleveland and
Thurman.
The Colored Peoples Democratic Club
of Milwaukee, now numbers 143 voting
mem ers, every one of whom heretofore
voted the republican ticket.