Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-13
CAN'T STAND FREE TRADE.
Prominent Democrats Who Propose to
support Harrison.

| DCbbOCTaiS VINO propose To
support Harrison.
New YORK, July 12th.-The Nail and
ETpress prints the following important an
I nouncement on its editorial page, and the
writer is probably Colonel Shepard himself
! c. c. Shayne, well-known manufacturer
of New York city, and President of the
Furrlers Association, an organization COM
posed OF the leading furriers in this coun-
try and which represents a capital of over
| $40 ZOO, 600, attended the Republican Con-
ventIon held in Chicago in The interest of
the Sherman boom in New York CITY.
! Shayne has been well known as an ardent
Democrat. Among the downtown mer-
chants who picked up Cleveland with such
haste four years ago, none was more en-
thuSastlc IN his support than Shayne.
| During the coming campaign he will be
better known as a Republican, and will
support Harrison aud Morton.
To reporter of the Mait and Express
| who met him on train bound from Chi
cago to Cincinnati, whether he was going
to attend the Ohio Centennial Exposition,
Shayne said: MY father was Democrat,
and all my people were Democrats, but
like myself they are for the party now that
is Tor sustaining American industries.
see no reason to change now, except that |
cannot agree with President Cleveland and
| 'AAS PNtANy- Gill OpPOSCu " bDtllS lDdI
tends in the least toward free trade, and
regard the Mills bill with exceeding dis
favor. 1t Is not question whether we
prefer Cleveland to HARRISON, or Harrison
10 Cleveland; 1t is not a question of men
so much as II is of American principles
The issue during the campaign is: Are you
in favor of protection to American indus
tries, American homes, and of sustaining
American labor and wages, or are you in
favor OF reducing the tariff and thereby as
sisting the manufactures of Europe and
compelling our people to come down to
the level of pauper labor of foreign coun-
! tries?'
1t seems to me that the question is
right there and the intelligent working
men OF the country will answer in no un-
certain tones at the polls next November.
L know a number of gentlemen who always
voted the Democratic ticket who will this
year vote for Harrison, because they find it
will be to their individual interests to do
SO. Especially is this true of manufactur-
ers and large employers. Harrison is as
good candidate as could be selected.
have arrived at this conclusion after look
ing the field all over, although John Sher-
man was my first choice"
Shayne was one of the most prominent
| figures in the last campaign, and contrib
uted largely of his time and money to
boom Cleveland. He was one of the com
mittee appointed to carry to Gladstone the
American testimonial, paid for by subscrip-
tions through the New York World, in
honor of his services to Ireland. He is
also secretary of the Irish relief fund. of
which Eugene Kelly is treasurer.
A dispatch to the World from Cleveland
announces that ]. II. Wade, partner of Sen
ator Payne, the most prominent and
wealthy Democrat in Cleveland, has
renounced the Democracy because of the
stand taken by the party on tariff issues.