Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-07-26
POLITICAL POINTERS.

! 1ION6I OISFeIdIlu lOT the I I6oIuSHCy'
New York Press: '"The New Line
Wing" is a Democratic nickname for
Harrison which may prove boomerang.
There are plenty of Wings left in Vir-
ginia.
Omaha Bee: Grover Cleveland is 60
/ ing to spend October hunting for game
in the Adirondack Mountains. A few
months later he will be hunting for a
/ situation.
| Omaha Republican: When in the
/ Senate Judge Thurman voted against
| the amendment to the Mexican Pension
bill excluding jeff Davis from the bene~
! tit of the measure.
Pittsburg Dispatch: If the Democracy
could devise some higher principle of
tariff revision than sectionalism it would
at least increase their claim to slight
degree of the public respect.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: The name of
| Grover Cleveland's substitute In the war
| of the Rebellion appears to have been
lost to History. The name of his substi-
| tute in the Presidential chair in 1889 will
| be Harrison.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: The Demo-
cratic charge that Gen. Harrison is ga
cold man" means simply that he wears a
clean shirt and is not in the habit of be-
ing piloted home of nights in an intoxl-
Gated condition.
Congressman Guenther says that ''any
man who claims Wisconsin for the
Democracy, State or National, is dement,
ed. Wisconsin will give 10000 Republi-
can majority, no matter who may be
nominated for Governor"
The Philadelphia Press says: F'The
democratic talk about Michigan being a
doubtful state is a bosh, pure and simple.
Gen. Russell A. Alger lives there, and he
is answerable and good for Republican
majority of anywhere from 5000 to TO-
O00."
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
The Republicans will be able to do with
out New York this year. That is to say
they will undoubtedly carry Indiana, and
almost certainly carry New Jersey and
Connecticut, either of which, with Indi
ana, would elect Harrison"
st. Paul Pioneer Press: While it is
true that Levi z. Morton contributed a
shlpload of provisions to the furnishing
people of Ireland, 1t must not be over
looked that Grover Cleveland is also a
generous, impulsive man. He gave $25
to the Charleston earthquake sufferers.
st. Louis american Cell: We no.
that Irish Americans will discard all past
alliances, put aside all present fears, and
dread no future coalitions, in the single
hope of carrying to victory a banner in
scribed with these devices: Harrison
and Morton" Protection to American
Labor and Industry" ''Protection to the
American Citizen at Home and Abroad"
Seattle ost-Tatelligencer: Mckinley
was not nominated, nor was any serious
effort made to bring about his nominal
ton, but he passed through the conven-
ton most creditably and won the friend
ship of all with whom he came in con-
tact. He is only Al years old, and it is
not rash to predict that great deal will
yet be heard of him.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette: It is
something to reflect upon that in sixteen
States, in which free ballot and fair
count is alleged to prevail, not single
electoral vote can be cast for Harrison
as against Cleveland, notwithstanding
the fact that the colored people, who are
In the majority in a number of these
States, are Republicans at heart and from
principle.
Boston Traveller: If it amuses the
Democratic organs to attempt to preiu-
dice the workingmen of the country
because of the position he took relative
to the railroad strikes of 1877, nobody,
certainly no Republican, will begrudge
them that amusement. 1t will hurt
neither party. The country contains no
stronger friends of law and order than
its great body of workingmen.
New York Tribune: All, Mr. Curtis,
your voice rises to a tone of manhood
worthy of your better self only when YOU
condemn the systematic practices of the
party you support. In helping that
party Mr.. Curtis buries all that is noblest
and wOrthiest in his own history and in
his manhood. He tears I'D and tranlples
upon his own best and wOrthieSt address
es, and even his Gettysburg grafton is
trodden into the mire by the feet of the
orator who supports Grover Cleveland,
the candidate of organized fraud.
New York Press: The man who says
that General Harrison is in favor of adj
hitting Chinese labor into the United
States, or who says he voted to do so. is
an unmitigated liar. And the lie is none
the less a lie because the cowardly liar
hides his identity behind the mystic edi-
tOrial we. The one cheering thing about
this disreputable business is that it has
| been commenced early. It can not.
therefore. extend through the campaign.
The public Sense Of justice will revolt
against it.
Sioux City Journal: There are Uwu
kinds of Mugwumps, the honest and the
dishonest. The honest Mugwumps are
actually bamboozled with the angelic
slush about political morality, etc., with
which the country was flooded four
years ago, and they really opposed
Blaine, not because they objected to Re
publicanism, but solely on personal
grounds. The dishonest Mugwumps pre-
tended to oppose Blaine on personal
grounds, but such was not the fact. The
fact was that they were free traders. In
| short, they were Democrats. But can
| dor compels the admission that the dis
honest Mugwump largely outnumbered
the honest Mugwumps.
New York Press: This Mugwump
| business is getting a trif1e mixed. The
Philadelphia Press claims there are no
Mugwumps this year, because some of
! those who were Mugwumps have been
driven back to the Republican camp by
| the hypocrisy of an administration they
helped to create, while the others have
! gone over bag and baggage to the free
| traders, where they properly belonged.
! There are mugwumps, but this year they
come from the Democratic party. Scarce
| ~ a day passes that some prominent
Democrat does not bolt the free trade
ticket and declare himself in favor of
Harrison and Morton and protection to
| Americ an industries.
New York Tribune: England has i'm
mense interests at stake in the American
! election. Her manufacturers and trad
| ers know that Mr.. Cleveland's reelection
| will be great business stroke for them