, 1888-07-26
pRoTEoT1oN1sT DEMOCRATS.

trade theories is heing crystalized
among the democrats. The New
York Press Of July says: "A can
vass Is being made among the indie
pendent citizens. who are not bound
in the mesEes of any section of the
democracy 10 organize 4 protec-
tIoa party, 10 take part IN the work
Il the coming campaign. 1t is be-
Hcvcl that the great body of the dis
coDtented wurkmen, who cast 1000
ballots for the united labor candi-
dates last year, and who bad pve-
viously given Henry George $4,000
votes, viii rally under the banner of
the new party. Its ayowcd object is
to so control the congressional elrc-
tions that only declared protection
ISIS shall be sen! to Washington to
shape the tariff. In districts where
the independent protectionists con
slider themselves strong enough to
run their own ticket they viii do so,
and in others they will endorse the
regular republican nominees
Ex~CoSGREssSIAN HARDY GIVES HIS VIEWS.
The above Is the programme OUT
lined by ex-Gongressman John Har-
dy, Il rammany Hall democrat, VINO
explained the plan OF the campaign
when seen yesterday at his law Office
265 Broadway.
Mr. Harday said: I'VE have been
feeling the pulse of the people and
we find serious discomfort among
democrats, who will not be subscribed
to free trade doctrines because they
Oelieve free trade will interfere with
the earning of their livelihood
! Many of them object to declaring
ont ana out for the republican party,
but IN this campaign they win be
.protectionists- Tbcy complain that
there IS no existing organization to
which they can belong, and We be
! iieve that there are many thousands
who will be rejoiced to take part in
the new movement. We think the
great body OF the workmen will
come over to u.s."
why do you count on the support
Of the labor element?"
I'VE are fighting the battle of Ia
Dor. The George movement was
really protest of dissatisfied men,
aad the causes of discontentt hat
then existed still exist. 1t is mis-.
take TO suppose that the strength OF
the labor vote has been dissipaGed
because the party poiled but $4,000
votes last fall. This Is magnificent
independent vote, but it would have
been doubled We're it not for the Wig
orous work done by the brewery and
liquor men, who persuaded many of
the labor man that they were fight
ing against sumptuary legislation
and thus were converts. The scene
has changed since, and labor. which
Is as strong as ever, will declare for
protection"
''On what grounds dc the demo-
Gratis with whom you have talked
base this discontent?"
"rhey have 20 confidence in Cleve
land, and they believe that his cry
OF tariff reform is only another name
for free trade. because the whole ten
dency of the administration runs
that way. They charge, too, that
air. Cleveland Is not sincere, and
they are unwilling TO tamper with
stable condition which has brought
prosperity. and TO sIbstitnte Eng
lish free trade, which may bring
starvation wager and a revolution o
business circles"
What course do your friends in
tend to pursue during the campaign 2"
"We will organize the protection
democrats in solid body, and our
aim will be TO seenre fit representa-
tives IN congress, but We will have
none but proteetiunists, Where We
think we are strong enough we will
| Nominate our own candidates, and III
other cases we will indorse the re-
publican nominees. a good deal
will depend this fall on the view the
workiagmen take cf the tariff. Ii
they come ont strong for protection
the Republicans will carry the state
by about 25,000 majority"
Other active public men who have
enlisted in the protection service are
ex~SheTiff James O'BrieD, G. G. Sha-
yne, the fur importer, ex Congress
man Nicholas Muller, Oscar H, Boz
gart, Nicholas Hanghton and scores
of others, all of whom are disguised
with the nauipulations of the demo-
cratic managers. Several meetings
have been held, at which the various
phases of the complex situation were
discussed, and a plan OF organiza
ton will soon be formulated.
A BROOKLYN DEMOCRATS REASONS.
William II. Grace a prominent
real estate dealer in BROOKLYN apS nm
active member of the first ward dem
ocrat association of that city, has re.
signed from that body on account of
the declaration of the democratic
platform in favor of free trade. In a
letter addressed to Tax Collector Al.
den ). Swan, president of The essoe;-
! ciation, Mr. Grace SAYS:
w hen the high protective tariff of
1873 was enacted under the first adj |
minlstrgtion OF jackson, Calhoun re- |
pudieted the law and called a state
convention of his SO called demo. |
cray to sustain him, it passed resolu-
tions doing SO. We all know what |
snort work ] ac kson made Of that
convention. Jackson was a greater
pFotecuonist than Henry Clay, and
oa 1t he was elected, and his policy
brought the country great PROS peri- |
~ After Jackson's deuth the Cal
houn school prevailed and Southern
leaders prepared the platforms CD TO
the rebellion. SoCtbren leaders of
the same school aud ideas are in con-
troll again. Il was Southern Cal.
houn Golden club democrat who
wrote the democratic platforms in
1876 and 1888. The iirst did NOT
prevail; neither shall the second.
They are both un-American. hostile
alike 10 our property md industrial
Independence. regard the Chicago
platform as the most positive. com
prebensive and beneficent declara-
ton OF principles ever made by any
one party IL this republic. 1t will
take rank second only 10 the deelar-
alton Of Independence. The issae
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