The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-09-29

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Hon. Victor Gutzwiler, of Gle veland,
o. member of the Executive Committee
of the Democratic state Committee of
Ohio, was a "aller at the National Dem
ocratic Headquarters last Tuesday, and
in speaking of the political situation in
that state said:-"Reports from all
over the state indicate that we will
make heavy inroads on the republican
majority at least. The city of CIeve-
land will show a large majority for
Cleveland, while the county of Cuya-
hoga, in which the city of Cleveland is
situated, and usually gives 5000 Ie-
publican majority, will be cut down 10
1900 or 1000. The German element is
with us. Columbus. Franklin county,
which gave Cleveland LOO four years
ago, will this year give him from 200
to 5000. The sentiment on the sub
ject of tariff reform is growing every
day and we are unable TO supply the de-
/ mand for documents. In what is known
as the iron ward in Cleveland there is a
democratic club of 140 members, all
operatives, and seventy of them never
before voted anything but the republic
can ticket. The general out look for
Ohio is fair. OF course it will be o
great victory if we carry it. We will
gain one congressman in Cleveland and
one ut least in the second (C~incinnati)
district"
Cleveland Plaindealer:-The Stevens
Point azette of Wisconsin has re-
nounced the republican party aud nu-
furled the democratic banner, with
Cleveland, Thurman and tariff reform
upon it. The northwest is alive to the
dangers of the present situation, rs, in
fact, is the whole country. We find
converts in every part of the
try from the ranks OF thes republic
cans. or the latest prominent men 10
come out for Cleveland may be men
toned President Hyde OF Boudoin COL
lego, professor Ii. G. Adams of the
Michigan University, and the president
of Beloit College, DIR. A. L. Chaplin.
The assertions from the ranks of the
enemy are daily growing larger.
You have not asked to be freed from
any burden which you ought to bear
You have simply begged to be relieved
from a small part of that unnecessary
taxation with which the republican
party has oppressed the country. You
have only entreated that the average
percentage of AZ 10 per cent. now levied
upon dutiable goods should be reduced
to 42.49 per cent. Why should you be
denied this small abatement? The
enormous surplus in the treasury
proves that the existing AK rate upon
the necessarles of life is too high, and
that money which you needed, and
which was not required for any proper
purpose OF government, has been
unjustly taken from you by the repub-
lican party.-Democratic Address to
the People.
The uncertainty Of the republican
senator's as to whether it will be advis-
able for them, from a political point of
view, to present a tariff bill. does not
seem to decrease as the weeks roll by.
After the conference at Senator
Edmunds' house, early in August, it
was announced that most of the matters
in dispute had been settled, and that
the perfected bill would be reported in
ten days. The finance committee have
now been bordering over the subject
tor nearly two months, with the aid of
numerous hearings to enlighten them,
but they seem to be no nearer a settle.
ment than they were at the beginning.
The Harrison and Morton club of
B%arrytown, N. Y, died an in glorious
death Saturday night. 1t was organic
ed two weeks ago, and its secretary
called on Mr.. Morton at his Rhlnebeck
home and asked him for alittle pecuni-
airy assistance to purchase uniforms and
the like for the club. Mr.. Morton abso-
lutely refused to tap his barrel, saying
that he had already contributed to the
republican general committee more
than his four years. salary would come
to if he vas elected vice president.
An effort to get help from MI. Quay
also failed and the club collapsed.
Post Dispatch: When Gen. Palmer
opened his campaign tor the governor
ship of Illinois his attempt was looked
upon as a wild goose chase. Now, by
his energetic and splendid canvass or
the state, he has brought the contest
almost TO a neck-and- neck race with
Fifer. And yet there are people who
decry the value of old men in politics.
A few more old men like Palmer and
Thurman in the present campaign
would make the democratic party 80
solid that all the "fat" in the country
could not defeat it.
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Republic - The republica rs have
given up New York, New Jersey, and
} would abandon Indiana but for the
} humiliation Of surrendering without a
) struggle their candidates own state,
Within three weeks they will have
practically given up Connecticut and
] Indiana, and will be battling desperate
, ly to'hold Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota
l and California. Even in Pennsylvania,
D cast-iron protectectionIst though it has
hitherto been, the republican majority
: is certain to be cut down at least one
half.
The latest reports from Jacksonville.
Florida, are that the situation is very
little If any better. There were 13l
new cases reported last Thursday, Of
which 40 were white and 81 colored,
' The general distress among the poor il
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