Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-07-07
DON'T KNOW WHAT 70 SAY.

nees. The office holding classes, on
the contrary, don't know what to
say, and to cover their distrust of
the result in November, talk foolish.
ly. First the Republican party
would 60 to sticks because Blaine
wasn't nominated, they said, but
there is but one answer to such non.
sense,-"young Tippecanoe and
Morton tool" Had Blaine
been nominated these same men
would have charged that the Repub-
licans were forced to nominate him.
The party will have his services in
camp and field for many years yet
if providence spares his health.
The next cry was that Harrison
was the weakest man, his labor re.
cord was bad, his Chinese record
wasn't right, he wouldn't take on
the Pacific coast, Sherman wouldn't
support him, Morton was a capital
list, and what not,-but all these
charges are falling fat, and from
one end of the country to the other
a solid Republican front Of Harrison
and Protection is being shown
against Cleveland and the Mills bill
interpreted by a free trade message
No matter who the Republicans
would have nominated the Office.
holding classes would have found
objections. Alger would have been
wrong on the tariff, Depew a mono
polist, Sherman's ensanguined gar
ments would not have suited the
bandana noses, Douglas and Bruce
would not have been the right stripe
for these hard-to-please political
star gazers.
But when the ticket is tried and
proves all right, then they fall back
and hedge on the free-trade and pro
lection issue. But they can't back
out, shuttle or straddle. The conn
try's eyes are upon them. Morris
sons horizontal bill was advocated
by every administration man, &c
was Carlisle's, so was Mills, so was
Cleveland's message, which is to be
the interpreter of the Democracy's
position, and England says it is free
trade and she knows her own.
Cornered again, the triumphant
Democratic Office holding champions
take comfort in the reports that all
the Republican leaders and newspa.
pers are going over to Cleveland.
They are! where are they and what
are their names y! Mugwumps you
mean well, that's q horse of anoth
er color. They helped to elect Cleve.
land first; they are welcome TO help
again; they are free traders and
civil service Observation-Disclosures
spoils ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS not
found in the Republican platform.
This is a campaign in which you
needn't call for what you don't see,
for every package is labeled "Pro.
ton" or "FIec Trade,"-no for re.
venue only, or the needs of the gov.
eminent, or millions in the treasury,
or turn the rascals out-all such
questions have been settled by the
record of four years of Democratic
rule.
Neither are the people in mood
for a campaign of prevarication OF
abuse. The good times" that
were to be and are not have opened
peoples eyes to facts, and facts and
figures will win this time and they
won't lie.
That the people may know both
sides Of the question, we note "a few
Of the Democratic changes " for
protection which have not been no.
ticed by the Democrats themselves,
because they we're too much inter.
ested in the affairs of the Republi.
cans heretofore.
Congressman Vance, q Connect.
cut Democrat, says that state is lost
to the Democracy on the tariff.
The Boston Transcript, u great
Cleveland civil service paper, drops
Cleveland and takes up for Harris.
on.
The Pittsburg LSader, formerly
for Cleveland, is opposed to the
"sudden revolution ION the tariff
which Cleveland has demanded, and
which must come ifhe is again elect.
ed.v
Hon. Frank S. Heath, a promi,
nent Democrat of Erie, Pa, comes
out for Harrison and protection.
Hon. Charles Voorhees,, Demo.
cratic State Senator of Indiana, de.
clared in favor of and has taken the
stump for Harrison and Morton.
Gen. A. L. Pearson, of Pittsburg,
a great Hancock man in 1880, and
Charles +. McKenna, a leading
Democratic lawyer, are opposed to
Cleveland and flee trade.
Hon. Geo. B. Warren, ex.mayor
of Troy, N. Y, says: 81 may not
vote at all, but / am sick of Cleve.
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