Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-06-14
PUBLIC OPINION.
THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.

ans the President and Congress, and in
the end eight new Senators, and displace
three Democrats with a like number of
Republicans. Nothing can obscure the
real issue. Nothing now can save to the
Democrats Indiana. New jersey, West
Virginia, and Connecticut. They will 90
as Oregon has gone and for the same reas-
ons. The st. Louis platform will cut an
unimpOrtant figure in the contest. The
Message and the Mills bill will be the alb
sOrbing factors. Three-quaTters of mil
lion woOl-grOwers will oppose the man
who aimed a Message to Congress against
single great and profitable industry
Every industry at which the Mills bill
strikes will open recruiting office to
raise an army to hit back. More than
half a million old soldiers will 90 on pick
ct and a detail to last until the Appomat-
toX of next November puts an end to the
political career of the man who so cruelty
WrOnged them, and brings the defeat of
the party which has betrayed them.
Judge Thurman in Ohio will appear in
two lights as the campaign progresses
He will be a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
Hyde As one he will be found a grand.
honest, and good citizen. man of exalt-
I
a jurist of great attachments and unSul-
lied record. In the other he will appear
as the man who, in the Ohio Democratic
| Convention on January "a, 1861, with his
hand drew and with his eloquence forced
through the Infamous resolution which
was everywhere in the South accepted ard
understood as encouraging rebellion and
treason. 1t was: "IHe 100000 Democrats
! Of Ohio send greeting to their brethren IN
! the South and IN the North -: and lChen the
! people Of the North hare discharged their
constitutional duty to the people Of the
South, then, and not until then, lCiU it be
| time to take into consideration the right
and prOpriety Of coercion" He will ap-
pear as a man who had been greatly hon
Ored by his country, and yet, after the long
and bloody struggle to save the life of the
nation, it can not be said of him that he
made speech or spoke word to aid en-
! listmentS; that he gave dollar to aid
! Union soldier; that he ever made speech
or joined a procession on Memorial Day.
But it can be said of him that during the
war and after the war he was great lead
er of the party in Ohio which got the So
briquet of "Copperhead."
Congressman Mckinley, Republican.
The platform on the tariff ought to be
entirely satisfactory to Republicans. 1t
makes the issue clearly between free trade
and protection 1t is the 1881 platform,
as Watterson and Morrison meant, and
against the construction put upon it by
Randall and others in New York, New
jersey, and Connecticut. 1t is the plat
form of 1884 as interpreted by Cleveland's
| free trade message. 1t approves of the
| Mills bill, which, as its authors claim, is
! but partial response to the Presidents
Message. to be supplemented hereafter by
| a bill which shall more fully embOdy his
| ideas and that of his party upon this ecC
nOmic question. 1t is for free wool, free
salt, free lumber, free flax, free agricultlI-
raj products, and against the protective
system. The Democrats of the House,
after learning that the Convention had
! approved their bill, at once voted to-day
| sOlidly for absolute free trade with Can
ada. There can be no lodging this year
the issue is made by the platform as 1t
was understood in Oregon on last Tues
day, and it will be so interpreted in every
other State of the North with like results
| Mr. Thurman'S nomination is a strong
one. 1t will bring to the polls the old
| fashioned Democrats in Ohio who have
for so many years loved the Old Roman,
but of course he can not carry the State
| do not believe he can have any such eX
pectatiOns himself. Protection will, in
my judgment, win victory in November.
Congressman Mills, Democrat.
would have worded the tariff plank in
platform differently from the language
employed in it; but it is good, very good
all that any one could wish for, and we
are going to win on it. Tariff is to be the
issue, the sole issue, and / am glad to see
our party meet it fairly and squarely.-
The troops are in the field. Mr.. Cleveland
is directing them, and the mOnopOIes that
the present tariff system has bred are the
enemy. We will disiOdge them, and don't
you forget.
New York Special, June 7.
Mayor Hewitt Democrat continues to
be non-committal upon the Presidential
question Even the nomination of "Old
Roman" Thurman for the second place
on the ticket failed to induce declaration
OfintentiOnS on the Mayors part, although
it is understood that he and Thurman were
on terms of friendly intimacy during their
Congressional days. Various articles en-
plOyed failed to get any expression from
the Mayor. He was on the alert, cleverly
parrying the reportorial lance every time.
New York Tribune Republican)
The nomination of the "Old Roman"
is, after ali, of very doubtful wisdom and
expediency He is now in his 18th year,
would be over so before the end of his
term, is in quite int1rm health, and his
nomination, as so good a Democrat as
Henry WatterSOn expresses it, is "like an
invitation to his own public funeral" 1t
is not likely that desperate tactics of this
kind will help Cleveland. There are thOus-
andS Of Democrats who would vote for
Thurman for President, Notwithstanding
his advanced age, who will not vote for
him for Vice-President associated with
Cleveland The Democratic friends of
Gray in the doubtful State of Indiana will
not be likely to ratify the Cleveland pro-
gramme, which was forced through the
st. Louis Convention at the expense of
their own candidate.
Louisville Courier-JOurnal Free Trade Democrat.)
This work of reformation, of restora-
ton, Of regeneration, was four years ago
committed to Grover Cleveland, known
then to the country only by his labors as
Governor of New York.
No doubt d1ly longer eristS IN the mind
Of GHy man as to the purposes Of the Dem
ocrGtic party toaOGrd the tariff What |
eoeT doubt mag hG0e e.ciSted as to the
meaning Of Gny phrase Of that iIlStI1t-
Htent is renlOced 6y the declaration that
the party reiterGtes those declarations as
Interpreted by the Message Of Nh. Cleoe-
land, and the subsequent dppTOUaI Of the |
action Of Democrats i1l Congress, who for
four years have labored to give force and
effect to the promises of 1884.
Philadelphia North American Republican)
Whatever the result-and the wise ac-
ton of the Chicago Convention can sure
ly make it almost certain victory-the is
sue is clearly defined, and the campaign !
must be fought to the end as one of di-
rect antagonism between protection and
free trade.
Philadelphia Record (DemOcrdtic.)
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