The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-11-02
A New York Democrat Deserts.


PLATTsBURe, N. Y, Nov. 1.-The Tele-
gram of this city will publish tomorrow
morning the following interview with Mr..
A. l.. Inman, general manager of the Cha
teaugay Ore and Iron Company and of the
Crown Point Iron Company, who has de-
clared for Harrison:
Reporter--It is rumored. Mr.. Inman, that
you propose to vote for Harrison and Nor
ton. If this is so, may ask your reasons for
doing so?
Mr. Inman-The rumor is well founded
In 1884 voted and worked industrously for
the election of Grover Cleveland. but this
year have determined 10 cast my ballot for
Harrison and Morton for several reasons.
Having always advocated protective policy
as essential to every industry Of the country,
l regard it inconsistent to vote otherwise.
To vote for Cleveland means an endorse
ment OF the Mills bill, and L will not put my
self on record as being its advocate. / am in
the iron and ore business, and recall
that when this bill passed one branch
OF Congress the only hope l had
for the industry in which was engaged and
my reliance was the compassion or charity
OF Republican Senate, having small ma
jority OF two to defeat it, a narrow margin
upon which to stake the industries of this
country. The fact that the party with
which have been identified was the author
OF this bill and waged war upon an industry
so vital to my own and to every interest of
rebuke it at the ballot-box the first opportu-
nifty, and this will occur next Tuesday.
Asked as to the probable effect on the tar
i'll question OF Harrison's election, MIR. In
man said 81 am convinced that if Harrison
and Morton are elected 1t will settle this
vexed question, restore confidence, revive
business, and guarantee safe, reliable and
stable policy for his country for the next
quarter of century, policy in which capi-
tai and labor, both sharing, cannot but have
an interest in common, and when these are
alike remunerated what business is there
that does not prosperr'
Mr.. coIlins's Boomerang.
BosToN, Nov. 1.-The Journal, in an arti-
Gle on the last Democratic boomerang, the
attempt to fasten on Republican Senators,
the authorship of the amendment to the
British extradition treaty respecting politi-
cal offenders, says:
In their desperate anxiety to divert atten-
tion from the discreditable Sackyille episode
and to hold for Mr.. Cleveland the Irish vote.
which the Democratic National Committee
reported to be slipping away" from him,
of the proposed extradition treaty with
Great Britain, and are trying to show that
Republican Senators are responsible for an
amendment under wnlch they claim that
Irishmen charged with political offences or
malicious injuries to property in Ireland
could be extradted fron. this country at the
tions are served up in the current issue of
The Pilot, by Congressman Collins, with
whose article is printed statement signed
by fifteen well known Irish-Americans. de-
ciaring that they are startled to know that
the Senate amendment relating to extradition
of political refugees was copied substantially
from the British explosives act of 1881.
The fact is that this obnoxious amendment
was reported to the senate by Senator John
cratic Senator on the committee on foreign
affairs, and the recognized mouthpiece of the
Cleveland administration. If Mr.. Collins
and the other fourteen Irish-Americans who
join in this statement n1ent have a grievance,
therefore ~ eS asShiic xbich oenaeon IN Morgan and
Collins's attempt to shift responsibility for
these proposed changes on to the Republican
members of the committee is transparent
piece of Misrepresentation, of which we be.
iieve Mr.. Collins himself would be ashamed