River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-23
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ESS@ No amount of free-trade theory
can throw over the first law of nature
Self-preservation and self-protection
are one and the same thing. Iadianap-
oils journal.
bsS- Stranger (noticing a red bandana
floating above the door,; democrats,
| reckon" Man in front door: Not
so bad as that, stranger; its the sher-
i'll. ~ Chicago Inter ocean.
EU- The mugwumps can not teach
the people that it is wrong to mention
the suppression OF the eolored vote of
the South, or stop efforts for the right
in this direction. Hartford Post.
RsSr There is a political revolution
in Carrollton, Ky. There is a Repub-
lican club composed of $50 white men,
and among them are forty-five men
who have Away voted the Democratic
ticket
Ba~ Ex-Congressman Scoville, OF
Buffalo, n. Y, a Democrat who was
popular enough to run 1000 ahead of
his ticket and to succeed Cleveland as
mayor Of Buffalo, is out for Harrison
and Morton.
BS5@ The fact that the lion and the
unicorn have taken the stump for
Cleveland and Thurman is not calcu-
lated TO hurt Harrison and Morton in
the estimation of the Irish. Patrick
Ford, IN North american ReUieto.
BS-One of the most notable remarks
of Grover Cleveland was that 1.-The soil
remains in its place" The people will
gladly, in November, show him the
difference between Grover Cleveland
and the soil.-Peoria Transcript.
Bg- The law partner of Senator
Turpie and nephew of the late Vice
President Hendricks, w. ). Pierce, Of
Indiana. a Democrat, is reported as
saying he will work and vote for
Harrison and Morton" and that
Harrison will carry Indiana By at
least 5000 majority 1t will now be
the proper thing for editors of post
offices to denounce Pierce as a "hoss
thief. - Utica Herald.
sze Ex-Mayor Henry L. Fish, OF
Rochester, n. Y, writes 70 a friend at
Anastota: ~ am for Harrison,
although, as the saying goes, l have
been voting for jackson all my life.
Mr.. Fish adds: Il want to vote for
an honest statesman; soldier who
helped to save the Union; man who
has a standing at home: who will
bring to the great Office of President a
clean record, a clean character; one
who viii maintain the dignity Of the
Nation at home and abroad
Ba@ 1t is understood here that Gen
eral James A. Walker, who was elected
eight years ago Northumberland
of Virginia on the Democratic ticket
with General Kemper, has announced
his determination to vote for Harrison
and Morton. His friends say that he
has for some time past been dissatis-
fled with the Democratic plank on the
the tariff. General Walker Is a leading
lawyer in Pulaski, which has recently
been largely developed in the way Of
zinc and iron ore.-RjchmoHd Va)
Dispatch.
BE45 L am "a UlSu ldflH man anu a
protectiOnist, and for the reason that
| am an American and a friend of
American labor. No working-man
has ever called for reduction, and no
reduction should be made until it is
demanded by the people. We need no
tariff tinkering We want protection
from one end of the country to the
other; touch not the tariff. raise tho
duties so high that not d single article
of foreign manufacture can come in
T. T. Po'CderlV, General Master Work
man, Knights Of Labor.
ga~"I am paid for my work by
Democratic money, and | am doing
what | am hired and paid for trying
to hurt the Republican party all |
can" This was the substance Of "a
statement made by an alleged tenn
perance advocate not thousand
miles from Springfield, and not many
days ago, when he was asked why he
was talking anti-Republican instead of
practical temperance. People will
very soon learn how much credence TO
give to that sort of so-called temper
ance advocates who are trying to
break down the only political party
that has ever done any thing for tenn
perance. Sprtmgfeid (Mass.) Union.