Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-09-20
POLITICAL NOTES.


THE New York Times, Post and Com
JneTcial Adcertiser favor Cleveland and
oppose Hill.
MESsRs. BLAINE, Depew, Foraker
| Mckinley and others Will speak in New
York City September %.
DEMOCRATIC Congressman Vance, OF
Connecticut, has no hopes for his party
in that State, and has told Mr. Cleveland
so to his face.
THE National Protective Association
of the wine and spirit trade joins the
Prohibitionists in protesting against
high license.
a SAN Francisco Democrat CON-
plains that in the campaign motto,
cleveland and Reform" there is too
much Cleveland and too little reform.
THE Omaha Republican wants to know
what has become of the men who few
weeks ago were offering to bet large sums
of money on the election of Cleveland.
LOUISIANA will probably go for Cleve-
land and Thurman. That State voted
April II and rolled up Democratic ma
lOrity of 100000. The total vote in the
State in 1884 was only 109,345.
INDIANA, though it had some bad
Democrats in the war time, was strong
and famous soldier State, which is an
element of strength in favor of the In
diana soldier candidates for President
and Governor.
MAYOR HEWITT, of New York, says
he will not make a speech nor contrib
ute dollar in behalf of Cleveland's re-
election. He was one of Cleveland's s
most ardent and generous supporters
four years ago.
WE shall know in November exactly
what the Mugwump vote amounts to-.
As Paddy remarked of the pig that
jumped through five -by-seven pane of
glass, 'Begorrah, I've got your dimin-
sions, onyhow."-N. Y. Graphic Dem J
FOUR States have been heard from
since Cleveland sent his free trade mes
sage to Congress Rhode Island, Ore
gOn, Vermont and Arkansas in
all of them the Republican vote was
larger and the Democratic vote smaller
than at the last election.
OF Mr.. Thurman the Hartford COur-
rant says: He is about the best surviv-
ing specimen of the old-schOOl Demo-
cratic politicians fine, sturdy, jovial,
gOod-hearted, wrong headed, exuberant,
explosive old Columbian orator, for
whom everybody has kindly feeling.
OF newspapers that supported Mr..
Cleveland in 1884 and do not support
him now may be named, in Boston, the
Transcript, the Adoertiser and Record,
and, in New York, the Buffalo Ne,cs,
the Syracuse Herald, the Rochester
VolkSbIatt, the Utica Press, the Albany
Times and the New York Democrat.
THE interesting statistics given by
Edward Atkinson, in an article which
appeared in the September number of
the Forum, prove that the productive
power of labor in comparison with food,
clothing, &c, has risen 20 per cent. in
the average for the journeymen of
trades and 40 per cent. for common la
borers since 1860. These extraordinarily
favorable conditions can only be ascrib-
ed to the protective tariff.
TIE Philadelphia Press has the follow
ing special from Wheeling: "T. C. Craw-
ford, of the New York World, was in
the city to-day. He is on a tour of the
Southern States. In speaking of his late
trip to Europe Mr.. Crawford said to the
Press correspondent: Il went to Europe
a confirmed tariff refOrmer; l returned a
protectionist, and if every voter in the
United States could take the tour and
witness the results of a free trade
policy, as did, Harrison would be elect
ed unanimously"
IN 1855, when Gen. Banks was elect
ed Speaker of the L. S. House, General
George w. Jones, of Iowa, was con-
SpicuOuS Democrat, and Hon. o. B.
Matteson, of Utica, n. Y, a very prom
inent Republican member of the Thirty
fourth Congress, was active in the cleo
ton of Banks. Recently Gen. Jones
wrote from Pueblo, Col, beautiful and
pathetic letter to his friend Matteson,
recalling old times, and remarking that
81 am to-day eighty-four years and three
months old; suppose you are eighty eight,
though | can not tell whether your last
figure is or an g." And that s'if
spared | shall, most certainly, cast my
vote at the next Presidential election
for Harrison as President, and Morton
as Vice President of the United States"