Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-08-31

of the efforts and
motives of my neighbors."
Probably there has not been at any
stage Of the campaign a more scathing
arraignment of the foolish and untenable
Blaine plan of campaign than is en-
bodied in Mr.. Fitch's clear cut utter
ances. They present happy and con-
elusive refutation of the arguments Oh
Hon. Tom Fitch he of the Silver Tongue
in Hazards Pavilion last night.
Mr.. Fitch is only type of the multi
tudes of Republicans who have been re-
volted by the platform and programme
of the Republican party in this current
year OF grace.
Among those who have come over to
Cleveland and tariff reform within the
last few weeks, are the following: Henry
S. Hotchkiss, of Brooklyn, late Republi-
can member of the New York Legisla-
ture; Crawford D. Hening, winner of the
first literary prize of the Protective
League in 1887, whose further studies
made him tariff reformer; Owen Love-
joy, grandson of the abolitionist martyr;
A. R. Anderson, Representative from
Iowa, who, although elected as an Inde-
pendent, has heretofore always declared
his entire sympathy with the general
purposes of the Republican party; Calvin
Edgerton, Seth Low, late Republican
Mayor Of Brooklyn, New York; Rev. DR..
Theodore L. Cuyler; Ex-Governor d. T.
Farnsworth, of West Virginia Arthur T.
Lyman, "a prominent Republican manufac-
turer of Boston; Major A. D. Pierce, late
Chairman of the Republican Congress-
ional Committee of the Twentieth Illinois
district; Judge Frank T. Reid, Republi-
can candidate for Governor of Tennessee
in 1884; F. S. Christensen. formerly
Assistant Secretary of State of Minnesota
Mr.. ]. E. Stanley, lifelong Republi.
can of Lewiston, Me-, is out for Cleveland
and the Mills bill. Mr.. Stanley is an ex-
tensive manufacturer of dry plates used
in photography. and is tariff reformer
of pronounced type.
Mr.. A. L. Goss, another Maine Repub-
lican, believes in the Mills bill, and is,
only sorry that it does not go far enough.
Mr.. Goss is also resident OF Lewiston.
In the course OF a conversation the other
day, Mr.. Goss said: ''I am a lifelong
Republican. I am Republican now,
but l am tired of this everlasting twaddle
about protection. I was at Washington
when the war tariff was first adopted.
Senators Sumner, Henry Wilson, Harris,
of Maryland, and every leading Republi-
can adopted it only as matter of necessity,
to be abolished at once after the neces-
sity had passed away. And now, twenty
five years after, those identical taxes are
in existence, only increased. Talk about
pauper labor! We have pauper labor in
these mills here. Ii operatives receive
larger pay than in Canadian mills, they
have been trained to do more work.
Here they have the advantage OF location,
unsurpassed mechanical facilities, labor
that is as cheap as any, and then to talk
Of their needing to be protected is nom
sense"
James Dempsey, manager OF the
Lewiston Bleachery and Dye Works, is
also in favor OF the Mills bill.
One of the best known and most in
auential Republicans OF Los Angeles
formerly a Republican editor-day be-
fore yesterday assured one OF the editors
of the HERALD that he was convert on
the tariff issue as presented in this cam
paign, and he is simply type of multi
tudes who think and will act as he does
and will.