The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-11-03
HARR1gor, MORTON & BLAINE
Some Facts the People Ought to
Know.


Following is an extract from the speech OF
Postmaster General Dickinson at Grand ma
pids, Michigan, on October q:
The American tourist who visits the great
money mart of the world, in what's called the
old city of London, will be shown, among
other things of interest to the citizen oil TINS
country, two great banking houses IN the VI
cinity of the Bank of England. The one is
the chief dealer and hacker Of American Sc
curities in England and on the Continent
This is the house of ]. S. Morgan q Co..
which has its branches in every financial cen
ter of Europe. The other is known through
out the financial world as house OF immense
capital and power, which devotes its great re-
sources and credit to the backing of English
Canadian securities, and English Canadian
enterprises, which compete with those OF the
United States Itnegotates the loans OF, and
backs the Canadian railroads which are our
competitors for the carrying trade throughout
the breadth of this continent This is the
house of Morton, Rose * Co., which was
founded by John Rose of Canada, who was
knighted BY the queen for his faithful services
in maintaining Canadian and British interest
on this continent, and by Levi T. Morton, the
candidate for Vice -President of the United
States upon the Republican National ticket.
With great fortune accumulated in the coun-
lTy vi HIS ne luuS luNGolo ~
himself and it, to the make or break OF Tor
tune in enterprises which depend for profit
upon their successful maintenance against the
competition of those of his own country.
This action cannot be criticised in the indi-
vidual. 1t is his right to place his invest
ments where they will make the largest return
in honorable enterprise. But it becomes q
very grave subject of observation and OF
criticism, when a great party, pretending
through its chosen leaders inveterate hostility
to English interests, places this man. whose
greatest interests are English, before the peo-
| pie of this country, asking for him their sui
! frages for the second Office of the Republic.
1t is true that the house of Morton, Rose IL
Co. maintains in the financial center of this
continent, the city of New York, branch
house known as Morton, Bliss & Co.; but ii is
because in the city of New York must be
done the great transactions in finance in North
America of interest to the outside world,
whether of British North America, of Eng
land or the Continent of Europe. 1t was only
because of his political ambition in the United
States, as has been currently reported and
not denied, that the suggestion of knighthood
for himself, for his great services in further
ing the commercial interests of Great Britain
and her colonies was deprecated by him. Sir
Levi P. Morton, an English banker, then, is
the candidate of the Republican party for
| Vice President.
No wonder that the retaliatory measure
recommended by the President of the United
States and which would have conferred power
upon him to interdict to a degree the carry
| ing trade of Canadian railroads across our
territory, for which American citizens have
paid to foreigners in ten years the sum OF
seventy millions of money, and which, if en-
acted, would have changed existing law by
which effective retaliation must rest almost
alone upon the intimate commercial inter-
| course between us and Canada on the great
! Northwestern frontier, should have passed the
Democratic House of Representatives only to
be buried in the Republican Senate. No
wonder, either, in connection with the Sitting
of the House bill, that the contribution o.
Levi P Morton to the Republican campaign
fund is given at the least at $500, 900 and at
the most at half million of money.
BLAINE WOULD BE THE REGENT.
This is one of the candidates of the Repub-
lican party. Who is his running mate,
Does any one doubt that the real candidate i:
the man who controls the majorities in it!
conventions, its party machinery, its policies
its methods and its leaders? If this party
should be successful in this campaign (which
God forbid-aye, if we may judge by the
signs of these days, he has already forbidden,
Harrison would be the titular President
while, as has been well said, the unspeakablt
man from Maine would be Regent.
We have the word of Chauncey NJ. DepeW
that he would be Secretary of State, and We
have the assurance of the personal organ O
the hundred millionaire of California, Leland
Stanford, that the nominal candidate has
given written assurance to the same effect.