The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1888-07-26
SIGNIFICANT PARAGRAPHS.

Coming Events Cast their Shadow Be
fore' as Seen by the Young Mems Re-
publican Club of Bennington,
The following incident is taken from
the Irish World, its issue of last week.
and means everything that it says.
viii the Democratic party lash be able
to whip such men as these out of their
honest convictions in November The
heading reads: IAN Irish cane for
| Harrison. Voted to the ProtectiOnist
standard bearer by an overwhelming
vote-2, 1877 for Harrison; 685 for Cleve-
land" The article then says: 1.-The
Irish Catholics of Highland held pic
mic in Carey's Grove on the Fourth, for
the benefit of the new church now in
process of erection. Everything passed
! off tremendously and successfully and
all present had an enjoyable time.
Zone of the most attractive features
in connection with the affair was the
voting for Presidential preferences, the
candidate receiving the greatest number
of votes to be presented with fine gold
headed cane purchased for the Occa-
sion.
1uO lUllOMluH was JLe IGSulJ. w HOlb
number of votes cast, 5000; of which
number Harrison received 2, 1877, Cleve-
land 6S5 and Fisk 100. Harrison Hav-
ing received a large majority of all the
votes cast was declared the winner and
the cane will therefore be sent by ex-
press to Gen. Harrison at Indianapolis,
Ind, as testimonial of the esteem en-
tertained for him by the Irish PrOteC-
is4.,sgtg - rho ,,fI Isul,1o,I
Whats the matter with Harrison?
"How is that for Protection VS. Free
Trade
What will our Democratic friends
now FAY about the Irish break of 1884
all going back to the Democrats in
1882
mo, Democrats, be no longer deluded
with the false idea that the Irish voted
for James G. Blaine because they be-
lieved, if elected, he would free Ireland.
The idea was preposterous and an insult
to the intelligence Of the people.
1.-The Irish admire Mr.. Blaine, as
many others do, because in him they
recognize bold and fearless exponent
Of the genuine principles of American
Government. They are just as strongly
in favor Of the election of General Har
rison. standing squarely as he does on
the Chicago platform.
THE vote here on the 4th sounds the
keynote for the Republican party in
Iowa County for the fall campaign.
Honor to Patrick Ford, John F, Fin |
erty, and other brave Irish leaders, who
have advised Their countrymen to leave |
the party devoted to Free Trade and |
British interests and join the party |
devoted to Protection and American in
terests."
Thus gradually does the sectional and
free trade policy of the Democratic
party bear its legitimate fruit of disin-
tegration and final ruin. Elevated to
power upon platform of civil service
reform, to Iull, If possible, the breasts
OF the Republican Office holders, it
would seem they had only been raised
up before the people that their danger
GUS sentiments and perverse and un-
American policy might be exposed; that
drawn out from its concealment, all
might see it in its true ugliness and
avoid it as they would avoid personal
ruin.
How has the President kept his pledge?
Where is his boosted civil service re-
form2 OF the great army of able, eff
cient and experienced Office holders
which he so loudly extolled in his letters
during the campaign of 1884, how many
now remain in the service Of the Gov
eminent they had served so well
Under promise to the people that this
body, who were discharglng their duties
so efficiently, and through whose hands
the various systems of our Government
had become the marvel OF the world,
should not be discharged or altered TO
any considerable extent, he was barely
able to obtain his position, and how has
he kept his pledge?
Can his word be more safely relied
upon in the future than it has been in
the past ? Already Democratic House
has given the rein to its free trade ten
denotes, and is letting the knife into
our protective tariff, the bulwark of our
laborers against the laboring classes Of
Europe, while thousands of dollars are
being subscribed in Liverpool to assist
them in beating down or crushing be
meath the weight Of an enormous cam
paign fund, the Republican defence of
the prosperity Of America
But 80 long as the American voter is
intellectual as he now is. so long as he
informs himself beforehand of all ques-
tions at issue at the polls, so long as he
reads we'll, thinks for himself and votes
honestly, we trust the assaults OF such
men influenced by such motives aud led
by such candidates as these, will never
succeed in decoying into the meshes of
their fatal free trade meta nation which
owes its greatness and prosperity today
to the system which has been advocated
by nearly all of our most eminent States.
men and jealousy supported by them
because as Abraham Lincoln once wit
you may be able to
fool all the people part of the time and
part of the people all the time, but you
never can fool all the people all of the
time"