Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-09-23
EASTERN POLITICS.
How Maine Was Managed and
other Interesting Items.

OShcH AHteIestAhS ItemSs
The shallowness of the boasts of the
Republicans over their so-called victory
in Maine becomes more apparent each
day. The National Dem ocratic Commit
tee is now in possession of evidence 60
ing to show that the most outrageous
bnlldozing was practiced by Republican
manufacturers on their employees, and
that bribery was resorted to indiscrimin-
ately.
The following letter, addressed to Col.
Brice, received from Frank Smith, a
merchant of Saco, Me-, is sample of
many received at the Democratic National
Headquarters relative to the Maine
election:
1 enclose you extracts from Daily STANDARD
to inform you what we had to do In the First
District OF Maine and to congratulate yourself
and Commit'ee &c n on y9uT non judgment We have
years ago. Votes are freely bought in sums
| varying from $15 to $50 each. am perfectly
satisfied that the election cos the Republicans
| from $500, ,00Oto 5000 900, and still they have
| lost from 1884.
The newspaper slips inclosed in the
above letter showed that two men named
| Milliken and Smith, employed by the
New York Manufacturing Company, were
discharged because they worked and
voted for the Democratic ticket.
Milliken had been employed by the
company over twenty years, and on pre-
vious elections, it was said, did as his
bulldozing employers wanted him.
Hundreds of such cases have been re-
ported to the Democratic National Com
mittee. One letter received said: "The
Republican chestnut of Democrats bull
doing Negroes in the South was vividly
brought to mind in Maine before election
day, by the way the Republican en-
ployers bulldozed their wolkingmen.
Among the visitors at National DEM
ocratic Headquarters to-day were ex-
Senator Joseph Mcdonald OF Indiana,
who addressed rousing meeting Of
Democrats last night in Paterson, n J.
Henry Exall, Chairman of the Demo.
cratic State Committee of Texas, and
George P. Everhard, member of the
Democratic Committee OF Cook County,
Ill.
Ex-Senatar Mcdonald said that he was
fairly astonished at the enthusiasm
shown by the Democrats OF Paterson last
evening. Their appreciation OF what was
said upon the tariff showed, the Senator
said, that the workingmen of the country
were having their minds rapidly dis
abused of the fallacies of protection.
Mr.. Everhard, of Cook county, ILL.,,
is large real estate dealer. He said
that the Chicago Tribune the leading
Republican newspaper Of the Northwest,
had for years been educating the people
to believe that reduction OF the tariff
was necessary.
| Now, when the Republicans say that
there ought to be free whisky instead of
a reduction of the tariff many OF the
farmers and other citizens Of Illinois are
not to be hoodwinked, and Mr.. Everhard
says that Illinois will in all probability
be carried by the Democrats.
The latest campaign document issued
by the Republican National Committee
is one printed in Hebrew and circulated
freely among the Jewish population.
The circular says that the Mills bill,
besides reducing the tariff proposes also
; to exclude any more Hebrew immigrants.
An excited merchant from Bayard
street called at the German Bureau al
Democratic headquarters to-day and
inquired If it was true that Congressman
Mills wanted to prevent any more He
brews from coming to this country.
The gentleman's disturbed mind was
set at rest and he was Informed that the
Democratic National Committee would
get out another circular in Hebrew show
ing the falsity and absurdity of the Re
publican document.
Charles Ogden, OF Omaha, the Nebras
! ka member of the Executive Committee
of the National Association of Democratic
Clubs, and former chairman of the com
mittee, writes to the National Democrati,
Committee that tbs State is covered with
clubs and great reaction in favor 0
, tariff reform is taking place, and there il
t fair chance of electing the whole Demo
8 cratic State ticket New York News.