Morning journal and courier., 1888-07-16
LOCAL POLITICAL JoTT1NGs.

Am old Democrat Frees His Mind-A
 Sample of the Republican Feeling
 on the Campaign QuestiOn-Cam-
 paign Odd1ties-Ode to the RepubII-
 can Banner.
 An old Democrat remarked the other night to COURIER reporter: ''I must say I've never seen such apathy in my party as exists this campaign. It beats all. We haven't had demonstration yet; nothing but few side shows. Not a gun was fired in New and Thurman were nominated, and not gun has been fired since. Whats the matter with our boys? Don't they like the nominations? Has the bandanna no charm for them? Doesn't the old Roman fire their hearts? Why even the mugwumps have had pow- WOW with speeches, etc., and have flung out a Cleveland and Thurman banner. They switched of from the Republicans on Blaine and have now dropped right into the Demo- cratic traces Even the Prohibitionists have celebrated. They held ratification meeting at the Hyperion and had some of their 'big Injuns' there. Then, too, they had another and smaller rally at Loomis', and Colonel Knowlton, who spoke, pitched into the Repub- lican party hammer and tongs. Our party is asleep. We have believe had few faint attempts at making show. But the Repub- hcans are away ahead of us, and I'll give N. D. Sperry credit for being live man, now and always"
 'sWe've got lem. We'll show lem such a sweep in November as will make the Democ- racy weep. The workingmen are with us. There are no flies on the tariff question.
 Workingmen don't swallow free trade worth cent. They don't swallow these pretty theories which kid-gloved theorists promul- gate-men who never handled blow, a sword, chisel or a hammer. Mechanics don't care @ rush for having cheaper foreign or domes- tic goods, with home industries throttled and factories closed by free trade humbug. What matters it to 8 man if he can buy cloth or other things cheaper if free trade crushes out their means of earning 8 living, or re- duces their wages to the level of pauper la bor in Europe? It is just as Hugh Daley said at the meeting the other night. One of our Branford manufacturers took samples of all his goods to Europe with view to intro- ducipg them there, but found that the same goods could be made cheaper there than here,
 because the mechanics there got much less pay. So also John M. Marlin, the New Ha ven gun and pistol manufacturer. Mir. Mar lin says that if it were not fol
 
 our markets here would be flooded witt them, to the exclusion from the market oi our home manufacturers in the same line As it is we have difficulty to compete witt them, as even with the tariff European guns are brought here and sold for from $3. 50 tc I $4 apiece.
 "Take also New Haven industry whicl | free trade killed. We mad a carpet factory here. It grew and fourished. It was o1 ! East street at the foot of St. John
 It prospered as long as there was \ tariff on this class of manufactures. Bu | bye and bye free trade dogrnas got the uppe hand and carpets from England came in ire \ of duty and swamped our New Haven carpe ! factory and various other United States car pet factories. They had to give up the con ! test and an industry that might now have af
 torded employment to 1000 hands here O | more was knocked in the head. So mucl | for free trade"