Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-08-13
Campaign Notes.

republican club at Port Even, n. Y,
seventeen had been democrats until
this summer. This is one of many
such drifts in that state.
In one ward of New York City on
Monday a business mems Harrison
& Morton club was organized of whom
80 members four years ago voted for
Cleveland.
Chaplain j. III. Lozier of Iowa, lone
of the national prohibition leaders,
has come out in public letter taking
strong grounds against the third par
ty movement.
A prominent Massachusetts demo-
crat who has been visiting the interi-
or of New York state, says he is as
tonished at the number of democrats
who are DESERVING the Cleveland tick
ct.
At the prohibition meeting of Or
ange county at Chelsea recently, 10
men and Z women were present. They
nominated a county ticket, but left
vacancies for want of timber.
The workingman' protective league
in a single ward of Cambridge, Mass,
has 129 members, every one of
whom have hitherto voted the demo-
cratic ticket. Now every mothers
son of them are for Harrison and
Morton.
Mr.. W. X. Chaplin, vice president
of the Rochester, n. Y, car compa-
ny, supported Mr.. Cleveland four
years ago by liberal contributions to
his campaign fund and by personal
influence. Now he and his employees
are for Harrison.
The Buffalo Nea0s, in which Editor
Butler first suggested Cleveland for
governor and then president, can't
stand free trade and is out for Har-
rison and Morton. Mr.. Butler says
New York will vote for Harrison by
an overwhelming majority.
To relieve the monotony we have
the name of Charles Hamlin of Au-
gusta, Me-, said to be former re-
publican, who is now out for Cleveland
Hamlin, it appears, is an importer OF
English goods, and therefore takes
to free trade as duck does to water.
The lumbermen of Maine are
speaking. Geo. II. Newhall of Fair
fie Id, whose company annually man.
ufacture some twelve million feet, en-
blowing a hundred men, always g
democrat, now declares for Harrison
and Morton. He says: 81 take this
stand as matter of protection to my
business.
John d. Spellman, a Rutland dem
ocrat, who left Cleveland after his
free trade message, spoke at re.
publican meeting at Chittenden the
other evening. At the close si2
democrats came and shook hands
with him and added: "We voteC
with you four years ago and we are
with you again this year"
At Middleport, N. Y, there are
seven brothers who voted for William
Henry Harrison in 1910, and they
and two more who were not ole
enough hope to live to vote for Ben
iamin Harrison this year. The fam
ilv name is Freeman and their gooC
Scriptural names and ages are as fol
lows: William, IS; Samuel, SO
Philip, 81; Daniel, 10; Isaac, ~
Asher, IA (; John, II; Benjamin, &C
James, 81.
Hon. j. S. Clarkson of the nation
al republican committee, has received
a letter from a democratic farmer il
Patterson, N. Y, in which he says
GAS a democratic farmer, | wish tt
say to you that / am not in favor o
in sympathy with free trade. | hav'
always been a democrat, and insis
that / am now a democrat. voted
for Cleveland four years ago, bu
will not do so again, but will vot
for Harrison and Morton"
The New Haven Register (Dem.
publishes a panicky appeal from TIN
democratic state committee, and re
marks in comment on it: "We ma
as we'll be frank, while we are upoI
the subject, and state the situation
as it is. The chances to-day in Con
necticut are against the democrats
The issues upon which the electlo
will turn are not so simple that the
can be understood in a moment. I'll
plausibilities of protection must b
cleared away by local argument"
New Hampshire is yielding to tn
principle of protection. Sewers
prominent democrats in the stat
have recently announced that the
cannot support Cleveland and fire
trade At Laconia there are sewers
mill owners, among wnom is q. Hen
! nv Tilton, who has resigned his OF
fee as chairman of the democratI
town committee. He is a hosler
. manufacturer. Charles K. PItinar
: head of the Pitman Manufacture
Co., says: 81 am another democra
who will not vote for Cleveland.