Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-29
What the Politicians are Doing.

Twenty thousand business men marched
through the rain and mud in New York city
Saturday afternoon and were reviewed by
President Cleveland from a stand erected oppo-
site the Worth monument at Madison Square.
Great enthusiasm prevailed. Mayor Abram s.
Hewitt had pleasant chat with the President
on the stand. Sheriff Grant, the Tammany
candidate for mayor, and Mr.. Hewitt shook
hands, Mr.. Hewitt remarking, This is not
across the bloody chasm." President Cleveland
to Washington in Ave and Shalf hours, ON
special train, reaching home at 12:45 O'Clock
Sunday morning.
The parade Of the railroad men in Indianap-
oils Saturday night was witnessed by 20 900
people: Clubs composed of railroad employees
port, and New Albany. Gen. Harrison re-
viewed the parade from the balcony of the New
Denison and was vociferously cheered.
Postmaster-General Dickinson spoke at a
democratic meeting in Grand Rapids, Mich,
Saturday night and took occasion to refer to
MIR: Blaine's speech there some days ago, in
which the Maine statesman undertook to point
out the fallacies Of some of Mr.. Dickinson 9
arguments. The Postmaster General replied
in speech bristling with personal invective,
IN the course Of which he stigmatized Mr..
Blaine as 'the Catiline of American politics
and the Aaron Burr of modern statesmen"
The visit Of Senator Quay, chairman of the
republican national committee, to Petersburg,
Va, last Friday, and his conference with Gem
eral Malone, is said, by a special to the Phila-
delphia Times, to have been for the purpose of
having talk with Malone as to the outlook of
the republicans carrying Virginia for Harrison
and Morton.
The New York democratic campaign canal
boat Thomas Jefferson will reach Albany to-
night, where arrangements for q monster re-
ceptiOn have been completed.
George H. Thoebe, the labor candidate who
ran against Speaker Carlisle in the Sixth Con-
gress district Of Kentucky, is in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, making speeches against Congressman
John Lynch, who voted against seating Thoebe
in his contest for Carlisles seat.
sixth ward, Columbus, O., Saturday. The rec
ord gives his age as seventy-four; time Of resi-
dence in Ohio sixty-fve years, and in Colum-
bus thirty-five years.
The republican national committee Satur-
day received the following telegram from Sen
not one word Of truth in the statement pub
lished in some democratic papers that said
Indiana was lost to, or likely to be lost to- the
republican,. I have not been there yet; go
next week"
Congressman Mills addressed a large audi
ence Of democrats in Newark Saturday night. A
private dispatch to the Baltimore American
says that Mr.. Mills was so very hoarse that he
tainted at the close of his speech and was un-
conscious for ten minutes.
The full registration of Newark, N. J., for
the presidential election is 37,71S, an increase
of $50 over the charter election registration
Of September, and an increase Of Z, 900 over the
votes cast at the last presidential election.
The total registration in New York is 1885,
ST. which means q vote Of 272,000, or there
abouts.
In Lexington, KY, Saturday afternoon Col.
A. NJ. Swope, republican candidate for Con-
gress, spoke in joint debate with Col W. c. p.
Breckenridge, the democratic candidate.
A large number Of Brooklyn people, who
were not afraid of wetting, were present at
the 5th Avenue Casino, in Brooklyn, Saturday
evening to hear Senator Warner Miller's last
campaign speech in Brooklyn.
Miss Louie Hiatt, a sixteen-year-old high
school girl, has taken the stump in favor Of
Cleveland and Thurman
At Herkimer, N. Y, Gov. Hill was accorded
an enthusiastic reception Saturday.
Up to the present there are no indications of
a compromise being effected between the par
ties Of the democratic candidates for mayor in
New York city.
Speaker Carlisle made a speech to about
5000 people at Terre Haute, Ind, Saturday
evening.
1t is announced that George o. Jones' chair
man Of the national greenback committee, is
going to Detroit to advise the greenbackers to
vote for Harrison and Morton. Gen. Butler
has gone to Michigan for the same purpose
Alexander Jonas, the socialistic candidate for
mayor OF New York, has written letter of ac-
ceptance, in which he attacks our "accursed
social system"
Several arrests for illegal registration in New
York city have been made.