Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-07-20
ORIGINAL AND BORROWED.

All who believe the United states
should be it's own ruler, will vote
the Republican ticket which stands
for the American idea.
Governor Gray, of Indiana, de-
clared, when he heard of the nom
ination of Thurman at st. Louis,
"Indiana will 90 Republican in No
vemberw
"Grover Cleveland has done more
TO advance the cause of free trade
than any prime minister of England
has ever done."-Loadon, Engr
Spectator.
New York State gave Cleveland
a plurality of 10000 in 1882 and
in 1884 but 1917. The majority
against him next fall will be a huge
one, if the progression is carried
out.
Blind Tom is living in retirement
in an old-tashiOned hOuse IN st.
Marks place, New York city. lie
is suffering from a nervous com
plant that renders repetition OF
his stage performances impossible.
The Philadelphia Press has its
risibles excited by the impressive
spectacle of "the Democratic party
coming out from behind an Illicit
distillery aud bowling about the
'free whisky policy of the Republl'
cans.r
An eighty year old Democrat OF
Fredericksburg, for the first time
10 his life, Is on the fence as towhlch
ticket he will vote next fall. From
the way he talks, he is mighty apt
to get down on the Harrison aud
protection side.-Free Lance.
England has tyranized every
country she has ever controlled.
Are the people of the United States
ready to sacrifice their great pros
perity tor the benefit of Eng
lish Capitalists and Manuiac
turersf THIS is the question IN
this campaign.
Mayor Hewitt, according to the
New York Times, declared recent
" that President Cleveland is a
fool, and that be would not believe
him under oath. "HarmOny' Of this
sort among New York Democrats
IS not conducive to success this
fall.
The Democratic buffers in New
York who have been offering to
bet $4,000 that Cleveland will be
elected this tall retreated ignOmin-
eously when ". 3. DOwd offered
to take them up and go them $780,
600 better. Drag and buster won't
help the Democratic cause.
Baftalo gave Cleveland 5,7j2
plurality for governor in 1882, but
in 1884 gave Blaine 1, O9S plurality.
No wonder Cleveland dropped his
residence there, and became a citi-
zen of the District of Columbia.
where the people can't vote for Pres
ident.
Cleveland rellnquished his resi-
denee in the state of New York a
couple of years ago, and had his
name sticken from the tax-rOlls at
Buffalo. The Buffalo Express de-
clares he did this to avoid paying
a tax OF S93.13. He is no longer a
New Yorker, but a citizen of the
District of Columbia, and has no
vote for Presidential Or Congress
sioDal candidates.
Morrison declares the Democrat
ic platform doesn't mean free trade.
Watterson was its chief builder,
and be says it does. Frank Hurd
saws it does. Henry George, who
believes in the total abolition OF
custom houses and the raising OF
all revenues by tax on land, says
II does. The Eughsh newspapers
are hoping for Democratic success,
because the platform means free
trade.
Hardly day passes without the
record of some prominent New York
Democrat abandoning Cleveland
and free trade and going over to
Harrison and protection. The con-
dltlons OF the campaign are exact
iy the reverse of 1884, when the
mugwumps abandoned the Repub-
Ican party. Now the protection
Democrats are abandoning the free
trade party.
The protection Democrats and
the free trade Democrats are still
performing GU the tariff horizontal
bar, the prOteetionists swinging
one way, the free traders the other,
aud all swearing that they are 90
ing the same way and in perfect
unison. Two of the leading cOntOr-
tionists are the editors of the Louis
willie Courier Journal and the Nash
Vile american. They beat h e
clowns out OF sight.
The great trucking interests in
eastern VirgInia-the immense and
profitable business now existing
there IN vegetables, fruits, oysters,
ash, game, &c.,-will cease to be,
or will survive without profits, if
the policy of the Mills bill triumph.
The tree competition Of the Bermu.
das, Bahamas, the West Indies, &C.,
would soon play havoc with the