Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-26
SOME POLITICAL POINTS,
Andy McNally's View OF the
Situation.
Westminster Democrats Getting
Move on Themselves.
MIR. McNaliy's Eastern Trip and Hif
Impressions-Clev Pop
uIarity-PoIitical Notes
and Gossip.

east of the Rocky mountains. Andy
McNally, the well known Democratic
! politician, has just returned from a
FIVE weeks trip to the principal eastern
cities, and was in Chicago when Cleve-
land was nominated. Mr.. McNally
stated to HERALD reporter yesterday
that everything pointed to the election
of Cleveland next November; that New
York's electoral vote was sure for the
Democrats; that Tammany was unit
for Cleveland. At the great Tammany
demonstration in New York city on the
evening of July 4th, the $1,000 people
who crowded the pavilion cheered them.
selves hoarse for the Democratic stand
ard-bearer. When Cleveland's letter
was read the cheers and applause lasted
fully fifteen minutes, and it was nearly
an hour before the letter could be con-
cluded, the continued applause was 30
deafening.
"You can say" continued McNally,
"that the laboring classes are almost
unanimous for Cleveland. This / know,
for visited Chicago, Baltimore, Boston,
| Cleveland, New York, Washington, Pitts
burg and other principal cities, and the
sentiment among the laboring classes is
against the present administration.
Cleveland is our next president, sure,
and / am willing to bet any amount on
it. Just say sCleve and Steve
will leave the hat and rat far
behind. Steve White, Major Barrett and
myself were guests of the Tammany
club on the eve OF July 4th. We were
on the platform at the great meeting,
and such an enthusiastic crowd you
never saw. Harrison is not in it..
Mark my word ~
Mr.. McNally, although an original
Hill man, is now as great Cleveland
advocate, like all good Democrats; and
as he is shrewd observer, his opinion
regarding the political situation back
east goes long way. Mr.. McNally
by the way, states there is no place like
Los Angeles.
| WESTMINSTER DEMOCRATS.
The Democracy of Westminster turned
out in force on Saturday night, at the
first rally of the party thereabouts since
the opening of the present campaign.
There had been one effort each of the
Gently made in the way OF public gath
| bEs
to elicit but little public atten-
ton, while this meeting was voted all
round as a success, strengthening old
and making new friends for the party of
tariff reform, light taxes and honest
government.
The meeting was held in the commo-
dious new school building in Westmin-
ster, which, by the way, is fine struc.
ture, creditable to the public spirit of
this community. That well-known, pop
ular and sterling Democratic war-horse,
Col. Henry Carlisle, called the meeting
to order, and was at once, by unanimous
vote, chosen to preside as chairman over
it's destinies. Colonel Carlisle explained
the object of the meeting, referring to
| the gross misrepresentation and ex-
travagant and absurd statements touch
ing the Democracy heretofore made at
| the abortive meetings of the side-issue
parties referred to above, and pronounced
high eulogy on the Democratic party.
He then in graceful manner introduced
J. G. Maccabe, Esq, of Santa Ana, who
had been specially invited by the West
minister Democracy to address them on
that occasion. The large audience lis
| tened with close attention for more than
an hour to the speaker, frequently man
ifesting their approval by applause.
Captain Maccabe reviewed and con-
| trasted the history of the two great
parties, exposed the absurdity and
fraud OF the Republican policy of pro.
tectiye tariff, calculating by the logic of
facts and figures the glaring truth that
to the robbery of the peoples honest
earnings by means of that tariff is to be
attributed the present universal and
! financial and business depression, and
the political grievances for the redress
of which the whole country is crying
out. He gave graphic picture of the
Minneapolis convention when President
Harrison by his Office. holding represen-
tatives and attorneys-in fact assisted in
securing a renomination-a convention
that wanted to nominate James G.
Blaine, but which was dragooned by
the cohorts Of the administra-
ton into voting for Benjamin
Harrison = and then pointed to
the Chicago convention spontane-
ously nominating Grover Cleveland in
response to the universal demand of its
constituents. Appealing to the judg-
ment and conscience of the Republicans
in abandoning the party of extravaganza
and dishonest expenditure of the pub
lie money, he illustrated Governor Boies
of Iowa, once leading Republican, and
other conspicuous men who had joined
| the ranks of the Democracy since the
passage OF the Mckinley bill, and said
there were tens of thousands of Repub-
licans who would this year vote for
Cleveland, the champion of honest gov
ernment and tariff for revenue only,
and not for Harrison, the acknowledged
| representative of high taxes and OF the
perpetuation of trusts and combines OF
organized capital. He was listened to
with marked attention throughout, es-
pecially when he reviewed the history
of the part played by Whitelaw Reid in
the wrecking of Horace Greeley and
the black ingratitude of the Repub-
lican candidate for the vice-presidency
towards his benefactor, the once great
editor of the New York Tribune in that
nefarious transaction. The relation
made deep impression on his hearers.
He also made hit in describ-
ing the growth of the manufactures
of "Shoddy" in the United States, as
one OF the outgrowths of protective
tariff policy and as one of the kinds of
progress resulting from that policy. He
claimed that every indication of public
sentiment was in favor of the election OF
Cleveland and Stevenson, and closed his
address amid hearty applause.
| The formation of the Democratic club,
which was intended should be perfected
| at Westminster, was postponed until