The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-10-12
WASHINGTON CITY.


from Indiana by Hon. r. b. F.
Pierce, chairman of the Republican
executive committee of that state,
who stoI ped in Washington Oh his
way to New York, where he had
been called by business. "The cam
paign," said Mr.. Pierce, sis moving
very satisfactorily to us, and the
State will 60 Republican beyond a
doubt. There are remarkable
number of changes of life-lon
Democrats to the Republican side.
Cases are reported daily, among
farmers as we'll as mechanics and
business men, and / now recall
seven counties in which marked
changes have taken place. With
in the last week ten voters in one
family, in one of the southern count
les, came over because of the free
trade plank in the Democratic plat
form. A few bays ago a Democrat
who is a prominent wholesale mer-
chant of indianapolis told me that
he intended to vote for Harrison, be-
cause he considered the changes
which would necessarily result in
the business world from the elect
i'm of Cleveland and a Democratic
Congress dangerous; and besides,
he was so satisfied with the able,
dignified and conservative admin
istration Cf President Harrison
that he was anxious for it to con-
tinue for four years"
The Democrats are getting a.
Harmed over the news of new
"kick" by Tammany, which comes
from New York, and some of them
acknowledge that it is useless for
Cleveland to expect to carry that
State; if Tammary's demands are
satisfied the mugwumps and anti
snappers will become "kickers."
Mr.. Cleveland's letter of accept
ance has injured instead of helping
him, as it has destroyed the belief
of the people in his polite al straight
forwardness and honesty and shown
him in his true colors as a webbing
politician who tries to write on
both sides of every question without
definitely committing himself to
anything. For instance, while "a
greeting with the Chicago platform
that the protective tariff shall be
abolished he assures the people
that the Democratic party does not
propose to injnre the business in
terests of any American citizen.
Even Democrat must be able to
see the contradiction in this. He
squarely lodges the issue of Wild
cat currency, made by the plank OF
the Chicago platform favoring a re-
peal of the ten per cent national tax
on the circulation of State banks,
and so ably met by the President
in his letter of acceptance and by
Mr.. Blaine in his letter to the
Maine Republicans.
Democrats here have taken the
cue from Mr.. Cleveland's labored
= attempt to save New York, New
Jersy and Connecticut, the voters
of which states are so deeply and
personally writing around the
| tariff plank of the Chicago plat
form, and they are no longer even
, claiming to believe that they viii
} carry any of the northwestern
states. They are also very much
afraid that the third party vii
break into the solid south, and thu
shameful treatment of Weaver il
A Georgia is believed to have bee,
: the direct result of orders from tn,
! Democratic National headquarters
to break up the third party move
ment in the South by tair meatr O
foul metr. There are eXcellen
reasons for believing that the fgh
upon the third party in the Soutl
is to be as relentlessly waged a
was the fight which practicalI
drove the Republican party on
OF existence in a number {
those. Still the rest of the count
ry is asked to believe that citizen
residing in the Southern States ar
living under a Republican form c
government, having the right {
free speech and free ballot. We
they are, but it is much the sam
sort Of Republican government a
that under which MeXicaus live
Speech is free provide you tai
Democratic, and the ballot is fire
s only when it contains the Demo
e cratic nominees. All the news re-
d ceived at the headquarters Of tn
Observation-Disclosures
IS Committee is encouraging, anC
j." nOtV outstanding the enormou
o Democratic majority in the HOUSE