The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-21
cLEyELAND's WORK.

In 1857 President Cleveland issued his
famous tariff message attacking the s.. ooo. :
600 0O0 of capital invested in manufactures
and declaring that its owners were rob
bing labor OF its rightful share and de-
frauding the farmer of his just return.
When, in 1892, the mob at Homestead,
Pa. forced the governor to call out the
entire state militia to put stop TO their vi
olence and their exclusion of rightful own
ers from their property. Grover Cleveland
spoke for the mob. His campaign mana
gers nargained for the support of Al:geld
and the anarchists in Illinois, and fused
with the Populists at the West who were
attacking the millions of capital invested
in railroads and in mortgages, and by their
assault on q sound currency were unset
ting all values.
Out of this corrupt bargaining came the
income tax and the new tariff. This at
tack of Cleveland and his friends on the
thrift, industry. business and manufacture
ing ability of the country has FRUSTRATED
credit. checked investments. deranged
business. demoralixed and shattered man
ufactures, and spread ruin throughout the
land.
The disgust of the people has been
shown by recent elections in Vermont and
Maine, where the Democratic vote has de-
creased and the Republican has increased.
let US look at the record of the political
changes which have taken place since No
vember. 1892. when Cleveland was elected.
In isa2 the Democratic candidate for
governor of Massachusetts was elected by
q plurality OF 1854. In 1893. after eight
months of Cleveland, the Democratic
candidate for governor of Massachusetts,
was beaten by s.. Ge7 votes. or a plurality
of nearly i0.ooo larger than Gen. Harrison
got In that state in iS92 la New York
the Democratic plurality of as SIS in iSo2
was changed into Republican plurality
OF -. asa in 1893 In Pennsylvania Re
publican plurality Of 3,7I7 in ls92 was
more than doubled ia 1S93. and became a
| Republican plurality of l35, iio. la Iowa
Republican plurality OF 22.965 in ls92
became Republican plurality OF B.. $50 in
| 1865. Ia Ohio a Republican plural
| ivy of i,072 IN 1892 became Re-
| publican plurality of 50. g9o In 1888
/ In Rhode Island in iS92 the Demo-
/ cratic candidate for governor had a
| plurality of is. In 1895 the Rspub-
liean candidate for governor had plural
ity OF more than +.5o0 In Vermont in
1897 the Republican candidate for governor
had a plurality Of Ia, 7O2: in Vermont in
| 1894 the Republican candidate for governor
had plurality OF over 2s,ooo 10 lS92 the
/ Republican candidate for governor of
Maine had a plurality OF ie.5SL In is9i
he had plurality of nearly 5000
| This Is tie record Of Cleyelands work
! thus far The vote of Name. where the
/ Democratic loss l. in the most populous
| towns aud cities indicates what may be
| expected when the great manufacturing
| states vote in November next Maine has
ZOO manufacturing workers; New York
has SS0.eoo. Pennsylvania. 62o.ooo: New
Jersey. s7,ooo; Connecticut, 80. coo; Ohio,
I 81. ooo; Illinois, Si2.0
II tie Democratic loss in Maine Is any
/ clue 80 the mood Of the manufacturing
| workers in the great states OF the North
| there is not much doubt about the defeat
/ Of the Democracy in November next