Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — THE COAST FOR THURMAN. [ARTICLE]

THE COAST FOR THURMAN.

I'a’ -Congressman M. F. Tarpey, of Ca ifornia, is very enthusiastic over the nomination of Thurman for vice president, and he regards the Pacific slope as a sure thing for the Democratic party this fall. Mr. Tarpey is' authority f r the statement that the Democrats of the Golden st’te are sure of car rying it by a majority of at least five thousand. Oregon and Nevada are much the same as California— en husiastic for Thurman. “What has 'Thurman done to make himself so popular in the west?” was asked of Mr. Tarpey. “Well, in the first place a reduction of the tariff is what the people on the Pacific slope want, and they kno v that Thurman, being m favor vs a reduction, will keep his word as far as it is possible with the people. Then he has done much for the western states in regard to the Chinese question. The labor question has become of vast importance in California, and the laboring classes are strong for the democratic ticket. There is no man to-day in the republican ranks who can draw his party around him to his support as can Thurman, and 1 do not think there is a man whom tfie republican party can nominate 'who will be so popular on the Pac.fic slope.”

Indianapolis News(republican); Thurman is, we believe, the strongest man the democrats could have h aainated. He appeals to the respect of the country as a man of incorruptible integrity and of as fine abilities as have adorned our public life in years.