Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — A LOVEJOY TURNS DEMOCRAT. [ARTICLE]

A LOVEJOY TURNS DEMOCRAT.

And There’s More Like Him About Princeton to Oppose Congressman Henderson. Owen G. Lovejoy, of Princeton, 111., a son of the Owen Lovejoy of anti-slavery fame, who has never voted a Democratic ticket, is now an open and avowed supporter of Cleveland and Thurman and of the Democratic revenue-reform policy. A sort of political migration is taking place from theproteetive Republican to the tariffreform Democratic camp by those sturdy old families about Princeton—the Lovejoys and the Bryants, the latter headed by J. H. Bryant, a brother of the poet. Nor is it confined to that section, but throughout the State there is a movement among those old-time abolitionists who entered the Republican party to aid in overthrowing slavery, and who now, disgusted with tho protective policy of the Republican party, are going back to,their first love as exemplified by the tariff-reform policy of the Democratic party. For some years Mr. Lovejoy has been in favor of a revision and reduction of the tariff. He only remained with the Republican party on the strength of its pledges pertaining to tariff

reform made in its national platforms of four and eight years ago. Now. in common with thousands of others, finding that all such pledges have been ignored and a policy of high taxation and protection of monopolies encouraged, he has felt himself compelled, in order to remain true to his views and convictions, to cut loose from his party associations and support the tariff-reform ticket — Chicago Herald.