Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — FARMER JONES’ VIEW OF IT. [ARTICLE]

FARMER JONES’ VIEW OF IT.

The Labor Candidate for Governor Say* His Spectacles Make Cleveland the Winner. Farmer Jones, of Camargo, the Union Labor candidate for Governor of Illinois, is in the city. "I have been speaking every day," said he to a Mail reporter, “and to large audiences. The people are aiive to their political interests. They are studying the questions of the hour, and it W my belief that great changes are taking place all along the line. ” “How do you estimate the relative chances of the two great parties in the national contest?” “I have a chance to see a great many people from many parts of the country, and my present conviction is that Cleveland will be re-elected. I reach that conviction through what I observe and hear. The working classes, I think, are largely against Harrison, and sentiment is rapidly crystallizing against protection. I would be for protection If it protected, but it doesn’t. It helps the manufacturer at the expense of the consumer and labor is not in the least benefited.’’—Chicago Mail, Rep.