Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — MARSHALL FIELD FOR CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

MARSHALL FIELD FOR CLEVELAND.

The Great Merchant Holds that ths Country Needs Reduced Import Duties. Mr. Marshall Field, the head of the great Chicago mercantile house, has been in Boston, be talked politics while here. Mr. Field is a strong Republican and he is also a protectionist, but, to the surprise of some Republicans who interviewed him, he professed an intention this year of voting for Cleveland. He does this on the ground that President Cleveland's administration in its policy on the tariff question is distinctly for the business interests of the country. Mr. Field says that there is no free trade at all to be apprehended from it, but that there is a just and wise and moderate reduction of the rate of duties which is needed at this juncture and which must be had if the nation is to escape serious difficulties. He thinks the RepubUcans have mode a great mistake in allowing the Democrats to take the lead of them in reformation on this point.— BotUm Herald.