Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1888 — RENOUNCING HARRISON. [ARTICLE]

RENOUNCING HARRISON.

INDEPENDEET IRIEHMEN WHO SUPPORTED BLANK IN 1884 COME OU» FOR CLEVE LAND AED THURMAN. Tbo news which excited great in terest at Democra’io headquarters was the action of about one thousand Irish-Amerioans who were ardent supporters of Mr. Blaine in 1884, but who have now come out for Clever, land and Thurman. The fohowin resolutions adopted by them and sent to Democratic headquarters by the president Edward J. Rowe, explain the causes of their change of views. RINGING RESOLUTIONS. Resolved, That as protectionists, believing that the full measure of real proteetion to the workingmen the greatest good to all the ped ole can be best secured under a lower and more equal system of custom house taxation, do most heartily in dorse the plan of tariff reform contained in the Mills bill. 2. That trusts and monopolists fos> tered and encouraged by unjust State and na'ional laws, imposing inequal tariff taxes and laying tribute to the consumers of the products controlled by them, have our most emphatic condemnation; and we demand that such laws shall be so revised as to make such iniquitous combinations m ossibie.

3. That the retaliation message of President Cleveland to Congress proved him a statesman of the highest order; an American capable of sustaining his country’s hon n r in any emergency, and deserving the respect and support of every patriotie ci the re üblic This much of justice we all the more cheerfully accord the President be* cause of our steadfast opposition to ijs ejection in 1884, in thO belief tha* iis opponent in the campaign would more earnestly sustain the national ion >r that has now been so splendidly vindicated and maintained by the President himself. 4. That Allen 3. Thurman, the Democratic candidate for vice’presldent, who, after a lifetime devoted to the unselfish service of his Stare and country, stands to day without blame or reproach, he peer of the purest and greatest is well worthy of any honor that a patriotic people can confer upon him. 5. That believing these things, indorsing the platform adopted by the Democratic convention at St. Louis, and with full faith in the ability, integrity and patriotism of the Democrat* io candidate candidate for President, wo, as independent citizens, free from partisan prejudice, pledge to those candidates our most ardent support in this campaign. 6. That the Republican party and its presidential candidate' cannot in the short period of our political cam* paign, an for partisan < fleet alone, atone for the repeate i utterances of Benjamin Harrison, hostile to and belittling American workingmen of Irish birth, which utterances are the result of heredity and legitimate manifestation of his descent from an ancestry of Cromwellian fellowship nd association of which he and his followers boast. We denounce that candidate and those utterances from the narrowest bigotry and prejudice, and call on those who cherish a liberal American spirit to assist in his overwhelm’DK ae'eat.