Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1888 — THE VOTE IN THE CITIES. [ARTICLE]

THE VOTE IN THE CITIES.

Alb ny Argus: The promise of the earlier returns of the elections are abundantly sustained by fuller reports in respect to Democratic gains in the cities. Whenever men who work for wages in factories, mills foundries and other industrial establishments are gathered in large numbers and have access to daffy newspapers of both parties, and have had fair liberty of discussion among themselves, there the Democratic cause has made remarkable gains. In New York City, the largest manufacturing city in the United States, President Cleveland, as already stated, gained 14,000 over his majority in 1881. Chicago gave a Democratic gain of over 13,000 and even Philadelphia, New York’s rival as a manufacturing city, redu ces its Republican majority by over 12,000. There is a Democratic gain of 7,000 in Boston, and other cities show similar results. Ihus Lowell gives the Democratic cause a net gain of almost 700, Worcester of over 1400, Fall River nearly 1,000, Holyoke 704, and so on throughout the list. In New Jersey, Newark and Jersey City show heavy Democraticgains, and in Connecticut, New Haven and Bridgeport largely increase the Democratic vote. The farmers of New York State turned the State over to the Reoublican party, and there is poetic justice in the fast that on them the burden of tariff taxes falls mo>t heavily. They have bought their whistle, and during the four long years they will have ample opportunity to reflect upon the; price they must pay for it if!

Alta California: Amongst what may called the queer results of the election is the declaration by William Walter Phelps that unless the gives the country eome drastic tariff reform it will bi beaten and permanently destroyed in 1892. While it may be said that Mr. Phelps, views are toned by the result in his own State, New Jersey, in which the manufacturing employers and laborers vied wilh each other in earnestness for the principles of the President’s message, it must in candor be confessed tnat thev have a broader base. Accepting the theory of protection as taught by Clay and all its great apostles, our “infant manufactures” begin to feel the restraint of their childish garments and are quickened by the purposes of completed manhood. They want wider markets, and accept Senator Evarts’ chance endorsement of commercial truth when he said, “If we wish to sell we must consent to buy.”