Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Gresham, Schurz, MacVeagh, McCullough. [ARTICLE]

Gresham, Schurz, MacVeagh, McCullough.

Judge Gresham, Wayne MacVeagh, Carl Schurz and Hugh McCullough are four ex-Republican candidate officers who are now supporting Grover Cleveland. Schurz and MacVeagh were in Hayes’ cabinet, McCullough served under three presidents, Lincoln, Johnson and Arthur. Gresham served under Arthur, first as postmaster general, then secretary of the treasury. All these former prominent Republicans have joined the Democratic party on account of the tariff policy of the Republican party. They see in the McKinley tariff a dangerous club in the hands of plutocracy. When such men as Gresham leave the the Republican party, it means Botifething. There are 1,000 who have left the high tariff party, whose names have not been hurled to the world because they are not of national reputation. But their votes next November will effect the result largely to the disadvantage of the Republican party’. In this state four prominent men are now stumping for Cleveland, who. four years ago made speeches for Harrison. John Overmyer, of Jennings county, who in 1882 was chairman of the Republican state committee; D. P. Baldwin, of Logansport, who was elected attorney general by the Republicans in 1880; William D. Foulke, a leader of the Republicans in the senate of 1883 and 1885; ex-Attorney General Williamson, of Green Castle, were all on the stump for Harrison in this and other states four years ago. This year they have lifted up their voices in behalf of Grover Cleveland because the McKinley tariff has driven them out of the party in which they have been reared.