Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1888 — PITH AND POINT OF POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

PITH AND POINT OF POLITICS.

Hattie ot the Fight Inf iiitry in the First OniilairgTvtV -- - : ” What will it profit ain;tn if lie gain .free trade and lose his situation? —Philadelphia North American”. ~ , Esteenieil Mugwumps: You objected to Blaine because of his alleged bad character. What's the matter with Harrison? The strongest praise for Harrison and Morton comes from the communities that know them best. This is true of no other ticket in the field.—Philadelphia Press. President Cleveland wrote that lie could not go the Gettysburg lieltl July 1, 2 and 3 this year on account of other business. He was absent from the same field on the same days of 1803 for the same reason. — Brooklyn Standard-Union. - Don’t forget the title of the cause that 3is being tried, gentlemen of the Democratic press. It hC protection versus free trade. Please confine your arguments to tlie question before the court and do not try to confuse the jury.—Los Angeles Times. \

Over one- of the largest silk mills in Paterson, N. J., floats a (Tag inscribed, “Protection, Harrison and Morton.” The flag shows which way the wind blows in Paterson, a thriving community built up by protection against foreign silk. —Boston Trartsciipt. If Gen. Harrison’s speeches thus far do »not belie him, his ability and public, worth, which aro almost invariably the concomitants of personal diffidence, are to prove moropositive qualities than tho general public has yet begun to suspect.--Mil-waukee Wisconsin. ' While it is true that Levi P. Morton “■ contributed a shipload.of provisions to the famishing people of Ireland, it must not be overlooked that Grover Cleveland is, also, a generous, impulsive man. He gave $25 to the Charleston earthquake ■sufferers.—St. Paul Pioneer Press. Grover Cleveland's substitute, if he

were alive, would vote for Gen. Harrison, but Cleveland let hiiu die iu the poor house aud has never expressed any regrets over his brutal treatment of him either. He Still owes bis substitute $l5O, according to the latter’s statement just before ho died. —Detroit Tribune. A Democratic paper nslts: ‘' What do the working men of tho United States think of the fact that Harrison is the friend of the Chinese?” The question as it is put is not true, but it suggests one that is true: What do the working men of the United States think of a party whose success at the polls is eagerly desired by the manufacturers of England?—New York - Tribuns. • .. . >