Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1892 — POWDERLY FOR PROTECTION. [ARTICLE]

POWDERLY FOR PROTECTION.

The Tabor Loader Leaves the Democratic Party. A Wilkesbarre (Pa.) dispatch says: General Master Workman powderly, Labor,AndChanncey Pi Black, president of the State League of Democratie Clubs, met ad the Delaware and Hudson railroad depot fp Hyde Park Mr. Black was tak- . ing the train for his home in York, Pa., after attending the annual convention of the Democratic clubs in Scranton. Powderly grasped the Democratic statesman warmly by the . hand and said: “Can you tell me where Cleveland stands on the tariff?" Mr, Black replied, “That’s more than 1 can tell, although if yon ashed where I stood I would he able to tell yo»J* .' “I tell you what,” B&id Powderly, “1 don’t think lie knows where he stands. Ha is at sea. 1 used to admire that jpm, hut since his meddlesome, tnterrereince with the' kilter question I have lost confidence in him. As tietween the Republican and Democratic parties I am a Republican this time.” The stand Powderly takes will Create a sensation in labor circles. He has always been a Democrat. The Cleveland administration of the public land office charged fraud against hundreds, of thousands Of honest homesteaders In the west, hang up entries upon millions of acres and went out of offioe leaving 350,953 applications and entries wnaetmt-npan. -The Harrison admipistratlon has acted upon ail of these and tins many thousands which have siaee been presented, issuing patents for 65,000,00® acres against 86,000.000 acres patented by Cleveland’s administration in the same length of time. ; G ‘