The Campaign A Scathing Review of Republican Tax Record
A fiery speech denounces twenty seven years of Republican fiscal policy as a conspiracy against labor. It claims legal-tender currency manipulation, bondholder gains, and massive war-time taxes shifted to workers, plus tariffs that protected monopolies and harmed labor. It denounces Harrison and party leaders, and ties unions to anti-Republican sentiment.
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Republican Party
United States
Annals of Nations
Thaddeus Stevens
Wall Street
Heaven
Earth
Hell
Indiana
Ohio
Oliver P. Morton
John Sherman
Mississippi Valley
Democratic Party
Europe
Reublican Party
Richmond
Gulf
United States Treasury
Indiana Republicans Try To Pack State Labor Convention
An Indianapolis telegram reports the State federation of trades and labor unions met with Republicans seeking to influence delegates to Harrison and Morton. Chairman Huston issued secret circulars to push pro Republican delegates into the convention amid tariff and labor debates.
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Indianapolis
State Federation of Trades and Labor Unions
Harrison and
Morton
Huston
Republican State Central Committee
A Tariff Tax Review on 1887 Import Duties and Effects
A Grand Rapids Democrat reprint analyzes tariff taxes, listing import values, duties, and duty per dollar for items such as horses, diamonds, tea, coffee, logging, coal, silk, and more. The piece argues the tariff benefits Republicans while condemning cheap whisky, oleomargarine, and currency repeal.
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Doess
Republican Party
Michigan
Commissioner of Labor
Saginaw
Liverpool
A. R. Spofford
Librarian of Congress
Sandwich Island
New Jersey Outlook Favours Democrats Says Abbott
Leon Abbott former Governor of New Jersey predicts a Democratic edge in the state with Prohibition votes strong in South Jersey counties and expects the Democrats to win by 5 000 to 8 000. He notes the same candidate as in prior campaigns and cites Prohibition support as a key factor.
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Leon Abbott
New Jersey
South Jersey
Camden
New York Telegram
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