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Show Republican, but they preceded Mr. McVeigh Mc-Veigh in to the Democratic party by-eight by-eight years. Way.se McVeigh never had and has uot to-day a personal following or a large influence. We believe he has always been a tariff reformer at heart. We will not say that he has left the Republican party because it has steadfastly stead-fastly refused togive him an office in recent years, but it is a fact that no office has been tendered him and. it may be that he felt lonesome. His conversion to free trade is not important. There will be one thousand woikinQrmeii who will join the party that lights for high wages and ample employment where there is one aristocratic aristo-cratic lawyer who joins the fashionable Mugwump crowd in tha large cities of the East. WAYNE M'VEICH. 1 Wayne McVeigh of Tennsylvania, I attorney general in the cabinet of Gak-V' Gak-V' ' Iikid, has declared his intention of roticg for Cleveland, a campaign incident in-cident of which the Democratic press vill make much in a year when conversions conver-sions to the free trade theory are few and far between. Mr. McVeigh is a man of high character char-acter and considerable ability. He has, however, always been counted as a luke-warm Republican and a man of iroaouaced independent tendencies. A.s long ago as twelve years, when Garfield called him to a place in his satinet, there was Fbarp criticism of ls Sepublicanism by those who knew biin best, and the most favorable com-tuents com-tuents on his appointment came from tewspapers like the New York Evening t'ost and the Boston Herald. Those Itwspapers were thea claiming to bo |