Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — Two Republican Views. [ARTICLE]

Two Republican Views.

Two leading Republicans have just expressed certain views about the tariff question which are significant. Senator Hale, of Maine, has givon his views as to the part the tariff will play in the next national campaign. “It will bo impossible,” he said, “to keep the tariff from being one of the leading issues of the campaign, because if no general tariff law is reported in the House and no fight is made to remodel the entire law, some changes will be suggested and probably attempted. The people "will expect this, and the tariff questions will be constantly under discussion by the masses." The other Republican is the now defunct Ingalls, who has been visiting Boston, and has stated to a Republican paper there the attitude of Western Republicans on the tariff question. He shows that a great change has come over the dream of Republican prospects in the West The ex-Senator said: “The views of Western Republicans, or those who have hitherto been identified with the Republican party, have undergone an essential change on the tariff question, and among such there is now a demand for tariff revision and reduction. They regard the present system as inequitable and as favoring the manufacturer and the merchant more than the producer! and the consumer. In their estimation the tariff question follows the

silver issue in consequence and Importance. 1 “Reciprocity is regarded in the West with favor, but there is no enthusiasm over it It is regarded very largely as a device of. politicians intended to distract people from me real issues in which they are interested. It has no great political significance at present ”