Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1891 — WAITING FOR A CHANGE. [ARTICLE]

WAITING FOR A CHANGE.

Reciprocity with Canada Not Possible with Tories in PowerSeveral Liberal* visit Washington to Lear* the CauM<of Delay in Negotiation*. Several of Canada’s public men art quietly dropping into Washington with a view to ascertaining why it was that th* reciprocity conference set for Oct. 12, was so suddenly dropped. The prevailing Opinion among them is that our authorities believe there is no real desire to have any conference with the present Tory government of Canada, and that we are waiting a change of party power in Canada This is the second conference which has been declared off, and the Canadian visitors want to find out if there is not som« underlying cause for these repeated fail* ures. Thomas P. Gorman, editor of ths Ottawa Free Press, is among the visitors* He called at the White House Friday and had a ten minutes’ talk with. the Preaiv dent concerning the cause of delay and the attitude of the government toward Canada. The President assured Mr. Gorman that there was nothing in the post.* ponement further than that it was no convenient to discuss the question at the present time. He had only good things to say of our northern neighbors, and in a general way expressed the hope that mors cordial relations would be established between the two countries. Nothwithstanding this assurance. Mr, Gorman and his associates believe tha* the anti-character of the Tory party now in power in Canada is the real cause of the failure to secure a conference. The ministers who have succeeded Sir *John McDonaldentertain the bigoted animostity hgainst the United States which has long characterized thfi’ Tory party of Canada and the mother country, It is the remnant of the royal stock which antedates Mie revolution. Public-opinion in Canada has forced the Tory ministers to adopt a pretense of reciprocity, but it offends their loyalist views and is merely a surface effort toward kindly relations with this country. The President and Mr. Blaine appreciate this and are waiting for the Tories to be turned out, as is confidently expected by public men here. With a Liberal government in power pledged to cordial relations with the United States, there will be little difficulty in having the President and Mr. Blaine arrange a conference with the Canadians. Mr. Gorman and his associates who are here, are among the most conspicuous Liberals of Canada. They have not only talked with the President, but with Senator Morgan, Roger Q. Mills and other Democratic leaders. On all hands the ex-: pression is general that the fall of the old Tory bigots in Canada will remove the last obstacle in the vyay of extended trade relations between the tiVo countries.