Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1894 — THE CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

THE CAMPAIGN.

P* ■ • ■J ■ • - • r Spring Storms Have Passed, Behold the Cyclone Cometh, IHK ll.ee datPittsburg. Ohieago interbce®ir= The Americus Republican -Club of Pittsburg, has made the nation its , debtor by giving an opportunity to ; Mr. Reed, who always will be “Tom i Reed,” even as Mr. Lincoln always will be “Abe Lincoln’’ in the thoughts and memories of the people. Mr. Reed is not the kind of a man Avho-permits a great opportunity’ to pass unimproved. And the opportunity (ff Friday was improved by him to the uttermost. “Here,” in substance : .said Mr. 1 Reed, “is a country made! rich by nature, needing only the efforts of; associated man to develop its riches: 1 a country, also, in which the voice, of the people is heard more, plainly and their power’ felt more quickly Iha n else whe re, -The r ic.h esof t-h-is country have been developed to a wonderful degree under a policy of protection. Their development now is checked by threats of abandonment of that policy. The people, having seen and felt the sad results of such a check, have spoken in Rhode Island, in Ohio, in Pennsylvania. in Massachusetts, andfo-avery city and town where elections have been held. Their voices have, been all but unanimous in condemnation of Democratic policy. Yet, in defiance of these expressions of opinion from the Pacific States, -where Colorado held .. sqfty-§jx„_e!evtions and. gave but one Democratic victory, from the middle-States and the Atlantic shore, Congress, which, .professes to represent the people, Weerps steadily at its work of destruction of American industries. The committees charged with framing tariff leg-isrationliavei-efuLedto receive ga tious -of ■- American wage- earners and of American employers of labor, but have welcomed deputations of alien residents who are agents of alien manufacturers.” What th is nat io:) n peds is. as Mr. Reed, well says, “not repressive, but developing statesmanship. What we need now is that the doctrine shall be firmly’ established that whatever happens this country is to do its own work. When that- once is fixed in our minds all details of. tariff will be easy of arrangement.”. We -hold that the whole body of political: economy as ap; >li c a ide to the Un it e d States of America is comprised in these pregnant words. He is a bad manager of private finance who employs others to do what his own force can do Rs well and as cheaply. And cheaply is a relative word; $lO is a cheaper price to him whose pay is $25 per week than $5 is to him whose pay is $lO. So long as th«,i wage fund is kept relatively higher than the difference between wages and the host of living here and elsewhere, so long the prosperity of “this country will be pre-eminent. It is frAt receding from pre-ei.iinenee because of the probability of abrogation of the policy that has created and maintained a large wage fund. The en thusiastic reception, of r M 1- - Reed at Pittsburg and the interest of the country’ in his masterly speech is the latest of many cheering assurances of the return of popular sentiment to its old chaiHfot~r The Third Tariff Bill. Indianapolis Journal. Ten days ago Mr. Aldrich announced in the Senate that a compromise tariff bill was being formulated outside of the finance committee of the Senate, which would insure the support of every Democrat in that body. Thereupon Senator Harris protested, and Senator Voorhees rose before the country and d.?elared upon his honor that he had no knowledge of anything of tba sort. Then the statement of the framing of an outside bill as a compromise measure appeared in the newspapers, and when Mr. Hale called attention to it he was asked if any Senator was so dull as to believe newspaper reports. Next came the interview of Secretary’ Carlisle, who seems to have parted with all discretion, in which he innocently declared that he was taking a hand in the shaping of the features of a bill which would unite the Democrats. It was when -Senator Aldrich called attention to this interview that Senator Turpie was, in the “condition’

to say thin gs he would not if he had been normal. The next day the correspondents ascertained that- Col. Tichenot, general appraiser. - a Re j publican, was engaged in a back room of the - Treasury Department, formulating, under The direction of The- Sonators-Briee; _ Gorman and others, a compromise tariff bilk Yesterday, after all these denials, after the dramatic, if not solemn” asservations of Senator Voorhees and other Senators, the Democratic caucus chairman announced that “the Democratic Senators would meet imthe marble room at 4 o’clock to consider the compromise tariff bill.” Here that which had been de-. ni-»d with wrath was openly admittod to be true. Senators Aldrich. Hale and others wereYigHU 5The situation is interesting if not instructive. When the House began with the Wilson bill, three Dem ocratic Senators, led by Mills, made a tariff bill according to the lagtrade theory. but it was condemned' by the revenue experts as impracticable. More than three months ago the Wi 1 son bi 11. which the House had passed, came to the Senate and was referred to the finance committee. It was taken into a private room by the Democrats of that committee, and Mr. Mills was added because he was assumed to know about the matter. Three men worked on it. No man was- - perm illed to know what changes-these men were making, except a; few Democratic Senators and the representatives-: of two Democratic trusts. From week to week Senator Voorhees promised to 'report the bill, which was Being used 1 by speculators to make fortunes. At I length it ,avas reported with. .the. I Sugar Trust and tVhisky Trust j elauses. 11, vvas generaiiv <]enounced [ by the Democratic press as ’ ‘the de- ; filed bill.” Then it was discussed.. and it was found that it could not .be passed. One set of Democratic i ’•kickers” .-had been reconciled. ■ but five or six more would not vote for the Voorhees bill. Then itwas that it was turned over to the kickers to.be so amended that it is. , now a co:n protn ise bilk- Las t week ■ the Republican Senators offered to ' go to a vote cm the origitral—AVflson bill, but the offer was refused.. The ■ Voorhees bill has-been practically ; withdrawn to make room for a bill which will secure the votes of the ■ Eastern Democratic Senators and Mr. Brice. That is, the majority’ of Democrats in the Senate have pra’ctrcally killed two tariff bills'.' Now what of the compromise bill? When Mr. Cleveland ran for Governor of New York, in 1832, he carried every county in the State but six. In the spring elections this year the Republicans carried every county but six. Of thirty-four cities which have heretofore been Democratic strongholds, the Democrats carried, this year, only’ four. As a result of the spring elections the. ■ canvassing boards for the next two ’ years in all but five counties of the ; State will be Republican, thusdnsuring a fair count of the votes cast at ; the State election. Altogether, the ‘ outlook for the Republican party in York has not been so bright in inapy years.—lndianapolis Journal. -: The Journal (lesircs to extend it; . distinguished consideration to one John McHugh, of Tippecanoe. It will be remembered that, believing j the Democratic party to be on the : top of a tidal wave of success, Mr. j McHugh, with the exereise-of much | fiendish diligence and with the sac- | rifiee of what reputation he.had as a ; fair-minded lawmaker, succeeded in I getting through the last Legislature : a bill making the terms of all municj ipal ofiicers four years. The first fruits of this law are now harvested, ‘ and the Republicans have a sure i thing on nearly every municipal I office in Indiana for at least four I years,- —Indianapolis Journal.