Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-10-09
THEsELECTI0Ns IN MARYLAND
now REGARDED.


city is hailed by the organs OF the Admin
lissTallun as 40 evidence that the Tariff o
1912 . unpopular 10 Baltimore. .As j.
well kaowp,R says The Unlsu Of Thurs
day, she siaked his sncc~ss up0n the pop
ulsrity Of the TantF u lSAa With tie REQ.
pie Il Bolt more Thv resuit Is taker
as conclusive on that issue "lh- intel.
lgrn, end patriotic nechauirs Of tbs
Monumental city" says ,he Official pa.
per, 'wno sfe mol 10 Be caught with chat
would sanction neither Mr. Kennedy MOI
his scheme for protecting iii. m BY Jaw
increasing The profits OF uaaufa turing
capital IS wages fail. F."
1t my be that the Union is right IN il:
conclusions. On primd tacie view ol
the matter !, would seem t1al a majority
u the people ol Baltimore have declared
against the Tariff OF 1912. Yet from This
city, 10 ihe year 1912, a memorial went
to Congress IN behalf oil that very measure
signed by more than nine thousand names.
Men known as active pariizans on the
other side, and whose votes on Wednes.
day were cast agains! Mr.. Kennedy,
were then, under the pressure oil the Sc.
we're aiilletIons Of lie Wan Buren, policy
oi nj protection, wiling 10 forget party
allegiance for he time at least, ana to GO
for a measure believed to be essential to
the restoration Of the national prosperity
and to the relief OF their own dislresSes
Now that the period Of suffering has pass
ed, the seventy oil former grievances Is
forgotten. Party will re-. assume iisswav,
BEd under ITS direction blow is struck
st the barrier of protection by the very
hands which aided IN rearing it--by the
very men who are sheltered by it.
Mr.. WETHERED's defeat in the aAjoin,
ing district is also Il matter of exutaiion
"Hls seat in Congress, gays She Union
"will be occupied by Thomas Watkins
Lyon, a democrat elected especially TO ala
in reducing The tariff of 1912 10 the rere
nue. standard = to make the burdens of the
government fall equally upon ali classes
OF our citizens.
Very well. Ifihis be SO. then so be it
As for the cant Of "reveuue standard
aud the phrase Of max ng "1he burdens o
The government fall equally upon all elias
ses OF our citizens, their meaning will b,
better understood when things approach
to starvation standard, and the burden.
OF distress fall equally or uneqnally a.
the Case may be. If, however, The Wings
must go down it cannot be expected tina
/ their measures will stand.
| In the same column of the Union from
which the foregoing quotations are taker
an extract of letter from Shelby coun
| iy, Kentucky, is published. in which thu
writer says: 1.-THE whole country, il
THIS region, begins 10 realize the happy
effects OF making MIR. Polk President
| Confidence has been again restored, mo
ney IS becoming plenty, and business q
all kinds brisk. People have all gone t.
work again"
Now Mr.. Polk has had no opportunity
as yet, to make any changes in the dom
este policy otthe country. The removal,
which he has made from oflices, the CD e
business thus far Of hls internal admins
lratlon, have hardly had tho effect of ad
vancIng the public prosperity by restoring
confidence, causing money to be plenty
and enabling people all TO 60 to work. IL
every mater Of domestic policy his views
and principles are Identical with lhos'
of Mr.. VAN BUREN,. What the results o
the application Of those views and prInc
pies must be, any one may know by refer
ring to the period OF MIR. VAN BUREN's
administration. When Mr.. Polk shall
have subverted all that the country now
enjoys Of Wing measures and Wing poll
cy, and shall have introduced bis own
system, saturated as il, is with Van Buren,
ism, then Will be the time to Judge of the
results Of his election. That time We fear
will come too soon. --Bah. Amer.