New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-11-10
The Revelation of 1916.

e,onnecticnt. Vermont. HhodeIsland, New-JerseyJ
Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia Ken
.ucky and Ohio--eeven in all, entitled to cast lo2
Electoral votes--in any manner adhered 10 the
Wing standard. OF these, New.Jersey, Maryland
North Carolina and Georgia, together casting thi-
tvcieht Electoral Votes, were confidently cialined
and BY no means without plausible reasons as eIth
er friendly to the New Administration or al any
rste giving no majority against 1t on the popular
.n.e Thus we babe adieu to le45.
THE wear 1886 has witnessed the development OF
ia nolicv BY the Federal Administration, backed
BY very strong majontes in the two Houses OF Con
eress. respectively. The Annexation oil Texas has
been contaminated; the claim that said Texas
rightfuly extends to the Rio Grande has been
adopted and enforced by-.nr rulers; War has been
made upon Mexico in pursuance thereof her terri
tory invaded, and her armies discounted the Sub
Treasury has been enacted; the Tariff OF le42 has
been broken down and one avowedly antI.Protec-
tive enacted in its steadn short the principles OF
james K Polk and his advisers have been carried
into effect. The People have witnessed all these
things, have considered them, and passed upon
them What is the general result
CONNECTICUT, by minority vote, obtained
through the direct influence OF Rum has chosen
Loco Foco State Officers but plurality Of several
hundreds md an aggregate majority Of several
thousands declare her still emphatcaly hostile to
the Federal Executive and his course The more
reeen. Town Elections have shown that the &c
,sidental ascendency which made Mr. Toucey Gov
ernor has long since evaporated. GEORGIA has
elected balanced Delegation TO Congress by
balanced pSpular vote, showing decided Wing
gain since 1914, and no material change since ls45
@On the other hand, VERMONT, RHODE ISLAND,
NRw.JERsEY, NORTH CAROLINA, MARYLASD and
KENTUCKY are still Wing by increased and power
full naiorities, and ONO is undisputably Wing j,
while New. HAMPSHIRE, MAINE, PENNSYLVANIA,
FLORIDA and NEw.YoRK, casting sereaty-egM
Electoral Votes have declared for the Wing Cause
usually by very decisive majonties, and we hope
MICHIGAN is preparing to join them. S not this an
extraordinary change to take place during the
earlier half of new Administration
Is it not plainly preposterous to assert with grave
face that this revolution proves nothng-at any
rate nothing unfavorable to the President leading
measures How could their unpopularity be
eyinced il it has not now been Suppose the
People had really, coniessedy undertaken to con,
denim the powers that be, how could they have
done it more clearly and emphaticslly than they
done How absurd to pretend that local consd-
srations have produced SO general rout
But says the Epcniag Post, the New Tariff,
at any rate, is not condemned-thst not involved
in the controversy, for the Wings have fought shy
of the issue Of Protection or Free-Trade We
appeal from this bold assertion to notorious facts
Have not the Wing Party and Press every where
denounced the Tariff of 1916 Have we not OBJ
jecsed alike to its principle and its details What
question has been directly and prominently before
the People if this has not 2
For our own part we are sure that FIVE have
not discussed and taken issue upon the Tariff OF 10
and the principles which undere 1t, II is because
we cannot We have discussed the Tariff question
more frequently, deliberately and at far greater
length than any other. We have called upon the
People to rise in Judgment against the President
for his anti. Protective policy more earnestly than
for any other cause, So with the Wing Press gene
rally On the other hand we have been reviled
without stint by the journals OF the opposing party
us the mere instruments Of the wealthy manuac-
eurers, and have been tauntingly told not merely
that no Protective Tariff should again be
enacted but that if we did not stop clamor the
duties should be taken of altogether, the Govern.
ment supporting itself by Direct Taxation. and our
external policy being confcrmed to the basis OF abso.
lutte FreeTrade We have been represented as
beggsrs for the Manufacturers rather impudent
extortors of Black Mail in their behslE-At length
the Elections take place and the authors OF these
great swelling words VANITY are rolled IN the
dust State after State turns against them until
FROM the Sabine to the Potomac and the Maumee
they have not a foot OF ground that they may cal
their own Can they make any body believe that
the Tariff has had no part in this tornado
But this verdict has been rendered in defiance of
Influences enlinently calculated to confuse and
rnislead the public mind The unprecedented
failure of the Harests throughout Europe has car.
red up the demand for and price OF our Produce TO
an extent no, at all anticipated. Probably one,
third of the usual supply OF Food for Two Hundred
Millions of People has been withheld, creating an
extraordinary demand tor the Food OF Sixty to Sew,
snty Millions Of People, This has naturally en-,
HANGED the price of our Agricultural Products and
the Farmers have been sedulously taught 10 attn.
butte the riseto the operation of the Tariff of lS46
and 90 anticipate like prices hencefrth that Tariff
shall be sustained, Goods have been chesp this
season, as we Tariff men have slways insisted they
would be- after the Tariff Of ls49 had had ample
time 10 make itself felt in oil the departments OF
American Industry and though :he New Tariff
Aas not yet taken eject save IN contracting the
operations of some Of workshops in view OF the
approaching charge yet the low prices, of certain
fabrics are boldly attributed also 20 the Statesman
shp Of Walker and Mckay,
YET, in the face of all these the People are very
generally keeping at home the disciples OF Mckay
and Walker and sending to Congress Protective
Tariff men instead, isnos the meaning OF this en-
trely beyond misspp rehensicaf
Missouri.
An election was he'd in Missouri on the Sis,
uls. tor Member Of Congress, to supply the va.
cancy occssicned BY the resignation Of Hon. S,sr.