Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-04-28


Hoee bv less than i, 900; Dickinson by
I 1900; Meeker by 1,4oo; Wilson by9,ooo' Il
! and Amber by less than 5000" So, also, 3
n New York, he finds eight more districts, g
doubtful enough, for his Free Trade expert . .
ment. General Van Wyck +" holds his seat
Sc by but 400 majority; Ketchum by 800;
" Mayham by 2,7Oo; Tanner by 2,4ooi h
g Ferris by 2,100; Sanford by 2, lo0,; Bailey
T" by 1900; and Bennett by 1000. Judge {
" Davis, too, good man in many ways,
4" ought TO be more active than they for rev. !
/" enuc reform, or his majority of 5000 may I
:" be turned against him." He proceeds
also to denounce Honest John Hill, of the
9TH New Jersey district, as well as MIR.
Haight, (Dem.) from the Trenton, ('d) dis
trict, and he finally states that:-
$50 far as l know, the determination of
pleading revenue reformers is to support
"no men for Congress neat Fail soho are
s'not distinctly pledgsd to this cause, and
'' to insist that the parties Nth ,0hich
"they act shall make a revenue reform
"platfoyYn. There is reason to believe |
g that the Democrats in most of the states,
"except Pennsylvania, will place them
SELVES very squarely on this issue, and Re-
publican politicians and platform makers
"will do well to take notice of this fact"
This is fair warning to the Republicans of
the country, that Mr.. Nordhoff is bent upon
dangerous and violent courses MIR. Nord-
hoff and his Ring are going to do their level
worst. They have set out upon guerilla
campaign. The New York Evening Post,
the Nation, the Chicago Tribune, and pos
sibly one or two other newspapers, intend
to drive the Republican party; to break
down such men as Robert q. Schenck, John
A. Bingham, William Lawrence, Noah Da-
Wis, and John Hill, and rather elect their
Democratic opponents than they, simply be-
, cause they vote in Congress to put duties on
foreign goods,i in order to protect our Amer
| lean workmen. Mr.. Nordhoff is polite
enough-these fellows of the Nation stripe
are stern sticklers for the mostperfect polite
ness, and keen critics Of departure from
A tito say that 'Echenck and Bingham
i arc "theleade in the Protection robbery
: ''of the people, adding, indeed, that If the
Republican party becomes the party of "rob-
berry" that is of Protection, :" it must cx-
i "pect defeat" s
: Now, it isto be remembered that the Re-
publican party has never defined its position
= as national organization, on the question
! OF Protection, although it has been the par
u ent of all the Tariff laws since that of Mr.
, Morrill,, in 1861. But its members are yer.
largely the friends OF Protection, convinced
: of the necessity of discriminating in favo
a. of our home industries. They have consent
ii ed to silence on the subject, in Nationa
= conventions, or to such vague and genera
IA expressions as that in the platform of 1860
i. purely for the purpose of concilating, !
No the face of terrible national perils, the Ere
. Trade wing of the party. That wing ha
4 always been a light, thougha very noisy one
j and now it attempts to bully the party, all
follow in the believing course Of the South
OIL ern whip-crackers, who used to cry out tn,
m. they would destroy the Union, if they wei
m not allowed their own will inside of it. Lk
on Toombs and Keitt, these "reyenue reform
lal ers"-save the mark will destroy the pa
to ty, if they are not Immediately placed
- control Of it.
iis We are giving, perhaps, too much atte
OF ton to trifling matter. We are dignifyii
cal few conspirators too much. In represer
icb ing them as imitators of Toombs and Kei
md we may be placing them too high In Il
ID scale Of Importance. But it is as well
re- speak plainly in regard to this most insu
ans ing demonstration. These men, be tn
we few or many, have resolved that to the
W. Free Trade is the highest object, and
ter- it, they will disregard all party ties and OBJ
nts cations, as well as all other issues, up
which parties may divide They will ratl
ned throw themselves into the hands of a poll
,ro- cal organization represented by Fernan
of Wood, John Morrisey, Thomas Swami, a
ver Willard Salisbury, than consent to the ell
In, ton to Congress of Republicans who ia,
Protection?
h This is plain talk, and fair undeTstar
ut ing, Without a word more, we say,
are them go. We remember that the Repul
sea can party came into existence to resist Sou
try. ern ruflianism, and never in history W,
try any set of bullies more effectually squelch
ded And we believe that if now, the integrity
,an the'party shall be threatened by conspirs
and like this, the great masses of our organi
oos- ton will rise and cast out the diseased me
70 70 bers, as they did Andrew johnson, and
mr.. they did the impeachment ''eleyen." c
d., | family IL will he long hefOre we demon