New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-08-17

cans have for years carried the elections by large
orities the same cry has gone forth. The Cereidnd
Herald warns the Proteotonss that Ia necessary for
them TO rerace their steps that the great OF dis
ubance the ranks OF the party the Thrift that the
question becoming sectional and that 1t must DO set
tied satisfactory to the West or the Repub-
hoan party will DO seriously damaged The Chicago
Tribune takes similar ground; and 80 great tho camor
for relief throughout the whole Of the graingrowins
States that THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE Ia forced to suggest
that the Republicans shall not make support OF the pres
ent Tariff party test but shall agree TO disagree on lns
particular subject while still working together 70 main
tain the integrity Of the party, and supporting us can
didates ,,,
TO accept any such advice They regard low iarin rs
OF vital Importance to the interests OF their section and
they endeavorng to make this ISSUE
at the approaching elections
Comments By The Tribune.
This TRIBUNE has ever held one position on
| the Tariff questiOn-that which afiirms the
equal and perfect right of each Republican TO
favor Protection or Frs Trade as his own
convictions shall dictate The Republican
party was founded on that basis, and has hved
and aourished by firmly adhering thereto
Whenever it shall compel all who follow us
standard to be PrOtectonists, or TO De free
Traders. it will have changed its base, ana be-
come a different party from that when sup
ported Fremont and elected Lincoln ana UranC-
Those who. claiming to be Republicans, IN
sist that Republicans shall be Free raders'
may not mean to insult us who are llfe-long
Protectionists. but they do just that. They
virtually saw TO us, "Stand by thyself: am
holier than thou"
That claim cannot be admitted. Our con-
victiops are as dear to us as theirs can be 10
IArAH
more enlightened than we are. the Free TRADERS
NAV possibly be-though the divorce OF merit
from modesty in their case must be quite remark
able-but they are neither more honest nor more
DISTINGUISHED than the rest of us; and their at
tempt to stigmatize us a. mOnOpoi1sts, &C.
co,npeIs us TO give notice that we hold our
opipions as firmly, and shall proclaim them IA
freely. "a they are at perfect liberty to hold
and proclaim theirs; that we shall not apolo-
gize, nor equivOcate. nor humble, nor speak
with bated breath, but bear PROTECTION TO
HOME INDUSTRY proudly on our banners, and
ask the People to conide in and stand by us
because we do 40. No Free-Trader can have
a better right to cherish and justify his con-
victions inside of the Republican party than
we have to glory in and stand up Tor the
doctrine of Protection, as 1t was commended
by all the great men of our c0untrys
purer and nobler err, from Washington
Hamilton and Madison down to Henry
Clay, Daniel Webster lin his ripper years.,
Hezekiah Niles, II. C.. Mallary, Walter For
ward Matthew Carey, George Evans, &c. III
the Free Traders mean to divide and defeat
the Republican party, they have only to insist
that it shall adopt the Political Economy OF
Calhoun, John Randolph, McDuffe, Duff Green,
and every eminent champion of the Slavery
Propaganda throughout the last half-century.
If they do not mean that, they will not per-
nit themselves to be misled by The Eren'ng
Post into imposing their Shibboleth upon those
who reject and loathe it. We have always
voted, and urged all Republicans to vote Tor
the Republican candidates irrespective OF their
views of the Tariff question when Free trade
Republicans see fit to prescribe Republican
Protectionists and refuse to vote for theh'
they simply proclaim that, so far az they can
decide it, there is no more Republican
party or shall be none. But we do not believe
the great majority of them disposed to take
any such position. They have faith In the
Republican organzatiOn-in the good that IL
will do as well as in that which it has done
and are not disposed to distract and destroy it.
The Post is simply repeating its bolt OF 1866,
when it followed and sustained Andrew john
son until compelled to retract its steps by the
indignant remOnstrances of the great body OF
its patrons. 1t will probably now succeed IN
getting clear over into the Democratic fold,
where its heart has been 80 long.
The pretense that "the Western Repubi-
"cans" are all Free Traders is cOntradlcted
by a thousand facts. A majority of the Repub-
lican United States Senators, and we think
also of the Representatives in Congress, from
the States west of the Ohio, are PrOtectionists.
The West voted nearly solid for Protection in
1924 and 1928, when New England voted the
other way; it gave majority also for the
Protective Tariffs of 1912 and 1861. 1t was TAR
more exclusively Agricultural in 1924, when
Gen. jackson, Col Benton a. Co. voted in its
behalf for Protection, than it ia to-day and
the fact that it ,cas so thoroughly Agricultural
was urged by Gen. jackson as his chief reason
for urging the Protection especially of Home
Manufactures (See his letter to Dr. COleman.)
Three or four Western journals may have I'M
dergOne peculiar conversion, but the Mill
lions whom Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln,
and their cOmpatriots educated in the faith of
Protection, have not fallen away from it, as
the sequel will prove
OUR NATIONAL DOTHEBOYS HAIL.