The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1879-12-18
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|E,D AN ADVOCATE OF
REE TRADE"
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" ID. show that General Garfield
X protectionists that in fact he is at
Cart in favor of free trade, agreeing
With the Cincinpati Commercial, Ghicago
TTbtq,s, MY Evening Po5i, anRother
Radical journals.
The Republican papers in Stark county
and geaerally over the State are bowling
protection orgshs. These papers delight
.tohowl ut Democrats as " free traders,
when ell that Democrats advocate is a
just tariff Of duties levied with a.yiew to
revenue, as the Constitution requires.
II 10 not a littls surprising to see those
protection organs so ardently in favor ol
putting General Garfield in the United
States Senate. Equally astonishing is ii
to see such howlers for protection as Mr.
Hartshorn, T. G. Snyder and Conrad
ready to elect Garfield, the "free trader"
These men surely have little or no re-
gard for consistency; and the journals
referred to need no longer hold up Fer
nando Wood to obloquy.
According to the following article that
appeared in the Columbus Dispatch oi
last week, Republican paper, Mr.. Gar
field has been several times published as
ian honorary member of the Golden
Club of New York." free trade arrange
ment. We give the article entire, that
our Republican readers especially, may
read and take notice.
GARFIELD AND THE LABoRING GLASSES.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Much has been said by the press and
others about who should be the next U.
s, Senator from Ohio, and with no desire
to prejudice the mind of any one, for or
against any one of the candidates named
simply want to ask those who are ad-
voCaiing the election of General Garfield,
if such an act would be consistent with
the course of the Republican party dur
ing the last campaign Il was then boldly
asserted, and claimed by the advocates OF
the party, that protection to American
industries was one the principles which
gave them a claim to the votes of the la.
boring class, aud two of their prominent
speakers Irish AmeriCans) we're engaged
almost exclusively in establishing Tariff
Leagues all over the State, selected doubt
less as the most suitable persons to show
to their countrymen the necessity of sup
porting the Republican party, as the only
means by which they could cripple the
government of England, by preventing
the importation of articles, VIII ch, with
proper protection, can be made mere, and
thus employ the idle labor of our own
country.
Now it is proposed to elect a man SEN
ator who is we'll known as an advocate
o. Free Trade; whose name has several
times been published as "an honorary
member of the Golden Club of New
York, an institution which is we'll known
to every iron and steel manufacturer at
least, as the motive power, Intellectually
and financially, of the Free Trade party
of this country. AS further evidence
of Mr.. Garfeld's position on this import
ant question, fail to find, after the most
diligentsearch, one single vote of his dur.
ing his long Congressional career, in IA
vor of protective tariff.
This being the case, l ask, can the Re.
publican party afford to elect such man
as their representative in the US, Senatef
SELAH.
COLUMBUS, Dec. II, 1875.