The daily gazette., 1880-10-20
SECOND EDITION
AN IRON MANS VIEWS.

MANUFACTURER WHO DOES NOT
THINK HANCOCK WILL RUIN BUsI-
NESS.
Special TO the Times.
HARRISBURG, October 18.
There will appear in the Harrisburg
Patriot to morrow letter from Colo
mel Henry Mccormick, one of the
largest iron manufacturers in the
State, in favor of the election of Gen.
Hancock. Colonel cCormick is con-
nected with the Paxton Rolling Mill,
the two Paxton Furnaces, Lochiel
Rolling Mill, and the Harrisburg Nail
Works, located at Fairview, a few
miles from this city. He is noted for
his political Independence. The fol-
owing letter will explain itself:
HARRISBURG, October 1S, 1880.
B. +. MEYERS, Esq.
DEAR SIR:-Yours of the 10th is
received. You are right in your in
ference that do not think business
interests will be in any way imperiled
by the election of General Hancock
I he efforts TO create a panic in bust
ness circles are mainly based upon al
legged danger to industrial interests
dependent more or less upon the tariff.
Now, if the Presidential election has
any bearing at all upon the question
il finitely prefer Hancock, born and
bred in the valley of the Schuylkill,
amid mines and furnaces, in a COM
munity where all parties are a unit on
the tariff question and whose only
published utterances on the subject
should be entirely satisfactory to
Pennsylvanians, to Garfield, member
of that famous free trade club, "The
Cobden," whose tariff record was so
odious to Pennsylvania Republican
members of Congress that they bolted
his nomination in caucus for Speaker
of the House, and who is supported as
champion of reve iue reform by the
great free trade organs of New York
and Chicago. But we are referred to
party platforms. They are only traps
"set to catch gudgeons. They are
only framed to be misunderstood.
When has the dominant party regard
Ell them in Legislation? For example, l
may here refer to highly-polishej
plank that has served in more than one
Republican platform. 1 mean that OF
| "civil service REFORM" so much preach
ed and so little practiced by the party
But the real power of regulating the tar.
iff devolves upon Congress. The nres
ent Congress is Democratic in both
branches, and why has not the threaten
ell ruin already paralized our industries
II the country can survive and thrive
under Democratic Congress two years
why not longer? A Presidential veto
has no power to prevent the passage o.
any measure through Congress, and v
have right to suppose that If the Dem
ocratic party as such united upon an,
modification of the tariff they woult
have adopted one. Bnt the fact is 1t
generally conceded, except for cam
paign purposes, that the trriff is n,
longer party question, and it is almos
sure during the present Congress to b.
submitted TO the hands of commission
of experts for the preparation of /,
measure that will be just to all interests
This will be:done by common consent O
men of all parties after election. Fo
the above reasons l have no fear tha
Democratic success in November nee'
disturb the equanlmity of the most al
dent protectionlst.
Again, the Republican party prett NJ
to claim credit for the general prosper
ty of the country. Is not the legIsla
tive branch of government Democratic
Surely 1t is more powerful for good o
i'll to the public credit and welfare thai
the executive department, and is in
great measure responsible for improve,
credit and enforced economy. The Re
publican administration deserve n
credit for resumption of specie payments
II was merely done in obedience t
law passed years before and against tn
, protest of the most powerful wing {
the party A happy conjunction of al
. cidents (over which party would scarcel
claim controD rendered resumption
success and has thus far enabled us +
continue it, Foreign war, wasting III
grain fields of Europe, our bountifu
crops and improvements In transports
tion have brought gold here in abund
auce and make it easy for us to pay /
specie. Knowing we'll the conservativ
character and tendencies of Genera
Hancock, feel confident that the intel
ests of labor, capital and the whole re
united States would be subserved b.
his election to the Presidency.
Yours respectfully,
HENRY MCCORMICK.