New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-21

| speech illustrate the determined and cour-
ageous spirit with which the Republican party
| is now moving upon the cneny's works. 1t
will strengthen that spirit, and will make
votes.
HANCOCK And MS PATTY on THE THRIFT.
General Hancock pretends that the tariff is
" a local ISSUE" which, he thinks, was brought
q I'D once in my native place in Pennsylvania,
and with which "the General Government sell
| dom CAFES to interferen In his formal letter,
nevertheless, he declares, 1" | am too sound IN
[" American TO advocate any departure from the
general features OF policy that has been
| "largely instrumental in building up our indus
. tries and keeping Americans from the com
| "petition Of the unde paid labor OF Europe"
If TIL, is his belief, why did he pretend
that the tariff was mere local issue, with
which the Government seldom cares to inter
f,re2 And if either is his real belief, by what
name can we politely describe the declaration, i'll
his letter of acceptance. that he heartily APP
proved the principles enunciated Y For that
Convention, as one OF those principles, declared
in favor of "a tariff for revenue only" 1t is
not pleasant to apply harsh language to the can
didate of a great party Tor the highest Office in
whole campaign in heaping the most warton
! and brutality slanderOus viiiticatiOn upon his
distinguished and brilliant opponent. But it is
the plain truth that General Hncocks IAN
euage on the tariff will no longer admit OF Il
charitable construction. At first 1t might have
been thought merely stupid. Now it is evil
| IDENTIFY meant to deceive.
The present taIfi-the "policy that has been
| largely Instrumental in building up our IN
dust!ies came into existence with the pas
sage of the Morrill, GaIll, March =. 1861.
Every Democratic vote il the Senate save one,
thai of Mr.. Bielcr Of PcnnSy lvania, was cast
| against this BILL and of the twenty five votes
for IT, twplity-four were cast by Republicans.
ON the. test vote in the House, 102 votes we've
cast for tie bill nnety-siX bv Republicans, with
those of AudIan, Moore and Nelson, Amer-
cans; Stokes. Wing; Hickman, Douglas Dem
ocrat; and Florence, Democrat. Every vote
AGAINST the bill, foIty-three in numbtr, was
| cast by Democrat. except those OF Brabs0n,
! Southern Wing, and Quarlcs and Hatton,
| Southern Americans, who Immediately became
| Confederate Democrats, and that OF +. +.
| Srinner, Republican. Thus, counting men with
| the pIitIes with which they subsequently acted,
ngcty-nin Republicans voted Tor the establish
mcpt of the protective system, and only one
! against it, while fOrty-twO Democrats voted
| against il. AMI only one for it, This, ii is i'm
portant to remember was before the war
| began. before any war-tarif was needed or con-
templatcd, and was distinct change OF policy
from tire Democratic free trade tariff of Sj7 TO
tbe pro.ceuve policy of discriminating duties
Tits change the Rcpnbh"an party had distinctly
| -, MIA nG
creded to make as soon MS it gained the power
and made it against the votes OF nearly every
| Democrat
As the parties STOOD then respecting the
| establishment of the protective system, so they
! have stood, without any impoita an change, rs
! to every subsequent increase OF readJu>iment OF
! dutic, 10 make the protection more elective.
| Gre war tariff of August, 1861, was passed with
forty Democratic and only eight Republican
votes agqinst it., willie all but two or three of
! the eighty. Two votes in its favor were cast by
| Republicans. IN the Senate, thirtythee votes
we've cast for tie bin by Republicans GncInding
as Republican Andrew Johns0n), and only
| one by n Democrat, Mr.. McDoucal, while every
| vote against the bill was cast by Democrat.
| Among those VINO opposed TINS measure were
breckenridge, Bright, Salisbury, Allen, Cox,
| English Holman, PcndlctOn, Rollins, Nailan-
| digham, and WO0d-in short, all the conSpic-
nous Democratic leaders. Again, tie act OF
| December 1861, was violently opposed by Val
! landgham, but By few Others except ms
| friends. The improved act of July, 1862, and
tbe act of 1868 were passed almost wholly by
! Republican votes and the act o. 1861. though
savagely opposed because of lis protective
character by Fernando Wood and 5. $. Cox,
Holman. Pendlelon, and other Democratic
leaders. WAS passed with scarcely Republican
| vote against il, and scarcely Democratic vote
in its favor ia either House. SO in 1865, the
motion to kill the bill in March was made by
Mr.. Cox, and supported by Allen, Brooks, FL,
bridge. English, Holman, Herman of New York,
| Morrison, Voorhees,, and II. Wood OF New
York, and nearly al the other Democrats who
voted at al, while hardly a Democratic vote
was cast Tor TIE bill.
The very important bills passed in 1866 and
1867. which include the whole existing tariff
on wool and wocllen goods, v ere both passed
without a single Democratic vote for Them in
eithe! H.use. On the act OF 1866, the vote III
| the House w0s eighty-seven ayes, all by Repub-
| licans AGAINST thirty -si@ nays, OF which twenty
| one were cas-; by Democrats. Ga the act of
| 1867. the thiTty-ODe ayes IN the Senate were all
cast by Republicans, and every Democratic vote
cast was against the bill. In the House no test
vote was had Thus far, it will be seen, the
Democrats in borh houses of Congress had
voted almost without exception, on each and
every occasion, against the protective acts
| which constitute the tariff now in foTce. Ex-
animation of the votes on subsequent acts, by
which duties have been gradually reduced or
the tariff amended, will show that IN like
manner nearly the entire Democratic vote las
| hecn east against every measure calculated TO
preserve, uphold, defend, or perfect the pro-
| tect,ye system, and for every measure calcu-
| ,.o1 =, h,o,L down aud de strOy or cr1Dple IT,