The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-26
The WOol-GrOwers and the Ohio Flee.
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Editor Register and Journal. Hiram At
kins in speaking of the result of the elec
ton in Ohio, says that Deacon Richard
Smith thinks the wool-growers did it; and
in another place he says: columbus Della
no has been making high-tariff speeches to
the wool-growers in the rural districts" Is
the Argus careful about its facts We had
supposed that Columbus Delano had been
spending some months in Europe, having
but lately returned to this country, and has
not yet even been in Ohio since his return.
If he has been making high-tarff speeches
III rural districts during the canvass in Ohio,
we thir k il must have been in other coun-
tries than in that State. Now let us see what
kind Of Democracy has come to the front in
Ohio. 1t strikes us that the platform of the
State convention in Ohio condemned the
Republican party Tor reducing the duty on
wool; and if Mr.. Atkins will look up the
records, he will find that George Pendle-
ton voted to increase the duty on wool over
that recommended by the finance commit
tee of the Senate and finally enacted into
law in the present tariff law. and he will
also find that nearly. if not all, the Demo-
cratic members in congress voted on the
side of protection last winter
We also give the following extract from Il
New York paper of October -: "On the
evening of October the Hon. George l..
Converse teegraphed to the editor ofthis pa
per, in response to a request for election
news sent to leading Republicans and Dem
ocrats of Ohio. If Ohio Democracy is sue
cessful to-day, we owe it to producers who
rely on our resolution favoring encourage
ment of protective home industries by gov
ernment.' Examination of the returns
shows the remarkable sagacity and accura-
cy of this statement,made at an hour when
no man could tell the result of the contest.
The Ohio Democracy has been successful,
and that the success is entirely due to the
cause specified by Repre- sentative Converse,
we will make plain in this article"
| If we mistake not, a Democratic member
| of congress from Ohio introduced the fol-
! lowing resolutions at the meeting of the
National Wool-Growers' association, held
at Chicago last month:
| ResOlred, (D. That in the opinion and judg-
ment of the National Wool Growers association
fine t,rlf rates on imported woods should ut the
earliest opportunity be restored to what they
were at the time of the late reduction.
(2). That state, district and county associa
tons and wopgrowers in all the States use every
endeavor 10 secure the efforts of their respcc-
tive X, personalities and Senators in the restora-
| ton of the tariff on woods.
We have no doubt but Deacon Richard
Smith is right. -" that the wool-growers did
it, that the kind of Democracy that has
succeeded in Ohio is protective Denoera-
cy, and that the voters in Ohio will be very
much disappointed if the Democratic party
| do not speedily redeem their promises 10y
| giving them increased protection on their
wool
If Hon, Columbus Delano has not been
making hgh-tariH speeches in the rural
districts in Ohio during the canvass there,
we are assured that he made Il little remark
after the failure of the Sherman amend
ment increasing the duties on wool two
cents per pound over the present rate
which was defeated by two-thirds major
ity. every republ can Senator from New
England voting against it-which remark