Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-06-26
The Republicans on the Ohio
Democrats.
New York Herald

1t is as we suspected-the Repuhli
cans have already discovered that Mr.
Hoadly, Democratic candidate fol-
Governor in Ohio, is an unuitigateC
william. They announce with pridl
that be is the tool OF the Standard Oil
Company and the INSCRIPTIONS advo-
cate Of free whisky. 1t still remains
for them to announce that he was q
common piokpooket in his earlier
days, highway robber in mature
years, and that he keeps kit of bur,
glars tools under his writing table at
home, By the way, MIR. Hoadly's
friends have injudiciously made ii
known that among other accomplish
ments he is a good telegraph operator.
We advise the earl of pleasure bay 10
look into this. When a bold, bad
man like Hoadly can use the telegraph
there is ne telling what dangers his
election might expose the country to.
1t may even turn out that he knows
how to manufacture dynamite.
Then there is the Democratic plat.
form-that also does not suit the
Republicans. We confess frankly
that VIC suspected it would not. The
Times thinks that it makes Mr.. Sher.
mans forcing of the tariff issue very
injudicieus and inconvenient,in which
we agree. The EyOsiRg Rost speaks
With CALM contempt of the tariff for
revenue plank, because of the clause
requiring that the tariff shall be so
arranged as to encourage productive
industries e. h9me." Va age aeEtail
the host would not have been better
pleased if the Democrats had re.
quired the encouragement of unpro~
ducliye industries at home. Does it
perhaps want 1t so arranged as 10 en-.
courage olly productive industries
abroadg lv.al
We shall be forced for some years to
raise at least a part and perhaps the
whole OF our Federal revenue from
customs duties. These duties can be
so arranged as to encourage uDproducs-
i've industries at hoMe-WhicR is what
they nov do and have been used to
effect for long time. Or the tariff
can be so rearrauged as to encourage
that is to say to give fair opportunity
to-naturally productive industries at
home, and that we believe to be the
true method for resrFanging it. For
instance, the tariff now makes houses.
clothes, tools aud machinery dearer
than they need hel that is to diseour,
age the great mass of really produce.
i've industries at home. 1t could
easily be so rearranged as to allow the
farmers and mechanics, who make up
the bulk of the productive forces
to buy their clothes and tools and the
material of their houses more eheaply,
and such an arrangement would I'M
doubtedly increase the revenue from
customs, while at the same tina Il
would very greatly help or "encour-
aga productive industries at home.
This being true, we are little sur.
prised at the Posts sheer at the Ohio
platform. But the faot is that this
OHIO platform puts the Republican
revenue reformers in an ugly predica,
ment. If they follow their principles
they must support the platform and
tha candidate, Tor they can say nothing
but good OF Mr.. HOadly But they
naturally shiver when they are thus
called on to abandon their party
to which they have so long and
so meekly chung in the face Of iohs
maladministration and the extremes
protection, and is spite of very urgent
" and frequently repeated invitation
from the protectionist journals to "ge
out"