Daily Republican., 1883-06-05
TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1888.
Anxious Democrats ana tne Tariff.

turer. The platform that carried tn,
Republican, 70 victory under GARFIELD
in 1880, will carry them to victory un
der whatever leader may be chosen il
1854. The platform will be out and on
Republicans made by the representa-
tive men of the party gathered togetheI
from all sections of the north, the soutt
the east and the west. There will be NJ
yascillation about it like the late com
promise made in Congress where par
ties were so evenly divided between
free trade and protection that the Re
publicans had to take what they coul,
get upon the principle that halfa loa
is better than no bread
Whether the Republican nominee fol
the Presidency shall he Blaine, Harri
son, Lincoln, Logan, Sherman or any
other well known candidate, there viii
be no mistake about his position upon
the tariff issue, and there will be no dr.
vision upon that question in the Repub
lcan ranks such as is threatened in the
Democratic ranks. Democrats who de
sire protection will have no other choice
than to support the Republican candi
date next year. If they desire labor
troubles, disarrangements amongst the
man ufacturing industries, dismantled
and broken up workshops and starva.
ton wages, they will cling to the phan
tom of Democracy and free trade.
There are none more exercised over
the tariff question at the present time
than the Democratic aspi rants for the
Presidency, some o. whom are candi-
dates under the idea that Presidential
lightning might strike them in the
search for candidate. The fact that
Mr.. Bayard, Mr.. Hendricks, Mr. Nc.
Donald, Mr.. Morrison, Mr.. Carlisle,
General Butler and Mr. Randall
have permitted themselves to be in
terviewed, or upon public occasio ms
have given expression to their senti.
ments in such manner as to make
known their position upon protection
shows how exercised these gentlemen
are, The manufacturing interests Of
the country are in such state of uu.
certainty with a tendency to stagna ton
that these gentlemen are greatly exer-
cised and they are holding experience
meetings in order to see if there is a
way by which they can escape impend-
ing defeat should they become the
standard bearer of the party next wear.
The latest utterances of Mr.. Bayard are
a little more unmeaning and iucom
prehensible upon the tariff question
than they ever were before, and all the
candidates are more reserved and care
full in their language. There seems to
be kind of general toning down from
free trade principles and they are draw
ing it mildly for "a tariff for revenue
only, y or "a tariff only for revenue"
if anybody can tell the difference be.
tween the terms
A few months ago the Delnoc ratio
candidates We're strong in the mpre,
sion that nothing could prevent the
election of Democratic President, and
frnder this view Of the question they
went it, strong on free trade. They
have learned something since then, and
have discovered their error too late.
They have shown by their vascilation
what they would do ifthey had chance
and the people are judging them by
their past actions more than by their
present declarations, After having
spent years in wholesale denunCiatiJn
OF the tariff under which we have been
living, they wake up all at once to find
that this will not lead them to success,
hence the process of hedging that is
now going on and made necessary by
the eXigrncieS Of the times.
We can hardly believe that the peo-
pie will b" deceived by the blaudishpd
sophistries Of Mr.. Bayard and other
Democratic a,prau's who have the
Presidential bee huzIing beneath their
hornets. What the Democratic party
has tried TO do again and again, it will
repeat when it gets chance, There is