The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-11
MIR. VOORHEES, POSITION.

The Charlottesville Review is Democratic
newspaper, edited by Hon. Bayless w.
Hanna, leading and influential Democrat
In recent article it takes up a small para
graph in the Journal, in which we alluded to
Mr.. Voorhees, as protectionist, and it says.
| "What can be more preposterous than the
attempt of the indianapolis Journal to prove
| to the Democratic masses that Senator Voor-
hees is a protectionist? The Journal knows
| better"
Well, Mr.. Hanna, possibly you will per-
NIT Mr.. VOORHEES, himself to know what he
is. We respectfully refer you to the Con-
gressional Record of February II, 1888 page
II. At that point you will find speech de-
livered in the Senate of the United States by
Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees,. We make quota
ton of the following sentence:
81 stand here declaring that am a PRO-
TECTIoNIsT for every interest which l am
| sent here by my constituents to PROTECT"
| Will Mr. Hanna be kind enough to read
the Record, and find out what Mr.. Voorhees,
really is before he assumes to take the Jour
nal to task hereafter2
the liberty of quoting from letter addressed
by the Hon. Daniel ". VOORHEES, to the Hon.
Bayless w. Hanna, under date Oct 20, 1881.
Possibly our esteemed Charlottesville con,
temporary may recollect the document. In
that letter Mr.. Voorhees, said:
'The platform of 1880 Ia tariff for revenue
only] was violent departure on the subject
of the tariff, and has no precedent in the
| history of Democratic platforms adopted in
national conventions. | have examined
them all. The declaration for "a tariff for
revenue only was never before made a
| Democratic national convention, and is "A
BURLEsQUE ON COMMON SENSE We lost Ind-
ana in the last three weeks of the campaign
of 1880 on the absurd issue made by our
platform on this subject"
To show the great harmony between the
Democratic leaders on this question, we take
occasion just here to introduce an extract
from one of the last speeches made in the
United States Senate by Hon. Joseph E. Nc
Donald. 1t was made on the 18th of Febru-
ary, 1881, and in it Mr.. Mcdonald said:
1.-The resolution OH this principle in the
platform of 1881, it is true has been de-
nounced in this chamber as "a remarkable
! blunder,' and it has been charged here and
elsewhere that the assertion of it had caused
the defeat of the Democratic party in the
| last presidential election. Mr.
President, the Democratic party was not de-
feated because it advocated a constitutional
tariff, and OPPOSED THE DoCTRIEE OF. PRoTEC-
TON, and / trust on this subject it will take
no step backward"
To still further elucidate Mr.. Voorhees,
position as protectionist, and to show the
absolute harmony existing between the lead
ers of the Democratic party on this subject
we quote further from an interview had with
Mr. Voorhees, in Terre Haute which was re-
printed in the Journal OF June Is, 1888. Mr.
Voorhees, there and then said
'The tariff plank in the State platform last
year declared for a revenue tariff, with INCL
DENTAL PROTECTION DESIGNED TO FOSTER
! OUR INDUSTRIES. | wrote it, and Mr.. McDon-
| aid stumped the State with ME in its favor"
By this time what does the Crawl louisville
Review think of Daniel w. VOORHEES, as a
l protectiOnist2 ---- y