The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-12-08
THE SPEAKERSHIP.
WHAT RLIsLE'sELECTION MEANS
VIEWS OF A TARIFF MAN.
RENEWAL OF SECTIONAL STRIFE.

RENEWAL OF SECTIONAL STRIFE.
The Overthrow of Conservative Democracy
Gals Republican Sectionalism to the
Front-Sectional and Indus
trial Issues.
| Special Dispatch from the Editor of The Times.
WASHINGTON, December 2-There is the
widest joy among the old Republican line
over the sectional and free trade issue 80
distinctly made by the nomination of Mr.
Carlisle. The old carpet-baggers who have
| been long in disgraced retirement are swarm
| ing about to-day like snakes in the breaking
up of a hard winter, and there is the inspi-
ration of confidence throughout the whole
sectional wing of Republicanism. Keifer
has been Endorsed, and that is only the be-
ginning of the aggressive organization of
the radical and prof1igate elements of the
party. Until few days ago the Republic
cans expected the Democrats to elect Ran
dali, to eliminate the Tariff from the contest
of 1884, to present q most conservative and
economical record of Democratic power in
the House and enter the great battle of next
| year with a strong ticket on a strong plat
form that would disarm business apprehen-
sions. Such ticket by the Democrats would
have called forth the most conser vative and
patriotic action by the Republicans. and it
you1d fnrpa,l 10 nomination nf 81 M an
| of the Edmunds type, with 4 plat form in
harmony with the highest standard of Re
publican Craftsmanship. With the two great
parties thus marshaled for the conflict, it
would be a matter of comparatively little
moment to the material interests of the
country which succeeded. Sectional and
business reposs would follow either IA Re
publican or Democratic administrations and
tho defeated party would powerfully con-
serve the power of the opposition; but the
sectional madness that has chosen Mr.. Car
Isle avowedly on sectional and industrial
issues, has suddenly transformed the whole
aspect of the Presidential battle.
THE LESSON OF CARLIsLE's VICTORY.
There is no possibility of misunderstood
ing the lesson of Mr. Carlisle's nomination.
He is An honest, straightforward man, with
out concealed convictions and with courage
enough to carry ont the policy that elected
him. He frankly accepted the purpose of
his nomination in bis speech to the caucus
when he said: "If this had been mere
personal contest between me and either of
the distinguished gentlemen whose names
have been mentioned in connection with
this nomination, should have had but lit
tie hope of success" 1t was the Southern
issue and all that it implies that made his
election, and he is honest and brave enough
not to disappoint the sectional restoration
that has given him his laurels. The Post,
of this city, the Democratic organ of the
Capital, declared Mr.. Carlisle's policy in
double-leaded leader OH Saturday morning
just on tue eve of the battle in caucus, and
it assured the country that Mr.. Carlisle
twill so construct the tariff committee of
the House as to obtain from it a definite
Democratic tariff policy; when it has spoken
nothing will be left to conjecture" 1t was
Mr.. Carlisle's authorized deliverance of the
new departure in Democratic policy. 1t
was made to cruelty every Southern con-
sentative element OF the party and force
liberal Southern members to desert Randall
or be threatened at home. A contest thus
waged and thus won can take no step back
ward. 1t is revolution in Democratic pol
icy-a bold departure from all Democratic
teachings and traditions of the last century;
defiant declaration of war against even
incidental protection to the diversified in
dustries which are to-day the pride, the
power and the wealth of the Republic. For
years the Democratic party has battled
against prohibitory protection, but never
until now has it avowed its purpose to dis
card even discrimination in taver of domes-
tic industry.
POLICY THAT WILL STA rifle THE COUNTRY.
This new Democratic deliverance will
startle the country, North and South. The
suicidal declaration for "a tariff for revenue
only" in 1880 defeated the Democrats in In
diana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Con
necticut, and nearly lost New Jersey and
Delaware; but the party disavowed it in all
faith in General Hancock to prevent the
positive disntegration of the party. But
now the Democratic proclamation of aggres-
sive hostility to any and every shade Of pro-
lection to American industry, comes from
a Democratic House, assuming to speak for
the party, just on the threshold of Presi
dental contest, and the proclamation comes
~ bod, hot (, oh -,
try with primary legislation on the subject.
1t is not the mere deliverance of party
platform, that may be forgotten after the
battle it is the deliberate declaration of the
supreme Democratic representative body,
and it will promptly proceed to execute its
purpose. Of course, it can accomplish moth
ing in the modification of the Tariff, as the
Senate and the President are both ready to
defeat and profit by this impracticable Dem
ocratic agitation; but it will throw uncer-
tainty and unrest upon the already depress-
ell business of the country, and all past
history must be at fault in its lessons, if
the business interests of the land shall not
be crystallized against Democratic author
ity, and Republican authority, with all its
CHASTITY sores of corruption, protligacy and
sectional despo,ism, continued as a choice
of evils.
A DIVIDED SOUTH.
Nor will this sentiment prevail in the
North alone There are many, very many,
brave, liberal Southern men who have
thrown themselves into the breach to arrest
this wanton assertion of sectional power.
Not only did some fearless Southern Con-
gressmen boldly confront sectional Madness
and many others openly and profoundly
deplore the sectional command that was
stronger than themselves, but the ablest
representative journals of the South, ex-
cepting only the Louisville Courier-.Journal
and the Charleston Ne,cs and Courier, spoke
fearessly and most ably against another
sectional suicide. The leading Southern
journals of Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana,
Alabama, North Carolina, West Virginia
and Arkansas appealed to the Southern
Representatives to resist the issue on which
Mr.. Carlisle's election was urged the only
method of safety to the South, to the party
and to the country. These journals bad no
concealment as to their policy. They pro-
tested against Free Trade, as alike fatal to
prosperity North and South, and they have
not taken their stand to be driven from it