Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1884-01-21
Especial Telegram to the Globe. /

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CINCINNATI, O., Jan. 20.-The following
| are extracts from Gath's letter to the En-
qitirer:
The tariff question through the selection
of Mr. Carlisle as speaker, has become the
chief question OF the day. What influence
it will have on the presidential nomination
is matter of considerable interest. not
only to politicians of both parties. but to
business men Who are hesitating to know
the extent that new policy may affect
prices and trade. was talking to day
with wealthy man here who
has no special interests, but
lends money on all kinds of property, and
whose propensity is to be Democrat,
though he loses heart every now and then.
He was asking me some general questions
about men and leaders, and finally said:
II do not know the extent to which these
free trade ideas may have spread over our
country. In personal intercourse 1 often
find men complaining of the excessive pro-
lection We have; and yet
the moment steps ere taken
to correct it, it is seen to be so much more
of a question than we had supposed that
free traders themselves stand aghast. If
we should break down the manufacturing
interests while we have no commerce at
ali, what are We to turn to? With the enor-
nous operative class We possess in Ame--
lea, it becomes a serious question for our
large cities, and perhaps the largest of all
for the city of New York, which, it is
claimed By some, has $1,0OO,oOO.OOO worth
Of manufacturing in or about it,"
Said 1: ''Who is the New York man who
wants to interfere with the manufac-
turers?'
''There is nona,' said he, "who possesses
any interests whatever. There are few
theoretical free traders here who do not
know much about manufacturing as
science, and some of these would be
disturbed if their own theories were put
into practice. Such questions cannot be
settled by a popular vote. The worst
thing about The tariff discussion
at the present time is that it assumes q
new sectional FORM"
{ The new speaker OF congress, though he
comes from Kentucky, is understood to
represent that audacious, aggressive, in
considerate class entirely taken up with
exploded theories of constitutional law and
uninterested in material progress. Mr..
Carlisle gets the political assistance of
Mr.. Morrison, who comes from an agrical-
tural district which he has been seeking
without much success for years to influence
against the tariff The result must be to
bond the north without mVoh regard to
party around the tariff standard, at least
until this question can go ont of politics
and into the councils of statesmen.
Said to my acquaintance, 'How do you
think that the free trade question will
work in the next national Democratic con-
vention?'
''I think it will result in the nomination
of protectionist and he will have to be a
manufacturer. We have no public man to
run in the Democratic patty who is thor
oughly avowed protectionist except man
ufacturer. We have Randall, but
he has just been smitten down
by such pronounced vote in
congress that his nomination might divide
the party. We have Governor Curtin, in
Pennsylvania, whose views on this ques-
tion are we'll understood, but it would be
said against him that he had only ceased
to be Republican twelve years ago, and
I fear that his old speeches if overhauled
would be found quite severe against the
Democratic party, and would have all the
effect of Greeley's speeches in a preslden-
tial year. Then we have old Mr.. Eaton, in
Connecticut, but he is splitting hairs On
the subject, claiming that theo
reticaIly he is a free trader
while practically he wants that
question kept out of the canvass. Mr..
Payne holds strong position on this sub
ject. He will not, however, take his seat
in the senate till the same day the next
president is inaugurated. He is regarded
here as a sound Democrat,yet protection
ist. On the contrary, Mr.. Hewitt, who is
something of manufacturer, claims to be
kind of free trader, or, at least, wants
free raw material. That will certainly lose
us the support of the Democratic agricul-
tural class in Ohio, and should think in
California, where wool is
prime article"
Said 1: "But if the party is for free
trade or revenue boom, what is the sense
of putting up as the candidate an oppo-
nent of the PLATFORM
:sTrue enough" said he, ''we have always
been ruaning the right man on the wrong
platform We pronounced the war fail
ure in 1864, and ran general as the candi-
date. Certainly the events of the past
month or two have msneuvered US into an
apparently ticklish position. We have
chosen southern speaker of
CONGRESS, and still depreoate rails
ing the southern question; whereas
the speaker is supported almost entirely
in his policy from the south. The only
men that see looking for the Democratic
nomination as if there was something in
it are men opposed to Mr.. Carlisle's view
such men and Mr.. Hewitt, Mr.. Flower,
Mr.. Mcpherson, of New Jersey, Mr.. Eaton
and Gen. Butler. Gen. Butler is one of
the largest manufacturers in this country,
as I understand it. and in the manufacture
of building materials excels all others in
that line. How are we going to hold the
Irish vote, which is so easily Influenced
against England, and considers free trade
to bs an English measure in this country?
Upon my word," he added in a minute, 81
think Butler would come nearer bringing
ont oDr votes than any BODY now talked Of