The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-11-01
Is Let every Republican Voter
come early to the polls, and bring
his nciShbor with him.
WHY Cleveland is Likely to Fail in Every
Northern state.

WHY Cleveland is Likely to Fail in Every
Northern state.
1t will now be admitted by every can
did and close observer that the recent
election in Ohio turned chiefly upon the
question of protection r6IsuS free trade,
that issue having been projected with
peculiar emphasis by the defeat of Mr..
Hurd in a district which is wont to be
overwhelmingly Democratic. No evasion
of this primary and vital point in contro-
versy between the two great parties will
hcncef0rth be possible. The great man
uiacturing industries, and the millions
of workingmen who depend on them for
their livelihood, are fully awakened to
the gravity of the impending crisis, and
cannot be cheated into using the ballot
against their interests. But if the great
mass of artisans have set their faces
against changes which would inevitably
cause an abrupt diSlocation of our indus
trial system and distressing fall of
wages. it will be impossible for Cleve
land to carry a single Northern State.
The only Northern States in which the
Democratic party. weighted with a stolid,
gross, and offensive candidate and dis
credited by the aggressive anti-protect-
ionSt attitude of its majority in Congress,
has now any chance at all of winning,
are, of course, Indiana, New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut. Admitting for
the sake of argument that Cleveland will
gain the solid south, he must, to be elect
ed, carry the first two or the last three
of the four States mentioned. Now, there
is no reason to suppose that the instinct
Of self-preservatiou will be whit less
operative upon the large manufacturing
interests of Indiana than it proved the
other day in OHIO: while in Ionuecucut,
New Jersey and New York that instinct
must, from the nature of the use, be
mere intensely stimulated and more de-
cisivcly potent. In every one of these
three states the industries that have been
foster Ell and shielded by the policy of
protection OF American labor against
crushing competition by the greedy cap
itaIi,t and starving proletariat o Europe.
stand for far larger fraction of the pro
tiuctive energies and resources of the
Commonwealth. Such a change of our
fiscal policy as the friends of Mr. MOrri-
son openly favored, though they did not
think it feasible to extort compliance
with full demands from CongreSs-such
a transformation cfour tariff as Mr. lIurd
has been SO rudely disciplined by his con
StitueutS for dvOcating-would griev-
ously disrupt and cripple even States
mainly agricultural like Ohio and Iudi-
ara, and would even there drive tens OF
thousands ont OF employment. But in
New \ DIRK where much larger proper
ton of the population looks to factories
and workshops for its daily bread. the
effect of a repeal of :he protective tariff
OF Of measures directly tending to the
diSavOwal of its principle, would be- vast
" more calamitouS, while 1t wOuld blast
and paralyZe States distinctively manu-
featuring like New Jersey and Connect
cut.
The conviction that the continuance
aud price of the work whereby they live
are at stake in this election has natur-
ally become fast-rooted among the work
ing masses in our manufacturing states,
since the urwiSe course pursued by the
majority of Democratic members in the
last Congress lcvellea deadly blow at
all protected industries. No sooner, in
| deed. was it made clear to Connecticut
| artisans that the contest now pending
involves not merely a preference for one
| candidate over another. but the incom-
| paIably moro mnmcutouS issue of up
! holding the cmolumentS ana safeguards
! of American labor, than the shrewder
| Democratic managers ceased to count
! seriously upon the adhesion OF that state.
! Their organs have very little to say about
| Connecticut. We believe, however, that
| New Jersey, in which they evince a
! greater show of confidence, is almost as
certain to disappoint them. Even four
years ago-in the last month of Han
cocks canvass-although up to that
! time the free trade exhortations of Frank
| uurd had fallen on Democratic caucus
like the voice Of one crying il the will
| derness, a vague forboding seized the
workshops of New Jersey, and the re-
suit was that lIancOck's majority was
cut down to about 1900. How, then.
| can any thoughtful man assign that state
80 Cleveland. now that the faint mis-
givings of 1880 have been so grimly JUS
titled by the avowed intentions and I'M
| abaShed enueavorS of Mr.. Morrisou's co.
workers in the House of Rhpresenta-
tives?
1t is equally prep0stcrous to assume
that the mighty manufacturing indus
tries which nave peopled and enriched so
many inland towns and cities i'll the
great state OF New York can be for a
moment blinded to the real issue in this
canvass. The skilled workmen of our
| factories We're never so perfectly alive to
their fundamental interests and nobody
can gull them into committing suicide.
| Their votes will never pave the way for
foreign competition. And this means
| shat Cleveland will come down to liar
lem Bridge buried by men who will
brook no tampering with the earnings
and security of American lador, under an
adverse majority so huge that 10 efforts,
however desperate, iii the cities of New
York a0d Brooklyn will avail to dlslnter
the corp,e.-N. \, Sun.