Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-29
Why Cleveland is Likely to Fail in
 Every Northern State.

[From the New York Sun
 It will now be admitted by every candid and close observer that the recent election in Ohio turned chiefly upon the question of protection versus free trade, that issue hay ing been projected with peculiar emphasis by the defeat of MT. Hurd in district which is wont to be overwhelmingly Democratic. No evasion of this primary and vital point in controversy between the two great parties will henceforth be possible The great manu- featuring 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 cheat ed into using the ballot against their inter ests. But if the great mass of artisans have set their faces against changes which would inevitably cause an abrupt dislocation of our industrial system and distressing fall of wages, it will be impossible for Cleveland to carry a single northern State.
 The only northern States in which the Democratic party, weighted with stolid gross, and offensive candidate and discredited by the aggressive -protectionist attitude of it's 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 I1oYelanQ WILL Rdli1 LAS SO1lO oOlbl1> AO AAlloG, to be elected, 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-preservation will be a whit less opera tive upon the large manufacturing interests of Indiana than it proved the other day in Ohio: while in Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York that instinct must, from the nature of the case, be more intensely stimu- lated and more decisively potent. In every one of these three States the industries that have been fostered and shielded by the policy of protection of American labor against crushing competition by the greedy caPltsI and starving proletariat Of Europe s1ano TOT a far larger fraction of the productive ener=. oies and resources of the commonwealth. Such a change of our fiscal policy as the friends of Mr Morrison openly favored, though they did not think it feasible to ex- tort compliance with their full demands from Congress such transformatlon or our tar;H as Mr. Hurd has been so rudely discip- lined by his constituents for advocating, would 9rievous1y disrupt and cripple even States mainly agricultural like Ohio and Indiana. and would even there drive tens of thousands out of employment. But in New York, where much larger proportion of population looks to factories and workshops for it's daily bread the effect of repeal of he protective tariff, or of measures directly tending to the disavowal of it's principle, would be vastly more calamitous, while 1t would blast and paralyze States distinctively manufacturing like New Jersey and Connec- ticut.
 Tbeconyietionthat the continuance and price of the work whereby they live are at stake in this election has naturally become fast-rooted among the working masses i'll our manufact- uring States, since the unwise course pursued by the majority of Democratic members of the last Congress levelled adeadly blow at all protected industries. No sooner, indeed,