Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-04
BUSINESS NEEDS ABOVE PARTY
CONFEDERATION.

current political literature of the day.
It's avowedly independent attitude in
politics gives it a great advantage. 1t is
able to consider political questions with
less prejudice than purely partisan news
papers, which gives it's articles a tone OF
freshness and originality; and it's views
are agreeable to a great many who really
care nothing for politics except as a
means Of promoting the good Of the
country. The Herald, at present, as
a number OF metropolitan papers that
have hitherto been pronounced in their
Republican politics, leans strongly to
Democracy; and it looks as though be-
fore the next Presidential campaign
fairly opens it will cease to be a politl-
cal eunuch and will stand in squarely for
the Democratic cause. We predict this ON
the ground that the only obstacle thereto
which is apparent now will be removed.
intimated apprehension of insincerity
ON the part OF the Democrats regarding
tariff reform entirely %groundless. The
Democracy have, as far as possible, for
the present, declared themselves sharply
and unequivocally on this issue, and,
unless we mistake the spirit and intent
of the party, they are going to fight it
out on this line with the ~sympathies of
the great mass of the people to inspire
them in the conflict and make them
grandIy victorious next Fall. But this
is the Herald's view of the situation
from its bipartisan standpoint:
Henry Ward Beecher boldly and une-
quivocally declared in the Herald a few
days ago that if the Democrats pledge
themselves in earnest to revenue reform
and the Republicans oppose it he will
vote the Democratic ticket.
The declaration is of far-reaching sig-
nifcance. Mr.. Beecher, never a politi-
clan or a place seeker, has always been a
jealous and conspicuous Republican.
He has spoken, worked and voted for
the party since its formation. He Is a
representative Republican of influence,
who, in speaking his personal views,
voices the sentiment of no small number
of his party.
1t is doubly significant that the repre-
sentative Republican merchants and
business men whose views the Herald
has lately given to the public have
spoken substantially to the same effect
as Mr.. Beecher. They declare that the
tariff is the dominant issue of the day
and that revenue reform is the most ur-
gent need of the country. "Mere party
questions, says A. A. Low, the widely
known East India merchant and a stanch
Republican, ''can count for little in 1884
compared with the burning ones relating
to the tariff and the currency" Alexan-
der E. Orr, of one of the largest grain
and produce commission houses in the
country, believes that eff the Democrats
show the capacity and the desire to meet
the tariff issue %squarely and deal with it
according to sound business principles
they will draw out an independent and a
Republican vote that will surprise the
professional politicians" Mr.. Field. the
head Of the great dry goods firm in
Chicago, does not hesitate to declare that
whichever party adopts revenue reform
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leading business men, Democrats as well
as Republicans, which the Herald has
already published, might be cited here to
the same effect.
These men, and a host of other mer-
chants whose sentiments they express,
care little for politics and nothing for
parties. They know that the political
issues that nave divided the two parties
for twenty years are dead and buried.
They see that the uppermost measures
now to be dealt with touch the COM
merce, the industry and the business of
the country. They believe that protec-
tion is disastrous to commercial and in
dustrial interests and that revenue reform
is essential to prosperity. This issue
they put above all party considerations.
Republican merchants prefer to vote the
Republican ticket if the Republican
party would undertake tariff reform.
But if that party stands for protection or
evades the issue, and the Democratic
party or any part of it gives satisfactory
assurance that it means to bring about
the tariff revision that is needed, then a
large class of Republicans will surely and
properly vote the Democratic ticket.
ANU u de- III Va ltQCp CuUChS SOtCio
will do the same thing.
But to secure this Republican and in
dependent vote it is necessary for the
Democratic revenue reform leaders to
plant themselves squarely and unequivo-
cally on the platform of tariff for revenue
only. They must not only pledge them
selves uncompromisingly in favor of this
principle. but they must strive to en-
body it in legislation. They must give
the prot~ectionists, the trimmers and the
towards of their party notice to quit.
They must not evade or compromise.
They must show Republicans and indie.
pendents that they are in earnest. They
will have to draw the line boldly and dis
tinctly between protection and revenue
reform and go before the people on that
issue. If this course drives Democratic
protectionists from the party, so much
the better. 1t will draw to the party a
far greater number of Republican and
independent voters who want revenue
reform.
If Speaker Carlisle and the men who