The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-08-09
THE PREFERABLE CONSPIRACY.
Ne,o York Tribune.

NeiC YORK 1flOune.
1t must be joy to President Eliot to be associ-
ated with towards. who mean free-trade but dare
not say so. In journals like The New York
Times, Herald and World, people are daily told
that free-trade is not the main issue and is not at
the bottom of Republican opposition to Mr..
Blaine But President Eliot shows that the
pretences of eXasperated virtue are fraudulent
Asked why he and Senator Hoar differ about Mr..
Blaine, he replies "Senator Hoar is my personal
saSSISas Ia suppo1 as
shall vote for Cleveland and Hendricks. Sena-
tor Hoar is an old-style protectionist, and most
of the young Harvard graduates are free-traders,
having done with protection" That tells the
story, honestly and manfully. President Eliot
does not want to cheat any body. But his party
does; his candidates do, and his principal organs
do. His party adopts platform that is intend
ed to deceive. His candidates stoop to become
candidates on such platform, concealing their
real opinions. His principal newspaper organs
pretend that the main issue concerns Mr.. Blaine's
personal integrity.
More unmany and insincere than others Of
these organs is the New York Times, which for
months insisted that "tarf reform" was and
must be the main issue in the Presidential can
vass, and encouraged Mr.. Morrison to make it
sharply, promising him repeatedly the support of
great body of free-trade Republicans if he
would do so. Now, being frightened by proof
that the working people will defeat such con-
spiracy that paper falsely preterds thatits virtue
is inhamed.
Next comes Harper's Weekly, which makes the
same profession. But its editor wrote to Mr..
Kitzmiller, of Gettysburg, before the Republican
National Convention: "No man more obnoxious
to them 1.-THE independently than Mr.. Blaine
could be nominated for the Presidency, and the
principal reason for this is the strong following
he has in Pennsylvania. The Independents are
nnfi1,rofecfiou and whoever we do elect must
favor revenue REFORM" To turn back after this
and pretend that 'the principal reason" was in
famed virtue, required just that same triat of
character which Mr.. Curtis showed when he went
into convention intending to bolt, stayed to see
the nomination made unanimous without potest,
and to vote for q candidate for Vice. President,
and then bolted.
Letters come daily to the so-called "Indepen-
dent Committee" pretending that the writers
and their friends are greatly worried about Mr.
Blane's integrity. The names or the status of
the writer's are in most cases concealed, but in
most cases when the name leaks out and the man
can be traced, the motive appears, as in the case
of Mr.. Bromlee, "president of the Michigan Free
Trade League" whose signature refused to a
reporter by the secretary of the Independent COM
mittee. These men are not only perpetrating
fraud, in pretending that Mr.. Blaines unworthi-
ness is the reason of their bolt but they prove
that they are aware Of it by trying to conceal the
evidences of their free-trade conspiracy.
This confidence game is worse than anything
that has been alleged about any candidate-al-
ways excepting Mr.. Hendricks. IF the free
traders have honor or honesty, they will put a
stop to these false professions by men who repre-
sent and lead them, and will honorably avow, as
President Eliot does, their real reason for oppos
ing a candidate in whom friends as honest and
conscientious as themselves have full confidence.