Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-04-09
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pennsyivauIa's Candidate ana the Tariff.

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PennsyivanIa's Candidate ana the Tariff.
The Allentown convention is reputed
to be very harmonious, there being
practically unanimous sentiment among
the delegates In favor Of the selection Of
Mr.. Randall as the candidate of the
Pennsylvania Democracy for the presi
Dental nomination. Mr.. Randall is
present, and must feel very deep graft
flcation at this expression Of confidence
and high appreciation from the Democ
racy OF his state. 1t is an expression
which he has we'll deserved In his long
career In the public service; and what
ever may be the result of it at the
national convention it is a triumph
richly repaying the labor and sacrifices
that have secured IL. We are In sym
pathy with the feeling which has won
Cor NJ. Randall This reward at Allen
town. He has been an intelligent,
earnest and upright representative Of the
,ople and has earned their high reward.
The chance of Mr.. Randall's nomiDa
tion by the national convention would
be much better, but for the tariff agita
tion which is now unsettling the party
and taking its attention from the more
important issues upon which the presi
Dental battle should be fought. Penn.
sylvania has the reputation OF being de
voted to high protective tariff, and
stands 50 apart from many of her sister
Democratic states as to cause them to
look upon her as black sheep in the
flock. And the devotion to wool shown
by the late vote of her representatives i'll
Congress In favor of the increase of duty
upon it, will not, ia our opinion, tend to
remove this feeling and permit her can
didate for president to receive the vote
in the national convention which his
distinguished merit and services would
otherwise invite for him. The support
given by Mr.. Randall and his Democratic
colleagues from Pennsylvania to the
Ohio proposition to increase the wool
duty, while II may invite to him the
vote OF that state, will drive from him
more votes than it will give him. The
vote was not in accord with the general
current of public sentiment over the
country, as We read it, for that does not
call for an increase of duties even where
1t does not demand decrease. We
have regarded Mr.. Randall rs
holding to the conservative opinion
that the tariff should not now again he
tinkered, SO soon after its late readjust
ment; and this we still think to lie his
general view the exception to it which
he has made in response to the Ohio de-
mand for "a higher duty on wool was a
concession which we do not believe
was polite or wise.
Pennsylvania, while standing firm in
her demand for the retention Of such
rates of duty as are really needed by heI
industries, should not exhibit herself as
demanding what she can do without
and her political influence with her
sister states will be furthered by heI
showing AZ much unselishness as she
cln manifest while doing the bare ST
justice to herself.
In the present situation or her trade
and manufactures all she can fairly ask
is that the tariff shall be let alone and
she ought not to ask for outside inter
ests what she does not demand for her
own. If it is right to oppose the Morri-
son bill as an unnecessary revision of the
tariff, it was wrong to support the Con
verse proposition to raise the duty Oh
wool. The votes Of Pennsylvania Dem
ocratic representatives cast for it seem
to us to have lacked in consistency aud
good policy.