New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-03-10
nrvooR1TIC PROTECTIONISTS.

After having impudently assumed TO SPEAK
for some part of the Republicans, me Ne", VI"
Times now undertakes, with equai iinp""e"''s
IN sneak for the Democratic protec'icniS''' y,
wh,se onin,ops and purposes it knows ABOUT "'
,,t,,o a. apv journal can. MIR. Clcveiahds
administration. it processes to believe Is going
D., ho onrosed by three classes OF persons. Inc
si,vor men. the Democratic protectionsts ana
A., snors- hunter. But the Democratic protec-
t;on,sts Tbe Times undertakes to say, VIII NOT
make opposition to such chapsc ., ',o co. o.
&c that journal has constantly urgeu' III o'.0'
words it supposes that they are quite as ilisn-
core IN their professions a. me 4 'meS 'oseii n'
been. and that, while they profess To deienu '"c
nrotective system, they are IN iac' Only ireu ,
traders. thnlv disguised, or not disguised ~ AL
In course of time. Mr. Cleveland and his sup
rorters Of all shades and colors will learn that
tbero is within the Democratic party ioTce OF
oons;deroblo strength, which opposes, ana VIII
onpose. every meditated change OF the Ur'l
looking toward the destruction or weakening oi
,L, ,,n,o.tive system. Some Of the men cent
nosinp this class are sincere believers III 'io
principle and policy of protection, ana viii au-
here 70 il, doubtless rs faithfully as any oil 't7
Republican defenders. Others again are men
whose interests compel them to sympathi%e WIN
the diversified industries which have grown up
under the protective system, ana WIN inc
working people whose wages nave Dceh en-
larced Inv that system, and there Is not nuch
r,om IN doubt that these also will be- persistent
:. ,beir action. third class is composed Of
more ar less shrewd politicians who see that the
,or,,, With which they are associated would be
.I otl epsf flp states IN
which they live, if it should commit i'Srli 10 an
attack upon the protective system. he men
of that sort fight for their iiVe-' p"iiticaiiy
speaking when they oppose such measures n
the one offered by Mr.. Morrison ana that
gentleman and Others associated with him' can
bear witness that the opposition oil those Demo
crats who resist free trade measures only irohl
motives of policy . is quite rs uncompromisiDg
and hard to overcome ~ any other.
THE Yjmes has quietly assumed, without any
reason whatever as yet known to us, that MI
Cleveland is going to east his influence with the
Norrison free traders, and against the Randall
protectonsts. But if his inaugural address
WAS the utterance of an intelligent ana honest
man. il may be expected that he will take me
opposite course. Ills refusal to appoint M
Bayard Secretary of the Treasury, and his seiec-
tion of Mr.. Manning both seem to look in the
same direction. Mr. Manning is likely to advise
his chief that. whether free trade principles are
sound or not, it would DO suicide to commit the
marty in New York, New-Jersey, Connecticut or
PENNSYLVANIA to such policy, aud therefore 1t
INNS, he resisted with all the Influence oil tue
President. If Mr.. Cleveland has deliberately
chosen As his Secretary OF the treasury
rolitican who will give him such advice. II may
appear before another year has passed that me
Ne,r- York Times is as Little competent to speak
for Mr. Cieveland's Administration az 1T Is to
speak for Democratic protcctionistS or Tor Ne-
nub,icans OF any sort.