The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-06
WHERE EvARTs STANDS.
An Advocate of Protection-The Senator's Be-
lief that the Bloody Shirt Is Still an Issue.


lief that the Bloody Shirt Is Still an Issue.
Washington Special, Jan. 2.
The friends of Senator Evarts say that that
gentlemans disinclnation TO allow his name to
be used as a candidate for nomination on the
Republican ticket for Governor of New York in
the last campaign was largely owing to the fact
that the Senate afforded better opportunities for
putting the Republican party on footing. in
which he desired to take part. for the next ma
tional campaign. The Republican party, he
thinks, is right on every vital issue before the
people, but the adaptation of those issues to the
broader and more enlightened scope of public
sentiment at this time has been overlooked. In
other words the Republican party has been run
ming OF late years In rut. and IN the last two
successful campaigns its success was more due
to its prestige and the want of confidence Of the
people in the Democratic party than to any new
and strengthened claims for popular support.
1t ls evident that Senator Evarts looks at tha
situation in public affairs very much in the light
OF case in court, the Senate so to speak, being
the court and the people the jury.
In his case against the Democratic party h9
Will undertake to present two main points Of az
gument. the first on the tariff and the second ca
tie solid South. The silver question he regareis
side issue In great measure, as the peculiar
views and interests of individuals or localities
have more to do with shaping public sentiment
than any very defined doctrines Of finance. As
has already been announced, he will speak on the
silver question at the proper time, but it is
treme silver side. His purpose will be to present
this perplexing question in light above the
mercenary interests Of what is known as the
silver ring and at the same time free from the
radical notions OF the extremists on either side
of the question. The Senator says that there is
view of the silver question which has been over
looked and as the greatest precious metal pro-
ducing country on the globe and a country in all
It's economic aspects independent of the rest OF
the nations of the world he believes in an Amer
silk vuh will h in,
view the interests of our own people and their
industries.
On the tariff question he proposes to make an
elaborate speech, not only to show that protec-
ton is the true economic doctrine of nations but
that it is a system quite as much if not more d.
rectly in the interests of labor than of manu-
features. He resolves the whole matter into one
very simple proposition. and that is whether the
Congress of the United States proposes to legis-
late in the interests of foreign or American
labor
The Senator says: "There has always been a
great deal of party capital made at the expense
of labor. 1t might be just as well to have the
wage workers of the country look into the mat.
ter little for themselves, and few self-evident
propositions may be of advantage. 1t is mis-
take for the workingman or mechanic to think
that his redress lies in strikes and disorders.
Capital employed in industry can only afford to
pay certain proportion OF its gross earnings for
labor, and when it goes beyond that maximum
point it is playing losing game and the day Of
reckoning will soon come, when labor will find
itself without employment which means distress
Demand regulates trade and prices, and when
our home markets are stocked with merchandise
manufactured by under-paid foreign labor the
demand for our own products and the labor TO
make them is proportionately reduced"s
The proposed speech on the solid South, as
representing condition of things repugnant to
the principles of free government will present
vivid picture of a very dangerous element in
American politics. Judging from the scope Of
the Senator's view OF this question the speech
will present some interesting opinions and argu-
ments for popular consumption The Senator
thinks that many good Republicans are too
prone to listen to Democratic clamor against
''bloody shirt issues but it will be an issue az
long as these same senators and representatives
sit in Congress by virtue of restrained and not
q froa ballot