National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-04-27

cannot be Democratic. All returns and re- |
suits Of elections that represent her to be |
Bourbon and Democratic, or either, are
falsehoods, In fraudulent or forclble re-
vcrsal and suppression of the true will of
the people.
Virginia is pronounced aud decided for
protection. All her present interests, of
every productive character, have Just en-
tered upon career Of prosperous develop.
ment under the existing tariff and that
the people know and appreciate this is
shown by every evidence that can attest q
fact. Public opinion is so overwhelmingly
for protection that no journal within tho
bounds Of the state, no candidate, nor poll
tician dare advocate free trade openly and
directly, while both parties with their
organs and candidates at least profess pro.
lection. The masses, without respect OF
party, are so confessedly in favor OF pro-
lection that the very Bourbons who mis-
represent Virginia here at the national
capital by their votes and speeches against
protection have the grace to deny,
gloss, and explain their conduct
when they return TO their al
legged constituents to 90 through the form
Of a so.called election Not only are Vir-
glnia and Virginians for protection, but
they are chiefly aud especially for that pro-
lection which shields their varied raw ma
terials, for In these lies their greatest inter
est Aud yet the national Democratic
party, no matter how cunningly and oracu-
larly II has sought to evade explicit EXPIRES
sion Of its general policy upon the tariff,
has spoken unreservedly ana emphatlcally
as to the particular application OF that
policy to raw materials. In Its platform of
1854 that party nercely denouuccs the Re-
publican party for protecting the raw ma
terials Of Virginia and the country, and
thus pledges itself in the most signal man
ner to free trade in ores, Goals, timber,
wool, tobacco, salt, peanuts, sumac, and all
the natural products of the land Arraign-
ing the national Republican party, the ma
tional Democratic party makes one Of the
counts Of its indictment read thus: at
processes the protection Of American manu-
features. 1t has subjected them to an in
creasing flood of manufactured goods, and
hopeless competition with manufacturing
nations, not one Of tVhich tareS [importedl
raw Materials
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charge. The profession of the Republican
party is not that 1t exclusively protects
manufactures, but that 1t protects all our
native and domestic productions, with par
tlality for none save those which db originc
to their ultimate forms are most truly
American. That is the true theory Of pro.
lection; and the effort Of the Republican
, party is to give 1t practical effect, except
r where our own production is so excellent
prolific, and cheap that We can defy the
world at home and abroad Nor is the
United States "a manufacturing nation
IN any special sense. Nor do we want 1t tC
be. In all things necessary or useful she
is or can be self.sulllcient and self-supply.
ing; aud this we wish her to be first, then
all other things may be, and will be, added
l unto her. But there Is no mistake about
/ the attitude which the Democratic party as
sumes toward the raw materials of our ma
hostility to their profitable production ant
development. or course, Virginia canno
agree to that. She cannot afford to trust he
fortunes to party taking so open and de
cided stand against her principal in
: terests; nor has she done SO, nor will shC
ever do so Of her own free will and accord
Nevertheless the representatives at Wash
, ington Of the Bourbon usurpation In Vir
ginia have not failed to vote against Vir
ginia and with the Democracy in this grave
matter. The Morrison Horizontal Reduc
tion Tariff Bill Of 1854, although II placed
:. many of the chief products Of Virginia, in
cluding all Goals, salt, timber, lumber
| ksn f.no lg.N
and reduced the protection on all her othel
products 20 per cent, was sustained by the
whole Bourbon delegation, with one excep
: tion-Messrs. Barbour, Cabell, Garrison
: O'Ferral, and Tucker voting with Morrl
s son to save the bill, which was also backed
Q by 15l Democrats to only Al against 1t,
while 1l5 Republicans voted against and
only Republicans for the measure, whict
5 aimed so deadly blow at the industre,
Of the whole land and particularly at the
: productions Of Virginia. Also, in the large
concern of sheep husbandry and wool, In
which Virginia has a great and growing
stake, the Democrats Of the House In 1884
! defeated the commerce bill to restore the
, duties to protective rates-the vote being
, 10 Republicans for the bill and only II
, against it, while 100 Democrats voted
against and only so for it. Among these
100 were the following Bourbons pretend
: ing to represent Virginia; Messrs. Barbour
(Bourbon state chairman) and Cabell-nont
Of the other Bourbon emissaries voting
! at all
: The case is no better between Virginia
and the national Democracy when we come
to free public education and federal aid
therefor The people Of Virginia have ovel
and over shown practical unanimity here
insomuch that even the Richmond DisDatch
the leading Bourbon organ OF the state, has
repeatedly declared that no man nor party
could have political existence in Virginia
that openly opposed free schools or their
assistance by the general government. On
the other hand, the national Democracy has
a record of implacable hostility to free
schools, and especially to the policy of ex-
tending them federal help. In 1880 the
Republican Senate Of tho United States
passed q bill TO appropriate the net proceeds
Of tue sales Of the public lands to the states
for the benefit of their free school systems
and the endowment of their colleges-eyery
senator voting against 1t being a Democrat.
When this beneiicent measure went to the
Democratic House, however, it there died
lingering death without even being consid-
cred, The Blair school bill of 1884, after
passing the Republican Senate, met a SINH
lar fate in the Democratic House, Tucker,
Of Virginia, being an active aud leading
Bourbon In suppresslng It through two ses.
sIons. Again 1t has passed the Republican
Senate this year, but in the Democratic
House 1t has been shelved permanently, 1t
seems, in committee even a second COM