St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-04
THE TARIFF ISSUE.

The Minneapolis Tribune is Republican
organ and is supposed to be acquainted
with the inside secrets of the party. There
fore its assertion respecting the attitude OF
the Republican congressional candidates
on the tariff question may be accepted as
authoritive. The Tribune says: 1.-The
Republican congressional candidates this
fall are more nearly in accord with the Re
publican party of the country than in times
mast. Not more than one Of the five, the
Tribune believes, will, if elected, vote with
the Democratic congressman on tariff queS-
tions. In spite of the MoRRIsONIAN plank
which a few gentlemen succeeded in in
weighing into the state platform, it is evil
dent that Republcanism i'll Minnesota IS
becoming more robust, and that it Will in
good time indOrse completely the policy OF
a protective tariff. as the Third and Fourth
districts have Endorsed it.
After this declaration the voters of the
state ought to have no difficulty in decid-
ing for themselves what ticket to vote for
at the approaching election. The Tribune
declares that with one exception the Re
publican congressional candidates will re-
pudiate the MORRISON plank in the Repub-
lican state platform, and will stand with
the national Republican party in favor of
protective tariff. The one exception re-
ferred to by the Tribune is Mr.. NELSON,
of the Fifth district, who voted with the
Democrats in the last congress and is
pledged to do so again. The Republican
bosses are mad because the Democrats of
the Fifth district refused to nominate a can
1idate against Mr.. NELSON, and are now
taking out their revenge by publishing him
as traitor to the Republican party, but
not so with LOVELY, LIND, HERBERT and
GILFILLAN. According to the Tribune's
authority, all four of these gentlemen are
Drotectionists, and will vote with the pro-
tectionistS if they are elected to congress.
1t is on account of this belief that the
Tribune urges the election of these gentle
men. The Tribune is a high tariff paper.
1t claims that the protective policy of the
Republican party has protected Northwest
ern interests. The people Of the North
west think differently, but that doesn't
affect the Tribune's fidelity to protective
principles. 1t has been around and felt the
gress. and comes back home satisfied.
With the exception of Mr.. NELSON. not
one of them, if elected, will vote with the
Democrats in congress in favor of tariff
reduction. They kick the low tariff
plank in the Republican platform
from under their feet. This is
another illustration of the truth
fulness of what the GLOBE has heretofore
said respecting the Republican faculty of
straddling an issue by putting one side of a
question in the platform and the other side
in the ticket. The Iow-tariff side went in
the platform and the protection side is rep
resented by the candidates. AS the plat
form will have no voice in congress and the
candidates will, if they are elected, it is ap-
parent that the protection side gets the best
OF it. And that is just what was intended.
The low tariff plank was inserted expressly
TO throw sand in the eyes of the voters to
deceive them into voting for high-tariff can
5idates. In its anxiety to see the protec-
tion end of the plank held up the Tribune
has given the whole trick away.
rrbe farmers and workingmen of Minnesota
have no interest in sending protectionists
To congress. Their interests lie in the d.
rection of low tariff. Now that the mask
of hypocrisy has been torn from the Re-
nublican party of this state by one of its
leading organs. there is no excuse under the