St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-11
He Stands by the Blaine
Doctrines and Heavy
Taxation.
No Mistake as to His Posi-
ton, for Medill Says
So.
A Bitter Dose for Western
Farmers Who Thought
Him Otherwise.
New York Press (high tariff ORGAN.

wac 1SNSlfCo l1OlIl q Stclh WI
respondent of The Press now in Chi
cago. In view of the strength of the
movement favoring Judge Gresham for
president it will be read with interest:
Two big horseshoes hang over the
desks of the city editors in the Chicago
Tribune Office and two big pictures of
Judge Walter Quintin Gresham orna-
ment the plate glass windows of the
counting rooms below. If these indica-
tions of the luck and popularity of the
adopted son of Illinois seem sentiment
tai. the visitor can find plenty of more
substantial ones in the pleasant corner
room on the fourth floor occupied by
Joseph Medill.
This sturdy Blaine man and sturdy
Gresham man takes very hopeful and
logical view of the political situation.
He not only insists that the HOosier
| judge can sweep the country beyond
| doubt, but he argues it all out pretty
| satisfactorily.
The argument, briefly, is that
| Gresham can carry Indiana so strongly
that it will easily be Republican for
many years to come, and that if four
| electoral votes cannot be got east OF the
| Alleghanies the party of Lincoln and
Grant had better go out of the business.
| So the inference that Mr.. Medill
| draws is that the candidate of Illinois
| could not fail to be elected. 81 don't
| understand" he said, this afternoon,
chow they get the impression in the
East that the Gresham men are anti
| Blaine men. just the reverse is true.
''Of the hundreds of thousands of
Republican voters in this state, the
greatest and most powerful state of the
| West, L venture you cannot find single
Blaine man who is not heart and soul
for Gresham, or if there are few eX-
ceptions, they only prove what the
| rule is.
There is no reason why they should
not be. Judge Gresham has been a
Blaine men anywhere-that is, for
twelve years. When Mr.. Blaine was
out, and the Paris letter proves that
! those who believed the Florence letter
were right, they all went to work for
Judge Gresham"
THAT reminds me-" l ventured to put
in, that Judge Gresham'S position on
the tariff question has been doubted in
some quarters and misunderstood in
Others"
Yes" the reply was. "But there is
| llo iCuoOI IOl IL 10 " ody lOl
Judge Gresham that if he were to be-
come the nominee of the Republican
party he would stand Oh the Republican
platform. The convention will forecast
the Republican policy i'll the campaign
on the tariff as it Will in other matters.
ut will make the platform and the
nominee, whoever he is, will stand upon
it. That would be the case with Gen.
Gresham; so it is useless to discuss
whether he is protectionist or not"
That would seem to be an undOubted
ton in the Republican platform. and it
is not likely that any citizen of this
great country will refuse presidential
nomination when it is offered him.
s. 81 find something in support of these
views of Mr.. Medill in the Tribune of
this morning. At the head of the edi-
torial column is 'Gresham's tribute to
Blaine and Logan in 1884, from the Wall
| street speech of Oct. 90
at runs: Our candidates for presi-
dent and vice president have been con-
| spicuous in public life for more than
quarter of a century. They are men
| of acknowledged ability. No man in
the country is better equipped than
Mr.. Blaine to discharge the duties of
| the highest Office in the gift of the
| people, and Gen. Logan is no less emf
nent as statesman than as a soldier.
''This followed Immediately by all
| other quotation from the same speech
1t related to the tariff, and said: In
revising the tariff laws and reducing
| our custom revenue, home industries
| should not be neglected. Indeed, pro-
lection to manufacturers and laborerS
can and should be afforded by taxing
only such imports as come into real
competition and admitting others free.
"'NO one disputes that the Repub-
| lican party is in favor of thus affOrdIng
protection TO our domestic industries.
Revenue laws should be enacted with
reference to our local conditions and
wants. We should legislate in the in
trest of our own people rather than in
the interest of mankind at large.
| "'Not until we are able to control the
markets of the world can we afford to
adopt free trade. No intelligent man
needs to be told that the weight of opin-
ion in the Democratic party decidedly
opposed to the protective question, but
that once in full possession of the gov
eminent 1t would refuse to enact or
maintain protective tariff laws
''They are talking good deal in some
parts of the East" | said, 'about Judge
Gresham'S religion"
II know they are" said Mr.. Medill;
| IdtlltI lbOllSll. III SeClllS W HIT. L WISH
my chances of getting through the gate
past St. Peter were as good as Judge
Gresham's. He is very punctual
churchgoer. He goes to DR.. Swings,
as $500 other devout Christians do. His
wife is a Presbyterian and member of
DR.. Swings church. The Judge is a
pew holder there. His people were all
Methodists, just as mine were, but my
wife is a Presbyterian and l go to
church where she wants to-"
.sWhat about Judge Gresham's
| strength?'' | asked. us he gaining?"
1--WE don't know anything about his
strength in this Office, except that we
hear from all over the country that he is
! strong. Sometimes we print that there
are no delegates from such state that
are for Gresham, and IN a few days we
get letter from some delegate in that
state saying he is for Gresham and
| knows of two or three others who are
for him also.
''We haven't Kept any table of the
delegates, and / don't know anybody
here who has. There has been no or
ganization to the Gresham movement,
| anyway-or, | should say, there was
committee a long time ago, but 1t dis
! banded.
lit is as if the whole town and neigh
| borhOod appointed itself a committee to
| work for the favorite of them all. They
talk about tons of campaign documents
being circulated in the Ea.s. The only
campaign document that l have
heard anything about is this sup
| plement to the Tribune here. which
contains a sketch of the judge that
one of our reporters wrote on one side,
with a picture, and our regular editorial
matter on the other. They sold all of
those at retail over our counter, and |
gave orders to have a few hundred more
| printed. They sold all those. and [ re-
peated the order. They sold all of