Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-07
1T LOOKS LIKE A DEMOCRATIC
TIDAL WAVE.

$500
and other Eastern States, who will be
heard from only through their ballots.
The Indianapolis Nars, the most in
fluential Republican journal in Indiana is
strongly opposed to the Republican plat
torn and will not be whipped into line. 1t
says:
We believe In q reformation Of the tariff which
shall not merely reduce the revenues from it.
but reduce the rates by which they are derived,
and, by supplying to our manufacturers free raw
material give them a chance at the markets OF
the world where American energy, enterprise
snd ability fear no competitor. As we began
this fight we continue il. We have urged the
people of the Seventh Congressional district to
return Mr. BYNUN not because he isa Democrat
in splteof 1t, for that matLer-but because ne Is
tariff reformer. This battle we should Ike to
e carried into every Congressional district o.
Indiana. We shall aid in Carrying 1t there, ana
we would that extNoyemoer would record thir-
teen tariff reform Congressman from Indiana
no matterw what their politics.
This sort of talk from the leading Re-
publican journal of the State is not calcu-
lated to carry Indiana for HARRISON.
Going little farther West werun against
the Chicago Tribune theleading Republican
paper of the West. We all know the kind
of support this able Republican Journal is
giving HARRISON and MORTON. 1t is not
only bitterly and unaltersbly opposed to
the Republican platform but to HARRISON
himself to whom il referred in this pleas
ant manner:
HARRISON, as a railroad attorney, identified
with FLKISs in Wall street schemes and Montana
cattle bubbles, was the ideal candidate who
seemed to warm the cookies of Mr.. pEPEw's
heart He could promise the support OF the New
York Central railroad u a candinate he intro
duced but he would not guarantee that It would
be bestowed upon any Republican less closely
Identified with the dark side of Wall street and
the ba K alleys Of dubious financial adventures.
The threat meant 50 much in New York politics
aud was 50 alarming that the other delegates'al
large surrendered their first choice reluctantly
and fell in with Mr.. DEFEw's plans. Mr.. HAIR
RIsoS'S financial entauglements with the un'
speakable ELKISS only served to recommend
him TO the affections otMr. DEPEw. HARRIsoS's
notorious association with KEsENs and the other
ms mOers of the star-route and landgrant syndi-
Gates ofthe southwestern Democratic States and
Territories endeared him instantly to the VIOLA
atile President of the New York Central.
Mr. DEPEw did not know or apparently did not
care to know that HARRISON is unpopular at
home and disliked abroad, not supported byany
German newspaper or recognized by any German
leader in the United States; not numbering
among his close friends one man who eyor
served with him in the Senate of tho United
States: hated in California because he voted
fourteen times sgainst the restriction of Chinese
immigration; opposed In his own State because
he is cold and distant in his manners an identi-
fed with every public act that has
ever been adopted which could wound
the sensibiGties of voters not numbered
among his own political clique in the
Republican party; having q strong support
among politicians, but little among the rank
and file ofthe parry. Mr.. HAsRIso.' has never
been elected to any Office save that of reporter
of the Supreme Court, by the popular vote, and
is is not probable that he ever will be.
This sort of talk is not calculated to
create enthusiasm for the Republican can
dldate in the West.
Going still farther toward the setting sun
we run into one of the largest iron manu-
featuring establishments in the West in
the city of st. Louis. 1t is the establish
ment of Hon. II. o. NELSON, prominent
and consistent Republican and declared
protectionist. Mr.. NELSON denounces the
platform as "a campaign dodge"
1t was made to win on and not to believe in.
1t is a campaign dodge The protection plank
as there expressed is merely an Offset to the DEM
Ocratic plank for reduced tariff and think rep
resent q large number of Republicans in object
ing to it. The politicians gave the whole thing
away when they declared for the oblteraiion Of
internal taxation to Offset their high protection.
They were pretty hard put
The utteranee of the head of one Of the
largest manufacturing firms of the couu-
try, says st. Louis Republic, is not to be
scoffed away. Mr.. NELSON cannot be &C
cused of being "a British free trader" He
has business interests which make him
close and careful observer of public affairs,
and when he condemns the embargo pro-
posed by the Chicago faction and indorses
the reform advocated in President CLEvE-
LANDS message, it is because he knows it
is the same reform advocated by GRANT
and ARTHUR aud solemnly promised by
the Republican convention of 1884 in the
party platform.
Such condemnation of tie Chicago folly
will dismay the politicians and the specu-
lators who controlled them. 1t is the voice
of legitimate business protesting against
the ruin and overthrow of all that is legit.
innate in business; pleading for honesty
above partissnship; demanding Justice and
refusing to submit to policy of injustice
dictated by blind greed and proposed by
blind folly.
These are only a very few of the more
prominent Republicans who have bolted the
party on its embargo platform and JAY
GOULD ticket since the Chicago Conven-
ton. They will carry thousands upon
thousands of Republican votes with them.
1t looks very like Democratic tidal
wave.
In HIS New York address Speaker CAR