Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-06-11
ThE RESULT IN OREGON.
!! 10 ~ Emphatic Protest Against Free
Trade Measures.


Trade Measures.
orsgoniao. June-7.l
The Republican majority in the
State will fall little, if any, below
1000. It is an amazing result. Re-
publicans are equally astounded by it.
1t was not a local contest, but
contest Of national character. 1t
was q direct vote upon Grover
Cleveland and the policy Of his ad-
ministration. That is, it was q pro-
test against the Administrations free
trade tendencies and measures.
1t may be expected that the same
ideas which have been asserted so
forcefully through the election in
Oregon will be asserted in every
Northern State. Indiana cannot be
irnpervious to them; they will be
even more powerful in New Jersey
and Connecticut than in Oregon, and
New York will feel all their force and
power. These are the only Northern
States which the Democratic party
can in any circumstances have any
hope of winning, and on the issue
made up by the administration it is
doubtful whether the Democratic
party can carry single one Of them.
The St. Louis convention will at.
tempt to straddle or dodge the issue,
but there will be no possibility of
straddling or lodging it. For, what
ever the St. Louis platform may de-
clare, the Presidents message, the
Mills bill and the speeches of Dem
ocra,ic leaders in Congress, are the
real platform of the party. And
upon this platform, not upon any Jug
gle or equivocation that may be
employed at St. Louis, the country
will vote in the presidential election.
In every Northern State the same
causes that have produced this
astounding result in Oregon will be
present in all the force and energy
they have exertel here. 1t cannot
be said that the result IN Oregon is
due solely to the protest of the wool.
growers, for the Republican gain is as
great in the non-wool-growing as in
wool growing parts of the State.
The artisans and factory men of
Portland, the lumberman of the lower
Columbia, the iron workers of
Clackamas, the coal miners of Coos,
the fruit growers of Multnomah and
Jackson, were as earnest in their pro-
test as the wool growers Of Umatilla
and Wasco. Are not the same con.
siderations that have prevailed with
all these likely to prevail with persons
in the like occupations IN all the
other Northern States?
We say Northern States expressly
for the purpose OF excepting the
South from any reasonable likelihood
of yielding to these or other consider
ations pertinent to the times. 10y
atty to the memory of the rebellion
still controls the South, and will con
troll it yet for another generation;
and every effort to push questions Of
present interest to the front will be
stamped out through fraud and blood,
by those who "6x" Southern cleo
tions.
But in Northern State questions
Of present interest are considered aud
acted upon, and the Presidents
message, the Mills bill and the free
trade tendencies of the administra-
ton and the Democratic party will be
reviewed by the people, and will be
Judged as they have been judged in
Oregon. No juggling platform thai
may be adopted at St. Louis will OBJ
scure the question. The issue has
been made too plain, too definite, BY
the message of the President, and by
the action taken by the Democratic
party IN Congress.
A revolution may be expected
Heretofore the Democratic party ha'
succeeded in masking its position
but it can mask it no longer. 1t ha'
so fully exposed itself that furthe
disguise is impossible. One may
speak within the bounds of probabil
ity who makes the prediction that thu
Democratic party will be beaten il
every Northern State. That the ex
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