New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-07
And still The Evening Post DEM is silent
about W. II. Barnum for fear of hurting its party.


Some of our grotesque friends, the Mugwump
enemy are trying TO prove that Mr.. Blaine IS
better man than his party because in his comments
on the message he held that whiskey ought always
to be taxed, and the internal revenue-a relic OF
the war-never wholly abandoned. A better man
than his party! Why, these same people have
persevered with malevolent energy for many years
in denouncing him as a great deal worse than
his party. What they said over and over again
in 1884 was that Mr.. Blaine was as much worse
than the Republican party as Mr.. Cleveland was
better than the Democratic party. Now they
are asserting that Mr.. Blaine stands on higher
moral plane than his party. Dear little goslings,
you do amuse us.
For cynical man, Mayor Hewitt has remark
able relish for the sweets of office. lie never fails
to kiss the handsome brides and the pretty school
girls In this respect he is very sensible Mayor
"The Herald has made the fantastic discovery
"a genuine mares nest-that Senator Sherman
Senator IIawcy, ex-senator Miller, Representatives
Burroughs and Mckinley and other Republican
leaders favored the revision Of the tariff in So2.
Certainly they did; and the tariff was revised
by the last and would be by the next Republican
| Congress No tariff is perfect No legislative
| scheme for promoting native industries and for
| raising revenue operates precisely as 1t was de-
| signed to do In the course of time irregularl-
| ties and inequalities discerned in the action
of the most carefuy-framcd tariff. The necessity
for a revision of the tariff in order to perfect IL
| and to apply it to the changing conditions OF
industrial development and civilization was recog-
| nized by the Republican worthless quoted by our
| absurd ncghbor and by the party itself IN the
platform of 1884 The Republican party to-day
| oapl of riff
which is grounded upon the central idea of indus
trial development. The party stands now where
il did then-plcdged to revise and perfect the
| tariff il it returns to power But that Is very
different thing from revising the tariff with q
view TO the ultimate destruction OF home indus
tries The Democrats are aiming their tariff bill
| IN increase importations and TO promote the
interests of free trade. The Republicans do not
| believe in that kind of revision" and reform.
They do believe in tariff revision in the interest
Of American industries and the working classes
| dependent upon them.
Circumstances" detained Mr.. Cleveland from
| attending the Gettysburg anniversary. Circum
stances also detained him at home on the ST. 20
and Sd of July, 500, and a long time before and
after
A voung Buffalo Democrat is represented as as
serting: We love President Cleveland Tor tn
enemies be has made The young Buifalonian-
evidently he is very young-ncglects to give TN
names of these enemies. Do you, refer, brother
to genuine Civil Service reformers? Or do yo'
| refer to those that distrust public servant VIII
is found running for second term. after solemnll
protesting that the eligibility Of the President TO
reelection is "a source of great danger to the com
mon woalp Or do you refer TO the men who re
card the retention OF Garland in the Cabinet as
disgrace to the country Or do you refer to vot
crs who denounce Cleveland for the ah
iect cowardice of his attitude in re
gard TO his own order to Federal office
holders? Or do you refer to ardent patriots VIII