The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-15
ELECTION ECHOES.
Gordon, Buck and Brown on the Defeat of
Cleveland.

Col. Buck, a leading Republlcan,
says: "In my opinion, the election of
Harrison will have the effect of divld-
ing the white and colored vote in the
South in all future elections. [ think
the election of Harrison, however, is the
best thing that ever happened to the
South. This whole section, more than
any other section in the Union, needs
protection, and with the protection
which Harrison's administration will
give it, there will be the largest increase
of manufactures ever recorded in this
part of the Union"
Senator Brown said: II consider the
defeat of Cleveland great misfortune,
and attribute it to the reasons which
We're given in the Washington Post,
and copied in the Constitution ofto-day,
in which President Cleveland himself
attributes his defeat mainly to the po-
sition he took on the tariff question.
While other causes helped to defeat
him, think that his position on this
question hurt his chances more than the
rest. Ifhe had simply called attention
in his message to the enormous surplus
in the treasury, and left it to the wis
dom of Congress to reduce-either by
decreasing the internal revenue or the
tariff, or taking some off of each-this
great surplus; and if the convention at
st. Louis had formulated platform
similar to the one of 1884, or reaffrmed
that platform, 1 believe that Cleveland
would have been elected by much
larger majority"
Governor Brown seemed of the opin-
ion that if the Republicans get major
ity in the Senate and House, that they
will enact laws which will give the
Federal authorities in the South the
power to supervise al congressional and
national elections. He said:
LAS long as this is an issue, the only
thing for the South to do to stand to-
gether, united as one man. We cannot
afford to divide upon any economic
question, with so vital an issue at stake,
but should subordinate everything else
to it. Whenever the right Of Georgia
and South Carolina to regulate their in
ternal affairs is reorganized, as that OF
New York and Connecticut, and other
Of the doubtful States, then the need
for Solid South will have passed, but
until then we must maintain rigldly
and guard jealously the Solid South.
In the meantime, we must act IN accord
with our Northern friends, and allow
them to formulate platforms, economic
questions and financial questions, on
which they can afford to stand. L
think the proper thing for the Demo-
cratic party to do was to allow the tour
doubtful States of the North to formu-
late a tariff platform on which they
could stand, and to have adopted that
platform, and I think no reasonable
man will contradict me when l. say
that if this had been done the result
would have been very different"
THETARIFF AGITATION DID 1T.
New York World.
The country may as we'll make up Its
mind that Harrison is to be PRESIDENT
for the next four years, and that the
Democratic party has been relieved
after a single term of power. Beyond
question, this is the result Of the issue
made bv Mr.. Cleveiand's tariff reform
message, which came toe late or too
soon. The people were not sufhclently
educated on the subject to be able 10
overcome prejudices and discover the
fallacy of Republican arguments our
ing the heat of Presidential campaign.
Yet the result in the Western States
Will show what progress the principle
oftarif reform and tax reduction has
made among the masses. The tarlH
looms I'D everywhere as the trojan
horse from which issued the hosts that
oyercame the party that led them into
its midst. Senator German says 1t COST
Cleveland twenty thousand votes IN
New York City, and nearly as many IN
the State. It reduced the Democratic
majority in New Jersey, and came near
costing the party the State ofConnecti-
cut. The Republican cry of free trade
versus protection answers purpose IL
the defeat of the Democrats. That the
tariff lost Us in New York, there IS no
doubt. AS an instance, the detection II
occasioned among the longshoremen
alone more than accounts for the loss OF
the State. The river districts OF the
civ manifested unusual Republican
strength, and the longshoremen were
led almost solidly into the Republican
marty. They are usually Democratic
but this time could not be held. IheS
poll a very large vote, and hao 'heS
stood with the Democracy on the
national, as they did on the State ticket
Cleveland would have received the
electoral vote of New York, and thus
been reelected. There are many other
such instances which demonstrate be-
vond a doubt that the Democracy owes
its losses to the inopportune springins
of the tariff question.
THE DEMOCRATIC DEFEAT-cockA'h'
New York Sum-
When a party deliberately buries out
ofsight the principle on which IT was
founded, and Of which it has been for a
century the custodian and trustee
when it sends some fits best men 10
the rear. and surrenders the manage