Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-10-29
HE GREAT ISSUE.
Pith and Point of the PO-
litical Battle.
THE PRESS AND PLATFORM.
Democratic Doctrine on Tariff Re-
form as Taught by the Great
Leaders East and West.

Mr.. Frederick Douglass cannot under
stand why the representatives of all the
great anti-slavery families of Massachu
Eetts are in favor of the Democratic
ticket in this election. But the answer
is very easy. They are working for pres
ent reforms, not for past ones.-[ Provi.
dence Journal, Ind.)
Brother Blaine has wisely returned to
the tariff. Misrepresentation on that
subject are so common that nobody pays
much attention to them, but on every
other issue that Blaine has tried his
blunders and misstatements have been
caught up at once. The disregard of
facts which Mr.. Blaine has manifested
this year amounts to positive genius
Philadelphia Times, (Ind.)
Who but this Plumed Knight, obliv-
ious of the multitude, could ride intre-
pidly against the grangers as Blaine did
in closing his Indianapolis speech ?
"Why did your wheat fail? Because you
have to meet in the markets of Europe
the wheat of Russia, which is raised in
that vast country by labor that is paid
not more than cents per day per man."
Fatal admission, Mr.. Blaine. Every High
School boy is striving to understand why
the farmer, selling his wheat at the
worlds price, should not desire to buy
his goods at the worlds price also. If
protection makes goods cheap, why are
goods twice as high in America as in
Europe, while the farmers product must
sell in competition with vast Russia p
[Chicago Herald, (Dem.)
Mr.. Blaine's tour in Indiana is more
than counteracted. The visit of Gov.
Hill to that State was unquestionably
one of the strongest cards that has been
put out by the Democratic management.
Hill helped the Democrats of Indiana
and helped the Democrats of New York
more. He placed himself in line with
the administration. He knocked down
the barries which the enemy sought to
raise between him and Mr. Cleveland.
If the dignities and properties of his
great Office prevented the President from
formally declaring himself for the Gov
ernor of New YORK, Hill generously and
unequivocally declared himself for the
President cf the United States, and now
all of us are happy. 'Rah for HILL
Cincinnati Enquirer, Dem.)
MurchisOn's Mistake.
New YORK, October 26.-The Repnb-
lican managers are endeavoring to close
their campaign as they opened it, with
the cry of Blaine and the Irish VOTE"
All other things have failed them, and
they are blind enough to fail to see the
vast difference between the conditions of
1883 and those of 1884. They have not
the least hope of winning, but they will
leave untried no chance by pre- judice,
falsehood and money to make an i'm.
preston on the staunch old Democratic
States OF the East That is the meaning
of the alteration in Blaine's programme
in the line of talk at the Madison Square
meeting, and of the giving out at this
time OF Lord Sackville- letter, but
every one here realizes that in contriv-
ing the correspondence between the Eng
lish Minister and the mythical Britisher
in California the Republican headquarters
have made a miserable mess of it and
dug another pitfell into which they them
selves tumbled. Secretary Ba'yard's dig
nifed and firm rebuke of Sackville's in
termeddling, made upon the British
Minister'S avowal of the authenticity of
the letter, is as severe blow to British
pretensions and Republican intrigues as
the Presidents retaliation message ITSELF
Its chief result has been to bring into bold
relief the fact that the interests of Eng
land would be best subserved by con-
tinuance OF the Republican protection
monopoly, against the Democratic plan
of tariff reform, which would enable our
products to compete with those of Eng
land in the markets of the world. Every
one sees that the view of Gladstone and
Sir Lionel Playfair on this matter is the
true one, and no sensible person in Eng
land or out of it would entertain the ridic-
ulous and illogical opinion expressed by
the Republicans.
How complete is the failure of the
scheme "to fool the Irish" was shown
by the Blaine meeting. The attendance
was large, but only very small portion
of the audience were Instantaneous.
The Republican clubs and organizations
were on hand as per order, and it was
easv to see that sympathy with Ireland
had no real part in the sentiment of the
great majority of the audience. The
attendance was only about one-fifth of
that when Thurman was here. If Blaine
was running for President himself the
affair no doubt would have been more
successful, but Harrison's name was
never once mentioned, and the affair
was conducted just as if Blaine was the
candidate. The speech of the uncrowned
king was in itself failure and disap-
pointment. A great ovation had been
looked for, instead of which there was
only commonplace address of little
over fifteen minutes duration, contain
ing nothing to convince reason or excite
enthusiasm.
On the other hand, the great Demo-
cratic meeting at Cooper Institute on the
same evening was extremely enthusias-
tic. and the greatest applause was given
on the reading of Mayor Hewitt's letter,
declaring his absolute devotion to tariff
reform and to the candidacy of Cleveland
and Thurman.
As an answer to the false allegations
that there is any lukewarmness among
any New York Demo Gratis toward the
National ticket on the part OF Tammany
Hall or the county Democracy, their
declarations OF assurance and daily deeds
are equally strong to prove their unity.
Every Democrat here is doing his very