Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-24

Inc following question was asked concern
Ing the labor and prohibition movements:
"'Will either the labor or prohibition move
ment change the usual result in your distrlctV
"Of the former it is almost universally as
serted that no apprehensions need be felt, The
only exceptions are in New York City, where,
however, it will rather help the Republicans
than otherwise, and in the mining counties OF
the Lehigh and Hooking valleys, in Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio, respectively.
"Of the prohibition movement it is asserted
OF some four or five counties in Western and
Central New York, and of nine counties in
Minnesota, that it is on the increase and that
something must be done if possible to win the
temperance people back. In all the other dis
tricts it is emphatically asserted that the pro-
hibition vote will not change the usual result,
All agree that the temperance advocates are
holding their own except in Pennsylvania,
where the High-License law has taken the
wind from their sails to a great extent,
Minnesota was chosen for the canvass on
the question Of high tariff because it is arepre-
sentative Northwestern State, and because it
has been asserted that the revenue-reform
feeling among Republicans there is stronger
than in any other so-called Republican State.
This question was asked:
:" Are the Republicans in your district in IA
vor OF high protective TARIFF
Every one of the eighty organized counties
were heard from through their party managers,
were consulted in 962 wards and townships in
the State The result of these expressions is
that there is a considerable element, which a
careful estimate puts at about Is per cent.
among Minnesota Republicans who are out
and-out free traders. Another careful estimate
based upon the replies received, put the pro.
portion of high-tarin Republicans in the State
at about 20 per cent.
The other IS per cent. say they are not in
favor of high protective tariff, but are mod.
crate tariff reformers.
On the questions of what to advocate in or.
der TO be most certain to win there is not much
diversity OF opinion. Protection, it is conceded
on all sides, is to be the principal issue; and
the man who best represents that
idea is the one to nominate to-
stand upon it. There is feeling among the
Pennsylvania miners that the plea of pro-.
lection is played out, and a strong sentiment
among Minnesota farmers in favor of a modif.
cation of the present schedule, but apart from
these sections the universal expression is in
favor of a tariff campaign. From Ohio and In;
diana come opinions that the matter of suf.
frage in the South should be included, and
from all the States come demands of an honest
administration of the Government, liberal pen
sions to real soldiers and pure civil SERVICE
The planks that may be said to amount to
the dignity of demand that they be insisted
upon in the next National platform
are: Protection to American labor,
whether brain or manual; that every
vote wherever and by whomsoever cast
shall be honestly counted; that disabled
Union soldiers, but not coffee-coolers, be
granted pensions;a that coast defenses be pro-
vided; that foreign trade be extended as much
as possible, and that an honest civil service
honestly administer public AFFAIRS