New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-07
4 DEVOCR1TIC REVOLT

"The Troy Tines publishes an interesting
interview with Pierce Kane, well-known
manufactures of knit goods at Sandlake, Rcns-
selaer County. Mr.. Kane Informed 1.-The
Times's' representative that although he had
never voted anything but the Democratic tick
ct heretofore, nevertheless this November he
should vote for Harrison and Morton. Why
this change of parties? q know what my
own interests are.o trenchantly remarked Mr..
Kane, "and will do my best to protect them.
| am voting for Kane. L. | am on the
side of those who are on the side Of protection
to my business"
Hundreds Of sagacious manufacturers and
merchants, and the workingmen in their en-
ploy, all over this State are talking as Mr..
Kane talks. They propose to cut loose from the
Democratic party this fall because they realize
that they cannot afford to indorse IT'S tariff
policy. They clearly discern the significance
Of President Cleveands message, the Mills
bill and the platform Of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. They see IN these ex-
pressions OF the party's dominant purpose a
menace of their own vital interests; and, self
preservation appealing to them more strongly
than party fealty, they turn from Cleveland
to General Harrison.
81 am voting for Kane" bluntly remarks
this knit-goods manufacturer. He is support
ing The Republican ticket because Republican
ism stands for the protection and not the in
jury or the destruction Of the business which
gives him his daily bread. Ditto say the salt
men of Syracuse, the cement men of Ulster,
the sheep raisers in the farming districts, the
stove men of Albany, the iron and laundry
men Of Troy. These voters have studied the
problems of the tariff in the school of expert
ence They have examined the platforms, and,
what is Of more consequence, the history and
| tendency Of the two parties, from the point OF
view of their own employments they arc
accustomed to study causes and effects in their
relation to the market in their bearing upon
supply and demand. And the verdict of these
solid business men, who have no particular
economic theories to push, but who have their
own pocl;et-bools to protect, is that decent
respect for No. / compels them to pull out OF
the Democratic party.
And in vain the Democratic bosses endeavol
to persuade them that vote for Cleveland will
not be a vote for free trade, but merely fol
tariff reform" Kane and the rest have eyes
| in their heads, and doubtless they keep then
wide open. A man is known by the company
| he leeps-they see that these tariff "refornr
ers'' keep the company of avowed Free Trad
ers, and are eulogized by all the free-tradt
organs of this country and England. They
see that Mr.. Cleveands message, upon which
the Democratic party is running him for re-
election, is generally interpreted by free-trad'
devotees as n reaflirmance of their own views
III
not to be fooled by a phrase. They appea
from the name tariff reform to the substan
tial evidence OF their own senses They can
not be made to believe that the sharp issue o
this campaign is not Harrison and Morton ant
protection against Cleveland and Thurman ant
free trade. And because they carefully con
suit their own interests they will cast thei
ballots for the Republican ticket.