Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-29
HARRISON AND MORTON.

A Democratic Editor Unfurls the Repuh.
Hcan Banner Can't Swallow Free
Trade.
The Pomeroy (O) Herald, heretofore the
only Democratic paper in the county, has
come out for Harrison and Morton. On
July the whole Republican ticket, from
Harrison and Morton to County Surveyor
Watkins, appeared in its columns, and
Major Russell, the proprietor, gives his rea-
sons for the change in the following loaded
editorial:
1.-The Herald is not free trade paper, and
Is not to be whipped into the support OF
measures which, it adopted, would ruin
every industrial interest in Southeastern
Ohio and West Virginia, as well as those Of
many other large sections OF our country,
and in the end prove detrimental to every
citizen Of the United States. The Presi-
dents message, followed by the introduce
ton of the Mills bill in the lower House OF
Congress, was certainly enough to alarm
every honest Democrat who had faith in the
professions Of his party that it intended a
Just revision of the tariff; but there was
still hope that the approaching National
convention would declare against such an
AFFECT policy. Yet we believe that large
majority of the delegates to the st Louis
convention were opposed to the measures
proposed by the President and formulated
by the Mills bill, but they permitted them
selves to be dictated to and thus were led
to adopt cut-and-dried platform as their
own.
1.-THE Democratic party heretofore has
bitterly opposed GENERALIZATION, bnt the st.
Louis convention has committed the party
to the most extreme form Of Capitalization
that Of the one-man poverty lndorslng
not only the Presidents message but his in
iquitous Mills bill also, and they have for
feited all claim to the support OF honest
Democrats.
ITO expect the Herald to support the plat.
form and candidates Of that convention
would be to expect US to favor the wrecklnS
of every salt furnace and iron works IN
this region, as well as the destruction OF the
sheep industry and its attendant loss to
farmers, together with the compulsory Idle
ness of every working-n who obtains llv-
ing for himself and family by either skilled
or unskilled labor in those industries. AS
we do not favor any such measures, we can
not support either the St Louis platform or
the candidates named by it.
Of course, Mr.. Russell IS being scored on
all sides by the Democrats who are still
blind to their interests, and who are unable
to rise above party prejudice. as Mr.. Rus
sell has, and they are threatening to drop
the paper" as though man with conv1c-
tons of his own is to be driven back into
line simply to please few short-slghted
individuals, who believe that it is their lit
tie years subscription that rules the world
Why, such men are of such little impor-
lance that it does not seem proper to think
of them even with the contempt they de-
serve. can say, however, that it is only
a waste of wind to use any efforts to
compel the Herald to support the Democratic
ticket. Mr.. Russell says the Herald is not a
free-trade paper, and he believes the Dem
ocratic party is a free-trade party, despite
the assertions of many deluded Democrats,
who say-whether they believe or not-that
it is not party of free trade. Actions some
times speak louder than words.