The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-04
WHAT Is A REPUBLICAN,?


WHAT is A REPUBLICAN,?
Is there any republican party? This
question must naturally be asked by |
anyone who follows the drift of political
discussion in congress and in the news
paper press. If such a party does ex-
ist, what is it? What is it's creed? For
what does it stand? Who are it's lead
ers? Mr.. Blame, the head of the presi-
dents cabinet, certainly is not one of
them, for he opposes the force bill and
the tariff bill, both products of the con-
gressional caucus. Or, if Mr. Blaine is
republican, then Sherman and Hoar and
Edmunds, who hold radically opposed
views, must be something else.
There is Mr.. Cannon, chairman Of the
appropriations committee OF the house
of representatives, who rose.in his place
the other day and denounced the policy
Of paying bounties from the federal
i treasury to South American steamship
|. lines IN the teeth of the Chicago plat
! form and the recommendations of Presi-
81 dent Harrison to congress. Is he re-
4 publican? Then what are the fellows
d who clamor 80 long and so loud for sub
n sides?
o. There is Mr.. Butterworth, of Ohio,
clswhom we used to regard as particular
Wy luminous oracle of republicanism-
"a what is he? A republican? Why, he
Henounces the Mckinley bill in terms as
{. severe and unsparing as Roger @. Mills
himself would employ! And he wants
.s1ree trade with Canada as Mr.. Blaine
desires it with South America, and
r neither has any following.
And how about Plumb-Plumb the
4. pride of the Kansas granger! Is he a
Iarepublican? Pray in what? Why, the
ssair is darkened with the hurting
planlks of the republican platform that
he has ripped up and thrown into space
The New York Commercial Advertiser
osof July 26 in commenting on some o.
8, the Kansas senator's recent utterance!
s. {, said:
1.-TWO weeks ago he refused to vote TO,
,hthe steamship subsidy bill. Yesterday
=. he went great deal further and de
Il clared that to meet the annual deficit Of
ffe5O, OOO, 900, which he believed the de-
~ pendent pension bill would create, he
& would propose q duty on incomes and
Increased tax on alcoholic liquors. 1t
- - will be remembered that Senator Plumb
t,'was the author Of the famous remark
srAbout frying the fat out of the manu-.
Il 4, tacturers Of Pennsylvania, and that only
two short time ago he was quoted by re.
s. publican paper at Topeka as saying that
81 though he would not now say that the
sotariff was fetich he was not sure that
=, q he would not say it before long"
nj Well, he did say it. His tariff speech
soln the senate On Friday last might be
- - palmed off for one Of Vests or Vance's
iupr as part of Grover Cleveland's tariff
Msfeform message, so orthodox was it in it,
n sAemocracy, SO heterodox to everything
seHhat the republican party of 1885
napreached to the country. We quote
dsfrom the associated press report few
ii.passages from his speech:
% The American people we're entitled to
hhhave cheap goods, and competition could
airing that about. When was the time com.
ling when the people of the United States
would reap some benefit from the establish.
3. ment of home industries? Just as fast as
the point was arrived at when lower prices
armight be expected the manufacturers came
2, TO congress and said they wanted more du.
saties whereby the downward progress OF
prices might be arrested. He could con.
ceive that the cohorts of protection were SC
organized that the bill was to go through
substantially as it came from the finance
committee. He believed in distributing
the duties necessary for the purpose OF
raising revenue for the support of tho gov
eminent in such way as to equalize condi
tions existing between the manufacturers
of this country and those abroad. If he
We're in doubt be would resolve the doubt
in favor of the American manufacturers on
the same footing precisely. The senate
owed some duty to the American people as
we'll as to the manufacturers. lie would
apply rule to whoever demanded a tax fol
his own benefit, that he should be ready
to show conclusively that his interest was
also the public interest.
Blaine, Cannon, Butterworth, Plumb
"a pretty big four. Will some organ OF
the once 6. o. p. please tell us what is
the political faith of these men? And
if they are republicans, what are Quay
and Wanamaker and Dudley, and the
other fellows who wear the livery? Give
us straight definition of republicauisu
anyhow.