Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-11-14
Why's and Wherefores.

ly the other day, and there is some truth
in the remark-s great many hepnDhcans
voted the Democratic ticket, or part OF
1t. this year.
I'm this county we did well, considering
the general wreck elsewhere; we lost but
one man. and that was due to the personal
popularity and untiring activity Of his
oppouent; but in our Congressional district
With a good man and just cause,-as We
ssv it.-our candidate came out second
best.
He carried Beaver and Butler counties
taken together, as the vote shows, but IN
Mercer county he ran across soiid wall
of prejudice against Quay, and all our argu-
mants were unheeded and our efforts fruit
less to any great degree.
The people up there seemed to consider
the affair mere game of beat between
ouay and their man. They looked upon Mr..
Phillips as Quay's candidate; they consider
ed that as their men had beaten Quay at
his own game of deceit and bribery, ne
should have submitted to it as others had
done to his, and as between the two men
they would stick to their home man, and
they did SO.
ON the other hand Major Mcdowell,
though he had some warm personal friends
in this county and made something OF q
canvass of it, and flooded the county with
literature in his interest, made but little
better impression here.
The result is Democratic Congressman,
and unless we hereafter nominate by the
popular vote it may happen again.
The State went Democratic, and Robert
e. Pattison is again elected Governor.
Our candidate was forced upon us by the
use Of Federal patronage all over the State,
thing that Republicans did not like, and
when the young mans short record turned
out to be anything but what it should have
been, apathy turned to disgust, and his
name was scratched off thousands of Re
publican tickets.
The result Of the election this year Is, or
should be, particularly humiliating to Mr..
Quay. In his own county his son is elected
to the Assembly by but small fraction Of
the usual Republican majority; his State
Senste district elected a Democrat; his
Congressional district elected Democrat,
and his State elected Democratic Gov
srnor-sll due in part to his trickery-
and in the elections Of every Northern
State that went against Us this Fall his
dinepute ss Chairman Of our National
Committee was one Of the elements Of our
weakness.
Take Massachusetts, for instance, where
there is some little dissatisfaction over the
Tariff Schedules on the necessaries OF life
late railroad bill scandal in the Legislature;
the only Boston paper that we have the
reading Of after summarizing the causes OF
the Republican defeat there, adds, and
finally, the election Of yesterday has cx-
pressed the sentiment of Massachusetts
upon the degradation Of politics, as seen in
the retention Of Quay at the head Of the
Republican organisation and in the
atoms Of the tariff bill and the organisa-
tion Of new party, to which must be add
Cd in every case, the disrepute Of our
National Chairman, caused our defeat.
Too little attention has lstely been paid
to the moral character Of Republican lead
ers. When 0 New York paper some
months ago held Mr.. Quay up to the world
IS . public thief giving dates and
details of happenings, and daring
him to prosecute, the other members of the
National Committee should have demand
cd of him that he either vindicate himself
in the courts or resign his position on the
Committee.
Pattison acted promptly when his public
record was attacked and secured humili-
ating retraction from Quay's "organ" in
Philadelphia, but Quay, through his son
at Harrisburg, demanded the nomination
of Mr.. Delamater as his yindication and he
got it, and the party suffered for the alb
surdity.
The long delay in the passage of the Nc
Kinlcy bill by the Senate, due to the diff
ferences Of opinion among the Senators,
and its passage on the eve Of the election
enabled spectators to misrepresent it.
Very little, II any, change was made in
the schedule on wool, but on woolen
cloths some loop-holes were closed that
importers had taken advantage of, and this
caused some of the clothing jobbers
to send out word to the retailers, that
their next order for clothing would cost
them more; the schedule on carpets was
raised from one-fourth to one-third, to
shut out some foreign makes Of carpets
and the carpet manufacturers immediately
sent word to the retailers OF their intention
TO increase the price of home made goods;
thing for which there was no excuse
whatever, and If the carpet manufacturers
have entered into combine or trust, Con-
gress should take prompt action regarding
1t ct its next session, a. they have the pow
or in their hands to knock all such COM
bines "higher than KITE
The schedule on leather was reduced
but no word was sent out BY the boot and
shoe manufacturers Of reduction in the
price Of these articles.
Sugar was put on the free list but the
sugar refiners have sent no word TO the
jobbers, and the jobbers have sentno word
TO the grocers of reduction in the price OF
1t.
Where increases have been made in the
schedule and where new articles, like tin
plate, have been taxed. the object is to
foster new industries in this country, and
the increase In price will be temporary,
and on the other hand the tariff has been
taken of everything we do not and cannot
produce. Half the articles imported into
this country are to-day on the free list.
More reductions than increases have
been made, and before two years roll by
the people Of the Western States will have
different opinion Of the new tariff bill
from what they now have.
One argument made by Democrats right
here in Butler against having tariff at all
is very provoking. They cannot see why
we should have tariff to help build up
local industries and then allow foreigners
to come in do the work. The answer te
that Is that 1t is only true in part.
Take our Plate Glass Works for instance.
It would not be here to-day were it not for
the protective tariff on plate glass. 1t