St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-27
Every Republican Platform
for Protection Save
One.
And It Is a Dodge, Conceived
in Fear and In
iquity.
John Lind and "Dar" Hall Left
to Fight Their Battles
Alone.
How the Rice County Men
Marched to Glencoe and
Back.
A party of many platforms.

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For conclusive prof that the Repub-
lican party of Minnesota is utterly az
sea on the tariff question, there is no
ueed of going further than the state
and congressional platforms thus FAR
adopted by the party. Whether or moi
the state committee, to be selected
later, will be able to so s'coach" the
speakers that they will be able to make
protectionlst speeches in the second
and third districts, and free trade
speeches in the fifth, fair trade in the
fourth, and good, plain, honest tariff
reduction speeches in the first district,
remains to be seen. 1t is more than
likely they will be instructed to say
nothing about the tariff question at all.
and shrek about estate issues"
But how will this mode of procedure
please Messrs. Dunnell, Lind. Hall,
Snider and Comstock, who walked right
up to the rack and voted for the lnia-
nous, outrageous and lndefenslDle NC
Kinley bill?
Will these congressman take kindly to
the programme of the new state COM
mittee in the coming contest? they
realize that their fight must be made on
national issues, and two of them have
already been placed in the field on plat
forms indorsing McKinley's bill and
protection. Are they to be left to pad
die their own canoes? Congressman
Hall and Lind voted for the Mckinley
bill, and they came home and secured
an Endorsement from their constltu,
ents. Of course the postOffices helped
them in getting this Endorsement.
but thew had the nerve to demand
it and it was given to them. Their fight
must be made on the issue of high pro-
lection versus tariff reduction, as will
be seen clearly from the tariff planks
of the Glencoe and Mankato conyen-
lions, which will be given below. Foil
ticians of the caliber of Sam Nichols,
D. M. Clough, and others OF the pot
house order who think that so many
dollars mean so many votes. ana VINO
arc totally unable to realize that there
is such thing possible as political
contest fought on principle and JUS
tice in Minnesota. may see their way
clear to make a fight for Merriam on
estate issues" without imperiling the
success of the entire congressional ticket
of the party, but they are alone in this.
Here is .'Dar" HALLS tariff plank,
adopted at Glencoe on July 16:
Resolved, That we favor the principles OF
protection to American industries and mar
kets and reduction of the tariff to meet
the necessities of the times.
The tariff plank in John Limbs plat
form is somewhat more lengthy, put
sifted down it is Identical with the flrst
platform on which he went before the
people of the Second district in 1885,
1t is for protection for protectors
sake" from first to last, and is proDaj
bly, the work Of Mr.. Lind himself, as 1T
was presented by his man Friday, Cen
sus Supervisor ii. j. Miller, OF ROCK
county. Here it is:
That intelligence and independence on
the part of all of our citizens are necessary
to the permanency of our institutions ana
the welfare of our people. 10 insure tnls
we deem it only proper that the government
should by proper legislation protect our TEL
low citizens who are employed in the mines,
the mills and workshops throughout our
land against an unfair competition OF foreign
labor, compelled to work for starvatlon
wages and to end their days in the poorhouse.
ly paid, better customer for our Hour ana z
produce than the paupers OF Europe ana
Asia, but in the application of this principle
we demand that the interests OF
duction be equally benefited, and
to this end we are in favor OF putting sugar
and other necessaries of life, of which our
own country cannot be made to produce, on
the free list. We most heartily approve OF
the action of congress in placing raw material
for binding Irvine on the free list and reduc-
ing the duty of the manufactured article. as
has been done in the measures now pending.
While we endorse the policy of protection to
American industry, as above indicated, and
for the purpose of raising the necessary rev.
enue for pension and other legitimate ex-
penses of government we are opposed to the
imposition of any higher duties than are alb
solutely necessary to enable our own people
to meet the competition abroad without sac
rificing American manhood and independ-
ence.
In the face of these two platforms,
which so clearly express the doctrines
and principles of the National Republi-
can party, Gen. Gordon E. Cole, the paid
attorney of corporations, had the
nerve" to present, and the late Repub-
| lican state convention the cowardice to
| indorse. the following evasive and dis
gushing utterance on the greatest po-
litical Issue of the day:
| Secondhand, having the requirements of
| the government in view, our tariff laws
| should be so adjusted as to best protect our
| American industries and bear fairly and
| equitably on all sections and interests of the
| country. 1t cordially approves Of the policy
| recommended by Mr.. Blaine of such recip-
| rocity treaties with the republics Of Southern