Sharp County record., 1890-10-16
In.tsY RENOMiNATED.

- ~; an of the Chicago flatiorH'
q Louis Globe-Democrat the
.poul Pioneer Press, the Chicago
-<t mo the Omaha Bee, the Atchison
~ MON and many other papers
ghout the West which have al
been loyal soldiers in the high
army, have, of late, been very
rc under the leadership of Mr. Nc
ev and those who think with him.
tors Plumb, Ingalls,, Paddock, Man
ou. and even Senators Dawes and
II. and few of the Representatives,
-@<ablv Congressman Butterworth, while
1.<Isting that they are protectionists,
E.ve made more or less vigorous pro-
ssals AGAINST the Mckinley bill. These
-,.ners and statesmen profess the ut
mad LOYALTY to their party, and to Ma
4.oual protective system as we'll. They
|Ibavo no sympathy with the Democratic
marty; and yet McKinfeyism does not
please them,
Thai gentleman has been silent for
some time. The leading papers OF his
own party have abused him without
stint and have discussed his measure
in the most savage terms. And in so
doing they have assailed his political
ortA6doxy. 1t is interesting, therefore,
tahear what he has to say for himself,
OF course he claims that he belongs to
the regular school, and he quotes the
Chicago platform, of which he is the
reputed author in support of his Claim,
What does that document sayP What
was the issue upon which the party
fought the last campaign? What had
the ordinary citizen, who unders food
pain English, right to expect from
tho party which asked him to vote for
III Harrison?
Tariff revision, to be Sure, but of
mat kind? Many people. insist that
Nv Thought that revision meant re-
0tion, and some of them go so far as
IN that had it ben generally sup
coeed that it meant any thing else Mr..
SyI|son would ne ger have reached the
we House, fet the words of this
etlorm are 9 dite plain, and Mr.. Nc
KlnIey appea IS to them in his own de-
ls149 The. promise was to revise the
11F1n In S .dch way as to check tmp0rta-
4hf u is the party's latest utterance
upcA the subject of the tariff. 1t is
b3Qnd by it-that is if party platforms
4 kQer bind any one. 1t was entrusted
with power that it might 'check i'm
& A]n0rtations." Millions of dollars were
Subscrbed to its campaign fund on the
strength of that pledge. Protection for
. Dr0tections sake was the theme of the
orators and the organs. The revenue
r9iormers we're denounced as free trad
4ra because they proposed to do almost
what the Western "kickers" are asking
\ 20 Lave done now.
~ 'fl|e victory was won with the help of
Qnaha Bee, the Chicago Tribune,
IA II Paul Pioneer-Press and Messrs.
Z 4 Z! Ill Butterworth and the rest of
641 Then Mr.. Mckinley set about
York of translatng the platform
13egislation. The result is the Nc
< L1I9y bill, which has provoked howl
s iI <Iong the line. "And what" he asks,
Ine howl about? Have we not done
we could to check importa tions?'
It@ customs Administration bill, which
n NV the law of the land, is denounced
p Ne free traders because it does just
@44<thing, The Mckinley Tariff bill,
N 41on the Senate will pass when it gets
will contribute to the accom-
@1ment Of the same result. The
is carrying out its pledges. You,
]IE' fumb, and you, too, Mr. Blaine
| }pzQVed those pledges when they were
1led4 Shall we stand by them or not?
1.1 is the sole question. l say we
1Ik stand by them, And l say further,
4t whatever may have been the case
ne'o<e 1888, in that year our party was
cQmmltted to the cause Of protection as
emuodied in the Mckinley bill. The
uue 1or protest has gone by The rec
Qru ismade up The party must abide
it~-at least until the next National
Q0nyQntion meets"
3cn is Mr. McKinley's plea. And it
1| pc confessed that it has q plausi-
Rund. The man who makes it is
btodly honestly and earnestly de-
s TO bad cause, while the men
no ore fighting him usually give the
just as effective support when
p time comes though they know it
VI n bad cause.
ther Kansas paper evidently
4 with Mr. McKinley's view of the
lon' 1t says that those protec-
I. who are clamoring for lower
& and an increased free list have no
.ness to be doing 1t on party grounds.
y sympathizing itself with this
or u declares that these demands
We very demands that the tariff re-
'oF41rs made in 1888 and are making
~ thinks that tho dissatisfied
E*'hen Will have to admit that they
n banged their base; that they are
q >ccupying the tariff reform posi-
Pa that all their talk in 1888 about
RrilI not bcing tax, etc, was
humbug 1t certainly looks that
Z quarrel is pretty one, but Mr..
icy seems to have the best of IT,
Is one othcr thing which tells in
or The Plumbs and Mander-