The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-04
GEN. G. II. GROSvENOR
On the Republican Outlook and the
Issues for '92.

The Cyclone. OF Washington @. H., ad.
dressed the following questions to q
number OF prominent Republicans:
1. How does the result Of the No.
vember election affect the future Of the
Republican party?
g Is not the Mckinley tariff bill the
true Republican policy?
8. Will not the great battle for the
Presidency iD 1892 be fought upon the
Mckinley law?
4. What legislation should the ad.
jeurned session of the 51st Congress en-
act in furtherance of a sound public and
party policy?
The following reply from Gen. G. H.
Grosvenor is a pretty good analysis of
the situation:
Dear Sirs:-Replving 'oyour questions
l have to say:
First 1t is difficult to say chow the
result of the November election will ef.
feet the future Of The Republican party"
beyond the mere fact that it gives con.
glomerate party control of the House of
Congress think it will tend to make
the Republican party more alert, ,vigilant
and united in 1891, in Ohio, and the
same in the whole country in 1892. Per.
sonal leadership and hero worship will
disappear and we shall proceed to vindi.
cate the party, and the country, and
leave personal strife and controversies
out of consideration. In the view of
eminent and great danger the Republi.
can party always becomes wise, brave
and efficient
Second. The Mckinley bill was or.
dered by the verdict of 1888. The Con.
gress was compelled to pass it because
we had promised to do so and the peo.
pie had said So To run away from it
now would be cowardly and absurd. 1t
is the best revenue bill the wit of man
ever devised, and will produce enormous
good as soon as the misrepresentation
of the modern Annaniases h We reacted
Nobody will be so much benefited as the
farmer in whose interests the bill was
formed. To doubt the ultimate popu.
larity of the bill would be to doubt the
common sense or common honesty of
the people.
Third. The great battle OF 1892 will
be fought upon the Mckinley law. We
must win OF lose upon that issue. We
shall win. To weaken now would be a
confession of blunder. To political
party blunder is as bad as crime.
Equally fatal Wherever we stood up
like men and made no apology we won
this year.. Witness gain in McKinley's
district Of 2 700, and in Fosters OF ZOO,
and 30 on.
No matter whom We nominate for
President, the Mckinley law will be the
issue, and this battle will begin in Ohio
next year. Some say Ohio is to have a
estate campaign" and so national issues
must not come in. Yes, it is a State
campaign, out of which is TO come Sen.
ator to succeed John Sherman, and the
question OF at least eight members of the
House of the SD Congress. Lose Ohio
in 1891 for Governor and the Legislature
and there will be nothing left to us in
1892. We shall witness a State cam
paign in Ohio next year such as no living
man has ever witnessed before. If we
are honest and brave, as we will be, we
shall elect 70 members of the House and
2l Senators. The Democrats will get 81
members of the House and IL Senators.
Fourth. The Congress should 90 on
and enact at the short session Just such
laws as we should have done If the up.
heaval had not come. Among them:
The apportionment bill, the labor bill,
the Supreme Court bill, the bankruptcy
bill, the antitrust and vicious immigra-
ton bills, some additional pension leg
islation looking to an adjustment and
equalization of pensions. The election
law, and such measures 70 increase the
volume of honest money as may be wise.
Also, we should pass laws looking still
more strongly toward wise system of
trade 80 as to open to our
producers markets abroad for our pro.
ducts. There may be more matters de-
manding attention Closely related to
foreign markets is the question of better
merchant marine.
Yours truly,
@. II, GRosyRNoR.