The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1891-01-15
THE FOLLY OF M'KINLEYIsM.
How "Bright Republicans" Have Had
Their Eyes Opened.

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How "Bright Republicans" Have Had
Their Eyes Opened.
The McKinlel&Is constantly are
harping upon the excuse that the voters
of the country did not understand the
provisions of the tariff bill and what it
is meant to accomplish, or they would
have rallied at the polls last fall and
supported it instead of voting against
it by hundreds of thousands. The
New York Tribune, among other Nc
Kinley organs, has made this statement
and repeats it. 1t is the only explana-
ton it can give of the overwhelming de-
feat of the bill. But mark how plain a
tale shall put it down.
In July last Mr.. Elijah r. Kennedy
Northwest. Being an observing man
he kept both eyes open and had fire.
quent talks with all classes of people.
So impressed was he with what he saw
and heard that upon his return he wrote
out the results of his observations and
the high-tariff New York Tribune
printed them under the conspicuous
title What a Wide-Awake Republican
Observed in the West" 1t should be
taken into account that when this wide
awake Republican started in July he
was under the impression from assur-
ances conveyed to him that the McKin-
ley bill twas immensely popular in the
agricultural States and would confirm
our hold on those States" On his re-
turn, August 6, he wrote to the Tribune:
Well, 1 have talked with the best judges Of
the political situation in Wisconsin, men also
peculiarly well informed on affairs in the other
Northwestern States, and deem 1t duty to de-
clare that the final enactment OF the Mckinley
bill in any thing like the shape in which it now
stands will lose us the next Congress and will
render it next to impossible for the Democrats
to bungle and blunder sufficiently to enable US
to elect successor to President Harrison.
Thus three months before the election
this wide-awake Republican discovered
what the results of McKinleyism would
be. He found that the Republicans did
understand the bill, and the Tribune
printed his warning, though it has not
had the good sense to heed it. He found
that the people of both the Dakotas,
Minnesota and Wisconsin land if he had
made observations in Iowa, Illinois and
Michigan the same discovery would
have been apparently understood that
the Mckinley bill increased the duties
over a wide area of the common neces-
sites of life, and in consequence were
dissatisfied profoundly as long ago as
last July. They were well posted, for
as fast as the items of the Mckinley
bill were formulated the press told the
public all about it, and it's increases,
gouges' and steals were exposed. La
Toilette, of Wisconsin, of the ways and
means committee; Gear, of Iowa; Julius
Ceser Burrows, of Michigan, and Nc
Kinley himself read the Kennedy letter,
and in spite of it's sign-post of danger
ahead they were willfully blind leaders
of the blind. They closed their eyes
with contemptuous Indifference to all
these signs of popular displeasure and
foolishly, viciously and wickedly pilot
ed the Republican party into the ditch,
aided by parcel of weak henchmen
and purblind followers in Congress and
shallow-pated newspaper editors like
the Des Moines Register job lot. A
pretty mess they have made of it! In
the glazing light of the November defeat
the Kennedy letter is significant read.
ing now.-Chicago Tribune (Rep.).