Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1891-06-26
For MeKinIe, and the Tarlr.

The RepuhkVan convention which met
at Columbus, Ohio. did the very things
which the Demo ;ratic and nsugwump
press pFsdred and hoped Il would not
do. It esdSrse.l the policy Of the az
min;stration M Us entirety, the Mckin-
by bill, as well US the reel proeity policy
If the government. making the one de-
penden. on the ethcF aud the two togeth-
err the most comprc 1cnsive and progress
sive program that an American govern
laant has ever undertaken The only
outbreaks we're Spontaneous explosions
ef enthusiasm, aud they occurred pretty
often during the proceedings
The speeches had the inspirsiag ring
in them which presagcs victory. Major
Mckinley, who was non.inated by accIa-
NATION for governor, oleveTiy pot into a
few words tariff issue before the people
ave have protected ANerican products
and American labcr. So long as for
eign prodscts can be found to tax which
compete with our own in our market, we
propose to tax them rather than tax our
own. The Democratic party prefers to
tax the domestic product rather than the
i'm ported. Their tariff legislation would
benefit every SOsntry but our own. They
are pledged now to impede, if they can,
the prosperity Of she country until after
the next presidential election. That is
their mission this year. Business dis
asterS and reyerses are the ladder Of
their hopes. Prosperity and content
among the people bring them sure po!it-
icIl defeat. Idle furnaces, dismantled
factories, silent mines. unemployed
workmen, general distress are the sure
harh;Rgers of Democratic victory"
lie makes another great hit when he
says there is no section Of country North
or South that IS not holding out great
inducements to capital to come and es-
tablish factories and develop she natural
resources of the community, some offer
ing money, others Offering 10 suspend
taxes for an indefinite period, as here in
Baltimore, and yet in many Of these To-
ealitics the people are still deluded into
belying their own business convictions
and voting the Democratic ticket. The
time is not far of when they will realize
that there is no good reason why they
should act politically in a manner exact
ly contrary to their own private AMI ppb-
lie interests Senator Sherman, after
reciting the achievements of the Repub-
lean party, touched upon the only Dem
ocratic administration since the war and
said that it had succeeded in impress nc
nothing upon the country except the
sublime egotism of Grover Cleveland
"He devised nothing and accomplished
Dotbing. A Democratic nonse passed
the NJ rs tariff bill, bnt it was rejected
by the Senate and BY the ole in the
election Of 1888. Ii was neither a pro-
tecive tariff nor revenue tariff but a
mongrel affair made up of shreds and
patches furnished here and there by
Democratic members to suit their local
constituencies.
The platform and the s1eeches pro-
n)unce in favor Of the present industrial
policy Of the government as the best that
can be devised. The square issue is
made in Ohio between Republican
principles and Democratic makeshifts.
and, probably, the Ohio Democrats
themselves have no idea of winning III
such contest. american.