The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-17
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-Two

Again it is announced that Mr.. BLAINE
has not yet settled the time when he will
resume his post in Washington. This will
probably be the story until after the fall
elections take place, about which time we
shall know whether he will resume at all.
During the whole Of the period since he
took his vacatisn, Mr.. B. has managed very
well to conceal his real intentions as to the
future, and continued to work up pretty
general interest in them.
All accounts agree that the Presi-
dent is deporting himself as though
he had heard some good news. Instead Of
the hectoring manner with which he
was won't to meet those who called to take
counsel with him, 1t is said his countenance
wears 8 wreath of smiles. He is election
eering on all sides, and his gracious man
ners indicate that he would fain be under
obligations for ali favors in the line of his
reelection. Whatever may have been his
feelings in the early summer, it is evident
that Mr.. HARRISON has discarded all dis
trust Of the BLAINE movement, and ex-
poets to be its heir and legatee. He ex-
pects further, that the HARRISON admin
istration shall rebound to the credit of the
head Of it, and not to that of the subordi-
nate who so startlingly injected the recip-
rocity issue into the belly of the tariff bill
in order that the secretary of state should
not be forgotten. Henceforth there is to be
no figure in the cabinet who may by per
sonal effort in his department outshine the
executive. The President will direct the
secretary of state was the language of
recent letter from the White House. And
the President in like manner will direct the
rest of his constitutional advisers, so that
whether an order be signed by NOBLE, Fos-
TER, BLAINE or RUsK, it will bear the de-
clarstory 10. r." of the chief magistrate.
1t being settled that either BLAINE or
HARRISON will be the Republican nominee
next year, the next question is, What
shall be the Republican battle-cry!
For time the soft, Thanksgiving, plight
exchanging term "Reciprocity'' caught
the current favor of those looki ng for some
way to escape the growing odium of
protection. But it has been found that
what is best in this is a complete surrender
of the policy of the prohibitive tariff, and
that the whole scheme is only limited free
trade-that instead of curing the evils the
country is burdened with, it simply ex-
tends the boundaries of the protected mar
kets-that if reciprocity is good with the
Southern and Central American cou ntries.
it must be good with Canada, Great
Britain, Germany and France. And so the
people are exactly where they started from,
and the entire contest must be fought over
on the old grounds: high protective
tariff for the benefit of the
northeastern manufacturers, on one side,
aud on the other a recast of the revenue
schedules to confne duties on foreign i'm
portstions to the needs of the government
economically administered.
1t may be safely calculated that in their
platform of 1892 the Republicans will not
place the stress upon protection for pro-
tection's sake that they did IN their plat
form of 1855. This will, indeed, be the
groundwork on which they must derive a
great share of the ''boodle" to try TO carry
the election with; for the manufacturers
can afford to spend a much larger amount
of money than even the goldbugs, the bond
holders, who want to be paid back in gold
what they bought in silver, and whose
interest it is TO maintain a disparity
between the two metals as money for
profit. But important to the Republicans,
nay necessary or imperative, Is is the mat
ter of high tariff, they recognize, as we
have said, its unpopularity as a political
issue, even at the north.
With the danger of honest public
avowals on the tariff and the coinage cues.
tion before them; with the people. and even
the Grand Army of the Republic itself,
tired out with the talk about pensions
what are the Republicans to do for rally.
ing cryl There remains one which is being
held in reserve, and it never yet has failed
90 arouse the fanatical enthusiasm of the
Republican party. 1t is the idea of central.
fsm, and domination Of the south.
When the returns of the presidential
contest Of 1884 showed that CLRvELAN1
had been elected, his unsuccessful CON-
petitor mounted the rostrum and pro
claimed the undylng hatred of the Republi
can party for the whites of the southern
section OF our country. This sentiment
i'll disguised, was pronounced feature Of
Mr.. HARKIsoN's first annual message, Out
of which grew the election or force bill o.
lhe last session. A few bold western Re-
-~tAi-An Senators. added a tho darntaf