The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-16
Gtre GntelIigeneer.
An Undcccived People.

The Democratic party in tho various
states in which elections will be held
his fall is, to use homely expression
in hole of its own digging 1t is q
case OF chickens coming home to
roost," and is all owing to the plan Of
campaign adopted last year, when the
party was successful, wholly by reason
of the uttcrances OF the most outrage,
Gus falsehoods that ever disgraced q
political contest. Since then the peo-
ple have been undeceived and every lie
and every prediction based OH lie ut
tered by tho Democratic orators and
newspapershas been disproven. Hence
it is that the Democratic party is hay
ing an uphill row to hoe this year.
Last year the time between the pas
sage OF the Mckinley law and the cleo
ton was so short as to give free traders
an opportunity to deceive the people as
to its results. Some Of its most i'm
portant features had not even taken
effect at oil, but this did not make any
difference with the campaigners who
realized they we're in desperate situa-
ton and we're ready to use any means,
even dishonest means, to gain victory.
Republicans we're as helpless as honest
people always are against atrocious
falsehoods. They could not retute the
misstatements regarding the effect OF
tho Mckinley bill, because the time was
too short They could only "bide their
time" and wait until the people them
selves could learn by experience and
observation how grossly they were be-
ing deceived. Now their time has
come; the Democratic dishonesty has
been exposed and the Democratic falsi-
Gers are beginning to realize that they
arc about to be brought to judgment.
They are embarrassed by the fact that
their receptions have been laid bare
and that the people have grown to
distrust them.
Had they confined their attacks on
tariff to legitimate bounds, to reason
and argument, they would not now be in
this embarrassing position. But they
didn't, and that is why they are sorry.
They asserted that the new tariff would
increase the revenue Of the government
while the revenue was already danger
ously large-that the surplus was much
larger than it really WINS or than il
ong6t to be. With their usual reckless
style Of prophecy they declared that
the Mckinley bill would increase the
price of the neccssaries OF life
and, with an unscrupulousness born
Of desperate desire to win by
fair. means or foul, actually started
the Increased price" movement
among the merchants OF the country,
which only lasted until it served its pur,
pose, which was to elect Democratic
Congress. They sent peddlars through
the country with instructions to ask ex-
orbitant, ii not actually prohibitive
prices for their wares, and to tell
the people tho increase was due to the
Mckinley bill. But why enumerate all
these things? That campaign Of false
hood, reckless predictions aud fraud is
still fresh in the minds of the people
all the freshor because they are re-
minded Of. it by the present condition
otatfairs. They are contrasting the
effect Of the Mckinley bill as seen
to-day with the gloomy picture drawn
for them on the stump and in the
papers year ago, and they see that
every prediction has been proven false
They see our foreign trade greatly in
creased and that the price Of the neces'
saries Of life hero at home have moi
risen, but in some cases have been
reduced. They see new industries TAX
ing life, and increased employment
given to labor. They see new markets
opened up to American products by
reason Of the reciprocity clause in the
Mckinley bill, and more money coming
into the country than is going out OF it,
They see these and many other things
that 60 to prove that the Democrats
made a dishonest campaign last year
and they are not, in the light of the
evidence, going to be fooled in 1891.
This is why the Democratic managers
in the States whore elections are to be
held, feel that they are Sin a hole" and
are casting about for new issues with
which to divert the minds of the people
from the Protection ISSUE But they
will not succeed and. Protectionists dc
not intend that they shall succeed
Protection to American industries has
come to stay. That will be tho voice Of
Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania and New
York this year and 1t will be the voice
Of the country next year. The Demo
cratic party builded better than II
knew when 1t made the dishonest cam
paign Of 1900
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