New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

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~ much whether the democracy, in ma
tional convention, will proclaim for free
coinage. fsthey should, there would
be no other issue Of significance in the
next campaign. The financial battle
that we have fought in Ohio will then
be transferred to the nation, and con-
test such as we have never seen will be
the result. The tariff will be
prominent. but not the vital point of the
contest.
"Then the Mckinley bill is not the
only thing in sightp''
mot by any means. Its principles,
in the main, are correct. Protection is
a relative term with many degrees.
What pleases one section or one inter-
est excites the ire of another, and it is
extremely difficult to frame a measure
that will be acceptable alike to the con-
sumner, producer and manufacturer
The best and most equitable tariff bill
Luou w dS OVCA A1duOu w do SOuo W SOu~
gress by the commission of which Har-
ry Oliver, of Pittsburg, Pa, was the
president, but the manufacturers
knocked it to pieces by inserting into it
all sorts of petty and >chimerical protec.
ton for pen knives, pearl buttons and
other Yankee notions, until, I am free
to say, it was in many respects a Yam
kee notion bill, dealing with small mat
ters that needed no protection instead
of leaving the protection TO large
industries that were entitled to it. For
instance, the tin plate question is one
1 am in favor of, and there are other
important business enterprises that
I believe should be taken under our
wing, but the Eastern manufacturers
are constantly making an effort to get
themselves into the tariff question when
they need no protection whatever. Let
no man say that I shirk the controversy
upon these questions, but these are my
views, and if you will remember that
when the tariff bill of the commission
was up in the senate fought for its a.
doption as it was presented, but the
majority was against me, and perhaps
one of the mistakes I have made in my
public career was when voted for the
bill after it had been mutilated. The
vote you know, was very close and
perhaps my voice decided it. But after
all, things will right themselves, and the
contest oyer the tariff will bring such
changes as will be beneficial to the
country: But in the main, the principles
ofthe Mckinley billare right, and have
been sustained by the people this year. -
"What lessons does this campaign
tcach?''
"Many. In the first place, the re-
publican party has at times been run.
ming off after too many issues; has
many controversies inside the lines that
have disturbed it. I am not at all dis
turbed as to the result in New York.
In my mind it simply indicates the fact
that Mr.. Platt's power lies in the great
city, and that the country districts are
getting little tired of the intrigues OF
the metropolis and wanted to make ii
manifest this year when there was no
great national issue on hand. They
took this year to do it and Mr.. Fassett,
Mr.. Platt's friend, was the target al
which they shot. I don't think it will
have any bearing whatever upon the
next presidential contest, and it will be
warning to many that at least more
than one man shall he consulted IN a
party organization"
! In fact the results in Ohi6 and Penn.
sylvania state the republican case. We
have talked about many questions, but
what does the result in Ohio mean?
Just what any one would concede. Up
on the financial question the party is
sensitive, but always sound so far as
the republican party is concerned. 1t is
| only the democrats that run eff after
new doctrines, and that is only in the
hope of beating us at a single election.
More than half of the democrats of this
state don't believe in free coinage, and
yet the convention made it part Of
their platform to catch the Farmers
Alliance vote. Gov. Campbell, who is
an able and popular man and who has
made splendid canvass, frankly ad-
mits that he was beaten on that issue.
He says but for free coinage in the dem.
ocratic platform he would have won.
Without knowing, I always imagine he
was opposed to the free silver craze and
to the alliance, or what is called the
peoples party, which, by the way, has
cut most sorry figure in this battle.
You will remember that told you two
months ago that regarded it as folly