Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-12-23
But this is lust what the protection

But this is just what the protection
lists said would come to pass. Increase
of home manufactures is sure to pro-
duce that "eager competition which
cuts down prices to the bare BONE" To
the free trader the Mckinley bill
Seemed inevitably" to produce !" a ris-
ing market" To the protectionist 1t
seemed inevitably to produce de-
crease of prices as soon as its protective
it is mplishing this end more rapid
ly than the most ardent protectionist
dared to hope.-NeD York Recorder.
In Sorry Plight.
The great Democratic majority in the
House of representatives. is in sore
trouble. It is divided against itself.
The ll-Cleveland-Mill wing has re-
ceived a terribly black eye; and the
South and free silver wing Is in the sad
die. The feeling of bitterness against
the Hill-Cleveland wing is illustrated
by the following dispatch, sent from
Washington two days before Crisp s
election, to the New York Times, a
strong Cleveland paper:
Gen. Villas, Don NJ. Dickinson, and,
later on, and in his own way, Senator
Palmer, have expressed the opinion that,
if the caucus should nominate Crisp for
speaker, CHG pdTIy Lu1gIt DIS Weh SlVo uP
all hope OF hereafter carrying anything III
the Northwest. The ''disruption of the
Democratic Party In Illinois will be but
a part Of a great disruption. There is now
intense indignation among the Democrats,
who have been convinced that the Crisp
candidacy has been a scheme Of lnarplots
like German and Hill to wreck the Demo
cratic party, and the intimation given to
some of the weak congressman, that they
would expose themselves to a raking at
home next fall if they presumed to 1un for
Congress, has led them to halt in their de-
termination to support the candidate OF
the Atlantic and Gulf states as against the
candidate of the whole country.
But here is another dispatch-full of
dependency and even more significant
than the other-from Washington to the
st. Louis Republic, another Cleveland
organ:
The pressure from the outside is still
very great. Cal. Brice, who favOrS sub
sides, fat appropriations and high tariff
on the industries in which he is interested,
has his agents here working for Crisp.
Senator German is in active charge of the
Crisp forces. Tammany Hall and David
| b. Hall, of New York, are squirting on
| CriSp's followers. In fact, everybody who
| has an interest in the lobby, who fav0rs
| big appropriations and liberal steals and a
retrograde movement on tariff reform on
| " v
ing Crisp. Senator Carlisle, a farseelng,
prudent, conservative man, said last night
that the election of Crisp would cost the
| Democratic party 900 votes at the next
national election. 1t is believed now that
the danger point oil Crisp is over, and many
of his hackers. especially bis chief hackers,
are still working with might and MAN,
with every influence at their disposition tC
| defeat Mills. They know that the Texas
statesman is the foe of iobbery in every
form, that he is the foe of tariff robbery, and
that public plumber would have poor
chance under his administration of the
| House OF Representatives But the CO.
hesive power of public pluEder is very
great, and con sequen ly Mills friends are
still apprehenSive, though hopeful.
So we have it on the authority of Sen
ator Carlisle, "a far-seelng, prudent
conservative" Democrat-that the Dem
ocrats will lose 500, 900 votes next yeal
on account OF the election of Crisp. Al
| the loss of SOC, 900 Democratic votes viii
| give the presidency to the Republican,
| beyond a peradventure, the Republic
ans are especially thankful for the cleo
ton of Mr.. Crisp. Five hundred thou
sand votes is great help IN times like
these, and will put the Republican par
ty square on it's feet.
The editorial wall of the Newport
Times, since the election of Crisp, is il
this pathetic language:
| The election OF Mr.. Crisp by the coali-
ton of the demagogy of Hill, the spoil
mongering of Tammany, the protection
| ism of German and Brice, the half-corr upt
Mathematical free silver movement and
old South. must inevitably ''give pause tt
the men who have believed that the Dem
! ocratic party would be a fit instrumentali-
| ty for the accomplishment of tariff reform
and for the clean and honest administra-
1 tion of tho O0VnrnmoOt