The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-05
REprnIroAN ApvANTAeEs.
Murat Halstsad Tells How Things Al
Working for Harrison and Reid.

Murat Halstsad Tells How Things are
Working for Harrison and Reid.
Ees York Herald.
Tho week of extremely high tempera-
ture has reduced political activities,
Committee machinery is not runningat
full speed.
The news from the wheat and corn
countries of tho west and northwest
discourages the calamity politicians:
The yield of wheat now being harvested
will DO the greatest ever known. Rye
barley and oats are good also, and the
heated term makes certain an enormous
corn crop. This is favorable to the ad-
ministration. When the people are
prosperous they are not revolutionary.
The Homestead strike fingers, but is
beaten. Tho strikers lost sympathy
first through their arbitrary and violent
methods, then their attitude toward tho
military, and finally by the intrusion OF
anarchical assassination. Frick, re-
covered from his wounds, commands
the situation. The knowledge OF the
true condition OF the Carnegie mills
character of plant, wages paid tho men
and tho excellence OF their accommo-
Enthusiastically impress the country
with the results OF the protective sys-
tenn. Mr.. Cleveland's hostile comment
on "the abiding place OF protection"
therefore strikes back and hurts him.
Democratic great expectations, enter
tanned q fortnight ago, OF partisan ad-
yantagos from strikes arc disappointed.
Taking the revelations in tho red light
of tho strike, of what the iron mills and
labor towns in our Pennsylvania black
country are, and protection gets tho
most effective favorable advertisement
in its history.
This streak OF good fortune for the
Republican party is attended by an
other closely related to 1t, indeed part
OF it. In marked degree, for ten days,
the current Of events has compelled the
discussion OF the tariff issue almost un-
mixed with other matter. This ques.
ton was very unfortunately presented
for the Democrats ut Chicago, Strate-
cetically, they have sought to rush the
Force bill reminisence forward, but the
movement has failed. The Alabama
election has just settled the solidity Of
the South for the Democracy, and the
Force bill is a race and sectional affair.
Without tho race issue four or five
southern states would be Republican on
the industrial questions. Within the
South sentiment overrules business
considerations, and it is tho public
opinion outside southern lines that is
sought and is decisive.
The tariff discussion has the serious
business in 1t and has swept away the
shams. Never before was tho question
whether to maintain or reject the pro-
tectiye system 70 fairly before the peo-
pie rs now, and it is the overbearing,
unavoidable question. Tho Democrats
are at disadvantage in tariff debate,
because they assault protection with
generalities without defining their tariff
reform. Whether they would retax
sugar and destroy reciprocity treaties is
unknown to themselves. The conduct
OF Congress and tho Chicago platform
and the record Of Cleveland make
further discussion and evasion OF the
rugged tariff issue, free trade or pro-
lection, impossible. That the Democ-
racy are in q position that is misfof-
tune is manifest.
The Alabama election, proving the
South solid for tho Democrats, will
dampen the ardor OF the Alliance in
the Northwest. While the farmer
politicians might prefer Omaha doc
trines to those Of Minneapolis, they
will not subscribe to the Chicago pro-
hibition OF protection or aid the South
to grasp the government.