The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-03

The Examiner of this city and the IFcrtd
of New York have been entertaining their
readers with estimates Of the result of the
forthcoming election on the basis OF 1890.
Our Democratic friends seem to have for
gotten that since 1890 their party has held
national convention and marked out new
policy on the most important issues Of the
day. In 1890 the Democrats were in favor
of some kind Of tariff reform with incl
dental protection as its leading feature.
In their recent national conventions they
resolved that in reducing duties care should
be taken of industries that had sprung into
existence under the tariff. In the platform
adopted at Chicago in 1892 this incidental
protection idea was repudiated. No form
or degree of protection was to be tolerated.
The only duties the constitution authorizes
are duties for purposes Of revenue only.
Until this fateful resolution was adopted
the Democratic outlook was bright On the
basis of 1890 they had many more States
than enough TO elect their candidate. Re-
publicgns generally admitted that the
Democrats would win if they refrained
from making the blunder which General
Grant used to say the Republicans could
rely upon their making at the right time.
They justified General Grants estimate Of
their political discretion. With victory al
most in their hand they incorporated into
their platform of 1892 a declaration that a
protective tariff was unconstitutional. In
doing so they declared the founders OF the
party to have been ignorant Of the intent OF
the constitution. They rejected the doc
trlnes of Jackson and accepted those of
Calhoun. They preferred the bold and
beedless WattersOn to the prudent and sa-
gacious Tilden-the man who in 1877 wanted
to march 100000 Kentuekians to Washing
ton TO the man who bravely accepted the
decision he agreed to accept.
Tue events of the past few months call
for a revision of the figures of 1890 There
is not a State in the North that is not
threatened with disaster by the election OF
Cleveland on a strictly tariff for revenue
platform. The eight or ten lines which de-
clare the protection of American labor I'M
constitutional will cost the party State
for each line. New York, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts.
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Rhode Island.
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska are almost
certain 10 reverse the decision OF 1890.
They will reverse it ON the ground that
Democracy In 1892 does not mean what
Democracy meant in 1890. These twelve
States, allowing four Democratic dis
trcts in Michigan, cast $50 electoral
votes, which in an estimate may be
fairly added to the 116 the Democrats adj
nit to be reasonably certain tor Harrison.
Probably the Democrats will not admit the
possibility of the Republicans carrying
New Jersey. 1t should be borne in mind.
however, that about thirty of the political
strikers who in recent elections have given
the Democrats their large majOrities in past
years are now in the peniteDtiary serving
out long sentences for crimes against the
election laws. In the present campaign
the services OF these men will be unavail-
able. No one can more than conjecture
how New Jersey would vote if the vote was
fair and The count correct