The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-05-20
THE KlNIBALLG GRAPHIC
CLATE H. TINAN.
Official Paper Of the City and County
PROTECTION AND REPuBLICAN1sM

put up man to be beaten. tell you.
the men that work in the shops and
factories don't trust free trader. Then
this blanked MCKINLEY bill has added
lot of works, one in my town that en-
ploys fifty hands. About all used to be
Democrats. and now reckon we can't
get the votes of a half-dozen of them."
Now the Boston Transcript, Republic
can paper, published recently table of
very striking figures, compiled by cor
respondent who signs himself "A Repub.
lican Always" a signature which we
know to be perfectly truthful. He says
that the year 1880 and 1891 offer good
standard for comparison. In 1880 the
war Democrats had returned to their
party. The war was gone by. General
GARFIELD was no more striking patri-
Otic figure than General HANCOCK. The
Republicans had no particular advantage
nor the Democrats especial disadvantage.
The election was fair test OF the
strength of the hold of each party upon
public congdence. There was no tariff
issue. and the Republicans carried the
State by more than $1,000 majority.
But in 1891 the parties agreed to make
the MCKINLEY tariff the issue. the Re-
publicans claiming that in 1890 the
people were confused and the MCKINLEY
tariff misunderstood, but that in 1891 all
this should he corrected and tho truth
universally made known. The canvass
of that year-last autumn-wa thorough.
The tariff was discussed everywhere, and
both parties made every effort to bring
out their full vote, and the Democrats
elected their Governor by more than
5000 majority. The MCKINLEY tariff was
enacted pr0fessedlY for the interests of
operatives, laborers, and artisans. If it
were really SO, and if they believe it to
be so in a manufacturing state like
Massachusetts,. there should be great
increase in the Republican majority in
all manufacturing towns. In other
words, the abhorrenct of what the Til
bune story calls the free-traders should
be most emphatically marked. What
are the facts?
[ Here follows table showing the vote
Of thirty-seven towns and cities in 1880
and 1891. The total vote was:
Republican. .54,375 54.345
Democratic .39,459 6l,3o2
Republican gain. 30
Democratic gain, u 1881
1t is evident says this Republican Al
ways" that not only in Massachusetts
but in Rhode Island and Connecticut,
the three States where there is more
manufacturing industry to the square
mile than in any other part of the
country, there is an indisputable tendency
toward the Democratic party, which has
been showing itself since the Republican
party has been taking more and more II
high-protectiOn course. The same auth
ority points out another interesting fact:
ut is worthy of note that the public
men who advocate high protection make
no impression on their own neighbors
and townsmen. They go to Washington
and elsewhere and produce speeches, let
ters, articles, pamphlets. statistics, pla-
cards, but the people whom they know
best and who know them best give no
heed to them. The reader will connect
Lowell with Mr.. Allen, Lawrence with
WA Russell, Lynn with Mr.. Lodge,
Worchester with Mr.. Hoar aud Mr.. Wal
ker. New Bedford with Mr.. CrapO, Chico
yee with Mr.. Robinson. Pittstield with
Mr.. Dawes, GrOt0n with Governor Bout
we'll, Milford with the Drapprs. and Can
ton with Mr.. Morse. Why is it that the
working-men OF these places put no con-
fiaence in the arguments and figures
Republican leaders put before them
These leaders succeeded to the charge of
a great and victorious party. but what
have they been doing with it?"
This candid friend asks parting
question which may we'll be ponder,d
by those concerned. If the manufac-
turing towns and cities keepup the same
political tendency for the next five years
that they have shown for the last eleven
during the period that the high-protec-
tion policy has been urged. what is ia
prevent Massachusetts, from becoming a
hopelessly Democratic state? Ex-Speak.
er REEDsaid that there was something
grotesque in the fact that the RepuI.
licans had to fight to keep Rhode Island
But they must fight also to keep Massa
chusetts and Connecticut. 1t is evident
that New England is coming to agre,
with General GARFIELD in preferring
the protection that ultimates in free
trade, and not McKilleyism.- Harper's
Weekly.