Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-10-28
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM M. McKAIG,
ON AIIEcA ANY COITNTY
WEAKNESS AND DISC UST.
OF ALLEGANY COUNTY.

HhdHINhIoO AMI DICU VOL
The utterances of Carl Schurz and Mr..
MacVeagh in this canvass have particular
interest and value because they undoubtedly
express feeling that is very general among
intelligent Republicans, a feeling of weari-
ness and disgust at the manner in which
the party has acted with reference to the
continuation Of the burdens imposed under
the present tariff system.
This is especially true of the utterances of
Mr.. MacVeagh, because he has come later
to realization of the hopelessness of the
situation in which the Republican party is
involved Up to the very last Presidential
election he chung TO the hope that his party
would be able TO reassert its own real pur-
pose, to set aside the men who for selfish
ends had so signally changed its course, and
to resume useful and honest work in the
interests of the people and Of good govern
ment
For it must be remembered that the Nc
Kinley bill was never demanded, and has
never soberly been approved by the mass
Of the Republican party. 1t was not prom
ised in the platform, it was not indicated by
the speakers or the papers OF the Repub-
lican party in 1888, it was not expected by
the party generally. 1t was the invention
of the Ways and Means Committee in con.
spiracy with a relatively small number of
very rich men who had profited by the old
tariff, who resisted all reduction and who
were ready TO purchase new favors from the
National Legislature. 1t was a measure
not only without principle but without any
Ineligible guiding idea. There was no
possible excuse for increasing import taxes,
and there was every reason why they should
be reduced. There was nothing that could
be called public opinion in favor of higher
tariff rates, and in all the debates we re-
member no pretense that there was any
such public opinion. II the leaders Of the
Republican party had been guided by the
hope of satisfying the majority of the Amer
lean people, they would never for an instant
have thought of increasing taxation. They
were guided by no such hope. They were
almost openly indifferent TO what the ma
joriiy wanted. They were after the contri-
buttons of the men they were enriching and
whom they knew they were enriching.
1t seems as if the Republican party was
utterly unable TO get rid Of the corrupt men
and the corrupting policy bred of the sale
of tariff favors. With every effort II sinks
back under the same unwholesome rule
No wonder that multitudes of self.respecting
and sensible Republicans are saying to
themselves that q time has come for a change
when honest and capable men must be
placed at the front. That the Republican
party has become so corrupt, so dishonest,
SO regardless of the interests of the people,
that all decent men turn from it with feel.
ings of disgust,
Such men as MacVeagh, Gresham and
others are tired of Its wild extravagance-
of its continuation of its tariff imposition,
its robbing the poor for the benefit of the
rich--ofits shameful payment, in tariff boun-
ties, of the manufacturers, trusts and mil
lionaires who are supplying the campaign
funds of the Republican party, and they
have openly proclaimed to the world that as
good citizens il is their duty TO assist the
people 10 their effort 10 obtain a clean and
economic government. This is what the
Democratic party is trying to accomplish,
and IL is bent upon success.