New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-07-06
OUT FROM AMBUSH, AT LAST.
Cleveland to Make a Square Fight
For Free Trade.

Cleveland to Make Square Fight
For Free Trade
An Extraordinary and Damaging Action
on the Part Of the Chicago convention.
The nomination of the two parties fol-
President and Vice President are now
made. The platform Of each party has
been formulated and published to thu
world. / desire in this article to state
how much am pleased with the present
situation, and why am confident OF sue
cess for the Republican party in the com
ing conflict.
The issue between the two parties is
now. clear cut and distinct. Thecomln
contest will of necessity be more con-
fict between principles than men. The
Administration of President Harrison
has been devoted to an enforcement OF
the principles upon which he was cleo
ted in 1888. So far as / know he has
never swerved a single iota from the doc
trines laid down in the platform OF the
Republican party adopted at Chicago four
years ago.
The Republican platform adopted at
Minneapolis is an unequivocal statement
of the doctrines in which the Republican
party believes. There is no evasion. no
straddling, no obscurity, nodouble mean
ing. The platform leaves the party just
where it found it, in favor OF Protection,
in favor of Reciprocity, in favor OF hon
est money, fair elections and an honest
count. might say that even without
any platform, the position of Mr.. Harri-
son and MI. Reid on each Of these ques-
tons would not have been in doubt.
Every act and deed of President Harri-
son during his entire Administration has
been such that there is no chance for
doubt as to where he stands on the vital
issues of the hour. The position of Mr..
Reid is Just as we'll understood. Until he
resigned his connection with the editori-
al and business details of the newspaper,
over three years ago, he had been foryears
the controlling manager Of the leading
Republican journal of the United States.
He has never published word which
has not been in perfect accord with the
cardinal doctrines Of the Republican par
ty.
Upon all vital questions, the Demo-
cratic party stands directly opposed to
the Republican party. On free coinage
of silver, the Democratic platform is
purposely ambiguous. The nomination
of Mr.. Cleveland would seem to commit
the party to his we'll known views in IA
vor Of honest money; but it must not be
forgotten that the party behind Mr..
Cleveland, by a large majority, favors
the free coinage of silver and the debase-
ment of the currency. All that can be
claimed on this point is chat Mr. Cleve-
land is really better than his party.
On the question of a fair ballot and an
honest count, the country knows very
well where the Democratic party stands.
Its success in many States has been OBJ
tanned for years only through an intimi-
dation of voters and a fraudulent disre-
gard of the will of the people as ex-
pressed at the ballot box. Wherever
ballot boxes have been stuffed, wherever
returns have been stolen and mutilated,
these results have been reached by the
Vaccinations of the Democratic party
alone.
On the great question of protection to
American industries, the platform of
Chicago, as passed by the convention, is
everything that the most rampant Free
Trader canask. The Committee on Reso-
lutions reported the tariff plank of the
convention of 1884, which provided that
IN reducing the tariff care should always
be taken to provide for the difference be-
tween the cost Of labor in America and
labor abroad. 1t also provided that Sin
making reduction in taxes it is not pro
proposed to injure any domestic indus.
try" Moreover it also stated, smany
industries have come to rely upon legis-
lation for successful continuance, so that
any change of law must be at every STEP
regardful of the labor and capital thus
involved" The convention by large
majority refused to indorse these senti
ments. 1t struck the paragraph out an6
substituted the following:
We denounce Republican protection al
a fraud, a robbery of the great majorit,
of the American people for the benetito