Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-14
aepusl'cas POLICY.


Hon ]. Manchester Haynes of this city
was in Boston last week AMI while al the
Revere House was inter loved by reporter
Of the Boston Advertiser and the coiamn
interview appeared in " 'nisy's is-ae.
Mr.. Hsynes Is q very interesting speaker
and an inserviep With fsisa Is ,Hre 10 IN read
with interest and pleasure.
In repIy to the hrst question asking for
his opinion as to What the Republican policy
in defea, should be. Sir. Haynes Is quoted
a. saying
sThe least ecouing attitude that any
Republican could find himself in /. that Of
trying to apologize for some faneied eznse
of defeat. do not see how any Repubii-
can xho believes that the party was right in
advocating protection a. the policy best for
the interests Of the country can accept the
result Of this election a. the peoples yer
DICT against protection. The one great issae
on which the Republican party ;anas to-
day IL the issue Of protection. II our ox n
issue has beaten as our condition must be
hopeless indeed. The fact Is. every poiiti-
cal party IA made up Of two classes those
who belong To the party beeanse they be-
lieve in It's principles, that IL who belong to
it for the good Of the country. and those
Eho belong to il for their own all
vancement, because they want offices.
Naturally enough, the latter class play a
prominent part in m management, of party
organizations. and ii is this eIays of lpsn
who ara nov encouraging the idea that the
Republican party oagt, TO change its ground
on the tariff question-
This would be a defeat indeed. II Is
no snch great thing to lose an election
there will be another In four years. But TO
say, because you have lost an election, thai
yOn were IN the wrong and your enemy IN
the right, is simply an admission that the
party has no reason for existing at alt. To
say that, because we have lost an election,
We must change our principles before We
can win the next one, Is a defeat and dis
grace imneasurably worse than the loss Of
the election. II We are going TO take that
ground we might as well 90 over to TO the
Democrats at once. That idea belongs
solely To the men who are in party for
personal and selfish purposes. Men who
are Republicans because they believe the /
protective system to be best for the inter
est- Of the country are not going to change
their opinion or elamor for a chang. in
party policy simply because they have lost
an election.
There Is class of men in the Repabli-
can party who are constantly lecturing the
party after defeat. They lack faith in
their own principles and they are too ready
to believe what the adversary says about
them. Now, when a Democratic newspaper
gets up an especially good campaign tie,
exploits II cleFerly aud adroitly and sticks
to it vigorously and aggressivcly. il wont
he three weeks before some Republican
paper gets TO believing it and lectnring the
party on IL. Vow for as to admit
that protection was what defeated
II. this year would be about as bad as
admitting that We were wrong If not in
sincere in advocating protection all these
years. The party might as well disband at
once as recedc from its protection plat
form"
How 10 You account for the defeat. Mr..
Haynes
1t is hard TO account for in the mass |
think there was a remarkable coincidence
Of varons local causes at work in different
states at the same time. Now let me ask
how you account for the election of Dem
ocratlc free trade governor in state that
went for Mr.. Harrison by 20. 900 plurality"
Local issues on the goyernorship ques-
tiou--.'
Precisely; but how do Won account for
Ohio icing practically lost tc us this fallf |
believe Mr.. Harrison viii receive the elec-
torial vote with the exception of one cleetor
AS result perhaps, of mistakes in using
the Australian ballot turning the scale Oh a
close vote, but we came so near losing the
state that We might well have lost it al
together. For all lutents and purposes the
state went Democratic. Now hast year ,onls
one year after tie 1880 UyeriGrning. instead
of two. after only one years experience of
the workings of the new tHriff, instead of
two we contested Ohio on the issue Of pro
lection, with the author of the Mckinley Z
act himself As the candidate, and he carried /
the state by good majority. How do you
account for that state going for Mr.. Cleye- /
landy
Local complications; Very likely. l +
do not see how else to account for 1t. 1t Is +
absurd to think that under those circum I
stances Ohio can he quoted rs condemning
the Mckinley tariff by her vote this wear.
Then look at New York. The different I
elements in the party in New York were .
not pushing together in much unity as
might have been desired. Before election
we were tcii tnat cNtrfthiHg "H7 ifASt anu
harmony, but when the votes were counted
that told u different story. Mr.. Harrison
could have been elected without New York,
and would have been If the Republican
states that went Democratic ON other ques-
tons than protection bad voted for him
Toward the close of the Interview Mr..
Haynes was asked
What about the outlook
The outlook is all right. The next
presidential election will not go by default,
and there will be no blind over-conttdcnee.
There are many things that worked against
us this year that viii work the other way
then. We have always believed that the
Republican party eoald not lose in a time
of general prosperity The hemoc
rscy have always been the calamity
party. But this year in the midst
of the greatest prosperity everywhere
the country has ever known we are beaten.
! suspect that one thing that has aided the
Democrats in the campaign cries this wear
has been the contrast between the condition
of the rich and the poor that has been
accumulated by this very prosperity. Now
ii will be impossible, even under the most
conservative and uncbaracteristic policy on
the part of the Democrats ia the next Con-
gross for thus condition of prosperity to hast !
four wears. There will he Revision in .
business before then, there is one due and !
their campaign against the plutocrsts viii
not have this to aid It, | say again that /
see no reason for any proteciionist or Re j
publican 10 feel discouraged over the cleo !
ton of Mr.. Cleveland.
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