Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-07-15
FOR CONGRESS,
WILLIAM M. McKAIG,
ON AJIEnANy rnnNTV
OF ALLEGANY COUNT,
THE HARMONY BETWEEN THE
TICKET AND THE PLd TFORM


tort and encouragement from the knowledge
that its candidates for president and vice
president will experience no difficulty in
standing squarely upon the platform adopt
ed by the Chicago convention. Each of the
nominees may he said to embody in his own
person the cardinal principles of the party,
thus establishing perfect harmony between
the ticket and the platform
The three great issues which the Demo
cratic party makes IN the pending campaign,
and on which itintends that the contest shall
be fought to finish are as follows:
First The robbcr tariff must be abolish
ed-swept away.
Second. There must be no force bill in
this country to overthrow peaceable cleo.
tons and destroy free government at the
South.
Third. There must be no degradation of
the money standard of the nation.
The three gigantic evils which Dcmoc.
racy proposes to combat zealously and az
excessively are all Of Republican origin, and
each is supported either wholly or in part,
by rabid Republicans or men whose polit-
ical antecedents were Republican. The IN
iquitious doctrine of protection was nur-
tured in the rock ribbed Republican Com
monweath of Pennsylvania, and is 10 day
upheld and encouraged by the monopolists
aud tariff barons of that highly protected
State.
The idea of the force bill originated in
the minds of Johnny Davenport, a New
York boss; John NJ. Langston, Virginia
agitator Thos. b. Reed, n political despot,
and Henry Cabot Lodge, a puritanic theorist,
who are, one and all, bright and shining
lights in the Republican party. In the case
oI the ebony hued Langston there may be
some question as to his bright and shin
ing" qualities, but the genuineness of his Re-
publicansm is beyond dispute. The Min.
neapolis platform likewise commits the Re
publican party to the support of the force
bill.
The agitation which disturbs the financial
system of the country had its source in the
silver producing States of the West, which
have never given Democratic majorities and
can never be reasonably expected ~ do SO. IL
is palpable, therefore, that the Democracy in
its fight on the great questions which divide
the voters in this campaign discovers the
Republican party AS the common enemy
at every point. Under these circumstances
every friend of a revenue tariff, OF home
rule aud free institutions and of honest
finance is expected 10 rally under the ban
neT inscribed with the names Of Cleveland
and Stevenson,
HIGH WAGES AND PROTECTION
During the rast week bloody riot has
occurred at Homestead, Pa, on account of
a reduction OF the wages of men employed
in the Carnegie iron works at that place A
large force OF Pinkerton men were sent
there to rescue the works from the hands of
the discharged operatives, but they signally
failed in their purpose, and after Il bloody
battle, in which number on both sides
were killed, were obliged 10 surrender The
affair occurs at an opportune time TO give
point TO one OF the clauses of the Demo.
cratic national platform, VIZ:
"Since the Mckinley tariff went into op
Grafton there have been ten reductions of
the wages %! labOring men to one increase
We deny that there has been any increase
81 prosperity 10 the country since that tariff
went into operation, and we point TO the
dizziness and distress, the wage reductions
and strikes in the iron trade as the best pos
slbIe evidence that no such prosperity has
resulted from the Mckinley Act"
1t must be said for Carnegie Il Co. and
for all other iron makers, that they are not
under any obligation, moral or other, to pay
higher wages than the competition of the
labor market requires. The point of the
whole matter is that the Mckinley tariff
has not made good times, has not caused
wages TO advance, has not even kept wages
up to the former standard. The iron trade
is the best idex of the condition of trade in
general. 1t is accepted by statistcans and
economists as a sort Of barometer of the na
tional prosperity-not as perfect one, but
as the best available. What does il tell at
the present time, and what has it told dur.
ing the greater part Of the time since the
Mckinley Act went into operationH 1t has
been tale, as the Chicago platform says, OF
dizziness and distress, Of wage reductions
and strikes" and the condition has never
been more serious than IL is at this time.
The Republicans made the tariff to suit
themselves, or rather they allowed the pro
tected manufacturers TO make il 10 suit them
selves. Ii they could not enact a law To
make the country prosperous when all the
power was in their hands, when will they
ever be able 10 do so Is II not time that
somebody else should tryY