New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-08
puODE ISLAND POINTS TIE WAY.

The Republicans deserved to succeed in
Rhode Island, and they have won brilliant
victory. They have not only secured the re-
election of Senator Aldrch by a Republican
Legislature. but they have also wiped out the
Democratic plurality of 1854 of last year and
elected their candidate for Governor by a
majority of 900. The Democratic cam
pagn cry has been Republican Doodle, and in
their rage and disappointment the leaders VIII
be apt to accuse their opponents of having
bribed and purchased voters at wholesale rates.
They will not deceive anybody in Rhode Island,
for the reason that the Republican gain OF
nearly g. 600 on the vote for Governor is not
confined to suspected localities, but is DIS
tributed throughout the State. In Providence
Newport, Pawtuckct, WoonsOcket. Lincoln, and
in all the smaller towns Brown, the Republican
candidate, ran ahead of the vote OF last year.
This is indubtable evidence of the voluntary.
nnforced action of the enlarged electorate 1t
was the peoples work, and it was brought
about by the most thorough educational can
vass on the tariff question which the Repub-
licans have ever conducted in any New-Eng-
land State.
Mr.. Cleveland went to Rhode Island with
all the racket which "Thc New-lork World
could make for him. He struck one of his
most impressive attitudes and talked IN his
highest key Of tariff reform as the people
cause. The people have not been deceived.
They have voted employers and employed side
by side, in favor of the maintenance of the
Protective system under which Rhode Island
has become one of the busiest and most pros
porous hives of industry in America. The peo-
pies cause, which they have practically recoG-
nized and sanctioned, is the Republican policy
which promotes the welfare OF all classes III
their enterprising and cOntented common
wealth. The heavily increased vote for the
Republican candidate for Governor implies OF
necessity. after the canvass conducted on the
divergent lines of Protection and so-called Tar
if Reform, as strong plurality for the Rcpub-
ican party in November. The attempt to
commit New-EnGand TO free wool and tariii-
smashing under the sOnOrOuS spell OF Mr.. Cleve-
lands platitudes about the peoples cause has
proved disastrous failure. Both the gospel
of tariff reform and its prophet have been re-
pudiated
The Republicans of Rhode Island haye made
the election of the candidate Of their party
for the Presidency easier than it was. They
have not only forestalled their own political
action in November and powerfully affected
the course of public opinion in New-EnSland,
but they have also shown how the Republican
campaign is to be won in other states. The
tariff and silver questions were discussed III
that state without cquivocatiCn on the Re
publican side and in practical, common sense
way The speeches of Senator Frye, Governor
Mckinley, Mr. Reed, Mr. liOrr, Mr.. Dolliyor,
Mr. Rice and others were a revelation TO a
people who had profted largely by the Pro-
tective Tariff without understanding its prn-
ciplcs The Democratic stumpcrs were ont
debated and thrown out of court. Enthusiasm
and aidJr for Republican principles were in
spired by this educational canvas Voters
were taught 10 think and then to act npor
their convictions. The prestige Of the party
was restored, and with unceasing work and
well-ordered organization the great civic battle
was won Rhode Island points the way to Re
publican victory throughout the Union.