The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-04
The Passing of Paddock.

OeudlOr EAODOCk Oh NoOFdSAd mas D6Sn
"marched from the slaughter-house to
an open grave' by the party to whose
interests he devoted lifetime. The sub
stitution for him by a party caucus of
JOHN NJ. THURsToN, railroad lawyer
and in politics mere manipulation, con-
veys humiliating lesson.
Senator PADDOCK was one of the three
Republican Senators who voted against
the MCKINLEY bill. The bill was Re
publican measure. and on that ground
claimed the support of every Republican
in Congres Senator INGALLS, did not
like it, for he recognized it's sectional and
unequal character, but he voted for it
because 1t had the party stamp upon it.
No doubt Senator MANDERsoN voted for
it for it for the same reason; it was a
party measure and he felt bound to sup
port it, even at the sacrifice of the Ne
braska constituents of whom it made VIC
Tins.
But PLUMB of Kansas and PAD
DOCK of Nebraska refused to follow
the example of their colleagues. They
represented in the Senate two young and
promising western states devoted almost
exclusively to agriculture, and they
spiritedly repudiated the pretence that
their obligation to the Republican party
was superior to their obligation to the
people of Kansas and Nebraska. They
saw clearly that in this case the Republic
can party really meant the favored north
west; that the MCKINLEY Dill was pro-
tected manufacturers measure, and that
while it was designed to very greatly
benefit the industries of one small but
wealthy and powerful section of the
country, it was certain, just as surely, to
iniure all other sections-that its oppres-
sive effects would be felt most severely in
those new states, like Kansas and
Nebraska, which have no system of pro-
tected industries, and are almost wholly
occupied in farming. Senator PADDOCK
said:
cannot see the benefits that will
accrue to the people by the sweeping
away of the imports on sugar, when
measured in connection with the losses
sustained by them through the increases
in duties on many other articles essential
to life. Desirable as free sugar is, when
secured at the expense of dearer clothing,
dearer tin plate, dearer earthenware,
dearer cutlery. and so on, it does not re-
lieve the debit side of the poor.
Messrs. PLUMB and PADDOCK, with
PETTIGREw of South Dakota, were pi-
oneers OF a new movement in the Repub-
lican party of the west, and there was at
the time no ground for fear that they
would be left alone. They had all the
following they required, and at the cleo
ton of 1890 Kansas, Nebraska and South
Dakota showed that the people of their
states were in sympathy with them. AS
a consequence, INGALLS,, the colleague of
PLUMB in the Senate, who voted for the
MCKINLEY bill, was swept from his seat
by q cyclone. The death of PLUMB a
year later ended the career of that Sena-
tor, who was succeeded by an Alliance
man. PETTIGREw's fight helped to place
an independent in the seat of his col
league, his own term not expiring until
1895.
Senator PADDOCK failed to recognize
the fact that revolutions never go back
ward. He returned to the Republican
party, instead of becoming a leader of the
new forces his independent course had
assisted to bring into the field. His hui
initiation today is consequence.