The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-11-18
ELKToN. NOVEMBER IS, 1898.
HE WON'T SEE IT.

A Washington dispatch to the
PHILADELPHIA Record reports, that
the president does not believe that
tariff bill that has not yet been framed,
played any considerable part in the
elections neither does he believe that
the great vote given Mckinley, much
less the increase in majorities else
where, can be legitimately interpreted
-.s-ce a revocation of the instructions
given by the people of the whole
country year ago for the prosecution
of tariff reform. 1t is believed that the
people understand that the Silver
Purchase law is responsible for the
hard times, even though they struck
blindly at the party in power, as they
always do in times of financial Stress"
While we are not disposed to make
the President the subject of merely
partizan criticism, it is the sheereSt folly
on his part to allow his egousrn and
blind faulty for tariff Obstruction to
close his eyes to the lesson taught him
in the recent election.
If the people meant anything at all
in their great uprising in at least five of
the great Commonwealth of the North
it was an admonition to Grover Cleve-
and to keep hands off the tariff.
Disgust over the incapacity of the
Democratic in Congress in handling the
Silver Repeal bill was doubtless
contributory cause; but the vital and
potent cause was distrust and dread
of the policy which he and his party
colleagues in Congress are unit in
proclaming-theJ obstruction OF the
existing tariff.
The proofs of this are easily at hand.
The 9o,ooo majority in OHIO for the
author of the Mckinley tariff is alone
a convincing one. Neither the silver
question nor any other question than
the tariff issue entered into that canvass.
Mckinley and Neal were both in
favor of silver repeal they agreed that
it was not an issue between them, and
from the very opening OF the campaign
they went before the people on the
naked question of the maintenance or
the overthrow of the Mckinley tariff.
Moreover, it was openly and candldly
proclaimed by each candidate that the
verdict at the polls would be accepted
asa test of public opinion. No cam
paign has ever been more free Of deceit
evasion or jugglery. The silver purchase
question played only secondary part
in it at any time, and before the elect
ion it was entirely lost sight OF. Yet
with the foremost champion of Pro-
lection returned to the Gubernatorial
char by majority that partakes of
the character of political revolution,
the occupant of the White House
complacently notes that the tariff had
a o 5s1iriag t. do with it.
In Massachusetts tue tariff was the
chief subject of discussion in acam-
paign which brought out the largest
vote ever cast in the Bay State, except
at Presidential election. The Demo
cratic candidate, John E. Russell, who
is as much of a Free Trader as Neal
in Ohio was opposed by candidate
who is as much of a Protectionist as
Mckinley and Governor elect Green
halge has majority such as Massachu-
sets has not cast for many years. In
Pennsylvania, where Republican voters
went 10 the polls with the one thought
of rolling up majority that would
inspire fresh loyalty to the Protection
cause, the Democratic party has been
all but annihilated. In Iowa, where
Governor Roies insisted on keeping
the tariff reform issue il sight, and
where the Republicans promptly accept
ed the challenge, the majority has run
up almost to the old time figures
when Iowa was a banner State of
Republication. In all these States
the silver question only entered into
the campaign incidentally. Every
where the Republican candidates made
their appeal to the people on the stump
in their platforms and throughout the
party press on the ground that the
foreshadowed tariff policy of the adj
ministratlon must be reversed and its
authors rebuked.
In face of this over verdict
the mar whom tt = ought
to admo' al IS no
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