St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-14
M'KIALEYS BUGLE BLAST.
OLD PROTECTION BILL BLOWS HIS
H0RN FOR ,96.
TALKS TO THE OHIO LEAGUE.
The People, He Says, Are Tired of
"Tariff-Tinkering, Bond-Is-
suing, Debt-Increasing, Treas
ury-Depieting, Business-Para.
lying, Wage-Reducing, Queen
Restoring Administration.

ury-bepieClnS, busineSS-farae
Lying, Wage-Reducing,Q Queen
Restoring Administration.
COLUMBUS, o., Feb. 13.-The annual
convention of the Ohio League of Re
publican clubs was held in this city
today. Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the Wilson bill and declaring
renewed allegiance to the protective
tariff idea and its foremost champion,
William Mckinley. The reports of the
officers showed great revival among
the clubs during the past year.
Gov. Mckinley addressed the conven-
tion. thanking the league for its sup
port in the late election. Gen. William
Gibson also spoke by invitation. and an
nounced his mention of nominating
Gov. Mckinley for president at the con-
vention in '96.
The following officers were elected:
President, d. d. Woodmansee. Cincin-
natl; vice presidents. James R. Knight
an, Vinton county; Frank P. Richter.
Hamilton; Samuel B. Hill, Cincinnati;
Edward j. Hathaway, Marietta; sec
retary, E. j. Miller. Columbus; treas
urer, Charles f. Leach, Cleveland.
The Lincoln-day banquet incident to
the meeting of the league was held
this evening with an attendance of over
500. General Russell A. Alger. of
Michigan, who was OH the programme,
sent telegram of regret. Gen. Horace
Porter, of New York, delivered an elo-
quent tribute the life and character of
Abraham Lincoln, and Ma j. j. +. Han
son, of Georgia, responded to "Protec-
tion in the South" The principal ad
dress of the evening was delivered by
GOV. WILLIAM M'KINLEY,
in response to the toast "Our Country
as follows: Mr.. Toastmaster and Gen.
tlemen of the Republican League of
Ohio: The present condition of the
country is neither cheerful nor at
tractive. The pause in our prosperity
is apparent, and has given occasion,
as well as opportunity, for re-
Election. The past year has been
one of compulsory education. The
country has witnessed much and learned
much. While congress is at work
revising the tariff. the people are at
work revising their views. While the
representatives of the people are
tiols DEGREES of 1872, as they interpret
them. the people are as madly repudlat-
ing their own action of that year,
and condemning the Interpretation
which their Representatives place upon
the votes which gave them power. The
elections of 1892 did not mean free trade
any more than they meant the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, and if it
could be accurately aScertained, it
would be found that the doctrine of free
coinage Influenced more states for
| Grover Cleveland and the Democratic
| party In congress than the free trade
| plank in the national Democratic plat
| form. Ii the partYin power at WASH
ington would reject the free trade doc
trine, as they have already the
FREE COINAGE DOCTRINE,
| they might emphasize their want of
good faith to party pledges and party
| professions, and add another to their
| many Inconsistencies, but in doing so
they would increase the faith of the
| people in their business sagaclty, their
| financial wisdom, and their true Ameri-
| can spirit.
The repeal of the Sherman law-so
| called-did not bring the relief promised
! by President Cleveland. How much of
/ evil it may have ayerted do not stop to
| discuss. 1t is certain that business dis
| tIesS is felt even more impressively
now than when the silver law was in
! force, and before congress was called in
special session.
The people just now are feeling poli-
tics. They are having an object lesson,
| one which furnishes practical demon-
| stration. We are attending upon the
school of experience, and, while the
| scholarship is free, the expense is enor-
| nous. The "school of events" as Lin
/ coin called it, has many graduates just
/ now.
1t is singular anomaly that the peo-
| pie, the source OF all power in this coun-
| try, are powerless to help themselves,
( and have been since the election of 1892
| It is condition where the peoples
| representatives are legiSlating against
| the interests and opinions of the people
and the latter have no immediate power
to revoke their commissions or dis
l1charge them from their service.
l.They must suffer for their own acts
and the acts of their agents. and must
submit until the relation of principal
and agent is terminated by law. They
cannot displace
l. THEIR PUBLIC SERVANTS
until the legal period for which they
were chosen has expired. They can
/ assert their power at the next election,
and not before. and at that time can re-
tire their representatives and select
new ones who will carry out their will.
tits to be regretted that the people
must so long wait, so lopg suffer, and
| suffer from their own agents: but as
/ fhiC IC q nf law thp rnhnln
| who are the soyereigns, must submit to
| the law. The lesson, however, dear as
/ it has been to the country and its vast
+ interests, may be useful. 1t will
teach us. all that elections are
serious public transactions, and that
their effect does not end on the
Sday of the election, but con-
tinues through the legal and constitu-
1 tienal term for which president and
congress are elected, and cannot be
ended sooner; and it teaches us also
that small and eXtraneous matters,
local diSsenslonS and personal and Sec
! tional pref judiceS should not control in
4 great public elections which involve
great principles and questions of grave
public policy.
The theory of the government is that
Ethe people are supreme and the officers
Ether servants. The situation now IS
one where the servant is supreme and
the master is temporarily helpless. The
people can petition TO congress, but that
has no influence. That makes no i'm
preston.
There is another anomaly in the situa-
tiolt0day. While congress is engaged
in reducing the revenues Cleveland S
/ administration-of the same political
! faith as congress-is increasing the
Il revenues by what it calls
i = ''TEMPORARY LOANS"
Congress is professedly reducing tax
alton 10 relieve the people of burdens,
and Cleveland is adding to their burdens
lsby fastening upon them bonded
Fdebt of S50,0O0000. 1t does not
seem to occur to the leaders
of the Democratic party that the
bonds of the government, bearing per
cent Interest, are a burden quite as
! oppressive as any system Of tariff or