New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-26
An ISSTE PLAINLY STATED.


Unlism is a personal and 4 State issue. The
election Of Senator Hill as Governor OF New
York will be Il vindication of his career nj Al
hany and at Washington. and as a miraculous
personal triumph will be followed inevitably by
his nomination for the Presidency III ISM. Ills
success will also involve reputation oil E's'
wears verdict of condemnation upon Mayharo-
ism. and direct public combination OF cam
paign of political brigandage against p"pui'r
sovereignty, the Election laws ana Inc courts
These personal and state issues are enurely uh-
connected with the tariff question Nha'e'tl
Senator Hill may say about the German uarili
now. he is on record as denouncing ana YOUNG
against il at Washington; and no Democrat no
Free Trader is under any obligation to support
the Hill State ticket for the sake or expressing
approval of recent tariff legislation
The Congressional elections will turn upon me
German tariff and the legislative methods ny
which il was adopted after two years "i com
mcrcial depression and hard times. Men may
vote rs they ike on State and local issues ana
the results will have nothing whatever 10 90
with tho tariff question: but when they east
tboir ballots for congressional candidates. theE
oro constrained to lock- the facts in the face ana
,o mss Judgment upon the Democratic party
NOT for wha, II promised in $50, that it would
do nor for what ii might have done If German
and tho tr1l,ts had not dictated terms 10 H. but
for the tariff as it is the policy Of party perildy
and partv dshonor. enacted under scandalonS
conditions Of barter with monopoliStS ana pre-
coded and accompanied by paralysis of bust
ness interests and shrinkagc of wag"earnlhSN'
Are times better or worse than they were IN
mt ar
lis PROMISES? Is tn" German tariff helpiul 10
any business interests except those OF sugar r.
dners and other monopollsts: These are the
plain questions which men have 10 answer III
voting for candidates for Congress.
All side issues ought to he brushed ASIDE
There are thousands Of Democrats VIII" nav
been LOYAL 10 President Cl"vednd fortunes III"
bitterly opposed 10 Senator Hil!S M'Fls"''
against him at Albany. Chicago ana Nasiili-
Ton They have determined 10 vote a-allS' I'M
ism but they are hcsitating over he '"hsr'~
s,onal nominations from the fear % appearing
10 place themselves in opposition To Inc iI'SI
dont Let Them read deliberately the Wilson
and Catchings letters. and they VIII ne l'I'''I
10 admit that Il vote against the German u'riN
will not involve dlsloyalty 10 PRESIDENT 'leV'-
land No Republican leader either III congress
or on the platform has rivancd the president
in destructive criticism of The measure for when
Senator German and the Trusts were rcspon-
siIJc Sign If he could not and would not, ana
he turned his back upon it with Indignation ana
disg1,st as a measure tainted with treason ana
d,shonor No follower Of the President Is under
any obligation to express approval OF the Tor
man tariff or Of the methods by which 1t was
enacted by going TO the polls and voting Tor Il
Democratic candidate for Congress AS Tor
Senator Hills admirers, if they Initiate his
example. they will vote, as he did, directly
against It,
The Democratic party in 1892 pledged itself
TO bring In a very different tariff. but the prom
ise has been repudiated. In this election men
are not called uDOn to vote for the revenue
tariff which was not enacted. They are forced
to pass judgment upon the Infamous Bill or
Sale TO the Trusts The President and Chair
man Wilson declare that the war on Protection
has barely been opened. and that 1t is to be
fought out to the bitter end. When they sue
coed in passing their revised revenue reform
tariff over the veto Of Senator German, 1t will
be time for men TO vote upon II. whatever 1t
NAV be- Sufficient unto Election Day is the
evil Of the Hard Times, Sugar Trust German
tariff That Is what men have TO vote upon in
the Congressional elections Of this year-not the
Democratic platform Of 1892. nor the Cleveland
Wilson rainbows Of the fuure-but the false,
corrupt and senseless measure which Senator
German forced upon unwilling House and
protesting President