Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-12-13
POST ELECTION CONFESSIONS
Republicans Growing Lukewarm in Thei
support of Mckiuleyism

Republicans Growing Lukewarm in Their
Support of Mckiuleyism.
Day by day the wonder grows as to
what the republican party was fight
ing for at the recent election. All
through the campaign it was pro-
claimed that they were battling for
McKinleyism; and a good many of the
votes which gave the party its phe
nomenal victory were undoubtedly
cast in that belief. Since the election,
however. there has been an effort
which almost seems to have been con-
ce-ted to convince the public that
there never was any intention of re-
storing McKinleyism. At first the
statements were cautiously made and
leaders like Reed and Sherman had to
qualify and explain what they said to
prevent too strong an impression GO
ing abroad that the party had been
obtaining votes under false pretenses.
OF late the disguise has been wholly
thrown aside and the confession open
ly made that there was no fight for
Mcklnleyism and that there never
will be any fight for it on the part OF
the republican party.
The st. Louis Globe-Democras, one
of the ablest organs of the republican
party, comes out hatfooted in the mat
ter and says that whatever the out
come may be the republicans will
never frame another Mckinley tariff
They may, it thinks, put wool back on
the dutiable list and make a few more
changes of the same character, but
1.-The general line of duties will never
| be restored to the 1890 level" And
not content with this outline of the
party's future policy respecting the
tariff this same organ tells its readers
that 1.-The Mckinley law, which made
advances in duties already adequate.
was the greatest blunder ever con-
mitted by the republican party" 1t
adds:
The blunder was opposed by many repub-
licans at the time and vigorously denounced
by them afterward. 1t will not be rel Gated
Reasonable protection-tEe protection which
Offsets the lower wages OF the old worlds all
that republicans ask. II Gov. Mckinley him.
self should be at the head of the ways and
means committee in 1897. or be in the white
house, he would be an anti-Mckinleyite on the
tariff. The thing called Mckinleyism is so
dead that no Gabriels trump will ever sound
its resurrection.
Considering what the rank and file
of the republican party were led to be-
lieve they were fighting for this is a
rather remarkable confession; but it
is paralleled by one that eX-Secretary
Foster made at Cleveland a few DAYS
ago when he said:
The repeal of the force bill by the demo-
Gratis was one of the best things that could
have happened for the republicans. OF course.
could not repeal it. but ii is one OF the best
things that could have happened for Us that
o,,r Johnny DayPnDorf of
New York. got a good thing. eighty Thousand
dollars q year. out of it, 1 think. for a long
while. but he was the only one who was bene-
fitted by il that l know OF You know they
pitched into me great deal in 1874, after my
committee went down there to New Orleans to
Investigate the matter. for telling some truth
about our own fellows at that time. 1t has
turned out "a good deal as said The elements
Of disintegration have been in the south for a
long time
No wonder the republicans are cast
ing about to determine how much OF a
fight can be waged on the financial is
sue.-Detroit Free Press
$50 far twenty-six republicans
have announced their intentions of
contesting seats in congress to which
democrats were elected this fall. with
other districts to hear from 1t may
be that half the ssats with small
democratic minority in the house of
representatives will be contested. The
size of the republican victory has
caused many candidates for office to
lose their heads They seem to think
that because the people returned a re-
publican majority that it was their in.
tention to leave no democrats at all in
anv of the offices Albany Argus