Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-31
wBEEL1NG DAILY REGISTER WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 81 1884,
M'KINLEY vs.. TRE FOUNDERS OF
tax REPUBLICAN PARRY.

NKISLEY vs.. TaE FOUNDERS OF
TaE REPUBLICAN PARRY.
Gov. MCKINLEY made bis time-honor-
ed speech at the Philadelphia Academy
of Music last Saturday and as usual
falsi6ed history without daring to
quote the indisputable facts Of that
history which were showed under his
nose by the Democratic press Of the
east as the REGISTER presented them to
him here. he appealed TO the exDer-
fence nf the country under Repuo-
lican high protection ia behalf Of the
iniuuitous, discredited and discarded
tariff law that bears his name, aud the
Philadelphia Record calls his attention
to the fact thai the old Republicans,
,he founders Of the party In another
day and generation, made the same ap-
peal to experience under the Democratic
tariff IN 1916, when they voted In favor
Of the free trade tariff OF 1857. When
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, HAMILTON FISH,
CHARLES SUMNER, HENRY WILSON,
LAFAYETTE 5. FOSTER and other Re-
publican Senators, with no less
than forty-three Republican menu
bers Of the House voted for
that low tariff which reduced the duties
on imports to an average Of 20 per cent,
they had before them the experience OF
eleven years Of the operation Of the
tariff OF 1916. To assume that these
statesmen Of the Republican party rep
rssentatives OF the great industrial aud
commercial interests OF New York and
New England, were incapable Of esti-
mating the effects Of low tariff is to
accuse them Of a want OF common sense.
Yet HENRY Wilson was afterward a
Republican Vice President Of the Uul-
ted States aud WILLIAM. II. SEWARD
and HAMILTON FISH we're Secretaries
OF state iu Republican administrations.
No one heretofore had ever charged these
great Republican leaders with want
Of discer9ment and understanding. 1t
has been left for a spurious breed of
Iatter-day Republicans, the MCkINLEYs
and REEDS, TO insult the memories Of
the founders OF their own party.
The unimp sacbabIe truth Of the rec
ord shows that on this great question
there is nothing 10 common between
the original Republican party and the
present political organization which
goes by that name. The record shows,
the founders OF the Republican party
SEwLRD, SUMNER. WILSON, HAMILTON
FISH, HENRY WINTER DAVIS, n. ?.
BANKS aud others-were quite as lib
eraI on the tariff question as their Dem
ocratic opponents This is seen by
their votes and speeches in favor Of the
lowest rates OF duty compatible with
public revenue. The present Demo
cratic tariff is strong measure Of pro-
lection in comparison with the tariff
law of 1857, which received the sup
port OF the leading Republican mem
bers of Congress. Yet MCKINLEY and
REED have the hardIhoOd to appeal to
experience and to the history Of the Re-
publican party 10 behalf Of tariff spo-
liation.
The political organization which has
perverted the principles Of the ReDub-
lican party aud its former leaders as
late as GARFIELD, masquerades under
the name, Republican, the better to
serve the ends of monopoly. But the
voice Of SEWARD, SUMNER and WILSON
cry out from the tomb against the
degradation ofths party they founded
TO such unworthy purposes. This latter
day Republican organization, with its
hypocrisy and cant OF sympathy for
labor and its abject subservieucy TO the
Trusts and protected monopOlists who
fiji its campaign Golfers, no more re-
sembles the original Republican party
than hideouS atheism is like the
orthodox creed Of Christian believers.
McKinIeylsm lies condemned and re-
pudiated by experience and by the
solemn judgment of the statesmen who
created the Republican party and
guided It's councils before it became
the willing tool Of Trusts and tariff
bred combinations to rob American
labor and American consumers.