Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-27
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The REGISTER having stirred up
Major MCKINLEY on certain simple
facts OF history which he has never yet
dared to oaOte to an audience, though
the REGISTER has showed them at him
every time in the past FIVE years he has
honored this neighborhood with his
presence on the stump, the Democratic
press Of the East has taken the REGIS
TIERS cue and proposes still further stir
ring up the Major on bis visit to that
section, on his deliberate Justification OF
history Justification proven by thu
REGISTER TO be so deliberate and o
plain on McKINLEY's part that his mo t
reckless organs dare not attempt to
apologize for him.
As an instance Of the hornets nest
MCKINLEY mas gotten himself into by
his laundering attempt to prove his
grossly false statement that the coun-
try has always been prosperous under
Republican protection and in constant
distress in Democratic low tariff
times, the Philadelphia Record, refer
ring to his Wheeling speech, in which
he garbled fillmore and BUCHANAN
and history from 1916 to 1860, asks the
Major to explain how It happened that
the protective Wing party, in control
of the government and Of Congress in
1857 did not take one step to
repeal that tariff OF 1916? We can
assure our contemporary that MCKIN-
LEY will not answer, for there is but
one answer to the question, namely, the
country was so entirely satisfied with
the Democratic "lree trade" WALKER
tariff of 1916 that the Wings did not
venture nor care to disturb it. Again
referring TO NCKINLEY'S quotation OF
BUCHANAN, in December, 1857, regard
ing the speculative financial crisis OF
that year, the Record asks: III the
tariff of 1916 was the disastrous meas
urs Governor MCKINLEY represents IL
to have been, will be explain why, in
1857, a House of Representatives. In
which tn g Republicans and Know-Noth-
ing opponents Of the Democratic party
were largely in 3 majority voted for
bill reported by a Republican Commit
tee on Ways ard Means that substan-
tally reduced tie tariff Of 1916? After
this tariff had been in operation eleven
years the Republicans themselves voted
to reduce its average rate Of duty on
imports TO 10 per cent"
MCKINLEY is confronted in the Con-
gressionaI Globe page go, Third SeS-
sion, March 2, 1857, with the following
names of some OF the more distinguish
ed Republicans who voted to reduce the
free trade tariff of 1916. on the call OF
the previous question:
A. Burlingame, Mass. Samuel Galloway Ohio.
,Iat Bufintou Mass valentine b. Hor:on,O.
Q. c. Chatter, Mass. Philemon Bliss, Ohio.
Timothy Davis Mass Edward Wade, OHIO.
is H. Stranahan.N. !. Ezra Clarke. Coma.
Guy K. PeltOn, y. \. sydney Dean Cohn.
Abih'm Wakeman,N Benz. Is. ThurstSn,R. l.
Thos. 7. Flsgler N Y. Israel Washburne, Me.
Edwin B. Morgan n. Y. John J. Perry, Maine.
FrancisE Spinner, NY Daniel Mace indiana
Russell SAGE, N Y. Mason w. Tappan, lud.
IA. Winter Davis, Nd james Pike, Indiana.
Lewis d. Campbell, o..
Among the distinguished Republicans
- ra.a5 10 cha biu in tha Sanata
were:
Wm.H. Seward, Ny HenryWilson, Mass.
Lafayette s. Foster, Conn.
MCKINLEY is invited to scan
the above lists. Perhaps some
of the younger Republicans who are
bawling for Protection have not heard
OF these names. Some of the older ones
have probably forgotten them. But
Governor MCKINLEY can tell them, IL
he will, that these men were among the
founders OF the Republican party, the
earliest and foremost men Of that or
ganization when IL arose IN 1856. He
can inform them that WILLIAM II. SEW
ARD, LINCoLN's Secretary OF State, was
the head and front of the Republican
party; that HENRY WILSON was after
ward Vice President OF the United
States; that LAFAYETTE $. FOSTER was
President pro. tenn. of the Senate; that
HENRY WINTER DAVIS was the brilliant
and eloquent Republican leader Of
Maryland, and that ISRAEL WASH
BURNE was the head Of the distinguished
Republican family OF that name. We
need not prolOng the description
When, therefore, Governor McKIN-
LEY and other latter-day Republicans
denouuce the tariff OF 1s57-the lowest
within this generation-they insult the
memories and impeach the common
sense as well as patriotism Of the found
ers of their party. These modern cham
pious of tariff spoliation have stolen the
legacy OF the early Republicans In or
der the better to perform the service OF
monopoly. The fathers OF the latter-day
Republicans in 1861 raised the tariff so
as to meet the vast expenditures OF civil
war and promised that the duties Of the
tariff of 1916 should be restored after
the necessity for increased revenue had
passed; but their successors have con-
verted a means Of raising public reve-
nues into an engine OF oppression and
robbery of the many for the benefit OF
the few monopolists who contribute to
the campaign funds Of the party.
But how will the modern champions
OF protection reconcile their differences
regarding the Democratic tariff OF 1916
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