St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-03
AS MIR. REED PRESENTS THEM

Mr.. Reed devOtes two pages to the
differences existing among the Demo-
Gratis in the senate and those between
the president and some of the senators.
1t is evident from the space Mr.. Reed
devotes to these incidents that he re-
CARDS them as being a sufficient reason
for retiring the Democratic party, for
getting that it would have been very
much better for his party bad the Oh
jectors to the Mckinley policy been
permitted to be heard, instead of being
smothered and disregarded.
The characteristic unfairness of Mr.
Reed is evident in his statement tina
the 'whole Democratic party, except
Hill, in the senate, finds Democratic
principle in taxed and monopolized
sugar. and IN taxed coal and taxed
IRON" Mr.. Reed knows, as we'll as any
man of intelligence knows, that the
Democratic party in the senate, as rep
resented by the large majority of the
senators, was not in favor of taxed or
monopoliZed sugar, or taxed coal or
taxed iron, but was in favor of placing
all of those articles upon the free list.
He knows as we'll as any intelligent
man knows that the majority of the
Democratic senators were coerced by a
few renegade Democrats to accept such
measure of the reduction of the taxes
on these and other articles as they saw
fit to permit.
The article is rather more striking for
what it does not than for what it does
70 hot ho
and again in 1892 repudiated that
party's policy would seem to render it
necessary that it go into this campaign
with a definite declaration of what it
purposes to accomplish. The absence
of any express declaration is noticeable
not only in this article of Mr.. Reed, but
in the speeches of all prominent Repub-
licans, and in the editorials of their
leading papers.
When we turn from Mr.. Reeds carp
ing to Mr.. Reeds statement of policies,
and try to find what he advises his party
to do in case it is restored, or what pos
tive policies he presents as among the
issues of this campaign, we find no such
frank and explicit ayowal as is con-
tanned in MIR. Wilson's article, but have
to read between the lines to find any
foundations for even SurmiSe. In the
depreciation of further tariff agitation,
with which the speeches of Mr.. Reed
have been filled, one might infer that
he was In favor of accepting the tariff
act as a linality 4; but we find hint of
the policy he would have his party pur.
sue in the closing part of his article, in
which he says THAT at this moment it
is hard to see how the bright days be.
fore the second reign Of Grover Cleve-
land can be renewed until the same or
wider conditions are re-eStablished."
This. if it means anything, means a
restoration of the Mckinley act. and,
taken in conjunction with the speeches
OF Mr.. Mckinley and those of Senators
Cullom and Allison and other Repub.
lican leaders, leaves little room for
doubt that if the Republican party is
again restored to full control of the
government we will have repetition
of McKinleylsm, or of "wider condl-
tons" than that, as Mr.. Reed suggests,
which may be taken to mean an advance
on that policy. Under that law of
momentum mentioned by Mr.. Wilson.
this. then, is the issue of the campaign.
Shall it be continued movement to-
wards commercial freed ON. as sug-
gested by Mr.. Wilson, or shall it be the
return to those same or "wider condi,
lions" which the people in 1890 and
again in 1892 emphatically declared to
be obnoxious? On that issue there is
not much doubt of the nature OF the
verdict.