St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-30
WHERE ARE THEY ATT

The Republicans are very much at
sea as to the manner in which they will
meet the new conditions growing out of
the passage of the German bill and the
Immediate revival of industry following
it. The Sbrewder of them see that it
rang the death knell Of ultra protection
ism, and that their party will surely 60
to defeat if that is made the slogan.
Tom Reed is TO be credited with the
first discovery of this disconcerting
fact. and his fertile mind, ready with
sneers and eXpedients, devised the cry
that the Democrats did not propose to
stop with their measure, but, using it as
a stepping stone, intend to climb higher
just as fast as possible. This programme
involves further disturbance to indus
try, he asserts. and the business world
is 10 be in continued state of uncer-
tainty.
The cuckoos have come out of their
cages to catch and re-echo the cry of the
reed bird. some vigorously, as the Chi
cago Tribune, others more family and
tentatively, as our own charming con-
temporary, which remarks that. in his
ems to expose the business interests of
the country to new paralysis of dis
quietude by further attempts at tariff
legislation" As the Reed star goes into
the ascendant and the Mckinley star
Wanes, we may expect this to be the
general wall of these latest Adullamites.
The business interests will be buga-
booed with prophecies and predictions
of paralysis Of disquietude," what
ever that mouthfliling phrase may mean.
But. as we have pointed out, all the
Republicans do not know where they
are at. We read their remarks and the
resolutions of their conventions, and
fad that greater portion of them pur-
pose to keep up the AGITATION and do
some paralyZing themselves. Here is an
eminent authority in Mr.. Babcock,
chairman of the Republican congress
sional committee, who tells a Post re-
porter that sin this contest the tariff
assumes larger proportions than ever
before. The people have had all they
want OF free trade" solemuly declares
this oracle.
Then up in the Sixth district we find
convention of Republicans, met to
select candidate for representative,
declaring what they want him to do. if
he does not fall between the two stools
he has been trying to bestride and can
combine the A. P. AS and the anti
apists and gets into Maj. Baldwin's
chair. With forldity of rhetoric that
would grace the oratorical efforts of
sophomore, they declare their 'unfalter-
ing faith in 1.-The great Republican
principle of protection to the American
farm, the American factory, American
mine and American workingman."
They want to preserve the home mar
ket for the home producer" and they
condemn" the act the Democrats have
succeeded in extortfng from fellows
who believe just as these Sixth district
Republicans do.
Now it is clear that there are two cur
rents running through that unhappy
party. One bears Maj. Mckinley at its
head and demands the restoration of
McKinleyisn, the repeal of the Meyer.
Have-Gorman act and the re-enactmeat
of the Meyer-Have- McKinley act. The
other current bears the corpulent states.
man from Maine on its forefront, who
sings low about protection and strikes
his highest note OF sympathy for and
warning to the business interests
threatened with another stroke of para
lytic disquietude il the tariff agitation is
kept up. Mckinley, beaten before
Moscow, would sit down and besiege
the town, while Reed, who has got all he
wants of war, believes that mastery
retreat under cover of cloud of smoke
is the policy. Well may soulful and
despairing Republicans cry, in the
famous words of Cobb, of Alabama,
"Mr. Speaker. where are we at?"