Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-04
HILL ON The IARiEE.
The New York Statesman Roundly Roasts
the Mckinley Law.

day, September "a, by a host OF dem
ocrats- He was elected temporary
chairman, and, on taking his seat. said:
1.-The unterrified democracy of the Empire
state assemble here to-day, undiSmayed at the
premature boasts and assumed confidence OF
our adverSarieS. We are not unaccustcmed TO
their annual and moss-covered game of polit-
lcal blum, although renewed this year with eX-
traordlnary vehemence and unblushing eff
frontery. If vain boasts alone could bring
victory their battle is indeed won before it Is
actually commenced: but we beg to remind
them that there has not been a campaign in
this state during the last twelve years when
they did not assume in August or September
that they had carried it, when in truth and in
TACT during that whole period. with single
exception, victory has perched upon our ban
ners the first Tuesday in November in each
year. We win our victories election days and
not by eXuberant bravado in convention halls.
Republican Heads Turned by Victory.
THE unexpected victory of our opponents
last fall has turned their heads and rendered
them arrogant and opinionated. They fail TO
recall the fact that the total vote polled was
nearly three hundred thousand short of the
full vote OF the state, a victory which they
themselves did not anticipate, and which their
surprised and aStute leaders the next day after
election humorouSly attributed to Divine Prov
1dence and not to republican strength. With
a united battery and a united vote New York
is still a democratic state, and if We are true
TO ourselves will this year resume her place in
the democratic column.
Our opponents, by the vigorous beating of
political tom-tOmS and the inSiStence upon
petty and misleading local issues, seek to divert
the public attention from the unenviable rec
ord they made during their recent four years
control of the federal government. The peo-
pie, however, have not forgotten the fact that
1t was republican administration which in
that Inflated year of 1890 saddled the country
with unwiSe and vicious legislation which has
since crippled its prosperity, endangered it's
finances and augmented its public burdens.
People remember that the Sherman bullion
purchase law was the product of republican
craftsmanship against the enactment of which
every democrat in congress voted. 1t should be
borne in mind that the financial panic was re-
publican panic in its inception, continuance
and disastrous effects. 1t was under national
democratic administration that the Sherman
and federal election laws were repealed. With
in the first year of our administration and at
the ensuing congressional ele ;tionS the spec
tac1e will be witnessed for the first time in
twenty-four years of state elections conducted
as they ought to be-without federal interior
ence, dictation or intimidation.
Scores the Mckinley Tariff:
1.-THE enactment of the Mckinley tart n law
was the eliminating atrocity of republican
recklessness in legislation. 1t was the very
personihcation of protecuionism run mad. 1t
was the inauguration of huge scheme Of gov
ernmental partiSanShip with private business
interests. The reaction which followed in the
elections in the elections in the fall of $780,
and was reiterated in the election of 1892. was
the natural and legitimate expression of the
popular Indignation at the party which had
basely surrendered to the mercenaries within
its own ranks and had bartered away the pub
lie good for selfish greed. We promised the
people that if intrusted with power this vi
ciouS, un-American and Objectionable law
should be repealed, and we rejoice to-day in
the fulhllment of that pledge. The Mckinley
law has gone where the woodbine twineth-
gone to Stay-never to be reenacted again by
any political party.
Without retracting single word which
uttered in the senate in criticism of the meas
ure while engaged in the effort to perfect it
and render it more acceptable, now that it has
been passed and become ii law it must be con-
sidered as whole, treated largely as a party
measure and contrasted with the Mckinley
law. Uninfluenced by any personal diSap-
pointments or any pride OF opinion 1 may be
permitted to speak of the measure as it is
nothing extenuate nor set down aught in NAL
ice OF its strictly tariff features it may
truthfully be argued that it is a vast improve
ment over the Mckinley law, and will clearly
demonstrate its superiority time rolls
and the business in this country shall adjust
itself to its provisions. 1t recognizes in part,
at least, the democratic doctrine of free raw
raw materials.
will not cripple nor embarrass a single indus
try in the land, nor throw out OF employment a
single workingman nor unduly stimulate over
production the one hand or eXorbit9nb
inportationS on the other.
Fellow democrats of the Empire state and
of the country, the duty of the hour is not
harsh criticism OF democratic leaders dem
Ocratic measures, not mutual determinations or
conflicting councils, but it is time for con-
Citation, for unity OF purpose, for aggressive
action. The control of both legislative depart
mentS of the government is at stake in tho
coming election Interparty strife must now
cease and attacks be reserved for the foes
who already forming their lines of battle
against Democratic national and state adj
ministrations must alike be loyalty supported.
Praise for CIeveIand's Administration.
1.-The administration of President Cleveland
has been clean-handed, economical, painstalz-
ing and patriotic. The various departments OF
the national government have been conducted
with success, and the democratic party as a
whole is entitled to the confidence of the
masses OF the people, whose interests it endeav-
orS faithfully to serve The democratic party
stands in this state, as it has ever stood for
that religious liberty which is guaranteed
them by our constitution. and 1 arraign the
republican party for its covert sympathy with
and encouragement of the proscriptive spirit
which attempts to set up a religious text as a
qualification for official prefcrment in this
land of the free, and which is propagated
by certain political organization which de-
serves execration at the hands of every fair
minded man, but which the republican state
convention last week distinctly refu sed,
though earnestly urged, to condemn
Very