St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-29
MIR. HALLro MIR wHEELoCk.

On Thursday the Pioneer Press and
Dispatch, with the speech made by Mr..
Hall before them, did not manifest any
displeasure that he had made the Lead
ing feature of his speech series OF per-
tinent questions propounded to his COM
petItor. During that day Mr.. Heatw0le
made hurried visit to the city. and on
that evening the Dispatch revoked its
admission that "a great many factories
have been started up within the last
few weeks i'll different sections of the
country. and there is at least partial
revival" and piumply declared that
there has been no revival OF industry at
all.
On Friday morning the Pioneer Press
wants TO know what business Mr.. Hall
has III asking questions and putting on
pedagogic airs. He should be- cringing
and explaining and defending, instead
OF putting imDertinent questions to 1.-THE
voiceleSS advocate of an unknown
cause" He should be on the witness
stand instead of putting his opponent
there. He should explain how it was
that the sugar trust made lackeys of a
few senators, and why the rest yielded
to the lackeys. The bill reduced taxa
ton, but why didn't it reduce it more?
Why did it pander to the rice planters
and reduce the tax on barley?
MIR. Hall will decline to go in the box
until he is through with his own wit
ness, and then he will simply say that
whatever congress failed to do in re-
demption of the promises of the party
was due to the want of a Democratl
majority in the senate, the majority
being protectionlsts, whatever their
party badge. But he may decline to go
i'll at all, and especially at the re quest
of the Pioneer Press. He may enter a
plea as to its jurisdiction either of the
person or OF the subject matter. lie
HAY say that he is responsible to the
voters of the Third district and not to
the Pioneer Press. and he may question
the right Of that paper to rebnke either
himself or his colleagues in congress.
Ii Mr.. Hall enters the last plea, he can
say that the commission OF himself and
his fellow members was to repeal the
Mckinley act. This they have done.
They have replaced it by an act that.
whatever shortcomings it may have, is
better act than the Morrison bill, for
which four Minnesota Republican con-
gresSmen voted with the approval of
the Pioneer Press, aud than the Mills
bill, for which the candidate OF the
Pioneer Press for governor voted with
the commentator of that paper. Ii it
has any sectionalism in its schedules.
there Is much less of it than there was
in the Mckinley act.
Mr.. Hall can also say that he act ed
in accord with what he had reason to
believe was the wish of the Pioneer
Press in voting for the repeal or the
Mckinley act and the reduction of tax
alton. He can find warrant for this III
the editorial columns of that paper. For
INSTANCE, he can produce its issue of
April f. 1890. after Mr.. Mckinley had
reported his bill from the ways and
means committee. in which the able
catechiZer of that paper said that "a ur-
prise was in store" for those members
of that committee ''who predict the
passage of the bill substantially as re-
ported" because the passage would in
dictate that congress was 80 forgetful
of its pledges and so insensible to public
opinion" Reminding the Mckinleyi1es
that there was to be an election that
fall. the editor said that "the Republican
party does not dare go before the coun-
try on the platform of such a bill as
this" He quotes approyingly his fellow
editor on the Chicago Tribune who said
that congress had been listening for
weeks to petitions of manufacturers, -
and had reached the remarkable con-
clusion that the country wanted such
changes as would advance prices 10
| consumers"
Warming to his task, the able editor
| of our cOnte mpOrary declared that the
| great Northwest twill not stand tamely
by and see The tariff increased when
they want it diminished. They will not
give their consent to the imposition of
duties not now in effect. that some CAPT.
talist may make a good timing out of it.
! They will not exchange tariff refor N