The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-04-20
THE PEOPLE SPEAK AGAIN.
Unmistakabie Protest Against the Obnox-
ious Wilson Bill.


UnmIstak able Protest Against the Obnox-
ious Wilson Bill.
The people have again spoken at the
polls against the Wilson bill. The en-
| lightened citizenship of the North has
once more registered its condemnation
of the policy of destruction and once
| more commanded the Senators elected
| by Northern commonwealth to pre-
vent the passage of the infamou, meas
ure whose enactme It would bring ruin
and devastation upon every Northern
community. In the municipal cleo
tions held recently in widely separated
| States, the tariff was in nearly every
case the issue. The voters were asked
to record their opinion on the Cleve-
land administration and the Will on
bill; and they responded by sweeping
and significant majorities against both.
Cincinnati, Democratic q year ago,
voted for the Republican ticket and
against the Wilson bill by more than
5000 pl rality. Cleveland, Democ attic
last year by 1900 and Democratic in
1892 by 1900 votes, is Republican by
more than 1900 votes. Canton, Nc
Kinley's home, was triumphantly re-
deemed from Demo cratic rule; Hamil-
ton, the homo of Senator Brice and
Ex-Governor Campbell, elected a Re-
publican Mayor for the first time in its
history. Columbus, Mansfield, Fos-
toria, Lima, Akron, Alliance, Piqua,
Wooster AMI Zinesville all gave Re-
publican majC rites, reversing in many
Instances the verdict of last year. In
almost every city in the State the Pc
pablican vote was proportionately
greater than the phenomenal ote for
Mckinley la November. In Michi-
gan the Republicans swept the State.
carrying forty-eight towns out of fifty
five. In No tn dakota Republicanism
made striking gains. In Stamford,
Conn, the Repul licans triumphed b.
decisive majo ity. In the manufact-
uring stronghold OF Hartford they rev.
olutionized the city government, driv-
ing the intrenched Democracy from
power, and carrying the city by ,lC9
plurality.
No misconception of these results is
possible. Their meaning cannot be OBJ
scured nor falsihed. They echo the
protests of last November against I'll o
attempt of Grover Cleveland and the
Bourbon South TO degrade the man
hood and beggar the homes OF North
ern workingmen. They make IL evil
dent to the dullest eye and manifest to
the dulles. brain that the enlightened,
progressive, patriotic voters OF this
nation are opposed to Clevelandism,
that they repudiate free trade, and
that they are united in condemnation
of the Wilson bill. The people have
shown that they will punish with po-
litical humiliation every representa-
tive of a Northern community who dis
obeys and betrays his constituents by
voting for this abomination.
The II publican Senators have re-
ceived a fresh mandate to fight the
Wilson bill No b-dy of legislators,
endowed with power by a nR'ion and
representing great cause, ever had
their duty more plainly marked out.
Every consideration of justice, or
patriotism. of respect for the popular
will, of regard for the peoples welfare
demands that the Confederate bill shall
be met with determined resistance and
unyielding obstruction. Every Repub-
lican majority in the commonwealths
of the North, every petition from
American workingmen appealing for
protection, every reduction in wages,
every silent factory, every poverty
stricken home, every cry from a starry
ing child. every tear from a destitute
mother is a command, direct, explicit,
imperative. to kill the Wilson bill.
The people demand that their repre-
sentatives shall defend the farms, the
mills and the firesides CT the nation.
They demand that American industrial
Independence shall be maintained; that
American wages shall Q restored that
prosperity shall be. brought back again.
The Republican minority in the Senate
must fulfill this demand by standing in
a solid phalanx against the Wilson bill
and against the ruin which it would in
| fict.-New York Press.