Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-17
Election Tuesday, Nov. @.
POLITICAL BLUNDER
Wilson's Free Trade Speech in
London Carries Dismay
Into the Democratic
Camp.


Mckinley Shows Up Free Trade Fall
lacies-Robbed His EX-SIave and
the Government-MacVeagh's Cam
Pa gn-Political Points.
Washington, D. c., Sept. Ex-senator
Faulkner and the other campaign man.
ayers at democratic headquarters this
morning were astounded when they read
the press reports OF William L. Wilson's
free trade speech before the London
chamber OF commerce, and of the enthu
siastic reception it met from the British
manufacturers and merchants. They
could not understand how the chairman
of the ways and means committee had
made such a political blunder Just at this
critical juncture.
At republican headquarters there were
broad smiles over Prof. Wilson's per.
Torrance. Orders were given for the
printing OF the press reports of the Lon
don banquet as a campaign document.
Before the end of next week Wilson's
district will be flooded with them. Tele-
grams were sent directing that the fullest
possible report of the speech and the
attendant scenes of British j~olification
over Prof. Wilson's sentiments be for
warded from London by the next steamer.
1t is believed at republican headquarters
that the banquet insures Wilson's defeat
and will cost the democracy thousands of
votes in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut.
Mckinley Pays His Resp cts to Will
son.
Gallipolis, o., Sept. 2S.-Here, in a
beautiful park on the bank of the Ohio
river, on whose opposite shore rise the
hills OF West Virginia, the author of the
Mckinley tariff law paid his compliments
to the author OF the Wilson tariff law.
1t was a notable occasion. There was a
good-sized audience present, composed in
part of West Virginians, who Joined as
heartily as their Ohio neighburs in ap.
plauding the ~satirical references to the
famous West Virginian, who is the head
OF the ways and means committee of the
national house OF representatives, Mr..
Wilson. Ia the course OF his long ad-
dress Governor Mckinley inquired what
industries the tariff law of 1894 created
and the existing industries it had stimu.
loted, and said:
find the answer to my question in the
newspaper dispatches of today from Lon
don, furnishing particulars of a banquet
given by the chamber of commerce OF
London to Mr.. Wilson, member of cor
gress from the state OF West Virginia,
whose rugged hillsides l see Just over the
river. Sir Albert Kaye Rollit, who
presided at the banquet, said that Mr..
Wilson's name had become honored and
familiar in England, and that London in
honoring him honored itself; that the
new tariff law, while it might not have
realized the aspirations of its promoters,
had already benefited England. Fur.
naces have been reopened in Wales and
Yorkshire, and an impetus has been
given to the textile industries. This will
be cheering news to the people of the
United States and will bring comfort
to the idle men who for a year
have been waiting for the American
mills to reopen. You have not heard
of any commercial body in the
United States, through its spokes.
man, declaring that any industries in
America have been stimulated by this
law, whatever benefits have gone to other
countries. While the banquet at the
London chamber of commerce was pro.
ceeding, the board Of trade at Edinburgh
sent its congratulations. There was
singular absence of any American dis.
patches. prolonged applause.) Here is
a word OF encouragement which Mr.
Wilson himself gave to the gentlemen Of
London. He said:
"'Our protectionists have been build.
ing defenses to keep you and other ma,
tions from competing with us in oul
home markets. The tariff reformers are
breaking down these defenses.'
THAT" continued Governor McKin,
ley, sis what We object to. If we do moi
defend our home markets against the
products OF the cheaper labor Of Other
countries, who willP Is it any wonder
that the gentlemen Of the chamber O.
commerce of London applauded Mr.
Wilson when he uttered such a senti.
ment? Mr.. Wilson even despairs O.
free government, for he said, we art
being rapidly sobered, though unap
palled, by the truth forced upon us tina
Of all human governments a free govern
,ment is the most complex and difficult
and, judging from the worlds experience
the most uncertain and short lived
beg to assure Mr.. Wilson OF West Vir
ginia that the government OF the United
States, resting, as it does, u BON the will
OF a free people, is safe ana secure-uuit
as secure as the governments that arr
conducted by the titled few-and that {
free people like ours, capable Of govern
ing themselves, and having so demon
strated for more than 100 years, will b,
alert enough to see to it that no indus
trial policy shall long continue in thi
country that will lower the conditions O
its people to the level of their European
rivals, and rob them OF their dignity an,
independence"
Evans can be Elected