Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-11
TUESDAY. d. . SEPTEMBER IL, 1894.
NICK inley Speaks in Reeds State.

NICK inley Speaks in Reeds State.
Mr. Mckinley. OF Ohio, the reputed
author of the tariff law just repealed
by Democratic Congress, Is firm
believer in the efficacy OF his quack
remedy for hard tlmes-to wit. the Nc
Kinley tariff law-and never fails to make
that remedy the subject of his popular
speeches. On the goth day of October,
1893. he delivered at Dayton, Ohio a speech
which we regarded and described at the
time rs a bid for the nomination of the
next Republican National Convention for
he office of President Of the United States.
His Dayton speech was In substance re-
peated by him at Bangor, Me-, last Sat
urday. He went TO Maine 10 help out
Reed, who is the leader OF the Republi-
can cohorts in tho present Congress.
But Mckinley spoke one word for Reed
and dozen for himself. He knows that
Reed regards him as a rival, whatever
other people may think Of him, and so
knowing he made speech in Bangor
last Saturday, in which the close reader
may md McKinley's platform for 1896
In his speech of 1898 at Dayton, Mr..
Mckinley reviewed what he styled "the
great public questions. Finance, Tariff, and
Pensions" In his speech at Bangor last
Saturday, he rehashed his Dayton speech
so as to make ii more acceptable TO his
hearers in Maine, who, We take 1t. Mr..
Mckinley decided in his own mind were
better posted on the tariff question and
regarded it as more important than the
question of pensions or the question Of
finance.
But where is the Republican speaker
who can discuss any question of public
policy without raising the bloody shirt
in sight of his hearers? Where is the
Republican leader who can rise above
party and advocate what he knows TO
be the measures which a proper conside-
ration Of the wants of the country de-
mands at his hands? Where are the
Republican statesmen! Have they not
all degenerated into petty partisans?
Are they not all a gang Of mischief
making sectonalists, seeking to live upon
the troubles of their country?
new Democratic tariff law was sectional
that is. was the work of so-caled 'reb-
els" Every paragraph in 1t. he said.
manifested its inspiration and disclosed
its authors is. it was inspired by
rebels and It's authors were rebels. Mr..
Mckinley did not use the word "rebel'
or rebels" but his hearers understood
Just what he intended them to under
stand-namely. that the new tariff was
the work of men who but a few years
ago were engaged in the war between
the States, and on what every man in
Maine regards as the wrong side. Thus
Mr.. Mckinley in a sectional speech
charged sectionalism upon the Democratic
leaders in Congress, who had done all
that lay in their power to accomplish
the tariff reform needed by the country,
and had done this in the hope that the
Republicans would not find sectionalism
where none had been injected into the
hew law.
But wasn't 1t a great waste of time
and money for the Republican leaders to
send speakers from Ohio TO such State
as Maine. which not a Democrat in the
country expected to carry at the elections
of yesterday? 1t looks 10 us as if Mr..
Reed had enemies in Maine who were
seeking to make him play second fiddle
10 Mr.. Mckinley, or else as If McKinley's
friends in Ohio were tired of waiting
for the war TO begin. which in their opln-
IN 10 fn L., Id AI1o
presidential chair We await further de-
velopments, confident that sectionalism
has won its last battle. In vain will the
unpatriotic mischief makers app.A TO the
war prejudices OF the northern Tsppis.
Their appeals come too late.