New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-04-11
TIE Wall Of the Lost.

Garry the news to David B. Hill, Ed
ward Murphy Jr., Calvin S. Brice, John
r. M'Pherson. James Smith, Jr., Arthur
P. German, Charles 81. Gibson, johnson
n. Camden, Donelson Cafrey, Edward
D. White. John I. .Morga James L. Pugh,
for they are villains and traitors to the
Democratic party, in the opinion of Col.
Charles n. Foo,e and Lieut.. P. j. Small
ley. But break the. tidings gently, for
they are sensitive creatures and the shock
nigh. kill them. In the name of the
Democratic Association of Minnesota,
Messrs. Foote and Smalley have hurled
q column and q half of rebuke at the de-
fenseless heads of the Democratic sena-
tors above enumerated, holding themper-
sonally responsible for the admitted
death and dissolution of the Democratic
party. AS a jeremiad and TRADE COM
bincd, the essay is worth reading, but as
an explanation of the disruption, disgust
and decay of the Democracy,it is triae
faulty. And it is clearly unfair in at
tributing the woes of the party to the
senator's named. even admitting that said
ways are the fruits of the Democracy's
failure to carry out its platform promises
of free trade. The Wilson bill, as it
came from the house, was highly protec-
tive. As Col. Foote says:
''Our first disappointment was in the
departure from the declared policy of
the party in the undue and needless mea-
sure of protection granted by the house
BILL" ,....
| Then why not brand few members of
the house as traitors and Benedict Arm
olds! Can it he possible that there is
bid for pie in this attack upon Clevc-
lands enemies in the senate? Nay, nay;
let US believe that it was an oversight on
/ Col. Foote's part, or that the intelligent
compositor accidentally omitted his list
VI mouse traitors.
Summed up in few words, the Foote
manifesto charges Democratic defeat and
decentralization 70 the failure of the De.
mocratic congress to pass d free trade OF
low tariff bill. Unfortunately for Col.
Foote's theory,the Republican tidal wave
began when there was reason to believe
that the Democracy would fulfill its
threat. Ohio, after having escaped go
ing Democratic by, bare plurality of
1000 in the presidential election, and
even then giving Cleveland one elector
went Republican by over sc, 1000 last fall
and the issue was protection-and Nc
k1nleyism at that-versus free trade.
Pennsylvania Republican plurality of
$4,000 was rolled up on the same issue
and It's subsequent majority of $4,000
for Galusha A. Grow, Republican nomi-
nee for congress was another emphatic
protection utterance-emp because
OF the enormous gain represented by the
figures. The same may be said of the
state OF Massachusetts, which had been
electing Democrat to the gubernatorial
chair TOR long time. In every election
since the people placed the Democracy
in power the Republicans have made the
square issue of protection, often against
the frantic efforts of the Democracy to
make local issues predominant, and in
| every one state, county city and village
all over the North. the story has been
the same overwhelming Republican
victories or enormous Republican gains.
Bosh! Col. Foote. The people are not
voting protection because they want a
tariff for revenue only, or free trade, The
blundering stupidity and cowardice of
the Democratic congress and the utter
helplessness of a platitudinous Democra-
tic president may have caused a great
many Democrats to stay at home on cleo,
ton day, but it was yearning for free
trade that CAUSED hundreds of thousands
OF Others to vote squarely for return
to the policy of protection.
For two reasons at least this ieremiad
Of Col. Foote'S will he pleasant reading
for Republicans. Il is an advance con-
fession OF inevitable defeat in the state