The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-01-26
SINCE THE ELECTION.
Republicans Growing Lukewarnn In Thel
Support of NIc1linleyisua.

Republicans Growing Lukewarn. IN Their
support of Mc1Ainleyisua.
Day by day tho wonder grows as to
what the republican party was fight
ing for at the recent election. All
through the campaign it was pro-
claimed that they were battling for
McKinleyism; and = good many of the
votes which gave the party its phe-
nomenal victory were undou otedlY
cast in that belief. Since the election.
however, there has been an effort
which almost seems to have been con-
certed to convince the public that
there never was any intention of re-
storing Nckinleyism. At first the
statements were cautiously made and
leaders like Reed and Sherman had to-
qualify and explain what they said to
prevent too strong an impression go
ing abroad that the party had been
obtaining votes under false pretenses-
OF late the disguise has been wholly
thrown aside and the con fessioo open
ly made that there was no fight for
McK,nleyism and that there never
will be any fight for it on the part OF
the republican party.
The ST. Louis Globe Democrat. ono
OF the ablest organs OF the republican,
party, comes out 1atfooted in the mat
ter and says that "vvhatever the out
come may be the republicans will
never frame another Mckinley tariff. "
They may, it thinks, put wool back on
the dutia BILE list and make a few more
changes of the same character, but
the general line of duties will never
be restored to the 1890 level" And
not content with this outline of tho
party's future policy respecting the
tariff this same organ tells Its readers
that 1.-The Mckinley law. which made
advances in duties already adequate.
was the greatest blunder ever com
United by the republican party. 1t
adds:
The biundcr was opposed by many repuo-
licans at the time and vigorously denounced
by them afterward. 1t will not be repented
Reasonable protecsion--the protection which
Offsets the lower wages Of the old worlds all
that republicans ask. II Gov. Mckinley him
self should be ct the head of the ways and
means committee in 1897, or be in the white,
house, would be an antt-McI<inleyite on the
tariff The thing called Mck1nieyisn Is so
denc that GabrieIs trump will ever sound
its resurrection"
Considering what the rank and fle
of the republican party were led to be-
lieve they were fighting for this is n
rather remarkable confessions: but 10
is paralleled by one that ex-Secretary
Foster made at Cleveland a few days
ago when he said:
THE repeal OF the force bill by the demo-
Gratis was OF tho best things that could
have happened for the republicans or course,
we could not repeal it. but it is one OF the best
things that could have happened for us that
New York, got good thing, eighty thousand
dollars a year, out OF it, think. for . long
fted 10y it that I know Of You know they
pitched into me q great deal In 1874, after my
committee went down there to New Orleans to
Investigate the matter, for telling some truth
about our . own fellows n that I'm e , has
q aisI nssssasion nave been In the south Tor :
No wonder the repubacans IRE cast
ing about to determine how much OF q
fight can be waged on the financial is
sue.-~Detr0it Free Press