Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1895-06-28
QUIGG'S ADMISSION.
THE REPUBLICAN, CONG REssMAE-
EDITOR CASTS A BLUFF

Lemuel ELI Admits That tho Iscpuh-
lican Party Thinks Oniyiot Our
manufacturing Industrlcs : The
Party Must Work for Its Masters,
or Cease to Exist.
Many Democrats and bartholomew
have always held that tho Republican
party was owned, body and soul, by
the manufacturers of this country,
and that without the protected maui
facturers there would be no ''party OF
Protection, of American Wages" etc.
Only occasionally does some Repub-
lican inadvertently admit this truth
One of the latest OF these slips is con-
tanned in tho New York Press of April
%, edited by Congressman Lemuel
Eli Quigg.
Eli has somehow got itinto his hopl
that tho Democrats don't want tho
Republicans to tinker with the present
tariff law. OF course ho is mistaken
in this particular, for the Democrats
are everywhere saying: ave, just dare
you to tinker with tho present tariff
and to replace it by another Mckinley
bill" But Quigg wouldn't be himself
ii he didn't always insist upon mis-
understanding conditions. Flo knows
very we'll that it is the Republicans
who aro crying: 'Don't tinker with
tho tariff and make fools of yourselves
md the party rs you did in 1890. :"
He also knows that it will he next to
impossible to get the Republicans i'll
tho next Congress TO do more than to
'cast few bluffs" just rs he is now
doing.
He heads his editorial "Tarilf Tin.
kering and Murder" and proceed:
calmly to compare Democrats who ask
Republicans not to tinker with the
tariff with murdercrs who wish to
abolish capital punishment. After
glibly talking about the "rcddest.
handed of the would-be murderers OF
American industries" he casts tho fol-
lowing big patriotic bluff:
"Wo arc not forecasting Republican
tariff legislation here. Nobody has to
forecast Republican tariff legislation.
1t has proceeded always upon ono
simple, practical plan-bonolits to
this country, protection to our indus
tries where it is needed against foreign
competition, favors to our people.
The rulo is as simple as A 3 g, and we
suppose TINT Republican tariff legisla-
ton will depend entirely. upon tho
nature and number of the hurts re-
coivcd by American industries in tho
recent war upon them, brought by
Cockburn, Cleveland and Packenham
Wilson.
'No, VIC arc thinking amusedly OF
what tho murderers justly dread, and
why they want capital punishment
abolished"
This sounds well, and there would
bo no fault to find with it-excopt
TINT it is not true-if Quigg did not
proceed to explain what no means by
the "simplc, practical plan" of Repub-
lican tariff legislation, and by pro.
lection to our industries and fnvors to
our people," Continuing, he said:
"lf tho Republican party SHOULD
follow their precedent it would sim
ply hunt out all Democratic industries
and assassinate them i'll broad daylight,
simply because they were Democratic.
1t would treat every importer oil
foreign goods as an outlaw and put n
price on his head. This was precise.
ly the action taken toward the manu-.
fncturcrs by tho Democratic party,
headed by MIR. Cleveland, from 1887
to 1893. When the country's pros.
pcrity was at its highest, when there
was not whisper OF u demand from
any class or any individual in the
country for change in the industrial
conditions by tariff, it set to work to
make st. Bartholomew Day for the
manufacturing class"
This is virtually admitting that tho
Republican party thinks only of the
manufacturers and does not think
that there are other industries worth
consideration. If the manufacturers
are taken care of (as they were by Nc
hinley) 1T matters not wi ~ happens
to the greater industry OF farming.
benefits to this country" means sim
ply benefits to the manufacturers who.
by contributions to the Republican
party, have paid for protective tariff
legislation. This is the some simple,
practical plan" OF Republican tariff
Legislation. 1t will be adhered to n;
closely MS the temper of the people
will permit. Unfortunately for the
manufacturers-that il, the Republi-
cause.-The most that they dare do Mt
present is to prevent further tariff re-
auctions. Tho Republican party is
tho manufacturers party; it must
work In the interests of its master mr.