The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-03-27
CURRENT COMMENT.
PLAIN SPEAKING NEEDED.
philadelphia North American.

\Eulldu6lpuid NOfUu Alueflcdu.
If the Republican party is in favor of
a protective tariff, it must say SO in few
and unqualified words. 1t is not neces-
sary to go into any argument to justify
the platform. The people know what pro-
lection has done for the country, and
they are having an object lesson of what
the want OF protection entails. The party
is in favor of protect ion for labor and
capital elm barked in the industries. Let
it say SO without any qualification what
ever. If the party is in favor of a cur
reney at par with gold, the medium of
exchange adopted by the commercial
world, it must say so in few words and
without argument. To argue that we
must have sound money is absurd. OF
course we must have sound money, and
sound money means any medium of ex-
| change on a parity with gold. If men
differ about what is sound money, they
can discuss 1t at liberty on the rostrum
or in the newspapers. The platform is
not the place to discuss any matter OF
policy or of principle. The platform OF
party Should be its creed, and it's creed
should be its text.
HOTeHEADED AND INJUDICIOUS.
providence Journal
DR.. Parkhurst is getting excited. He
has told the people of Brooklyn that
Platt is worse than Tammany, and has
said that he would rather vote for q
Democrat than tor a Presidential candi-
date on the Republican side who got the
nomination for his own aggrandizement.
AS to the Raines bill, he said that he
would break the Ten Commandments II
they had been PASSED the way that
measure was. This is tall talk. But the
reverend doctor went on to say that New
York was a hotbed of iniquity and to
hint at worse things than the Lexow ex-
animation had revealed. II is to be hoped
that this does not portend another per-
sOnal crusade. DR.. Parkhurst has cour-
age enough for anything, and he has
done some good; but no one can deny
that he is most hot-headed and iniu
dioious person.
OHIO DID NOT MEET THIS ISSUE.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. y
We warn the Republican party that
success is not assured in the coming
Presidential campaign simply because
the people arose IN their might in 1894
and repudiated the party that wiped
from our statute books the Mckinley
law.
A large number of Republicans stand
aghast at the apostecy of the so-called
Republican silver Senatols-frst, in re-
fusing relief to the manufacturing inter-
ests OF the country, and second, at the
narrow policy which causes them to re-
pudiate their obligations as Republicans
to afford protection to the industries that
are being threatened, merely because
local silver interests are not at once con-
81 dered
The people, however, do not forget that
the head of the rebellion against the
great Republican policy of protection is
also Chairman of the Republican Nation
81 Committee, and associated with him
are Senators equally prominent in Re
publioan councils.
The present great depression in our
manufacturing industries is because ade-
quate protection and reciprocity have been
withdrawn, and these silver Senators re-
fuse to allow protective measures to be-
come law, either for revenue or for en-
enlargement to our home manufactures,
unless the silver heresy of free coinage is
included in the legislation.
The real issue, therefore, of the Repub-
lican party is to purge itself of it's So
called friends. The great manufacturing
States of New York, Pennsylvania. New
Jersey, Connecticut and Ohio, not only
because of a lack Of protection to their
industries, but because of the threat that
protection can only come through the
recognition of free coinage-wbich they
know M sans inevitable bankruptcy-de
uitsh ItCpup1lSebH POI " Sliehll HOt
hesitate to repudiate the principles of
the silver Senators and put the party
squarely before the people on a platform
unequivocal and unmistakable.
The great mass of the people are sound
on the QUESTION of money and protection.
Let all the candidates come out squarely
and fairly, giving the people exact infor-
NATION as tx: their positions. The success
of the Republican party is assured in 1896
on sound money and protection plat
form, but doubtful on platform uncer-
tain as to money with protection.
NEW ENGLAND SHOULD BE
UNITED.
Boston Globe.)
The Massachusetts, Republican con ven
ton in this city tomorrow will give the