The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-07-17
JOINED 70 THEIR idols.
TIE REPUBLICAN, DECLARATION
FOR HIGHER TAXES

No Promise Of Relief by the S. Louia
National Convention for the Over
nurdoned Masses - Monopolists
Combine 20 Elect Mckinley.
The platform adopted at the 81.
Louis Convention shows that the Bour.
bona Of the Republican party, who
learn nothing by experience, are in
full control OF the organization which
once stood for liberty and popular
rights. In spite Of the warning given
by the election Of 1892, when ma.
iority Of over /, 500, 900 votes was cast
against the protection candidates, Nc
Kinley has been nominated on a deo-
laration for all the absurdities and in
famioa embodied IN the tariff with
which his name was accidentally as
ISOLATED. The hopes of a strong sec
ton Of tho Republican party, includ-
ing many Of it's most intelligent mem.
bors, that moderate views on the tariff
would prevail, have been disappointed,
and the extremists who seek 10 urge a
war to the death against foreign COM
meroe have carried everything before
them. Il lie no longer possible for q
Republican to be a free trader, as was
President Garfield. Henceforth Re-
publicanism and McKinleyism are
Synonymous terms.
For one thing at least the country
should be thankful Tho ST. Louis
Convention of the agents of protected
interests met to devise plans for So
curing class legislation for their own
profit, dropped the humbug pretensos
OF ''tariff REFORM" which in former
years was feature OF Republican
platforms. This abandonment of their
fraudulent promiseSto correct abuses
in the tariff laws and to reduce taxa
tion is evidence that the party realizes
that the people cannotagain be fooled
by talk OF 'reform of the tariff by its
friends" There is no longer any pre-.
tense Of altering the tariff except in
the direction of higher taxes.
The triumph Of Mckinley and his
barbarous tariff policy at st. Louis
makes clear the issues in the coming
campaign. For the first time in the
history Of the country has a party
boldly declared its uncompromising adj
herence to the doctrine that trade re-
striction and high taxation are its
foundation principles. In former
years the lines between the two great
parties were confused by the vague
generalities under which the Chinese
system of trade exclusion was masked
Now we have that policy openly ad-
vocated. Any one who supports the
Republican candidate will know exact.
ly what he is voting for.
The year 1896 will mark an epoch
in the history Of this Republic. The
forces of corruption, cunning and
fraud are united in their demands
that they shall be given control OF the
Government, so that they can increase
the tax burdens of the toiling poor,
and create for themselves great for
tunes. Never before was there such q
mighty organization, strong in its
power Of combined monopoly, section
al interests and partisan ignorance.
The men at its head are crafty and
unprinoipled. Their tool is the in
competent apostle of more taxes as 8
means of prosperity, and their meth
DDS are wholesale pr omises of impossi
BILE riches for all, and wholesale de
bauchery of the voters with funds frieC
out of protected manufacturers.
Against this unho]y union of traitors
4a -
equal rights for all and special priv
ileges to none, is the great mass Of
the common people, whose every in
terest is opposed to the demands Of
McKinleyites. But while the number
of those who will be injured by Re
publican victory outnumbers 1000 t.
those who will be benefited, they arr
comparatively disorganlzed, and with
oat the great resources of i'll gotter
wealth, which is being poured out il
behalf o. protection. This, and thi
only, makes the result in Novembe.
doubtful. We're one-tenth of tn,
money which will be spent for corrup
purposes by the Republicans used t.
spread among the people true state
ments OF the real effects of high tariff
taxation, Mckinley would be defeated
by 1000, 600 majority.
Should the organized forces of tn,
trusts and monopolies succeed thi
year the chains of oppressive tariff
laws will be bound so tightly that es
cape from them will be impossible fol
a generation. 10 prevent such ca
lamity every patriotic citizen shoulC
work and vote against the party whicl
stands for policy which makes th'
masses poorer and the classes richer
WHIDDEN GRAHAM.