The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-14
MANY ARE FOR HIGH TARIFF
AN UNTRUTHFUL STATEMENT FROM
BRYAN'S NEBRASKA ORGAN.
Southern Protection Democrats Not
Indiana Postmasters Expire.

large number of Democratic members from
the South have, within the past few days
and weeks, cast their votes in favor of
protective tariff and that no less than
one-third of the members of Congress from
south of Mason and DiXons line have
either voted directly for high rate of
protection in the pending tariff bill or re-
fused to cast their votes against it, Thirty
two Southern men in the House voted for
the Dingley bill and five others from that
section-Populists-re to vote against
it, while in the Senate as is well known,
numbers of Sout 1ern Democrats and Popu-
lists have voted f6r either higher rates of
protection than We're originally placed in
the bill or than those reported from the
Senate finance committee.
That this growth of protective sentiment
in the South is a genuine one and largely
the result of the development of manufac-
turing industries in that section is appar-
ent but the necessity for excusing and
minimizing it has led Mr.. Bryan's organ
the Omaha World-Hera ld-and other papers
to assert that the protective vote from the
South is cast by men not natives of that
section and not representing its real senti-
ment. In a recent issue the Omaha World
Herald, commenting on this subject, said:
During the last decade a great deal of
Northern capital has been invested in
Southern manufacturing enterprises and 1t
is natural that the investing capitalists,
after years of paternalism in the shape OF
protection. should still cling to 1t. The
voices from the South crying for protection
are voices that have been imported into
that section from projections -nurtured New
England and are not the voices of South
erners. The protectionists in the
South are those who. have left the sterile
hills of New England and wandered down
South to broaden their field of operations.
NOT CARPET-BAGGERS
This statement is interesting, and espe-
cially so because it is untrue. It's untruth-
fulness adds to its interest because it shows
to what desperate straits the Democatic
leaders are forced in attempting, by false
hood as we'll as otherwise, to rescue the
free-trade theory from destruction by mem
bers of their own party and by men who
have been lifelong members of it. This as
sertion that the Southern votes which have
been cast for the protective tariff bill or
for especially protective features proposed
or adopted, were cast by men not natives
of that section-carpet-bag abso-
lutely untrue. Five Democrats voted for
the tariff bill in the House-Kleberg and
Slayden Of Texas, and Broussard, Davey
and Meyer of Louisiana. Six Democrats
have voted for the high protective features
of the bill in the Senate-Bacon and Clay
81 o. 1eorgla dI!ill f aflq d oL W.
tin of Virginia. Every one of these (Wlth
the possible exception of Meyer of Louis
lana, who does not indicate his birthplace
in the autobiography published in the Con-
gressional Directory is natiVe-born South
erner and has lived ali his life in that sec
ton. Senator McEnery was born at Mon
roe, La, was nominated by the Democratic
party as lieutenant governor in 1878, by the
same party for Governor in 1884, by the
same party for Governor in 1892, and by
the same party for senator in 1896 being
elected as a Democratic senator with the
clear understanding that he was protec-
ZIONIST in sentiment and would so vote in the
Senate. Mr.. Meyer Of Louisiana, who
voted for the tariff bill in the. House, has
educated in Virginia, serving as a Confed-
crate officer and elected term after term to
Congress as a Democrat. Mr.. Davey of
Louisiana who voted for the tariff bill IN
the House, is a native of Louisiana held
various offices in that State as Democrat,
and was elected to Congress as such. Mr..
Broussard of Louisiana, who also voted for
the Dingley bill in the House, is q native
Of Louisiana has held many positions in
Louisiana under the Democratic party and
was elected to Congress as a Democrat.
Mr. Kleberg of Texas, who voted for the
bill in the House. is native of that State,
served in the Confederate army, was elected
to the State Senate a Democrat in 1882,
held federal office as q Democrat by APP
pointment of President Cleyeland and was
elected to Congress as a Democrat. Mr..
Slayden of Texas. who is a native Of Ken
lucky was elected to the Texas Legisa-
ture as a Democrat and to Congress as a
Democrat yet voted for the Dingley bill in
the House
PROTECTION SENATOR'S.
Senator McLaurin. of South Carolina,
who voted for high protection in the Ding
ley bill in the ways and means committee
and voted for a high rate of protection in
the House and in the Senate on certain
features of the bill, is a native of South
Carolina, was elected attorney general of
that State as a Democrat and four times
| elected to Congress as a Democrat. Sen
r1t.It. .I,o. .aJ
for high rate of protection on cotton, and
thus enabled its adoption by the Senate is
a native Of South Carolina, was nominated
! for Governor in that State by the Demo-
| cratic convention and elected to the Senate
of the United States as a Democrat Sena-
| tor Bacon of Georgia, who led the sue
| cessful fight for the protection of cotton
| and also voted with the Republicans for
! high rate of protection on lumber, is
! native of Georgia, was president of the
| state Democratic convention In lSS0, elected
| a Democratic presidential elector In 1858,
was a Democratic member of the Georgia
| House of Representatives for fourteen
| years and was elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat. Senator Clay, of
the same State. who voted with Mr.. Bacon
| for protection to cotton and lumber, is also
| a native of Georgia, was chairman of the
| state Democratic executive committee and
! still holds that position, and was elected to
! the Senate as a Democrat: Senator Mar
| tin, Of Virginia, voted with the RepupIc-
| is native of Virginia and his Democracy
| has never been questioned. Senator But
| Ter, of North Carolina Populist who voted
| not only for protection to cotton but has
| sundry other high-protection amendments
| to the tariff bill now pending, is a native
! of North Carolina, was a Democrat prior
| to 1892 since which he has been Populist,
| and is now chairman of the national COM
mittee of that party Five Southern Pop
| ulists in the House refused to vote against
| the protective-tariff bill-Fower, Martin,
| Snuford Skinner and Strowd of North Car
! olina, all Of them being natives of the
| States they now represent
| 1t is thus apparent from the examination
! of the personal history of the Democrats
! from the South who have voted for the
protective features of the bin that in every
| case they are natives of that section and
| lifelong Democrats, and that of the six
Southern POpulists who voted for or re-
fused to vote against the protective fea-
| lures of the tariff bill every one is
| tive OF the South and formerly a Demo-
crat
The same rule in most eases applies to
thirty Republicans from the South The
Republican party has in Congress to-day
| a greater number Of members from south
of the Mason and Dixon line than ever
| before, with the possible exception of a
-, Cor r1t Of he. 11a Ne