The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-05-06
WHY APROTECTIONIST
Senator Wellington Explains Some
Things to the Americus Club.

| Republican party after the war.
The Pittsburg Times gives this ex-
tract from the speech:
1.-THE Republican party came out
of the conflict holding, in one hand,
the renewed charter of our National
liberties, strengthened by the re-
union Of States upon a iirme? basis,
and in the other, the freedom and
acknowledgements of the race Of people
who had, until then, been holden as
goods and chattels. From that
moment the Republican party ceased
to be sectional, for the sectional
issue was dead and buried. Hence
| forward it was to devote itself to
questions of political economy, fin
ance and general government. In
the border States of the South there
had been a peculiar condition which
demanded more than putty in the
! spinal column to have man stand
up on either side. In the North it
was simply a matter of standing for
the Union cause, because the trend
of public opinion carried men in
that directions in the South it was
simply an equal stand for its institu-
tons.
But in that narrow strip of land
wedged between the TWO sections,
these two points met and clashed
There families were divided, and the
friendship of lifetime broken.
Therein it demanded courage Of con
viction to enter contest for or
against the Union. Great bitterness
developed, and when the war was
over the patience and the prejudice
of the struggle remained. In the
State Of Maryland, for 30 years, there
was an eyer-reeurring political battle
and Il crushing defeat for the Repub-
lean party. At TIE end Of 30 years
the long expected victory seemed as
far in the distance as ever before
Many had lost heart, but in 1894
determined that another effort should
be made to redeem our State.
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Eli Perkins Defends the Free-TraderS.
have been engaged by the patrio-
tic Wilson-C Cleveland Democrats to
get up arguments against Mckinley
and his wicked protective Tariff
Our star Democratic argument is
this:
"a Protective Tariff is a benefit to
the few at the expense of the manv.n
That paragraph is our stock in
trade. That is Bryan's argument
too.
lam working this Democratic ar
gument for all it is worth now. This
is the way | prove it to the wicked
Republicans;
| 90 to Dinglev, Platt. Grosvenor
and Dollivcr and knock them out
with questions. | know. of course
that the %. O00. COO laboring men bene-
flied bv the Tariff are the MANY but /
knock this out with our Democratic
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