The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1899-04-18
"THs YOUNG IOCHlsvIR. 4"
Carrier Harrison's y . mination Would Make
Iiiuoi. DoubIfal.

Freu the ChiCnE0 Tribune.
Mr.. Robert b Roosevelt az the Tam
many Jefferson Day dinner said: Person
ally I have hopes that the young Lochin-
var" who Is TO carry OF the Democratic
nomination fer the Presidency next year.
will come out Of the West" There is
nothing obscure in this afr. Roosevelt
does not mean Bryan. Of Nebraska. but
Harrison. of Illinois. The boy orator of
the Platte has ceased to be young and
he showed himself a poor horseman three
years ago. The Mayor Of Chicago Is the
man whom Mr. Roosevelt wishes TO See
eareering along calamity at the head of
the Democratic legfOEs.
One object of the Tammany dinner was
to put in the field the Tammany ticket
Carter II. Harrison for President and
probably Judge Van Wyck for Tice Pres
ident. If such ticket is nom mated il will
not be one for Republicans 10 laugh az.
Mckinley can beat Harrison. but the
nomination Of the latter under some con-
ditions would tend 10 make Illinois
doubtful State. At least the Democrats
would claim il was a doubtful State and
would put forth supreme efforts to carry
/ il. If Tanner should be dominated for
Governor the claim might be made good.
II the Democrats nominate Harrison.
shelye the free-silver idol-as they doubt
less would 90 in that case-and declare
war upon trusts and combines" the Re
| publicans would be kept moving from the
! beginning 10 the end of the campaign. The
Republican platform of 1896 is silent on
/ the subject of trusts. The omission was
not accidental. Ii was deliberate and will
/ full. The platform of 1882 had a specific
/ resolution covering this question. There
| were more trusts in existence in 1896 than
| in 1892. Their dangers were more apparent
| Yet the St. Louis platform is silent on
| that subject. The reason which was given
| by Democratic newspapers for this omis-
! sion is that many of the great corpora
| tiOns were expected to be liberal contrib
utors if no antitrust promises Were made
II has been alleged that Mr.. Hobart was
| nominated because he had influence with
| the corporations and could induce them to
/ be generous
! These statements may or may not be
/ true. This much is tTue-that the utmost
! liberality on the part of the corporate
! trusts and combines in 1900 will not make
good to the Republican Party what it will
| lose by silence in that year concerning the
! burning question of the hour. The voters,
! irritated by the tariff legislation of 1890,
/ defeated the Republican candidates in 1892
| The voters are more irritated now by the
/ growth of trusts and combines than they
were by the excessive tariff legislation in
! 1882. The people are not unfriendly to the
/ protective principle when impartially ap-
piled on behalf of industries that need
| protection. But they perceive that many
! of the trusts and combines which Cypress
| them are fostered and protected by excess
| sive duties levied by the tariff for the ben
eft of industries that do not need protec-
ton. To the extent that the tariff holsters
up trusts amendment of the tariff will be
demanded. Where it gives protection
which is not abused and is building up
new industries il will be upheld.
| There will be heard next year from every
part of the United States a fierce demand
that the trusts be put down. That de-
mand is made more theoretically day by
day. Therefore il behooves the Republican
Party TO put its house in order. 1t must
| be prepared to denounce trusts in the
platform of 1900, and it should give evil
| dence in advance that it is in earnest
therein There are national and State laws
! against trusts. Those laws have been in
! effective thus far. The Republican Party
| should make a serious, manifestly sincere
| effort to enforce them.
If it does not and if it disregards the
signs of the times, the next Democrat lie
National Convention may put tine young
LOchinvar of the West" in the saddle and
make the race extremely interesting for
! the Republican candidate, whoever he
may be.