Morris tribune., 1904-09-24
THE SECOND DISTRICT CONTEST.

THE SECOND DISTRICT CONTEST.
In the second congressional district of Min
n1esota, J. T. McCleary has been again selected
AS the Republican nominee for congressman
Mr. McCleary stood for tariff idea which we
do not believe isgeneraly popular in the North
west, but think the Endorsement which he
received was due much less to his tariff IDEAS
than to the work of his machine and the respect
in which he is held.
Speaking editorially on this contest the St.
Paul Dispatch says: ..
"Incomplete returns from the Second district
indicates the selection by the republican voters
Of Mr.. MCCleary as candidate for representative
M congress over Mr.. Miller by vote of two to
one. The Dispatch is surprised, however
much it is disappointed, at this result It did
not underestimate the advantage of the sitting
member in his prestige, in his possession of the
federal machine which he has so 1aboriously
constructed and so diligently worked, and in
the strength of the feeling that somehow, in
& apabe of definition or precise demonstration,
EN- en- fancied that they were getting financial
b enefit out of the policy Mr.. McCleary advocat-
~es. At no time was the Dispatch confident; at
a II times il was hopeful. .1A.
"Mr NcCleary by the decision of a nlojority
of the republican voters-for assume he had
democratic support is indorsed, This news
will go out to the trusts and combinations
so whose profit his policy materially CON
Erlbutes, cheering them with the assurance
that the republicans of the Northwest will
ing TO continue their privileges, and to increase
4hem should they think it advisable to ask con-
gress for larger opportunities for profit making.
1t will be taken, as the victory of 1888, as
unlimited license to make rates higher, as was
then done,and we apprehend,it will be followed
10y that disastrous reaction that set in in 1890,
and ended in '92 with complete republican
eviction
~"What have these voters approved? Mr.. Nc
(C1earys speech states it concse1y. The per-
manency of the policy of protecting from
competition at the cost of all. The increase oil
chat protection by increasing rites to produce
minimum of imports, The stamping out of tax
reduction as the silver movements was stamp
ed out. The continued shelter of trusts, of
which the Steel trust is example, all OIL
which sell their productsto foreigners cheaper
chan to us Americans. And what to the Dis
patch is the most far reaching and threatening
as job, that fruitful source of corruption in
government and of laxity of morals in the bust
world. To that majority of republicans
in the Second district says: Amen; it is good
"Of what do they disapprove? Of the "Roose
veltidea't that taxation for protection should COW
eerthe difference in labor cost of producing here
and abroad;an idea whose germ is reduction
Fof taxation. Dsapproval of the Roosevelt policy
of reducing taxation by mutual agreement of
nations; the Roosevelt idea of removing the
tariff from politics by referring itsas business
question, to a commission; of the Roosevelt and
Mckinley idea of widening our markets abroad,
thereby increasing production at home; oil
fostering friendly instead of hostile CONNER
>ca relations; of insuring peace with the bonds
of trade and mutual interests OF all this they
say they will have nothing. #.
The Dispatch is no gutter. 1t took its