The Saint Paul globe., 1904-08-26
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26. 1904.
MccLEARY AND LODGE

Representative McCleary, of Mime
sofa, is the subject just now of much
Republican attention because he hap
pens to be an honest man and re-
fuses to brand himself liar. Mr.. Nc
Cleary is a consistent Republican. He
is one of the very few anywhere who
are willing to be logical and accept the
consequences of their faith. He does
not blow hot and cold. He has no
stomach for the arrant hypocrisy that
is ingrained in the very being Of his
party Therefore he bids fair to do it
much damage, and is said to be about
to receive discipline from some of the
more eminent of the party's leaders.
AS we have said, the difference be-
tween Mr.. McCleary and the others is
that he is honest. He believes in pro-
lection. He thinks. that it is good
thing; and, being good thing, we
cannot have too much of it. He is sim
cere in his views. He will not lie
about reductions and revisions which
he knows very well that his party will
never accomplish or consent to. He
thinks that they should not. The tariff
being, in his view, the real protection
to industry that it has been assumed
to be, Mr.. McCleary thinks that there
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He would build the wall higher rather
than seek to lower it. And why not?
If the Russians seek to keep the Jap
anese out of Port Arthur, they do not
begin by leveling their Notifications.
They add wall to wall and pile height
on height. And if trade be war eco
nomic, and if tariff be real protec-
ton to industry, then Mr.. McCleary
alone is right, he alone is sincere, he
alone is honest and truth-telling.
Why is there this anxiety among Re-
publicans about McCleary? Why do
they propose to discipline him? Why
have Republican managers sought and
Republican newspapers urged in this
state his defeat for the nomination by
some other less uneompromising can
didate? Because he is in any way un-
fit? By no means. Simply because he
will not let himself be handled. Be-.
cause he has opinions and a con-
cause he will not tell his constituents
that the tariff is the sole stay and de-
fense of American industry, and at the
same time tell them that the Repub-
iicans are going to revise and reduce
it; casting a glance of mirth over his
shoulder at the same time toward the
tariff monopolists and millionaires wllc
are standing in the background with
tongues stuck anusedly in their
cheeks. This is what differentiateS
Mr.. McCleary from other Republicans
and marks him as a dangerous man
Honesty about the tariff is something
not to be tolerated in Republican cir
cles.
Consider the parallel between this
man and another, far higher in his
party's councils but infinitely less en-
titled to respect, Senator Lodge Il
there be time-server in public life
today, man who loves to convince
himself that black is white. man whc
has subordinated a trained mind and
the antecedents of a gentleman to al
that is most contemplate in politics
It is Henry Cabot Lodge. He is out
now declaring for reciprocity witt
Canada, because he has found that tht
refusal of his state convention to in
dorse it is likely to give the vote o.
Massachusetts to the Democratic
party. Yet it was Lodge more thar
any other man to whom that refusal
was due.
Senator Lodge is the very type and