Identifier: reviewofreviewsw06newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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se virtuous andmeritorious ; and the same thing may be said of theDemocratic club system and of Mr. Quincys literaryand educational bureau. CeKain ^^ ^ frank man the worst thing about theParty campaign has been certain evasions of which Euasions. -^qj^)^ sides have been guilty. Two yearsago in Congress the Republicans introduced andstoutly supported a bill for the national control offederal elections. It was defeated in the Senate bythe opposition of a few Republican Senators. Themeasure was a mistake, and most Republicans nowknow that it was. A large element of the Demo- cratic party have insisted upon fighting tlie ghost ofthe so-called Force Bill as the main issue of thiscanii)aign. They have not scrupled to say to theirfollowers that it is one of the main planks of the Re-publican platforai, although it is not in the platform,either directly or by implication. Yet the Repu))lican8,by virtue of their recent record, are morally committedto the measure m such a way that frankness and
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HON. JAMES S. CLARKSON, OF IOWA,Chief Republican Exponent of Educational Campaigning. candor would require them to say something about it.By apparent agreement all along the line, they havedetermined to ignore the subject. Not one prominentRebublican had—when these remarks were written,late in October—said a single frank word on this sub-ject that they had all been discussing so voluminouslytwo or three years before. This silly and stupidpolicy of uncandor will unquestionably have cost theRepublicans many votes. Why could not each indi-vidual Republican speaker have spoken simply hisown views, since the platform had omitted the sub-ject? On the other hand, the Democrats at Chicagodeclared squarely against protection and denouncedit as unconstitutional. They have, in fact, playedfast and loose with the tariff question all through thecampaign. Mr. Clevelands letter of acceptance didnot accord with the platform, and there is no Demo-,cratic doctrine of the tariff whatsoever, except a

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