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Show THE WEST AND THE TARIFF. Cleveland ) lm" K-onlln the Operation of the Mi-Kinley 15111. Washington, Sept. 24.-Special.-1 he following was printed here over tho signature of J. S. Clarkson, as an answer to the statement that in the Mckinley tariff bill, the republican party favors the cast as against the Most: . The insiduoiis cry that the republican party in any way favors eastern against western interests should bo stamped out at once, for it is particularly the party of the west. The west gave to it its life, the west will continue to give it its life. In turn, it has practically prac-tically inado the west. What is called the northwest is the creation of the republican party. It was the favorable land laws enacted by the republican re-publican party that opened tho great west to the settlement of poor men. It was the fostering law and policy of the republican party that protected the settlers, encouiSged the building of railroads and made the west as pleasant pleas-ant a homo and as profitable a place of business as tho east. It gave to the millions of free Americans now on their homes the homestead law, which secured se-cured them such homes. It kept slavery from the west. Before that it resisted the desperato attempt of the democratic party to extend the blight of slavery over the west. Of its own courage it kept slavery out of Nebrska and Kansas and at the same time out of tho territories west of them which have since become states. The republican party has admitted into the Union all of the states west of the Missouri Mis-souri river. If there had been a democratic demo-cratic instead of republican rule not one of them would have been admitted. Instead the 'vest, and particularly the northwest, or the whole couutry'west of Chicago, is peculiarly the child of the republican parly. Its millions of happy homes and farms were made possible through the homestead and other land laws enacted by the republican republi-can party. The west never had a backset until in the democratic administration of Cleveland, Cleve-land, when every homesteader was held by Cleveland and Sparks to bo a thief, and every land grant company a conspiracy con-spiracy against the government. Three hundred thousand patents of homesteaders home-steaders were held up by that administration. adminis-tration. The present republican administration ad-ministration has been busily distributing distribut-ing patents, as directed by law and justice. In all legislation tlie republican republi-can party is mindful of the interests of tho great west. It is the home of its great strength, tho home of its great courage, the foundation of its success, past, present and future. The republican party could not bo nnjust to the west without being unjust to itself, for in a large sense the west is the republican re-publican party. In all the legislation ot the present congress the interests of the west have been especially eared for. The sinister attempt of the democratic party to alienate the. west from the republican re-publican party will fail. The people of the west are too intelligent. They know that their prosperity and their protection alike, ever since tneir states were created and their homes were founded, have come from the republican party. |