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Show HOLM N 'S HOI.UMVNKSH. Judge HuI.man of Indiana who poses in congress as a chronic objector, and who was at one time held up to tho ridicule of the country through the antics an-tics of the New York Sun in parading his claims as a presidential candidate on the democratic ticket, eoines again to the fore through an assertion that the lifty-seeond congress would reform the tariff on free trade lines. This prediction pre-diction U based upon tho election of Senator Talmkh, which divides the senate into forty-six republicans, forty democrats, and two independents Kyi.e, of South Dakota, and Pf.ffek, of Kansas. It is generally understood that on such issues as the tariff the in- dependents will vote with the demo-ocrats, demo-ocrats, which would still leave the republicans re-publicans four majority. Hut on "tariff reform," it is claimed, the three senators who voted aeainst the McKis-i.f.v McKis-i.f.v bill would support a measure for the reduction of duties, which would Rive tho anti-protectionists a majority of ono. This is tlio Anticipation which leading democrats are indulging in, and, realiinji that the house will "repeat "re-peat the M Kini.ky act'' by a two-thirds two-thirds vote, they have settled down in the conviction that its days are numbered. num-bered. As will be soen this calculation ranges Senators I'i.i.m it, Papdock and Petti-gkkw Petti-gkkw with the free traders, without with-out any foundation in fact. There is doubtless a strong sentiment in the vest for a modification of the tariff ou certain cer-tain articles which tho three senators named expressed, but it does not go to the length of a radical change of the republican principle of protection to American iudusiries. When it comes to "repealing"' the law which is rapidly refuting the manifold misstatements of those who could see nothing in it but oppression and robbery, it will not be so easy to muster even the more conservative con-servative democrats and independents in solid phalanx against it. Hut the insuperable in-superable barrier in the way of the repeal re-peal or destruction of the present tariff is the presidential veto. No ono pretends pre-tends that the senate would pass a repealing re-pealing act over the veto, or even au act which struck a fatal blow at the protective system. The democrats are losing no opportunity to emphasize tho suggestion that the tariff is going to be the vital issue in the next campaign, i and they could not do President Har-Hison' Har-Hison' a greater favor than to give him an opportunity to sustain protection in a ringing veto message just before tho battle begins. The MoKinley net is not doomed just yet, notwithstanding IIoi.man's hollow pretense. |