Show tariff for revenue senator kawlins it will be remembered threw a bomb into the democratic camp of the senate when he gave his interpretation of the chicago platform saying in effect thai it admitted of votes for protection it was proven in the discussion that the word only was purposely left out of the platform so it simply declared for a tariff for revenue senator vest disputed that such was democratic doctrine and in his speech went back several decades and showed democratic platforms bad always declared for a tariff for revenue only if he exclaimed 1 had thought the platform meant what the senator from georgia says it does I 1 would not have touched it any more than I 1 would have touched a rattlesnake knowing there was no whisky within one hundred miles god help ua if the new evangel is to prevail that sentiment seems to please col Watte raon who refused to follow senator vest and others into the snares act at chicago and he comments as follows A tariff for revenue boyera any eort of a tariff that is not absolutely prohibitive any for protection that docs not entirely exclude imports ia a tariff for revenue the tariff on cotton against which senator vest GO passionately and so justly protests Is a tariff tor revenue ie more a tariff for revenue than for protection for it ia doubtful if a duty on cotton while it w 11 yield some alight revenue will in the least protect the american cotton planter vest isi late in discovering the nature of the chicago platform its lariff adamita of any kind ot construction st and there is no doubt that there is a growing tendency of protection among the as it is but natural there should be siu itself being but a form of protection the missouri senator has already been bitten by the chicago rattlesnake he should promptly apply the remedy there is as pure an article of democracy aa of bourbos in old kentucky and vest is welcome to both with sour compliments and our assurance of their virtues in all cases of poisonous snake bites that vindicates senator rawlins senator tillman the senator from georgia and a few others who stand on the chicago platform according to that platform BO col watterson says they can vote for protection but at the same time he wants it understood that is not bourbon democracy col Wat tereon is a back number however and ho will yet live to see the democrats as a party endorsing protection tec tion just as they fell into the wake of the republicans and endorsed the antislavery anti slavery that first called the grand old party into existence specie resumption homesteads and numerous other principles that divided the parties in the past senator hawlins efa al are on the right road they can vote for protection if they desire |