Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-06-11
IMPORTANT If TRUE.
Editor Watterson Urged to Go Slow on
the Tariff


the Tariff.
Ne'0 York C0rreapondence Phiddelphia Ledoey.
Senator Beck and Mr.. Henry Waiter
son, OF Kentucky, there is good reason for
believing and saying, are not in New
York, at present, on merely private bust
ness. Private business, no doubt. has
something to do with it, but certain il is
they are doing good deal of political
talking that has reference to the next
Congress and to the approaching Presi-
DENTAL election, in which everybody is
supposed to have more or less an inter
est. Mr.. WattersOn, | am told, is alarmed
at the turn the tariff agitation is taking
III this part OF the country, he begins to
see that there is some danger that the
Democratic ship will split Oh that rock,
and hence he is desirOus MOf re-
adjusting the compass, with the aid of old
and wary nayigatOrs like Samuel j. Til
den and John Kelly, so that the Vessels
course shall be straight ahead. These
two veterans have advised him that they
are as ultra free traders as he, or any
body else in Kentucky, but that it Is as
well i'll politics as in morals, to heed the
admonitiOn of the wise man. that some
things, which are right in themselves,
may not always be eXpedient. There is
powerful manufacturing sentiment in and
about the city of New York now. which
did not exist fifteen or twenty years ago.
and if this sentiment is ,indisposed
to accept free-trade doctrines. with
out qualification, the Tammany Chief
and the old gentleman Of Gramercy Park
give notice that il will have to be tenderlv
dealt with. To put it in homelier phrase,
Mr.. WattersOn is urged to 'EgO slOW'' on
the tariff, and, if possible, to 90 home ana
ind out some new issue, which is less
portentOus of future heart-burnings and
divisions i'll the Democratic camp. Wheth-
er the COurteI-J0uT7lGt editor will accept
this advice or not, we shall see as soon
as he returns to Louisville. For the mo-
ment, the talk at the clubs is that he is
disposed to complain of New York dictas.
ton, and of disposition on the part of
Eastern Democrats to sacrifice principle
to eXpediency. In this railing accusa-
ton, it is unnecessary to add, he includes
Mr.. Randall, of Pennsylvania. Senator
Beck, on the other hand, is disposed to
attach less Importance to the tariff dis
cussion than to the good behavior of the
Democratic majority in the next Congress
as factor in the business of electing a
Democratic President in 1884. He puts
it in this way:
eve have a majority of the next Con-
gress, and the result will depend upon
what we do. If we organize and go hon
estly to work to legislate for the good Of
Ine WnOIe country, put down m0nOpOlleS
without disturbing industry, carry a
genuine reform of the civil service into
effect, and keep clear Of the idea that
power is to be used only TO reward politi-
cal friends, we viii elect the next Presl-
dent
If this platform could be carried out,
the halcyon days of the republic would be
upon us, Arcadia or the millennium would
not be far off, and it would not matter
much whether a President, chosen under
such inspiration, were a Democrat or a
Republican; he would be just the sort of
man 1'We, the people, are looking for.