Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-26
THE FIRST wANr-UNITIi

The present House Of ofRepresentstlVes
~Sss elected in 1852. The people OF tue
limited States were disgusted with hs-
publica, 30. They had seen kePuO-
5icsn Pre-. assassinated by q ulsap-
Apointed 4 lican office seeker Ihey
had with, the escape Of the star
koure robbers after farcisl proseeu-
Non. They had discovered that the
hiaI had been made the instrumental-
Sty 20 nut exorbjtant fees into the
Docket Of an Old chum Of the President,
nro If his New York machine pollEi-
eiars II ey had heard from ex-senator
Dorsry. the Secretary Of the
Rsruh.ican National Committee,
r. the Presidential election oil
isSo had been purchased, and the
Tabinet appointments, foreign missions
and Supreme Court iudgeships had been
sold. They remembered that the man
whohad risen to the Presidency through
EUrTEAU'S crime had feasted electoral
corruption and bOasted Of the effective
nse OF soap" They saw kEIFER in
he Speakers chair. They saw RePuo-
4icap river aud harOOr bills and general
Sobbery in Republican Congress. Ihey
saw strange temperance and prohibition
sepislstion. They were tired Of cant,
korrup,ion, Guiteauism and Arthurism.
Fhpy determined on reform and change.
fbey mtrusted the Democrats with
Congress as a weapon with which to
Drive out rascality and insure q change,
n accordance with the popular will,
lwo years thereafter.
Was the Tariff OF Free Trade an issue
h.New York when its people in 1881
lected twenty-One Democrats out OF
hirty.thrre Cougres-men? Was it an
ssue in Pennsylvania when that State
hanged its Congressional delegation
hom twenty Republicans and seven
Democrats to twelve Democrats aud
hx.t,n Republicans? In Ohio, when
6iIt,,u Democrats were chosen agalnss
kght republicans? In Wisconsin,
khen s.x Democratic representatives
serr tl and only three RePIbL-
lansa H. Mr.. MoRRISON'S own S,ate,
khen % Increased its Democratic dele
lation from SIX to uIne? In Indiana,
khen tha. State chose nine Democratic
kongr,s men and only four RepIbd-
ans?
No: the Tariff was not the issue at
hat time Free Trade was not DREAM
h of. TIE trust contided then to the
Democracy was Administrative Re
brm: a reform that should purify elec-
ions, puta stop to centralized power
hd Official dishonesty, punish Pub!ic
bbLerS, and restore the Government
D simplicity, economy and honesty!
But one year later on the very eve OF
b. meeting of the present Congress,
Dlio and New Jersey voiced the Tariff
hincip!e Of the Democratic party and
hscteG Democratic Governors on plat
brms declaring in favor Of Incidental
hOtection,
tNr. CARLISLE and every Democratic
bngrtSsman must see that the tariff
hue i a tirebrand that can only cause
deOnilagratiOn in the Democratic camp.
Dcast II INTO the midst of the party now
ITO insure defeat under any candidate
hthe Presidential election. We neeu
fyery Democratic vote. We cannot get
tnem under that issue. i the Demo-
-tratiC Congress willing 10 adopt WAT
sEKSON'S wild cry Of free trade first
and the Democracy afterwards; OF free
tade or Democrat, defeat? Despite
Ne couuteuance which Mr.. CARLISLE
md Mr.. MORRISON, by their silence,
AppeaI to give TO this doctrine, We trust
heir good sense will teach them To
7epudiate ii. They can do so etiectually
only in one way. Let them postpone
The tariff question, on which the party
IS divided and which is now mere
bubble, until after the Presidential elec-
lion, and unite on the issue on which
they were elected and on which the
Democracy is united-SHall there be a
change aud can there be change in the
National AdminiStTatiOu.-New York
World.