The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-11
WHISKTRING TARIFF "REVTSION."
A Democratic Organ Which Relies Upon
Republican Senate for Safety.

A Democratic Organ Which Relies Upon a
Republican Senate for Safety.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Western tariff cranks are laying out a
remarkable programme to be carried out when
Congress meets. Able congressman and eGito-
rial statesmen, who have become conspicuous as
the subservient tools of the whisky ring, are
now proposing to take the universe by the scruff
of the neck and reform it altogether. Especially
in respect Of the tariff. The tariff is an affair
that must give way to whisky-ring patriotism
or if not this, then we have the alternative of q
copfiagration, in which the administration and
the entire Democratic party, together with few
stray Republicans are to disappear with loud,
cracking noise
Such programme as this is both large and
handsome and we have no doubt it will be engi-
neered by the Western tariff cranks-the con
gressmen and editorial statesmen-wtha as much
ferocity as characterized their lobbying opera
tons in favor of the corrupt whisky ring. But,
after all, there arises a serious question. The
Democratic party can be played off into a cor
ner, the administration be toasted, and Mr..
Randall can be sat down on with the advice and
consent of the Henrery Squirtersons of the
West; but WHAT do the tariff cranks propose to
do with the United States Senatel Is the Senate
to be abolished along with the appropriations
committee and Mr. Randal9
We can understand of course. how Mr. Ran
call is to be degraded and compelled to take a
back seat and how the appropriations committee
Is 10 % SuoFcu l4ttO q cOrH6r TO make room Tor
Western jobbery md corruption, but we do not
understand how the United States Senate is to
be disposed of. The tariff cranks inform us
that the Democratic party will proceed to carry
out its pledges Of tariff reform as soon as Con-
gress meets. There is to be no delay, and every
obstacle that presents itself is to be demolished.
This means, of course that Mr.. Morrison, whose
conspicuous failure to receive the support and
Endorsement of the Democrats of his own State
Is matter of history, will come to the front
with another bill
We have no doubt the bill will be what the
Western tariff cranks pleased to call 'com
promise"-that is to say it will be purely 'hori-
zontal," or, If not purely horizontal then
strictly perpendicular. or exclusively parallel.
In any event, it will meet the views of the
cranks, and we shall then be witnesses to their
entertaining twoact performance, which con-
sists of reading out Of the party every Democrat
who dares to say that he has q mind of his own
in regard to the tariff.
All this will be accomplished with neatness
and dispatch, but the question will still remain,
what is to be done with the Senatel The Senate
cannot be read out of the Democratic party, for
it is Republican, and werdo not believe that all
the efforts of the tariff cranks and tools of the
ring can abolish it. The Republican party is
supposed to be the party of protection 1t is
fair to assume, therefore, that the horizontal,
perpendicular, and parallel tariff revision bills
will get no further than the Republican Senate.
Should this occur, what remedy will The whisky
ring haye3