New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-09-25
URY Mr. HEUIIT TAILS.

1t is QlShcartcnlnR W u htah Va '"''
ability and carnestness to serve In Congress
twelve years, trying to secure legislation wnicn
he deems beneficial to the country, ana 10 hhu
that he has accomplished nottingham even
after the election of President OF ms own
party he is forced to say, 81 have had no IN
fuence whatever" in legislation. The remark
is rather too strong On some questions MIR.
Hewitt has had considerable influence, and he
has used it for the real good of the country.
More than once, on questions of public faith
and currency, he has helped to resist the 'cn-
denotes of his party. But on the thnl nc mas
failed, as he says, and to such man tweiVe
wears of fruitlcss striving for what nc 'hinks
right. thwarted all the time by the incapaclly
of his own party, and most mserably thwar'cd
after his own party had come into control OF
the executive department and OF the House,
must be exceedingly painful.
MIR. Hcwitt's failure is in part due to his I'M
willingness to recognize the radical unfltncss
of his party for control of public affairs. ms
unwillingness appears in his interview publlshcd
on Friday. 1t seems to him that clashlng OF
individual ambitions and iealOuscs is the cause
Of failure to agree upon tariff policy. But
there Mr.. Hewitt does some injustice to his asso
ciates. Mr.. Carlisle and Mr. Morrison, for ex-
ample. represent a great body of voters whose
sunposed interests are clearly defined and
eagerly sought. These voters thoroughly be-
heve in revision of the tariff whch "ouio
PROSTATE manufacturing and mining states OF
the East, and they regard MIR. Hewitt as only
shade less criminal than the "monopolists " VINO
oppose any revision. These voters are SINCERE
as Mr.. Hewitt is, and their leaders represent
their opinions, as Mr.. Hewitt does not represent
| the workingmen who constitute majority Oh
Democratic voters in Eastern States. 1t would
he fatal to Western and Southern leaders not 10
strive for the ideas which govern those secuols'
and their inability to agree with Mr.. Hewitt
as to methods is not so much due 10 persohai
| ambitions and ealousies as to radical differences
of belief and purpose within his party.
Mr. Hewitt, is not willing to recognize the 1acl
that the majority of his party is radically ana
hopclessly unfit to control the Government
Those Southern and Western men who cannot
see beyond the immediate and local interests
of certain planters and farmers, who are unaoic
to comprehend broad national policy when
seeks the highest good of every section ana
class through promoting the highest good OF inc
country as whole naturally 60 with the DEM
ocratc party, and they control 1t IN spite oil Mr.
Hewitt or Mr.. Randall either. The Western
and Southern men of broader ideas do not clns
to the Democratic party, because they realize
that it is utterly incapable for good. Mr.. licwit
and Mr. Randall do cling to that party, and arc
therefore without any influence, except to save
it from itself, now and then, when 1t IS about
to do its worst
| If the Eastern Democrats could persuade
themselves that their party was making or wa
likely to make any progress toward capaclt'
for government, they would be more eXcusabe
But they surely must see that there has been III
gain in that respect for many years. The same
narrow prejudices, the same obsolete idea
which the slavc-holding planters OF the Souti
borrowed from British teachers fifty years age
their descendants of to-day nurse with alice
tomato devotion The Shareholders could no
tolerate a diversified industry, therefore tn
Southern Bourbons Of to-day hate the pohc
under which manufactures and mining az
4 rapidly growing at the South. party SO bin
and stupid is not only incapable of governln
TO-DAY. but, as the industries of the country
Q develop it is getting more incapable OF govern
f ing every wear, and yet Mr.. Hewitt sticks to Il
and absuIdly fancics that an ADLER and suongc
@ man than himself might make the Democrat
+; party rational and national