Wichita eagle., 1888-01-21
SOME REPRESENTATIVES,.

ing the course of events transporting II
the Democratic camp for some time and
it has discovered that the differences OF
opinion in the Democratic faculty about
the merits of DR.. Cleveland's prescrip.
ton of diluted free-trade as party tonic
continue to develop themselves in an an
mated and entertaining fashion. They
are nowhere more marked, it thinks,
than in the consolidated south, which
is relied upon to furnish the electoral
votes next fall.
incidentally. there is a good deal of
sharp talk back and forth just now about
Mr.. Carlisles committees. The Charles
ton Is c. News and Courier, for in
stance, censures him for wasting a
months precious time in making them
up. and also criticises the makeup.
1t especially regrets the reappoint-
ment of Mr.. Randall to the chairman-
ship OF the appropriations committee. It
sees in this and in other selections eyi-
dence of political bargaining. Mr.. Car
isle is essentially a politician it says.
The Louisville (Ky.l CourierJournal
does not like Mr.. Randall any better
than does its Carolina contemporary. but
it points out that failure to reappoint
him woald have been 1.-The belated jus
tee Of an inoppertune rehuke, and
the" threshold Of a presidential cam
paign., Colonel Watterson adds inl-
pressively that 1.-The present is not a pro
pitious moment for the application Of
the CaSariah operation in party mac
tice:,. He affirms that Mr. Randall from
the beginning OF the session has talked
to the president and TO Speaker Carlisle
like Democrat who wants to do his
duty" and remarks that his osten-
tatious disavowal of any under
standing or agreement with those
heads of the party is '-creditabie neither
to his discernment nor loyalty" Per
contra, the Augusta lGa.) Chronicle
heartily rejoices in the retention of Mr..
Randall as right and wise thing in
itself and also good omen for the
party. 1.-The Democratic party. it says,
'.can afford to make no mistakes before
its enemies nor to create any division
within It's own ranks The Atlanta
fGal Constitution rebukes Speaker
Carlisle for filling the ways and means
committee with his own sort of Demo-
Gratis to the entire exclusion of the Ram
dali sort. and remarks that the outlook
for compromise bill land resultant
party harmony is mot very hopeful .
The Washington ID. c. Post. free trade,
concurs in this Respondent view. 1t
looks for a great deal OF talk
and little or no cider 'sNo congress
was ever SO tardy in getting down to
business it says. 1t will not be at all
surprised if enough Democrats ultimately
vote with the Republic ans to send to
President Cleveland a bill cutting off
seventy five millions to a hundred mil
lions of revenue by repeal OF the to-
bacco and sugar taxes. So much for po-
iticaI acknowledgement.
There was but one course for the tariff
refornlers to pursue this winter, and that
was to use the surplus as a weapon TO cfu b
into submission those prOtectionist Dem
ocrats who believe in a tariff for the sake
of the votes there are in it. Thew were
t11 10 4 OF oh
have receiyed it. Instead they have been
approached with gifts and words of praise.
Tariff reform viii come in time we sup
pose. 1t will not come this winter, how
ever, no matter what is done with the sur
plus.
Senator Voorhees, came in for his share
of the knocks along with Messrs. Carlisle
and Randall. The Galveston TEX. News
holds him up to odium as a protectionist
at heart and would-be betrayer Of the
true Democracy. His reply to John
Sherman is pronounced as full of virus
of incidental protection. Says the Texas
newspaper: -
The Republicans became. sach protec-
tionists as they are by starting as inciden-
tai protectionists, and whose says incideu-
tai protectionism is to be promoted says
that protectionism Is geod. therefore ii
cannot be robbery unless in the mind of
some human curiosity who may yet be dis
covered to term robbery pubic good The
Democratic party stands for or against the
protectionist principle, or else it IS torn in
twain Mr. Voorhees, in declaring his
opinion Of public policy would he iii his
right, but in declaring that the Democrat
ic party has always favored protection he
has rendered it necessary for well informed
and vigiiant Democratic senators TO set
the party right in the same place
There is a good deal said in these ex-
tracts about '.the Democratic party. A
hundred years ago and more one Ed
n11nd Burke defined party "a "a body of
men united for promoting by their joint
enieaFors The national interest upon
some particular principle in which they
are all agreed.
Forty years ago one Abraham LINCOLN
closed speech in the hease OF represeta-
tives at Washington as follows:
I have heard some things from New
\ DIRK, and il they are true we might NveE
Say u youR party. there drunken tel
low once said W ien he heard the reading
OF an indictment for hog stealing Tie
clerk read on till be got TO and through