The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-12-03
the people Put dow the Republican con
spiracy TO destroy them!

the people! Put dow n the Republican con-
spiracy 10 destroy them!
New York Tribunel
Dignified and able document, which APP
peals TO the sober thought OF Americans,
and will strongly influence public opinion.
II is as quiet and confident as II there had
been no election since that in which the
President and his party were deliberately
entrusted by the people with the charge q
the Government. Without any reference
TO the recent elections the President makes
it clear that he does not regard the neglect
or absence OF a fifth OF the Republican
voters any reason for suppOsing that the
people have abandoned the convictions
which were registered in the full vote OF
1888. Nor is there manifested, as Demo
Gratis have hoped, any disposition to cast
blame on Congress. Its great measures are
warmly commended, with confidence that
they will win full appreciation from the peo-
pie.
New York Times.
The President has forgotten little and
learned nothing. He meets the Congress III
which his party provoked defeat, on its re-
assembling, with tediously urgent eXhor-
tatiOn to remedy none Of the mistakes al
ready made, to press forward in the same
line. and trust to that Providence which the
French say watches over Americans ana
fOsls."
One subject Mr.. Harrison was bound to
discuss-the tariff; a second he has chosen
again TO bring fOrward-the Force bill. On
neither has he anything new TO say, the
only element of novelty in bis treatment OF
them being the complete change in the de-
clared sentiment Of the people since he
last addressed himself TO Congress. lie
warns Congress not to touch the tariff law
before it "has had fair trial." III this
means ANYTHING it means that when the law
has been long enough in operation the peo-
ole will discover that it does not do what IL
was intended to do and what II has already
done. A political leader who deliberately
stakes the welfare Of his party upon such
an expectation as this cannot be reasoned
with.
New York Herald
Mr.. Harrisons message does not rise
ABOVE the duh mOnotOny Of platitude. IL
lacks the merit Of either rhetoric or logic,
will be read from courtesy, bat without IN
terest. As an exhibit of craftsmanship II
is serious disappointment, for it conveys
an impression that the writer has no con-
vi,tiOns or thinks it impolite to express
them.
On the silver question, which goes down
10 the bed rock Of our financial system, Mr..
Harrison has practically nothing to say.
Two wears ago he declared that he had not
studied the matter sufficiently to formulate
any definite policy, and we judge that the
horizon Of his knowledge has not recently
been widened. lie ventures 10 suggestions
and stands helpless between the single and
double standard advocates.
When he reaches the Mckinley bill he
skates with skill and caution, as though on
thin ice. lie thinks the people have been
stupidity blind to the beneticence OF that
measure, though. OF course, he puts the
fact in diplomatic terms. Their verdict on
November 4th was the result OF Grass ignO-
rance, and they ought to eat the whole
egg before they can safely pronounce II ad-
died.
baltimore Herald
The distinguishing features Ofthe message
are defense of the Mckinley tariff law
and an argument in favor of the passage Of
the Lodge Force" bill. Ii is in the adj
vOcacv OF this lastnamed measure that
President Harrison manifests himself in a
light quite familiar TO those who under
stand his tenacious personality. The Presi-
dent is nothing if not obstinate, and having
once given his sanction to the Fore" bill
it is not surprising that he still champions
it, even though calm reason sh0dld warn
him that in so doing he is signing the death
warrant of his own party. The hand
writing upon the wall at the BelshaZzar
feast was not palmer than that which the
Republican majority in Congress found
scrawled on the political horizon when it
came to rude awakeniDg.o on the morning
Of November 9th.
And yet the President has failed TO read
and properly interpret the popular verdict
thus blazOned forth that his party had been
weighed in the balance and found wanting,
largely on account of It's support OF the
Force bill. He still loudly calls for the
adoption of a law which is papably and
coDfessedly aimed at the political autonomy
OF the Southern States. and which is as no.
tOrousIy partisan as it is shamefully see
tional.
Baltimore sun.
There is not one syllable in the message
TO indicate that President Harrison attaches
the smallest importance or significance TO
the expression of the opinions Of a majority
of COG, 600 Of his cOuDtrymen upon the con-
duct of his administration or the work of
the Fifty-flrst Congress in its first session.
Only one thins is evident, and that's that Mr..
Harrison does not agree with the majority
of his felow-countrymen He congratulates
"the Congress and the country upon the
passage at the first session of the Fifty
first Congress of an unusual number
of laws OF every high importance" He
urges Congress to perseyere in the
work Of legislation so auspiciously
begun, and says that he refrains
from offering some suggestions that other
wise he might be disposed to make, for fear
of interruptng or retardng the good work,
and earnestly invoked attention Ito the duty
Of perfecting the important legislation now
we'll advanced" and winds up with the
statement that If the duty be discharged
with diligence and courage "the work of the
Fifty-frst Congress may be confidently sub
mitted TO the considerable judgment of the