Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1890-12-31
A Veteran Leaders, Gloomy View OF Party
Prospects.
REpuBL1CANIsm NEAR THE ROCKS.

DANGER OF sHIPwRECK FROM "PRoTEcTIoN
RUN MADn-OPPosITIONI IN CONGRESS
oUELLED BY THE LASH OF CAUcUs-FoRCE
BILL OBNOXIOUS TO CONSERVATIVE MEN.
Especial Dispatch to the Baltimore SUM- |
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.-Some rather
curious and interesting remarks on pending
political and economic questions were vol
unfairly made to your correspondent this
evening by one Of the oldest and abiest re
publican membe of the House of Repre-
sentat,ves. Said this member, abiding to
the consideration of the shipping subsidy
bill in the House: s'Is it not a most re-
markab!e spectacle to be discussing a
measure to promote the carrying OF COM
merce when we have so recently passed a
bill erecting wall against all commerce
with the outside world? How can We ex-
pect foreign commerce, bow can we get
cargoes for our ships, when we have just
thrown into the face of the outside world a
declaration that we want none of it's goods?
The member further said he was protec-
ZIONIST, but the attitude in which his party
now stood was protection run mad.
He said at the time the Mckinley bill
passed the House there was a majority OF
the republican mem ers really opposed to
it. They had voted for it simply because
they were literally bulldozed into so doing.
He had been in the Northwest both before
and since the election. He had talked ex-
tensively with those he met, not democrats
but republicans, and he had yet to meet
the first man who was in favor of the exist
ing tariff. He admitted that time would
only intensity popular disapproval of the
measure and all his comments plainly indi-
Gated his opinion that his party was atfiict-
ed with madness and unless arrested in Its
present course would rush to swift destruc-
ton.
Referring to the force bill, he said many
republicans of both houses were strongly
opposed to it, but here again party dlscip-
line stopped and stiflsd conviction and in
clination. "Every one knows, be said,
sthar our people would not trouble them.
selves about the negro if he voted the DEM
ocratic ticket. It may be hard on us that
the democrats get the benefit of negro rep
resentation but we brought it all on our
selves and have no right to complain about
it," He received letters frequently from
friends of his, republicans who had gone
TO the South to settle and engage in bust
ness, and they all said they had become
democrats on local questions. He could
not in his heart blame the people of the
South in contending that intelligence and
property should administer their govern
ments rather than baYbarism. For many
centuries the Anglo Saxon race had demon
strated itself to be the ruling race wherever
it existed, and it vas not reasonable nor
lust to expect it to submit to the domina-
ton of those who were only two genera
lions removed from the Congo. 1t would
not be done in Massachusetts, nor Pennsy-
vania any more than in Mississippi or South
Carolina, nor, he added with emphasis
Sin the Kingdom of Heaven"
He said if favorable opportunity pre-
sented itself before the close of this session
he intended to give utterauce to some very
plain remarks on these subjects frcm his
place in the House of Representatives. Te
him it looked as if the times were out Of
Joint; the future appeared fraught witt
peril, and the note of warning should be
raised.
Such expressions thir ~~--";"es f-o-- e-
oia ana trusted republican leader, give very
strong evidence that it will be well for tht
republican party to pause in its wild career
From the present outlook, instead Of solid
flying for the presidential career, as some
of it's rainbow chasers fondly predict, il
will be in avery disorganized and dispirited
condition when that period rolls round