The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-04-23
ETl.e Ouilook.
Kanawha Gazette.

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Congressman Wilson, of the Sec
ond District, takes very hopeful
view of the outlook for the Demo.
cratic party in the coming Congress.
sional contests.
He finds that there are large
number of Democratic clubs form
ing, and there is already great hope
and enthusiasm prevailing through
the Democratic ranks eyerywhere.
Referring to the Democratic League
clubs, he says meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee, which compris-
es over two hundred members, will
soon be held at Washington, and it
is expected that the Executive COM
mittee viii soon call convention
of clubs, such as was held in Balti-
more, in 1888. ain the meantime"
he says, Estate organizations are not
idle. New clubs are being formed,
aud by the time the campaign op-
ems, :. illeI. slill se carrier IA some
States, than in others, the organiza-
ton will be extended and will do ef-
ficient service"
In conversation with a correspon-
dent of the Wheeling Register, on
the Mckinley tariff bill, Mr. Wilson
thought that the name of that bill
should be changed. "It should be
Called" he says, "a bill to bamboo
zle the farmer, pay off the Republi-
can debts of the last campaign, and
provide for the expenses of the
next. 1t has no underlying princi-
pie. 1t proposes duty of Is per
cent. on hides to hoodwink the far
mer, who will not get the benefit of
if, so far as it alleges to protect the
agriculturist. Yet it cuts the duty
on sugar, which is a blow at the
planter. One would imagine that
if the Republican party really desi-
red to protect any farm laborer, it
would certainly take care of the
poor negro. II is the negro who
makes the sugar crop in Louisiana.
When it is question of protecting
him in his right of suffrage, which
they claim is abridged, the land
rings with their appeals in his be-
half But he has no place in a Re-
publican tariff bill, made to catch
votes, or to SOW the seed of a cam
paign corruption fund. They ex-
pect TO gain no political advantage
in Louisiana, and care nothing for
the negro votes in that locality
They must make a show of reduet-
ion, so they cut sugar as an interest
out of which no fat can be fried for
the corruption fund. / have read
Speaker Reeds speech, and noted
that he said that the Republican
party would pass tariff bill which
would be satisfactory to the people.
Mr.. Reed speaks in the very teeth
of history. No protective party
has ever passed satisfactory tariff
bill, and none will or can. Every
protective tariff bill that has been
passed has been followed immedi-
ately by agitation for its repeal
Protection is like the drinking hab-
it, the more you take of it the more
you want, and the less able you are
to bear it, until finally collapse
must come. A satisfactory protect
i've tariff is an impossibility. The
people at large are never satisfied
with it; all the protected interests
do not get an equal share, and even
those who get the lions share want
more. The fact is the only tariff
that ever satisfied the people was
the Democratic"
Mr.. Wilson notes the fact that the
party ranks are being steadily rec
ruited from the young voters who
will cast their ballots for the first
time this year. 1t is understood
that the campaign in this State will
open early this year, and number
of the national leaders of the party
have been engaged to make speech
es, in the State.