The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-01-09


bringing up the financial bill which may
be made acceptable to the West.
The goldbugs of the East and their allies
in the Senate may howl as they please,
but the West and South are in the saddle
and the Force bill will go down before
free silver every time from now on.
"a Hide-Bound Partisan"
From he NciO YORK Tunes.
Indeed, there Is reason to believe that
to Senator lIoar the interests Of the Re
publican party and Of mankind in gen
eral are quite identical, and that he be-
lieves himself TO be u generous philan-
thropist when in fact he is only hide
bound b!Ti! partisan. partisan, .;,k ,,.,o,, ,,o.
heart cannot help feeling sympathetic
thrill when II is destroyed. For il was in
the house of his friends that the Senator
from Massachusetts was wounded. The
failure of the measure with which his
hopes are bound up was brought about,
not by depraved Democrats, but by per-
lldious Republicans.
The denomination of Don Cameron.
From the Ne'0 YORK. World.
Don Cameron was yesterday unani-
mously renominated by the Republicans
in the Pennsylvania Legislature for the
Senate. The bitter war that was made
upon him because of his instrumentality
in delaying and probably defeating the
Force bill has not cost him single vote.
1t may dawn upon the minds of the Bour-
bons after while that the Republicans of
the country who are not troglOdytes are
not clamoring for the passage of that revo-
lutionary measure.
"The South's Plain Duty"
Cincinnati Ccmmerciai- GGsette.
The Conmcreidl Gazette has taken the
liberty to say repeatedly that the South's
plain Guty is to take care of its helpless
old soldiers, and that money used for that
purpose would be better expended than
to devote it to monuments and public
shows, which ilatter the vanity or aid the
selfish purposes of the ambitious. But
the war is over. Let the State of Tennes-
see and every other Southern State do
honor to itself by taking care of their old
soldiers. Southern chivalry will vindicatc
itself by this policy of doing good to the
living. 1t has kept its old politicians in
public positions of honor and of profit.
and il would be a signal shame to permit
its old soldiers to die by the waysidc in
hunger and in rags. There is no politics
in this business and no sectional margin
to play on. II concerns manhood and the
character of American citizenship and
Christian virtues.
Interesting to the Silver Senators.
Fran tie Ne'g Yo,k T,i5uae.
The President also regards the Elections
bill as measure which the Republican
| party is bound by the most sacred obliga-
| tions to act upon without delay. But an
| alliance Of Democrats with small mi
nority of Republicans to defeat party
| measure of the greatest Importance is not
| likely to dictate successfully to the Presi-
dent or to the House of Representatives.
If the silver Senators appeal to the Demo
cratic party they will have to look to that
party, such as it is, for whatever favor aud
aid they want. They know how destitute
that party is of capacity for wise legisla-
| ton. Unhappily, the country does not
forget the persistent tendencies of De.
mocracy toward reputation and all forms
of financial dishonesty. The action in the
Senate tends to make sincere Republicans
more disposed to place upon the Demo-
cratic party all responsibility for monetary
legislation, being well aware that the
tendencies Of that party deprive its meas
ures of public confidence, and almost in
eyitably insure their humiliating failure.
If the so-called friends of silver have to
report to their constituents that, by unit
ing with Democrats they have rendered
all monetary legislation impossible this
chances in future years, they may not re-
ceiye the approval for which they are
striving
"Horribie Beyond Expression"
Fran he Cincinnati Commercial gazette.
While it is truthfully sald that when
war with the Indians breaks out the blows
the Amy deals must be swift and ter
rible, IL docs not follow that the American
people will sanction massacre as one of
the weapons of its Army. Reports of
wounded and dead Indian babies, Indian
girls and boys and women, all shot with
musketry and artillery, are not the kind
of bulletins from Western battlefelds in
which the citizens Of this country will
glory. This matter should be probcd TO
the bottom. At a distance it looks as If
the troops, which outnumbercd the In
dians five to one, and had entirely sur
rounded the Indian camp, had been
stampeded by a few shots, and not only
fired promiscuously upon the camp, but
through and across 1t into their own
ranks. And next came what seemed to
have been massacre. Not only were the
warriors followed and shot down--an act
not open to criticism after the fight had
opened-but, If reports are true, women,
children and babies were hunted up and
murdered. SO far as reports have arrived
they agree in this. This is horrible beyond
expression, and the responsibility for il
should be discovered.