Evening journal., 1892-10-18
THEY CANNOT ANSWER.

ANo lANlhuilNuh uiutoii anu uu lNepuDll-
can editor, makes any attempt to answer
the attacks upon the Mckinley bill
We have had challenges from the low
tariff men galore, but even Napoleon Nc
Kinley. himself, does not dare TO meet
Mcclure on the stump We have Nc.
Clure answering Mckinley, but Nc
Kinley goes on with his parrot-like
speech without so much as a notice of
the daylight that shows through the
gauzy film he is engaged in spreading.
Mcclure isl big enough man for McKin.
ley 20 answer. There is no department
Of political economy or science which
Mckinley might not feel honored to dis
CUES with Mcclure even if he We're dis
abled and routed horse, foot and dra-
goons in the contest.
Mckinley is neither learned nor accom-
plished he is plain man Of persistent
dullness, who has made a special study
of one subject and one only Mcclure is
a match for him in that, and an all-ronnd
scholar wit and accomplished newspaper
man besides Why does not Mckinley
meet him or reply to his speechg
Then there is Wayne MacVeagh
answering, and John Sherman pretending
not to be aware of the existence Of Mac.
Veagh MacVeagh is not an insignid-
cant man. Many people who have had a
good opportunity to know him, many
who heard his speeches and great
many others who have read them hold
the opinion that John sherman able man
and successful turncoat as he is, would
not find it much beneath his frigid dig
nifty to take some notice of a man like
MacVeagh
Dignity is not the trouble with either
of these statesmen, Mckinley or Sher-
man; the trouble is with their own
records and with their cause They can
neither defend their cause nor explain
their records. They are afraid to have
either exposed by a skillful logician or a
forcible speaker before an intelligent
audience
The New York Nation says that Sena
tor sherman is noted for the wise
speeches he delivers in the senate ant
notorious for the foolish things he says
on the stump Mr. MacVeagh ha'
quoted deadly parallels from Sherman
speeches which exhibit him in a wors,
predicament even than that of being wisl
2 and foolish by turns; namely, that O.
: saying one thing at one time and a con
e Trajectory thing at another time. Afte
e making copious quotations from Senate
o Sherman's speeches Mr. MacVeagh says
s So that, upon these four questions
q Senator Sherman makes the best possible
. answer TO himself He is for the Nc
/, Kinley bill, and he is against it; he is 70
II the illegal combinations Of capital calle
n trusts and he is against them; he /
# for the continued purchase Of 1000 90
?. ounces Of silver per annum, and he
D.. against it; he is for the continuance O
the national bank circulation, and he /
y against IT, What better reply can pos
IL sibly be made to his speech than his ow
r. former speechesY II so able and accom-
he plished n statesman as Senator Sherma
, thus unequivocally contradicts himsel
la upon every question he ventures 10 di
!! cuss, you may be sure it is only becaus
Ut he finds Il is impossible 20 discuss sue
ie questions from the standpoint OF the RI
he publican party in the present canvas
ut without such contradiction.
in The stolid Mckinley. is in the same pr
at dicament, but as his career is not
he long, his course is not so crooked as tn
le Of sherman. But they cannot afford
no meet mon like Mcclure and Macvesg
I'm The position the Republican, party b
at taken cannot be justified before an int
ct ligent audience in debate. The Re-
ps. congress would not permit debate on &
les Mckinley bill. The light Of discussi
mt is fatal TO it for it is a fraud.