The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-11

that the process OF Identification has
been going on Tor years, and We were
prepared. Since MacVeayh slid out oil
the Garfield Cabinet, his progress, like
that OF tho glacier, has been slowly,
steadily towardt the Zimmerman wastes OF
Democracy.
There we might leave him, with the
unhappy beings who preceded him
with Trumbull and Doolittle, Julian
and schurz and their melancholy con-
federates, whose political destiny is
remembered, butas that which darkens
a fairy tale. Mr.. MacVeagh, however,
is an eminent man, who has had n wide
scope in affairs. His transformation
may be considered with profit, as it
bears on the campaign. 80,
The dissatisfaction OF MaCVeagh with
the Republican party is hard 10 recon-
Gle with his attitude in Gartield's Cab
met. What has happened since Gar
fields time to compel n change? Hal
there been q falling away in the Re-
publicanism Of Lincoln as we see it ex-
emplifed by Harrison, or as compared
to what VIC saw under Garfield?
Has any essential Republican princl-
nal been abandoned? Has tho party
tone been lowered? On the contrary,
have we NOT seen under the austere
methods Of Harrison-methods urged
against him rs reasons why he should
no longer enjoy party ~coniidence-an
elevation OF tone, the recognition oil
which by the people gives shining
augury OF u November success? The
influence in Republican affairs, which
Mr.. MacVeagh and his friends have
affected to deploro for years, are tho
very influences which %antagonized Mr..
Harrison until antagonism became
vain. The logic OF MI. MacVeagh's
position as an advanced thinker in the
Garfield Cabinet should have made
him true to Harrison, as the exponent
OF the principles for which he was sup
posed 10 strive. There car be no &C.
counting for his conduct upon any adj
mitted laws OF political consistency.
He is perverse and must even go his
way.
Mr.. M'vEAGH NJ THE M'EiNLEY RILL.
Why should Republicans follow Mr..
Macveagh? Here is a gentleman Of
amiable, blamelesslife, whose e~loquence
and genius will have a sad iulfllment
in the desert Of Democracy. We realize
the loss. But what are we to gain, and
what are we to lose by following his ex-
ample2
Mr.. MacVeagh has a grievance with
the Mckinley bill. There is no mate
rial difference between the Mckinley
bill and the financial principles of the
Garfield Northumberland which
even the ingenuity Of his subtle mind
can make clear. Why leave the party
on so sterile a p~retextH
Tho Mckinley law is m academic
issue. As a practical question it could
not reach the people for four, or may be
ten years. There can be no vital
change without the assent OF the SEN
ate, and the senate | believe to be Re-
publican, beyond p~eradventure, until
the close OF the century. Should Mr..
Cleveland regain power, his friends,
even with the machinery OF the gov
eminent, could do no more with the
Mckinley law than they did with the
Mills bill. Nor would Mr.. Cleveland,
nor Governor Hill, nor even Mr.. Mac.
Yeagh himself, in the Presidency, ven
ture the business upheaval that would
follow its sudden Withdrawal or repeal.
Is there a reason in so forlorn an out
look for abandoning the party?
Tariff questions are ut present not in
the realms OF politics, but OF practical
business common ense. Atariff is ten
tatiye, experimental. A financial panic,
a war at home or abroad, q cessation OF
crops, the sudden development OF g
competing industry, or a new force in
nature may compel the amendment OF
any tariff. however carefully matured.
Mr.. Macyeagh thinks the Mckinley
bill should be moro liberal in the mat
ter OF raw material, and less liberal as
to bounties.
He might have tempted his one time
Republican brethren into this way Of
thinking had he remained within their
confidence. But how can he hope to
persuade them to amend the Mckinley
law by destroying it, or to improve
business by a policy Of paralysis? Like
the Chinese cpicure in the essay OF
Lamb he would roast his sucking pig
by setting fire to his house.
TIE MILLENNIUM THAT WILL NOT COME.
So much We gain-so much we lose-
by following Mr.. Macveagh on the tariff
question. But dear above even free
wool or untaxed champagne is the civil
service. How radiant those luminous
years have been with his %oloquence up
on an ideal public career! We have not
had it, he contends, under Harrison,
whose standard OF fitness has neverthe-
less been as high as that OF Jefferson.
But it will come with Cleveland. Then
the millennium! Mr.. MacVeagh might
recall how Civil Service Reform Har-
rity-now among the Amounted in the
Democratic sanctuary-used the pa
tronage Of Pennsylvania by Cleveland's
command to overthrow Randall and
virtually ~extinguish that illustrious
commoner as a force in Pennsylvania
politics. He could recite Cleveland's
ruthless changes in every department OF
public employment and dwelt upon the
renewed assurances OF friends OF Cleve-
land recently at Chicago that reelection
would mean a g~uillotine in incessalt
activity. Looking At Tammany Hall he
may see Democracy rs an object lesson
in full fruition. Seats on the bench
sold to the highest bidder-latest quo
tations from Sl0,0O0t to $4,000; city fran
chises OF priceless value c~orruptly
granted to rapacious monopolies; pub
lieemploymentat the dictation OF leaders
who graduated from the Tombs and the
Of criminal justice. Remembering all
that Tweed did and implied, Mr.. Mac
Veagh might, we're his conscience free,
illustrate the fulHllment OF his hopes by