San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-18
THE cRIsP-HILL CROWD.

N0o"eAo P"i'yt ShAoP' iAAAS SPIN
ger ct al, seem determined to spul
!. the Bourbon nag at full speed over &
mighty rough track. The counsels o.
such men as Carlisle, Cleveland and
Mills are utterly disregarded and the
new jockies are making pace regard.
less of consequences. What effect
this will have upon the fortunes OF
the democratic party in the approach
Ing campaign is not altogether clear;
it seems certain, however, from their
declared convictions, that all such
old democrats as ex-Speaker Carlisle
himself and those who think with
him, cannot come into hearty sup
port of the new programme. Neither
on the silver question nor on that of
the tariff does Mr.. Carlisle agree with
tho present leaders of the house.
How far his views may succeed in
shaping the national platform of the
democracy in their next convention
can only be determined by the action
Of that body, and for this the country
and the republican party will wait
with no little interest. 1t is instruc.
tive, however, at this juncture, to
note just what views are entertained
by the anti-freesilverites of the demo-
cratic party. Mr.. Carlisle can safely |
be accepted as the exponent of this
wing of the democracy, and on this
subject he says. II believe that ev-
cry dollar in circulation among the
masses of the people should be as good !
rs any dollar at present the basis OF
our trade, domestic or international,
and 1t seems to me that we had better
let the matter stand as it now is and |
see what the future will Develop
This is significant, coming as it does
from man whose standing is so high
in democratic councils as that of Mr..
Carlisle. The testimony that he thus
bears to the wisdom of republican leg
islation Is most significant, and COM
ing from so pronounced an enemy of
republicanism, is invested with great
weight. When Mr.. Carlisle says that
in his judgment, 1t is better to let leg
islation upon the currency of the
country alone, he gives expression to
q sentiment that is heartily echoed by
the commerce and industries of the
United States. The republican party
may we'll rest content with this ir-
dorsement of their financial policy as
In the acts of the last con-
gress. They can we'll afford to go be-
fore the country with this positive
from their arch enemy,
who bears them out in their declara-
that their legislation has been for the
national benefit.
Not only on the currency question
but on matters of tariff as we'll, Mr..
Carlisle takes issue with the present
leaders In congress. On this ques-
ton he says: 1.-The tariff plank in the
next democratic national platform
ought to declare in favor of q system
attic revision and reduction of tariff
taxation, with due regard, OF course,
70 the raising of revenue and the in
1ustrisl system as it has grown up
under the existing system.n In this
Mr. Carlisle declares that all changes
made in the present tariff should be
the outgrowth of careful revision,
aiming at the raising of revenue with
put injuring our present Industrial
system, as it has grown up under the
fostering care of republican legisla-
ton. Nothing could be more adverse
than this to the present policy as an
bounced by Crisp & Co., of cutting in
to the tariff schedule plecemeal utter
Iy regardless Of consequences, in order
10 secure votes for the democratic
party by an appeal to local self.in-
terest and cupidity. The views of
this great light of the democracy,
thus expressed, leave ground for the
hope that the program laid down by
Senator Hill, to undo all that has
been done by the re publicans in the
last congress, may meet with such
opposition among the wiser heads of
the democracy as to prevent its being
carried into effect. Whatever the re-
suit, it necessarily arraigns the wis
dom of that declaration and puts the
author and his policy upon the de-
in the great court of democra-
tic OpiniOn Tn this condition ofl