Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-03-23
There is Alarm in the Enemy's Camp.

the vote on the silver bill, the New
\ ork Press says:
The immense Importance of the vote
by which the House of Representatives
fixed a date for the consideration of the
Bland bill is best shown by the Mug
Wump and Democratic dismay over the
event. The Mugwumps, whose ostenta-
tious pretense Of political saintliness
fails to cover the most cowardly and
tricky methods in American politics,
have been hugging the absurd hope
that the free trade Democracy, with
Grover Cleveland as it's igure-head.
might gain the next election without
revealing its real purposes IN regard to
the currency. All the shrewder Demo
cratic organs IN the Eastern states were
desperately anxious to avert a party
vote on the Bland bill. Like the Mug
wumps, they were conscious that unless
the Democracy could fight under false
pretenses this fall it could not win.
The Republicans have stripped the
Democratic party of these false pre-
lenses. Here is some Democratic testi-
mony as to the effect their action will
have on the approaching campaign.
The leading Democratic organ of this
city declares that the certainty OF a vote
on the Bland bill seriously ''imperils"
ably objects Democratic prospects in
those Eastern states whose electoral
votes are necessary to the election of q
Democratic President" and that the de-
cision to bring on the silver discussion
Is an unfortunate mistake" The Mug
wump New York Times says:
In two weeks from to-day the House will
have the Bland bill before it, and the fate
of that measure, with the fate of the Dem
-
credible as it may seem, these men have
deliberately put their success with their
own constituents above the success of their
party. They are prepared to save their
own seats, though the party be thrown
into hopeless minority and be barred
access to the White House for another
quarter of q century. 1t now remains to
be seen whether the party can save itself.
The Evening Post uses even palmer
language:
Let 1t be borne in mind that the anti
Bland sentiment III the North will take no
chances on this question. II that bill
passes the House and goes to the Senate
the game IS lost to the Democrats in the
coming campaign. They will not carry
one Northern state. They will lose even
Colorado and Nevada.
It is a noteworthy fact that none of
the extracts we have quoted consider
the question from the standpoint of
public honesty. Each of the three pa
perS assumes as a matter OF course that
it was the right of the Democratic lead
ers to ''Dunco'' the people. Now that
Republican congressman have shown
what the Democracy is, and what it
means, these journals virtually admit
that tie chances of Democratic success
are lost.
A Democratic Wall Over Democratic
Congress.
Three months of the present Congress
gone and nothing done This is not the
growl of fault finding, hypercritlcal Re-
publicans, but the plaintiye wall of all
the MugWump and large number of
the old-line, hard-shel, copper-bot-
toned Democratic newspapers through
out the country. So far as Republicans
are concerned there is no great dissatis-
faction with this condition of things.
Indeed, they are so we'll convinced that
this Congress has neither disposition
nor capacity to do anything wise or pat
riotic that they view its inactivity with
much more of resignation than regret.
The small squabbles among the leaders
and fussv puttering over trities which
have occupied their attention for three
months to the exclusion of other I'M
portant matters seem so fitting and
caiiber Of the majority, and anv attempt
to take up larger affairs would be attend
ed with such great risks that Republicans
generally are disposed to accept the sit.
uation as on the whole the best that
could be hoped for under the circum
stances. As long as the majority in the
House are contented to pass the time in
harmless wordy contentious among
themselves, or the innocuous delights of
dawdling, Republicans are quite salts
fed, and not at all disposed to spur
them into pernicious activity. They
might do great deal worse.
But the MugWump and Democratic
newspapers, which bailed the election
of their 150 majority at the beginning
of the millennium, feel differently. A
confident and hopeful, have had moth
ing but disappointment ever since the
House was organized by the election of
Speaker Crisp. 1t has been raining dis
appointments for them for three
months. Very few had provided
themselves with umbrellas, and
those who had soon found them
turned wrong side out. They
are wet, sick and sore. Here, for in
stance, is the Boston Herald, which
usually manages to take cheerful view
of the political situation, complaining
that Congress has been in session over
three months, and up to the present
week not only has nothing been done,
but mot one speech of Importance on
any subject had been made in either
house by a member of either party"
For this, it says, there has been no
precedent "for fifty years, if there has
indeed for hundred, or in any Con-
gress since the organization of the gov
eminent"
However. there is no occasion for dis
couragement on the part of our Boston
contemporary. Since Its article ap-
peared, Mr.. McMillin, of Tennessee,
Las made "the greatest effort of his
life" on the tariff question. And that is
hut the beginning of floods of eloquence
vaiting to be poured out. Tons of white
aaper are waiting to be covered with
speeches of importance" on the tariff,
which will 60 into the Record to in
struct and inspire coming generations.
And then the silver bill will come up,
which will let loose still other floods,
and fill up other hundreds OF pages OF
the Record. Let our Mugwump