New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-08
HIREITY Is 4 MENDICANT.

Chairman lIauity's appeal for money on inc
cround that the Democratic party is essentially
moo, that il represents no financial interests
but only 4 popular cause, is characteristic OH
of cifrontery The market OF the United STATES
is iLc)mparably the richest in the world. Inc
Democratic party numbers nearly oiio-hali OF
the voters Of tho United States The issue IN
November is 70 be decided in half dozen
doubtful States upon small percentage OF the
total vote These are the well-known condl-
tions of the campaign, and equally well known
is it that the Democratic party is the repre-
sentative of the great importing interest, and
that every great manufacturing concern IN all
the great civilized States or Europe IS V'aii!
interested in the success OF the Democratic
rarty. Ia no campaign since Free liade De-
came the prime object Of the Democracy mas
there been any lack OF money in the Demo-
cratic campaign barrel. Certainly there Is no
lack to-day, when all the newspaper organs OF
England. France, Germany, Austria and Italy
arc daily urging upon their readers the duty OF
participating in the American political battle
b. nding money to the Democratic Aa'iohai
Committee. and by writing letters to fllendS
and relations in the United states, urging them
10 act with the Democratic party against the
interests of the United states and In favor OF
the interests OF Europe
1t i, undoubtedly true that Chairman liarrity
and his associates feel that they are engaged
in an uphill task. They ought to feel so
They have undertaken to make campaign
among the American people by tho use OF
weapons utterly offensive to the county lheS
argue in favor of their candidate by claiming
that the American people are Nation OF IN
compctents, OF people who cannot 90 Tor thenl-
selves who Cannot supply their own neccs-
sites. and that the effort to make America
sclf-srsiaining necessarily impoverishcs the poo
pie. They are dcrdng every suggestion that
Americans can ard ought to become independ-
cnt of other countries Ignoring all the facts OF
record as to the results Of the Mckinley bill, the
fact that Il has reduced taxation by moro than
seventy millions OF dollars that it has increased
production, that it has increased both imports
and exports that it has placed larger per-
centaeo of imports on the free list than have
ever been there before under any tariff, that
it has enlarged the opportunity of American
workmen TO find employment. that it has in
creased wages generally throughout the couh-
trv-ignoring all these demonstrated iacts, lheS
have undertaken to show that the country Is Ia
a ruinous condition, that everybody is deS-
peratcly poor, and is being kept poor 10y the
efforts Of the Republican party to diversity IN
dustry and TO uphold the high standard OF
American wages. IL is the unpatriOtic quality
of the Democratic patty which disgusts people
| and leaves it unable to obtain substantial or
lasting success. Even with the adventurous
aids :uat come constantly to the support OF the
patty OF opposition. the Democracy remains
nothing more digniied or important than
protest.
Mr. lIarrity has chosen to place himself and
| his associates in the attitude OF be9gars on the
street corners, importuning the passers-by. If
the condition of bis campaign fund really re-
ourcs this humiliating exhibition, after all
I that has been done for it b. the importing in
tercst he must be spending vast sum OF
money. The happy days when the Democratic
party could go into campaign sure OF the
electoral votes Of ten States, and having only
to gain New-York and Indiana, are past. The
| Democracy is forced now to fight for ITS HE,
not only in this State. in Connecticut, New
Jersey and Indiana but in West Virginia,
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and
| Alabama. Not one OF these States could
il hold for six months without the commission
of systematic fraud and now the necessities OF
the Democratic campaign require, no. only the
suppression CT ballots, but vast scheme OF
bribery 1t is for this work that Mr.. Ilarrty
needs money. 1t is in order to carry out his
plans for the annihlaton of the Farmers ALI
ance in the South and for colonization. false
registration and false voting in pivotal North
ern States that Mr. liarrty now sings mend-
cant song. But he will sing in vain. His
Doodle fund will be large one, but he can
depend upon it that few dollars will come to
it from among the body of the people. What
he obtains he will obtain from foreign manu-
facturers, New-York importers and from
moneyed statesmen who aspire to political dis
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