The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-15
BATTLE. WEDNESDAY. JUNE II
THE DEMoCRArIC RECORD.


Texas and the Mexican war; for the re-
peal Of the Missouri compromise; for the
bred Scott decision; for the national sup
port Of border rutfianism in Kansas; for
all the accumulated outrages and en-
croachments of the slave power that finally
precipitated rebellion and the consequent
woes and burdens of our great civil war.
The record of the Democratic party before
the war includes the disastrous revenue
tariff of 1916 which brought the country to
the verge OF bankruptcy. tariff which
was enacted by Democracy who stole VIC
tory in 1874 by inscribing on its banner IN
Pennsylvania the lying legend. "Polk,
Dallas and the tariff of 1872" Since the
war the Democracy has been the party of
dishonest money. 1t has always been for
fiat money; it is today measured by the
vote of its congressional majority for free
silver. There is no difference in principle
or morals between unlimited deprecated
paper and unlimited deprecated silver.
The Democratic party has always given
its vote in all the Democratic states and
most of the doubtful states for every form
of imitation: it nominated Pendleton, the
most extreme advocate of fiat money, for
the vice presidency; it elected Pendleton
Senator from Ohio, which had been the
scene of the great conflict between re-
pudiation and the honest payment of the
debt. 1t may nominate Grover Cleveland
this year for president. but in every clearly
Democratic state the doctrine of free silver
will be advocated and defended, and Cleve-
land will be supported in the spirit of bad
faith that the Union soldier, Mcclellan,
was supported in 1864, upon peace at any
price platform. 1t is true that in a few
frontier states minority of the Republic
cans have sometimes favored some form OF
fiat money or the increase of an irredeem-
able currency, but the Republican party
has always stood for the resumption of
specie payment, and has accomplished its
purpose.
So strong was the party of reputation
in the Democratic ranks in 1876 that Mr.
Tilden was obliged to favor the repeal of
the resumption act in order to retain the
support of the majority of his party. North
and South. The record of the Democratic
party shows that it has always been OPP
posed to the enactment of any legislation
In favor of honest elections. From Louisi-
ana to New York, from South Carolina to
Maine, the Democracy has never relaxed
its efforts to upset all national or local safe
guards which secure full, fair, free and
honest ballot. The national election law
of 1870, enacted by the Republicans. has
worked so admirably that it won the
approval of few Democrats Of high char
acter like the late Samuel S. Cox, Secre-
tary Whitney, General Slocum and Judge
Jackson, of the United States circuit
court, but when it was proposed to extend
fits provisions to the whole country in
1890, the Democratic party grew red in the
face with rage and hate.
The recent action of the New York leg
isiature of 1892. which places the whole
election machinery of New York city in
the hands of Tammany, is the latest
expression of Democratic hostility to
every security either for the protection or
the purity of elections. The Garcelon
Democratic plot to steal the control of the
legislature of Maine in 1879; the success
full Democratic theft of the New York leg
islature of 1892; the systematic suppress
sion of free suffrage at the South; the
political murders of Matthews in Mssis-
sippi and Clayton in Arkansas; the tissue
ballot and shotgun marriage of blood and
fraud are some OF the red-letter heads TO
the worst chapters in the history of Demo-
cratic violation of free elections and the
sanctity OF the suffrage.
In the matter of the tariff the Demo-
cratic policy has been that of criticism, not
of creation. 1t spits at the Mckinley
tariff, and yet it does not today propose
its repeal and the enactment of a tariff for
revenue only. 1t dare not today propose
free iron 10 Alabama, Tennessee and West
Virginia, or free coal to Maryland and
Virginia.; it doesn't dare today to be con-
sistent with its cry for free wool and pro-
nounce for free woolens.
The Democratic record in diplomacy
was contemplate under President Cleve-
land and Secretary Bayard in the matter
OF Samoa; of our relations with China and
the fishery treaty. This Democratic
diplomacy seems puerile compared with
our successful negotiation of reciprocity
treaties with the South American repub-
lies; with Spain, with the British West
Indies, Central America, Germany,
France; with our settlement of the Bering
sea question.
Under the reciprocity sections of the last
tariff act, arrangements have been con-
Guided with Guatemala, Nicaragua, Saliva
dor. Costa Rica. Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto
Rico, Santo Domingo, Trinidad, Barba-
does, British Guiana. the Leeward Islands,
the Windward Islands and Brazil These
represent population of q. So0. 900 souls
and sn annual commerce of $500. 600 600
Partial arrangements OF like character
have been made with France and Ger
many. Every Democratic vote in the Sem
ate was recorded against the reciprocity
clauses Of the tariff act OF the last congress.
aud yet 10 this policy whose effect has
been a healthy and rapid extension Of
our foreign commerce, The Democratic
leaders declare their undying hostility.
The export of iour to Brazil for February
increased from siS5. 55i u $io5 100 as CON-
pared with last year. The proportion OF
the imports Of Brazil furnished by Great
Britain was Il per cent. Of the whole in
ls9a. II lS9l it was 59u per cent. The
proportion Of the United States increased
in tina; year from $50 per cent. 10 II. 80 per
cent. 0ur reciprocity arrangement with