The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-04-13
WARRANTED TO KILL
The Predicament in Which tho
Democratic Party Finds Itself.
IT is WITHOUT A SAFE ISSUE,
And Has Been Donct to Death by Dem.
ngoRncs and Political Quacks...Thc
Second Session Of Congress VIII Be
An Inquest Over tho Body.-somc
Painful Truths.

Avn" Aohh, apTlS lS,-luc lFiONnG
says cditoriully: 1t looks us II tho sec.
ond session OF Congress, to begin next
December, wouls DO an inquest on the
body Of tho Democratic party, dono to
death by domagogucs. Many kinds OF
political quacks have been dosing this
party, until Its system is undermined.
1t has now como to u fight between two,
tho tariff quack and tho silver quack.
Each says that tho other has been
poisoning tho party, and cacl, is right.
Each says that II the others drugs are
taken next summer, November will
bring q corpse. But each is SO blind
that he cannot see that his own dose
is just rs fatal.
Tho tariff quack has been improving
the Rhode Island defeat. That came to
pass, he says, because most OF the Dem
ocrals In Congress took the dose made
up by that fraud Bland, and labelled
FREQ coinage. Men i'll great number
were disguised, lost faith that tho DEM
ocratic party could be trusted TO do
any decent thing, made up their minds
to teach it that bad money would not
do for Americans, and cast their votes
against 1t with set purpose TO make
sure its defeat if it did not at oiico abb
jure BANDS dose. There is truth in
that.
Tho silver quack strikes homo By
proving that tariff reform was made the
great issue in Rhode Island, and MIR.
Cleveland, the apostle OF that faith, was
placed in the forefront OF battle. Silver
was put out OF tho way. Men OF high
place and fame in the party came to
teach Rhode Island the duty and the
beauty OF the Woollens tariff bill. The
workers Of woollen mill know that tho
bill would close mills By the hundred,
or else force them 10 take British or
German wages. Tho mechanics and
artisans OF that busy state thought it
time to set their heels on this free trade
viper, which is ever trying to kill their
industries. That made defeat sure and
crushing; too much OF Clevcland's do: &c
did the job. There is truth in that.
Tho New York san hits the tariff
quacks hard blows thus:
"ln 1855 the Democratic party won't
crazy Tor tariff reform, and trotted into
the mud behind an %elephantine econo-
mist OF the Mugwumps. Licking No. /.
I'm 1891 the Ohio Democrats, sticking
to the same old tariff reform MS pro-
pounded by the same old corpuient
Golden, became unprotected mats for
Major Mckinley and the Republican
party to wipe their feet on. Licking
No. 9.
I'm 1892 the Rhode Island Democrats
took up the Same old howl and fight Tor
the same old tariff reform, and the
same old sarcotic dervish. Licking
No. 8.
at will pay the Democratic party to
throw away its season ticket to dcieat."
While this seems 10 be painfully true,
the New York Times goes for one silver
quack named Hill alter this style:
lilo cares for principles and policies
only as a means OF juggling for the sup
port OF those who are supposed 10 be
actuatcd by attachment to them $ o 8
OF moral sense and public conscience
he took no c%ognizancc, and assumed
that in politics they did not exist . a
. When the constituencies plotter at
tempted to extend the field OF his oper-
atoms from the state to the nation, and
exhibited his methods before the coun-
try in the rape OF q state convention,
and q delegate hunt beyond the reach
OF his own machine, he exposed the
CHASTITY destitution of his moral nature.
lie appeared as a man of cogs and wires,
animated only by thcspring Of selfish
ness-without principle, without con-
science, without moral purpose, and.
most hopeless OF all, without real sagac-
ity or mental power"
This also is painfully true. But are
the quacks who cry for more silver in
any moral sense lower than those other
demagogucs who cheat men with the
false pretense that the tariff makes ev-
ery:hing dearer? Is even Mr.. Hill one
whit less truthful than the ex-Presi-
dent who made in Rhode Island, barely
q week ago, his old claim, SO long re-
futed by facts, that the new tariff robs
the people and helps no ono? Isit not
Hobson's choice between the man who
would kill the prosperity OF his country
by voting free silver for tho sake OF
Office, and the man who would kill the
prosperity OF the country by voting
free trade for the sake OF Office?
That is the fatal fast ior Democrats;
both Of their doses kill. II tho country
takes either it will be foolish. Ii tho
Democratic party takes either it will
wish it had. taken tho other.