Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-11-24
WASHINGTON LETTER
lFrom Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington. Nov. IS, 1892.

Washington. Nov. Is, 1892.
The democratic party has never
lacked impudence, but it's proposition
that the republican Senate should
help it out OF the predicament in
which it will find itself after the +, Of
next March is a little ahead of it's
previous efforts in that line. 1t
would really be amusing ii the mat
ter was not so serious. There are the
very best of reasons for the belief
that not one single republican Sena-
tor will join the democrats in voting
for any of the tariff bills passed by
the House at the last session, or for
any measure that may be proposed
to lessen the responsibility OF the
of Congress. The democrats have
made promises that they have no
idea of keeping. and now they would
like a.portion Of the blame ON the re-
publicanS. The republican party has
never shirked it's own responsibilities
nor made promises to the people
knowing that it would be impossible
to keep them, and it will not help
to shield the PARTY that has done
both from the popular wrath. already
beginning to manifest itself.
1t is certain as anything in the
| future can be that the receipts of the
Government for the first fiscal year
under Cleveland July !. 1893. to June
30, 1894 will fall far short of it's abso-
lutely necessary expenditures, unless
Mr.. Cleveland calls an extra session
and tina t extra session shall provide
for new revenue in some way, and
''republican extravaganza" will not
be the cause either The deficit will
he caused by the natural falling off
in import duties, the scOurce from
which the greater portion of our rev.
enue comes. Importers will not pay
the present tariff when by waiting
until the democrats have agreed
upon some sort of hodge-potlge of ~
tariff it may bea great deal lower
and manufac turers who use material
upon which there are duties will only
import enough for their Immediate
needs. as it would be rllniOus to them
to he caught with Il big stock Oh hand
when the drmocra tic slump in tariff
rates goes into effect, Already dem
ecratS high in councils of the party
are advocating an income tax, and
it need surprise nobody should this
tax bc imposed by the Congress
owes it's existance to promising
lower taxation.
The President had lengthy confer
ences this week with chairman Car
ter, Secretary Mc(omas and other
members OF the National committee.
and the cordial manner in which he
received his defeat. The President
believes that the republican party
has a brilliant future before it. and
he impressed upon his prominent le-
publican visitors the necessity, not
only for keeping up the organizations
~
improve upon it and make it per-
manent thing. That is IL new idea
in politics, but it is an excellent one
and if the misses of the party will
cooperate the republican party is
bound to grow and grow until it
dominates this country. 1t will ex-
emplify the adage Truth crush
Ell to earth will arise again.
The split in the democratic party
which appears t. be imminent over
the question of whether the tariff
smashing shall begin with an extra
session Of Congress Immediately after
MIR. Cleveldnd's inauguration, or be
p ~stponed until the regular session
next winter, recalld to old timers the
fight previous to and in 1860
between the democratic doug
faces of the north and the "hOt-
heads OF the south. Now as then each
side is clamOring for the control of
the party management. Clark How
ellis, able editor of Georgia. ami Con-
gresham Wilson, of Vest Virginia,
said to have cabinet aspirations, are
self appointed leaders of the hotllead-
ed wing OF the party, which is ,leman-
ding that the fifty-third Congress be
called in extra session as early as it
can he got tOgather after the +. of
March, and that it proceed at once
to repeal the present tariff law ana
10 make u new one dictated solely
by the interest of the South. In the
eyes OF this wing of the democratic
party making IL tariff bill is lust as