New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-11
10Th WARRANIED TO KILL.

1t looks as II the second SESSION. Oh tOHeIcss'
to begin next December, would be an inquest
on the body of the Democratic party, done to
death by demagogues Many kinds of political
quackS have been dosing this party, until It's
system is undermined. 1t has now come to
fight between two the tariff quack and the sill
yer ouacb. Each says that the other has been
poisoning the party, and each is right. Each
says that if the others drugs are taken next
summer, November will bring corpse. But
each is so blind that he cannot sec that his own
dose is Just as fatal
The tariff quacll has been improving the
Rhode Island defeat That came to pass, he
saws. because most of the Democrats IN Con-
cIcss took the dose made up by that fraud
Bland. and labelled free coinage. Men i'll great
number were disgusted lost faith that the
Democratic 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 it with set purpose
TO make sure its defeat if it did not at once alb
lure BANDS dose. There is truth in that.
The silver quack strikes home by proving
that tariff reform was made the great issue III
Rhode Island, and Mr.. Cleveland, the apostle
of that faith, was placed in the forefront OF
battle Silver was put out OF the 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 IN
woollen mills knew that the bill would close
mills by the hundred, or else force them to take
British or German wages. The mechanics ana
artisans of that busy state thought 1t time 10
set their heels on this Frce-Trade viper, which
is ever trying to kill their industries mat
made defea; sure and crushing too much OF
ClevelandS dose did the job. There IS truth
in that.
"The New-Yorl Sun hits the tariff quack
hard blows thus:
In lass thc Democratic party went crazy for tariff
reform and rotcd into the mud behind an elephahune
economist of the Mugwumps. Licking NO l.
In 1891 the Ohio Democrats, sticking TO The same
old tariff reform propounded 10y the same Ola corp"
lent Golden. became unprotected mats lor SL1oI
Mckinley and the Republican party TO wipe their feet
on Licking No >.
In 1892 the Rhode Island Democrats took mp the
same old howl and fight the old tariff REFORM
and the same old sarcotic dervsh Licking no. b.
1t will pay the Democratic party 10 throw away
its ticket to defeat 1870
While this seems to he painfully true, me
New-Yorx Times" goes for one silver quach
named Hill after this style:
lie cares for principles and policies Only a' Hc""'
Of iuggng for the support Of those who are supposed
10 he actuntcd by attachment 10 them. OF moral
sense and public conscience he took no cogniMnce ana
assumed that I'm politics they did not exist. Nhch
the constituencies plottcr attempted 10 extend the
field Of his operations from the state To the Natlol'
and exhibited lis methods before tho country IN inc
rape Of state Convention, and DELEGATE hunt beyond
the reach OF his own machine. he exposed the ehastN
destltutiOn OF his moral nature. lie appeared as
man of cogs and wires. animated only by the spring
of seIGshness-without principle without conscience
without moral purpose, and, most hopeless Of all Win
out real sagacity or mental power
This also is painfully true. But are the
ouachs VIII. cry for more silver in any moral
sense lower than those other demagcgucS who
cheat men with the ia'e pretenco that the new
tariff makes everything dcarer? Is even Mr.
Hill one whit less truthful than the eX-PrcS-
ident who made in Rhode Island. barely week
ago. his old claim 50 long refutcd by facts, that
the new tariff rObs the people and helps no one?
Is il not IIobson's choice between the man who
would kill the prosperity of his country by vot-
ing free silver for the 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 fact for Democrats; both
of their doses kill If the country takes either
it will be foolish. If the Democratic party
takes either it will wish it had taken the other