Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-09-07

lstry in the preparation of high expiC-
sive, and Cleveland would be dynamited.
Mr., Whitney is charged with deception.
Well, he HAD to be deceptive in order to
make spectacle Of harmony. He held
his hand over the mouths of the syria.
cuse assortment. at Chicago, with the
promise of the nomination of Cleveland.
But the poor snaps thought they were
to be charged with the conduct of the
campaign for their friend.
They actually had that notion of prac.
tiGal politics. Now they are not allowed
to speak audibly. They had pictured to
themselves the supervision of the Tam
mlny work for Cleveland. They were
to sit around as spies and see that the
Tfmmany people were not traitors,
They were to do fine detective work in
Smelling out treason. Now only their
silence is wanted. No talk from them
is in order. Mr.. Clevelands private le5-
tel cannot be passed around enough to
afford them consolation. The Mug
w1mps, the high minded men, the rise
ahove-party. citizens, the professors OF
purity and Ne mouthers of the phrase
that public Office is public trust, the
creatures of benefcent political spiritu-
ality-those who have Topped before
Cleveland-what of them just now? Are
they coming into their kingdom at once;
Well, apparently not. The fact is they
are down with their hands on their
mouths and their mouths in the dust.
They are so glad Mr.. Grace has spoken
q few words for them.
The fraud that has been their favorite
i'll politics is roosting high above them
now as a fraud, Their pompous preten-
sions are blown away. If the great
Cleveland is not a Tammany man he
may be counted as of the departed who
shall visit us hereafter only in dreams.
II is an excellent thing that the third
race of Cleveland has turned inside out
the plethoric hypocrisy that has been so
loudly and fagrantly identified with his
name. There is an irrepressible conflict
between the factions of New York, and
the shifty policy of Mr.. Cleveland since
his nomination shows how he was i'm
pressed by the power that opposed him.
| There is nothing to show that the New
York delegation was wrong when, in Chi
cago, in reply to inquiries and under a
deep sense of duty, they affixed their sig
natures to paper stating the Cleveland
candidacy would imperil the party sue
cess Indeed there has been much con-
frmation in the ten weeks since of the
proclamation that is unique as presi-
I Dental document
Mr.. Cleveland's notification, with the
) Stevenson accompaniment, was meant
to present picture of harmony and to
give the force bill a good start But the
silence that has prevailed, except in the
talks of Grace and Whitney, is not har-
mony. 1t is the temporary acquiescence
of hostiles in a policy that is an affecta-
ton of manner. The Alabama election
abolished the force bill sensation. The
Homestead strike and all that has been
said about it has magnifed the tariff
question and made it overshadowing
In fact the tariff must have been the
supreme theme, if there had been no
strike, because the action Of the conven-
ton in amending the platform submitted
by the committee on resolutions placed
it in precedence.
The greater the tariff discussion the
keener and the more absorbing the in
terest in the question whether prbtec-
ton and reciprocity shall be abolished
became. The language of the substitute
resolution is that of violence. The pol
icy it embodies is that of destruction.
The Democratic congress in eight
months made known that while it might
tear down it could not build up. Mr..
Cleveland was for years profuse in the
use of the words tariff reform" Well,
what has become of it? The house did
not pass bill to give it to us. The Chi.
cago convention could not have made a
palmer declaration of destructiveness
than it did.
The reformation of the tariff there.
fore is the destruction of the enormous
interests involved in it. That is what
is squarely before the country. We had
for some time urged upon the attention
of the people that no Democrat dared
to say whether it was the policy of his
party or his policy to continue sugar on
the free list. Mr.. Cleveland would not
say anything. He abused bounties in
the spring of 1891, never since. Not a
word about sugar could be extracted
from him. When Colonel Mcclure
wanted debate with Major Mckinley
and the major and Mr.. Watterson had
an appointment to meet in Wisconsin
and Watterson was i'll, it was stated
that it would have been an admirable
thing to have telegraphed for Mcclure
He and Mckinley could have had theil
debate in Wisconsin in better form thar
in the Philadelphia opera house. We
mentioned, however, that neither Nc
Clure nor Watterson nor any other
Democratic creature would say what
he would do, whenever, if ever, he got
the power, with sugar.
This proved too much for Watterson
and he says the sugar duties are to bt
rescinded and the sugar bounties abol
ished, and he adds, "We mean to riI
up, exterminate, abolish, annihilate, ant
in the foulest ignominy and disgrace
every vestige Of the fraud called protec
ton wherever we can find it,"
That is it exactly. That is the doc
trine Of the platform and crowns thu
edifce. Mr.. Watterson's paper, in cor
respondence with this, presents at thu
: head of the first editorial column wha
Mr.. Cleveland said at Madison square
} on the tariff, and shouting 1.-THE battle
is on" improves the occasion thus: "Tht
Democratic party can gain nothing by
making wry faces and throwing harm
less tufts of grass at this Republican