The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-23

EtGesapoVe.pafty cltlEenbtz TUG PtVtesS.
sors OF purity and the mouthers Of the
phrase that public office is q public
trust, the creatures Of benehcent poll
teal spirltuality-those who have
Topped before Cleyeland+what OF
Of them lust now? Are they coming
into their kingdom at once? Well, APP
parently not. The fact 10 they are
down with their hands on theirmouths
and their mouths in the dust. They
arc 90 glad Mr.. Grace has spoken
few words for them.
THE PLAIN NuawuNP FRAUD.
The fraud that has been their favor
ito in politics IL roostlng high above
them now as fraud. Their pompous
pretensions arc blown away. II the
great Cleveland Is not Tammany man
he may be counted rs of the departed
who shall visit US hereafter only in
dseans. II il an excellent thing that
tho third race Of Cleveland has turned
inside out the plethoric hypocrisy Of
that has been 30 loudly and hagrantly
identified with his name. There is an
irrepressible conflict between the fac
tons of New York, and the shitty policy
of Mr.. Cleveland since his nomination
shows how he was impressed by the
power that opposed him. There is
nothing to show that the New York del
egation was wrong when in reply to in.
quirles and under deep sense OF
duty they affixed their signatures
to paper stating the Cleveland
candidacy would imperil the party sue
cess. Indeed there has been much con-
firmation In tho ten weeks since Of the
proclamation that is unique as Presl-
dental document. Mr.. Cleyeland's
notification, with the Stevenson accom-.
paniment, was meant to present pic
ture OF harmony and to give the force
bill good start. But the silence that
has prevailed, except in tho talks OF
Grace and Whitney, is not harmony.
It is the temporal acquiescence OF hos
tiles in policy that is an afectation
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
convention in amending the plat
form 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 protec-
ton and reciprocity shall be abolished
became. The language OF the substi-
tute resolution is that of violence. The
policy it embodiesi is that ofdestruction.
The Democratic congressine ightmonths
made known that while it might tear
down it could not build up. Mr.. Cleve-
land was for years profuse IN the use
use OF the words tariff REFORM. Well,
what has become OF it? The house did
not pass a bill to give it to US. The
Chicago convention could not have
made q palmer declaration of destruct-
iveness than 1t did.
THE NIHILlsTIC TARIFF REFORM.
The reformation Of the. tarifT there
fore, is the destruction OF the enormous
interests involved in it. That Is what
is squarely before the country. Wehad
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 q
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, twas stated that
it would have been an admirable thing
to have telegraphed for Mcclure. He
and Mckinley could have had their de-
bate in Wisconsin in better form than
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, il ever, he got the
power with sugar.
THE RIPPER RESOLUTION INTERPRETED.
This proved too much for Watterson,
and no says the sugar duties are to be
rescinded and the sugar bounties abol-
ished, and he adds: eve mean to rip
up, exterminate, abolish, annihilate,
and in the foulest ignominy and dis
grace, every vestige Of the fraud called
protection, wherever we can find it"
That is it exactly, That is the de-
cision Of the platform and crowns the
edifice. Mr.. Watterson's paper, in cor
respondence with this, presents at the
head Of the first editorial column, what
Mr.. Cleveland said at Madison square
on the tariff, and shouting, "The battle
10 onlp improves the occasion thus:
'tThe Democratic party can gain noth-
ing by making wry faces and throwing
harmless tufts Of grass at the Repub-
lican Robber Tariff and this Repub-
lican Robber Pension List"
II there had been needed a few words
to make the destructive policy Of the
Democracy plain, this language would
have supplied the deficiency. Mr.. Wat
terson was, though not the first speak
or on the amendment OF the tariff
plank, the actual leader in the move
ment, and we quote him as the plat
form maker, tho highest authority on
the platform. II he cannot interpret 1t
no ono is competent to do so. BE
quotes Mr.. Cleveland's language to the
same effect as his own annotations.
Now the Democracy could not evade
the rugged issue OF the prohibition OF
protection and the adjustment OF reel
procity If they would. They are before
the country undoubtedly boastfully,
tauntingly as destructives. They are
mustered as nihilists. They would be
the destroyers Of the splendors Of our
civilization. The situation in the south
will cause them to be more and more
vicious in the tariff fight to which they
ara cnmniktad haailon0.