The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-07
VICIOUS AND ADROIT.
CoMaN1s OF THE STATESMEN
on TEE MESSAGB,

Ex-Spke Reed Significantly Asked
II sh Bnse Was to be Adjourned
Out Rpect TO the Departed-"The
MessgeBegs Every Question 1t
Doesrtnor
WAsEIoN. Dec. 6.-"Mr. Speaker,
after the ring of the message do you pro-
pose, In aci1ance with custom, to adjourn
the House of respect for the departed"
sx-Speakeeed Is quoted as having said
to SpeakCrisp as Clerk Kerr began to
read Presit Harrison's last annual mes>
sage to thaDuse this afternoon. Whether
the privatsnversation which ex-Speaker
Reed and iaker Crisp had at that moment
began withis question or not, the general
attitude ole democrats and the anti-Har-
rison repucans, who make up a large
majority both Houses, toward the mes
sage is expsed in it. Private John Allen
Of Tupelo,iss., expressed 1t in another way
when he d: at seems to me that the
message sods like motion for a new trial
which hasteady been overruled."
foRoUs AND ADRoIT.
The viz Of the valedictory i'm
pressed cry one, however, and 30
did the lawyer-like adroitness in
argument characteristic OF SO many
Of Presiot Harrison's state papers.
Ii was eviat TO every one who had a copy
OF the mesge, or could hear it as it was
read fromie clerks desk, that President
Harrison b learned nothing and had for
Rosten noting except as to the force bill.
Those repdicans who like Mr.. Harrison
liked his nisage and commended 1t as a
powerful stement of the present position
OF the Bepslican party, which, according
20 them isp point with pride to all IL had
done AMI tcyiew with alarm" all the demo-
Gratis pDpos to do, and to carefully re-
fratn fDm cooperating in any way with
the deuocras to execute the declared will
OK the peop. According to them the
great najoty of the voters are all
wrong and he minority are all right.
They nG onl!will not do anything to help
the demtcrati but they hope the democrats
will get hto rouble In their attempts to
please tie Iople, and they will do what
they can 20 bIng this about. They, there
fore, prase rost emphatically the Presi-
dents accommodation that nothing shall
be done a. thisession Of congress, and his
intimatio tha the democrats are expected
20 meet u extn session as soou after March
wreck tte prosperity which the Republican
party hss brought about
ATTITUDE OF tHE ANTI-HARRIsoN MEN.
The tnti- Harrison republicans, who be-
heye that President Harrison and the poll
cies he advocated are responsible for the
overthrow ofthe Republican party, do not,
OF couDe, take this view of the message.
The democrats generally regard il in the
nature OF long personal complaint
against the people, which LIS not cal
cuiaed to help either Mr.. Harrison
or th, Republican party. They think the
voter will see through Its fallacies and what
they outsider its sophistries and will be no
better leased with high protection and the
other harrison doctrines, than they showed
themsefes to be last month. The demo-
Gratis cal special attention to the amusing
little suplus figured out by means OF the
present orm Of debt statement for the pur-
pose Of wedding the responsibility for the
deficit which stares the administration in
the fac. They also dwell on nthe three rec
cancellations Of subsidies, for postal steam
ships for the Nicarauguan canal and for
The Hawaiian cable; on the absence of any
recommendation for the repeal Of the Sher-
nan aw and on the inadequate and iuap-
oropnate treatment Of the pension question.
The message begs every question which 10
1oesI't ignore" said leading democrat by
wayof summing up"
LoNDoN's EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
LONDON, Dec. 6.-The Daily Chronicle
says of the message: "Mr. Harrison's mes
US Of the alleged school boy
maxim: II you tell lie. tell big un and
stick toit' Before giving place to his
rival Mr.. Harrison calmly declares that
tie fault Of the previous tariff was that it
1fs not high enongh."
The Morning Post says: "The message
isnot wanting In an air of self confidence,
bit cannot be said to throw light on future
plitics. or add dignity to the national
aphives"
The Standard says: ut has been the
immortal privilege OF the defeated to rail at
tleir fate. The message is not meant to be
9acious; neither is it impressive. The
Complaint Of the unfriendliness of Canada
Is trifle too absurd"