Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-05-21
4 DrsGUsTED DEMOCRAT.

4 DIsGUsTED DEMOCRAT.
lie Tells How the House Has Frlttered
Away Magnificent Opportunity.
"The best thing We can do is to hurry
the appropriation bills through and go
home. Never before have | saw a party
frtter away a magnificent opportunity
as we have doUe this session. said a
prominent Southern Representative in
conversation with a correspondent at
Washington. He continued:
"When congress assembled, the coun-
try expected the house Of representatives
to frame and pass general tariff bill,
reducing the high protective duties of
the existing tariff The house Was elect
ed on that issue, and with a majority OF
nearly $50 we could have redeemed our
pledges and show that we we're in earn
est Instead Of doing so we have wasted
our opportunities and earned the con
tempt of the country, 10y adopting a
feeble and evasive nibbling policy which
indicates cowa dice or lncapacty, or
both. Another thing which we ought to
have done was to pass a free coinage
bill-a measure which was demanded by
the democratic state conventions IN
nearly all the democratic states after
this congress was elected. Here again
we were paralyzed by fear; we started IL
with holiness enough and went far
enough TO show hat we desired to do,
and then we funked Everybody I'M
derstands the cause, and our perform
ance will deceive nobody, even in the
heat Of a presidential campaign and cleo
ton. The American people admire cour-
age and manliness ia political party,
and we would be 10 much better condi-
ton today if we had stood to our colors
and made an aggressive fight for our
principles II we had passed a general
tariff bill and Il coinage bill, made the
appropriations necessary to carry On the
government and then adjourned we
could have gone into the presidential
contest with clear consciences and a far
better prospect Of victory than now lies
before us
"Who will he our candidates on the
national ticket?' asked the correspond
emit.
II would not dare to predict it. If l
could name the candidates | believe we
could vim
Whom would you uame?."
Morrison for president, and Gray OF
Delaware for vice president. | believe
that that would be the strongest ticket
that we could placs in the field but |
have little hope that either Of them will
have place on the ticket
COMMENTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS :.
Elmira Advertiser: Another mill has
shut down, and it is a tin mill, too But
It is situated in Wales and not in the
United States This makes it doubly
sad TO the free trade democrats.
Minneapolis Journal: Hon Claude
Matthews sid in his convention speech:
1T is a divine privilege to he a demo
CIat.N The existence of evil 10y divine
permission has always been a theological
stumbling block,
Des Moines Register: The democratic
party, after he election o. 1890, in which
it was successful, owed the country
nothing less than a comprehensive tariff
reform bill one that proposed reform
from top TO bottom Instead Of that it
has been five months in placing on the
free list four out OF about 400 articles on
the tariff list
Albany Press: The republican candi-
date, whoever he will be, is certain TO be
elected The democratic party Of the
state of New York is divided, hopelessly.
In place OF the united and aggressive
organization which supported Mr. Hill
st the polls in 1885, there is now a dis
organized party which has resolved itself
into two savage factions, ch Of which
is intent upon destroying the other.
T. G. Crawford, the newspaper CORES
pendent, in an account OF his early
acquaintance with Mr., Cleveland relates
that be asked that gentleman atone time
shortly be ore his election TO the pres-
dentcy. what he thought Of the tariff
quesrion. Between you aud me- said
this prize democrat with twinSle in his
eye. II don't know a d mn thing about
it," Notwithstanding the fat mans
position as the apostle OF tariff reform,
a good many people, even inside his own
party, strongly suspect that he knows
lust as little now as when he was honest
and ACKNOWLEDGED his ignorance.
The utterances OF Mr.. George William
Curtis with respect TO the civil service
issue are always Interesting, and his re
marks in Baltimore on Thurs day evening"
before the annual meeting o. the ma
tional committee Of the association for
the reform Of the civil service we're no
exception to the rule. In the course Of
his address Mr. Curtis said;
The present administration has cele-
DRAFTED the success OF its party with a
wild debauch Of spells ia which its
promises and pledges we're the me IS
and drinks that were riotously consum-
ed. Nevertheless the reform law has
been Is faithfully obeyed as 10y its prede
cessor, and tue scope OF the reformed
service hiss been enlarged.
Obviously this ststenYeut needs expla-
nation TIE last sentence in it tcontra-
diets the first IL the prescott admins
tratiou has greatly enlarged the scope Ct
the reformed service, and has observed
the reform law as faithfully as Mr..
Cleveland's administration sode to the
Mugwunp recollection, how are We to
account for MIR. Curtis picture OF "a
Wild debauch o spoils?" The editor Of
Harper's Weekly proves, by his Own