Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-10-04


The Convictions of The Demo
cratic Voters
WASHINGTON. d. c., Oct. 3.-[Spccial
Your correspondent has made some
inquiries concerning the general policy of (
the ways and means committee, and is
able to state that the new law as it
comes from the committee will be a great
disappointment to the extreme tariff re-
formers of the Democratic party and will
be much more moderate and conscrva-
tive than the protection wing of that
party has dared to hope. Inside intorma-
tion is to the effect that Chairman Will
son and his colleagues upon the com.
mittee have decided to make tariff
changes so moderate and cautious as to
satisfy the business interests and manu-
facturers that it is not the policy of the
Democratic party to I'M ure them or strike
them down.
DlsappOintme Inevitable.
AS soon as tariff bill of this descrip-
| tion comes from the committee there will
| be an outburst OF Indignation from those
who favor radical tariff reform. and who
interpret the result of last years election
| to be that the country demands deep cuts
all along the protection line. On the
| other hand. moderate and conserva-
tive bill will commend itself to the east
ern wing of the Democratic party, and
also to Republicans and independents.
Chairman Wilson, it is distinctly under
| stood, works in entire sympathy with
President Cleveland and Secretary Car
| Isle. If the times had been normal, Mr..
Cleveland would have advised and used
his influence to secure more radical aC-
tion. But in view of what has occurred
i'll the country during the past six
months the President has became con-
vinced that this is an inopportune time
to effect radical tariff reform.
Hs MT. Cleveland's - Opinion Chang
| ingF
| Furthermore, there are whispers that
Mr.. Cleveland has to some extent
changed his views upon the tariff ques-
tion since he was before in the White
House. We hear that MIR. Clcvcl md has
become a good deal such a tariff rcformcr
as the late Samuel J. Randall was. In
other words, Mr.. Cleveland now believes
in limited protection which does not en-
courage monopoly or cater to gree d, but
which still protects.
Those Democrats who expect to see
the protective principle abandoned in the
new bill and a revenue tariff put in it's
place are doomed to experience bitter
disappointment. The bill will contain
nothing of the sort.
A Compromise Oh sugar
Your correspondent has the best oi
reasons for believing that the new bill
will he the old Mckinley bill over again.
with few more raw materials and
small cuts and shadings here ard there
throughout the schedules. 1t will be n
bill more remarkable for what it doc 5
not do than for what it does do. II
present information is trustworthy, the
committee has decided, or is about to
decide, that it will compromise on the
troublesome sugar question-that is to
say, it will not abolish the whole bounty
which has been SO vigorously denounced
in Democratic platforms and speeches
but will retain about onc-halftbc bounty v
and make up the other half by imposing
a small duty upon imported sugar.
GOrman's work.
For several weeks Senator Gormar
has not appeared on the surface except
when he had his tilt with Mr.. Wolcott
So far as the ordinary observer could see
he was doing nothing. But Mr.. GormaI
has been at work, and successfully, 100
as the champion of compromise, having
: for his argument the threatened disrup
ton of the Democratic party in case On'
side or the other of this battle shoulC
lose it's all. While Mr.. German does
not show his hand until the times comes
he is always alert, active and full O
purpose.
That moment is now here, and MI
German is at the front. Passage of ;
bill that will be on the whole satisfactor,
to the country, and at the same tim
make some concession to the silver pro
ducing states and avert the dsaste
which hangs over them, will be grea
triumph for the leadership of Mr.. Cor
man in the Democratic party. Hi
friends think it will make him the Demo
cratic nominee three years hence.
vigorous SentaOr VOrhces.
One reason why the plan to use tn
q Vice President in forcing a vote neve
amounted to anything was the fierce or
= position thereto of Senator Voorhees,, til
repeal leader. Mr.. Voorhees, denounce
the plan in language that was more Pi'
turcsque than that which he usually en-
ploys. mo one but a miserable whel
of a plutocrat would ever think of sue
a thing" said Mr.. Vorhees. mo on
but besotted, selfish moneybaGs woul
ever propose that the Vice-Presider
- of the United States purge himself an
override the traditions and liberties
the senate. No one but an Internal gOlC
worshiping scoundrel would ever pre-
pose that honorable senator's should b
come party to such villainous scheme.
When it comes to using English lal
guage in a declamatory or denunciaT
, seuse, Mr.. Vorhees is without a rival
the senate. When asked few days ag
cE how long he was willing to continue Il
battle for unconditional repeal, he T
piled: You may say that we are read
to stay here all the fall, all winter al
all next summer in order to pass tn
bill, and if that does not continue Il
story long enough-why, you may So
that we will stay here until the anE
Gabriel bows his trumpet"
An Old Tennessee Bank Fails
HUNTINGTON, Tenn, Oct 3.-The baI
of Carroll the oldest bank in the cit
has failed Cashier X. +. TrusIOUy q