Middletown transcript., 1893-10-14
wHAr WILL coNeREss Dor

gress drags on, what action the Senate
will finally take In the momentous
matter which induced the President to
call Congress together, becomes more
uncertain, and in like proportion the
fear Of q relapse Of the experiences OF
the summer is pressing heavily upon
the minds of the people and paralyzing
business efforts on every haud, SO that
the hopes of many have given way to
doubt whether the majority inCongress
ever had any serious intention Of re-
pealing the Silver Purchasing Act.
On the one hand the Industrial life
Of the whole nation stands appealing
to congress, into whose hands have
been committed their all. for such
legislation as will bring relief and hope
to the whole country alike without
taint Of sectionalism. And on the
other hand we have the humiliating
spectacle of the majority party in one
branch of that same congress, refusing
to vote upon legislation, for the need
Of which the nation stands in peril, and
assigning as a reason therefore the
pedantry of Senatorial practices. And
the sense of outrage and disgust be-
comes only the more intense when it is
remembered that this asinine excuse
is but the merest pretext upon which
this same majority now turns in order
to stand CONSTANT with its record of
obstruction and filibustering when in
the minority. While this is going on
in the Senate the House has thrown
aside all pretense Of consistency and
adopted rules more radical than any
thing Reed ever dreamed Of, and this
in order that the opposition may be
moro effectually gagged and to facili-
tate the speedy enactment Of the repeal
Of laws that stand as the only barrier
against fraudulent elections in our
large cities where political corruption
and to turn over for all time
to come, New York City, and along
with it the nation, body and breeches,
TO Tammany Hall, the most UNANIMOUSLY
political organization the world
has ever known. 1t is enough to make
he blood tingle in the veins Of every
patriotic American when he remembers
That this same organization is COM
posed, in the main. of thieves and
hugs Of foreign birth, whose only
political creed is plumber, and whose
existence has been, and is to be per-
,etuated by the constant accessions
from the foreign horde that land in
New York City from year to year; and
10 make this accession doubly sure it is
heir secret purpose to control all legis-
alton in the matter of immigration in
the future.
So much for the ludicrous pretense
,f consistency SO far as the record of
the present Congress goes. No wonder
somebody has said, e What grand old
humbug the Democratic party isl''
But this is not all. While the prepar-
ition Of the Bill for ''pulverizingn
The tariff goes forward in the COM
nittee chambers, the ghost Of Calhoun,
in the various members from
she South, comes upon the floor of the |
House gibbering over the vanquished |
contentious of half century ago, that |
here is no United States Government
and that state has right to secede. |
The nation had grown to believe that |
III Of this had been settled at Appomat-
OK for all time to come, and would be
disposed to treat such sentiment as the |
roth Of empty headed fools, we're it |
not for the fact that without the states
n which this doctrine is cherished, |
he Democratic party would not be
efficiently numerous to have any
national influence. But in view of |
The fact that such are the views of
arge majority of that party. though
Iul and honest men outside of the
Southern States will be forced to the
conclusion that the Government can
,ot be safely entrusted to a party that
% tenaciously holds to doctrines that
he world has SO long outgrown and
'ut of which the most costly and dread
'ul war of modern times grew. There
9 host Of patriots who have voted
he Democratic ticket, but the present
congress and its Leadership is enough
o make them sick of their affiliations
Nth that party, and certainly ought to
,eget in them such sorrow as may lead
o orepentance.
DOES anyone see any marked change
D affairs? Do you notice any improve