Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-10-26
DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY.

Ihe Baltimore S'tt says truly that
the Democratic party will be held
responsible if the Senate should fail
to meet the expectation and demands
Of the country by repeating uncon>
ditionally the Sherman act.
It cannot be otherwise since the
country has placed Democratic ma,
jority in the Senate,
The Sun says:
One year hence congressional con,
tests will be going on all over the
country. If, in the meantime, the
Democratic majority in the Senate
continues to be at the mercy of the
minority, what will be the record on
which the Democratic party must
face its adversaries and ask a re.
newal of popular confidence? Plainly.
if it cannot reform the currency
laws in accordance with its pledges,
neither will it be able to keep its
promise to reform the tariff laws. II
a small, but stubborn and aggressive
group of silver Senators can reduce
the Democratic majority to lmpo-
tency in the Senate on the pending
bill, nothing can hinder another
group of high protectionist Senators
from preventing any progress in the
revision Of the Mckinley schedules
So, then, in the fall Of 1894, if the
Democratic administration is to be
wounded in the house of its friends,
as some Democratic Senators appear
to be willing it shall be, we may see
Republican appeal for restoration
to power based solely upon the ar,
gument that with all the power
which full control of the general
governm ant in all its branches can
give, the Democratic Senate means
to serve as an object lesson to enforce
a Republican Indictment of that
kind, it has only to go right on as it
is going to~day.
1t will be said on behalf Of the
-mocratic President that he did all
he could to keep faith with the peo-
pie, and that will be entirely true.
IF silver purchases are not stopped
and by and by all American gold is
drawn off into English Golfers, leavs
ing US with a currency composed ex-
clusiyely Of silver and paper based
on silver, there will be d com mercial
convulsion compared with which the
recent panic will look small inde d.
The Democratic administration will
be able to say, with truth if such
catastrophe, that it did its utmost to
avert 1t. The Democratic House
will have the same clear title to be
acquitted of blame. But tie nation
will not stop to discriminate in its
condemnation if it has been brought
to financial disaster by the failure of
Democratic Senators to support their
own administrator and cooperate
with their fellow-Democrats in the
House Of Representatives.
For the practical purpose of polit-
ical action, which is to bring about
legislative changes and actually ac~
complish reforms, great party in
full possession of the government
cannot be divided into sections and
be tried by the people in aetache-
ments. 1t must neces. rily be judged
as whole on its net performance,
The jury of the whole people will
try it by what it has tried to do at
one end of the capitol and failed to
do because the other end there
was lack of cohesion and concert of
action,
The democratic Senators from the
South who have formed a league
with PETER, Stewart and the other
Populists to prevent vote on the
great question now before the Sen
ate are doing their utmost to dam
age the prospects Of the party. We
are aware that these filibustering
Senators do not represent the Demos
cratic party, bat the party will be
held to account for their present
stubborn and stupid conduct, They
will be a heavy load to carry in the
next campaign.