The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-03-11
THE TRAITOR In THE CABE.
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Some of the Bourbon irreconcilables
who are holly insisting that Judge Ores
ham is no Democrat and denouBcing
Mr.. Cleveland for giving the best place
in his Cabinet to Republican had
better direct their attention to the new
Secretary of the Navy. There are
dark suspicious that, despite his
Southern birth and bis commission as
Confederate colonel, Congressman
Herbert, OF Alabama, is a Republican
in disguise. A document has come TO
to light within fortnight which con-
victs him of rank treason 10 the Demo
cratic party.
Colonel Herbert is chairman of the
Committee on Naval Affairs CT the
House OF Representatives. He has
served on that committee for some six
teen years and knows more about the
navy than anybody else on the D-mo.
cratic side of Mason and Dixon's line
On February IS last Mr.. Herbert, in
reporting the Naval Appropriation bill,
accompanied it by report which has
since been printed and made public.
This report is an able and comprehen
slve review of the rebuilding OF the
navy from its outset during the Arthur
administration, and in the course OF it
this Albanian, to whom Mr.. Cleve
land has just given the naval portfolio,
uses language calculated to strike
Bourbons dumb with rage.
In this report. after recalling, with
obvious regret-actually with regret,
the wretch THAT we were "compelled
to import" steel forgings and steel
armor for our earliest warships, Chair
man Herbert goes on to discuss, with
evident pleasure, the infamous law of
August 3, 1886, which required that
the ships and their engines, guns and
armor should hereafter be of exclu
sively American material. AID then
this recreant reformer, who has basely
stolen into the Cabinet under false pre-
fences, goes on to say:
"The requirement was severe, but
time has proved it to have been wise.
Every vessel put afoat under the law
of August 3, 1886, and subsequent
acts has been home made throughout,
and there is not one of them that will
not compare favorably with the best
vessels of like type manufactured in
other countries during the same time"
lust listen TO this doubled dyed
traitor Is it possible that 1t is Her
bert, of Alabama, who speaks, aud not
Mckinley, OF Ohlo2 Didn't the great
majority of the unterrifiad vote solidly
against the proposition to build Amerl-
can warships of American materials ?
did they not scott at the ability of
American shipyards to produce these
vessels, and did not some OF them
vehemently argue that we ought to buy
navy, ships, guns. all in job lots,
abroad1 And now this heartless migrate
who has just been enthusiastically
applauded as the biggest naval expert
in the Democracy, stabs his party right
under the fifth rib by the poignant
remark
"Another result still more gratifying
and highly encouraging to those who
believe with your committee in still
further increase Of the navy is that,
since Secretary Whitney began his
system of contracting for vessels in
1886, the price of the materials enter
ing into the composition OF modern
ship has been reduced fully one half,
and the price of completed ship,
excluding armor, has gone down thirty
three per cent
As if to give feather to his keen
shaft, Chairman Herbert prints these
significant words of his report in italics.
At one adroit, cruel blow he explodes
not only the Job lot scheme OF procur-
ing a navy but the "free ship" fad,
whose supporters stand in special need
OF consolatio at this tine. He has
committed the sin objectionable, and
the Bourbon pack which has been
snarllng at the heels Of Gresham must
now be let loose upon Herbert, whose
strong avowal Of protectionist heresies
is almost coincident with his app Int
ment to the Cabinet. while Gresham
IN a measure purified himself from Re
publican ta;nts last autumn by support
ing Cleveland On platform declaring
Protection unconstitutional. = Boston
Journal.