St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-26

died in the upper house. Thus it will
be seen that at no time since March 4,
1859, have the Democrats been able to
carry party measure or to fulfill any
promises made in their platforms, while
the Pepub'icans from 1861 down to 1875
held eVesy branch of the government.
as they have for just four years since,
the life of two cOngresses-from 1881 to
1888, and from 1889 to 1891. And the
people who remember the lOoting of the
treasury by the Kiefer and Reed con-
crosses will not desire to see the same
crowd in saddle very soon again.
Since the election some of the Repub-
lican leaders have been expressing their
fears lest the Democrats will not reduce
the tariff. They say that they want the
coming administration to carry out the
platform pledges on the tariff question
in particular, affecting to believe that to
fulfill those pledges every vestige OF tar
if taxation must be wiped out at once.
Of course they do not believe what they
say, for they know that the looting OF
the treasury by the Harrison admins
tration has made it necessary for the
government 10 raise large amount of
revenue, so large an amount that some
of it must come from duties on imports.
But there will be revision of the tariff,
a wise revision, that will demonstrate
to the people that the Democratic party
is opposed to the policy that taxes 65,-
100000 people for the benefit of a few
manufacturers.
.sWhat Are We in Fore"
There will be revision of the tariff
because the Democratic party has prom
ised it, and because Grover Cleveland
has declared that he will again go into
the office of chief executive for that
very purpose, and after March 4 the
Democratic party and Its second Jack
promise made the people. And this is
exactly what the Republican leaders
fear. The Republican party is not able
to stand four years of Grover Cleveland
when he is backed up by a majority in
both branches of congress.
With the failure of the attempt to
grab up the Hawaiian islands, which
now seems certain, the present admin
istration will 90 out Of Office pretty
thoroughly discredited. There is only
one man who left Washington in worse
shape, and this one was John Adams,
the second president, who signed
commissions placing his favorites
in office UP to midnight, and
then. dropping the reins of government,
fastened out of Washington by carriage
through mud and rain to avoid welcom
ing his successor, the founder of the
Democratic party, the plain and UNI
ostentatious Jefferson. President Har-
rison will be here to receive Mr.. Cleye-
land and will not leave for Indianapolis
until the afternoon of the 4th. He is
not as proud and vain as the elder
Adams.
While the condition of the treasury
will for a time bringthe financial ques-
tion into prominence, the first great
administration measure will be a tariff
bill, which has
Already Been Mapped Out.
as congressman William l.. Wilson, of
West Virginia; Bynum. of Indiana;
Hall, of Minnesota; Springer, of Hi
nois, and Speaker Crisp could testify if
they would. The bill will bear re-
semblance to three of the celebrated
tariff measures discussed in the lower
house in the last sixty years. Free raw
material will come first and go at once
OH the free list. Then there will be
horizontal reduction, something after
the manner of the Morrison bill, of
about 20 per cent. Next following the
tarlH measures OIL 1000 anu IOfO, III Will
provide for gradual reductions extend
ing over period of years. If passed in
this form it is believed that the ques-
ton will be settled for number Of
years, as 1t was for the fifteen years
previous to the war, when the country
grew and prospered under the Walker
tariff.
President Cleveland has selected the
members of his cabinet with view to
the work that is to be done, and his
selections are Endorsed by the Demo
Gratis everywhere. He will be backed
by the Democratic members of the two
houses as no president has been since
jackson. Old Hickory lined up the
party in his time for struggle against
the United States bank, and he throt-
tied the monster, and today all writer's
of history indorse him. 1t took courage
to fight the United States bank sixty
years ago, and the man for the place
appeared. 1t took courage for presi-
dent certain of denomination and
reelection to grapple with the tariff
question as President Cleveland did in
his celebrated message, and the man
who had the courage necessary then
can be depended upon not to waver
until the most obnoxious and unjust
features of the present tariff laws are
wiped off the books. LLEWON.