The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-24
A Few Converts Make Them Happy

| A Few Converts Make Them Happy.
Some of the republican papers are ex-
! pressing great joy because of an announce
ment by the Concord N. h Monitor that
three manufacturers of that place, who
are democrats, have declared their inten-
ton to act with the Republican party in
the future. 1t seems that these democrats
wanted the committee on ways and means
TO fix certain duties, in framing the Viii
son bill, to suit their particular interests,
and their request was not granted. They
visited Washington and had a
talk with members Of the ways
and means committee and, accord
ing to the Monitor, the treatment they
received from the southern democrats
was such as Ito arouse their Indignation"
and make them believe that the dem o.
Gratis of the south are ''unrelenting in
their hostility to New England manufac-
turing interests"
No doubt a great many other announce
ments like the foregoing will appear in
the republican papers before the Wilson
bill becomes a law, and these republican
papers will pretend that the great bulk of
the democrats are so thoroughly disguised
with the tariff policy of their party that
they will join hands with the republicans
at the very next national election and
turn the Democratic party out of power.
As a matter of fact, however,
very few democrats are going to
leave their party on account
of its tariff policy. There may be a few
like those mentioned by the Concord Mon
itor, who will do so, but they are not
democrats at heart. They are democrats
only so long as they can make the Demo
cratic party serve their purposes. These
New Hampshire democrats wanted GER
tain duty placed ON articles which they
manufacture, and because they failed to
get it they desire to destroy their party.
Suppose all democrats should take a sim
liar position2 How would it be possible
for the party to have any tariff policy2 If
the wishes of each interested party should
be complied with tariff bill could not be
framed
These New Hampshire democrats, who
have concluded to act with the Republi-
can party, have professed to approve
the tariff principles of the Democratic
party. Itnow turns out that they approve
them for somebody else, not for them
selves. In other words, they are not
democrats from principle
The few democrats who will leave the
Democratic party on account of the Will
son BILL will not injure that party. Many
more will join it because they approve
that bill than will leave it because of its
tariff or other doctrines. At the last
general election the people, by an over
whelming majority, declared in favor of
a lower tariff. That is what the Demo-
cratic party proposes giving them. The
Wilson tariff is in line with
the tariff policy of the Democratic
party, and after it has
been in operation it will give such salts
faction and bring such general prosperity
that even the protectionists will not be
severe in their condemnation of it,
The democrats in congress will not take
any backward steps in respect to the Will
son bill, because a democrat here and
there expresses dissatisfaction with it.
They will push it forward vigorously. be-
cause they know it will be productive Of
good results. The republican papers that
find so much satisfaction in printing the
names of democrats who are dissatisfied
will not alarm the democratic congress
men. They know what the country ex-
poets, and they will satisfy that expecta-
ton.