The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-11-18
REFORM or THE TARIFF
The Work will go on as Though
There had Been no Election
MCKINLEYs ADVICE uNAEEDEb.
In Fact, the Members Of the Ways and
Means Committee Think He has no
Grounds upon Which to Base His Adj
viee-Chairman Wilson says the Alleg
ed Outlines Of the New Revenue Bill
are all Guess Work.

A dispatch from Washington has
the following in regard to the new
tariff measure:
Democratic mem bers of the WAYS
and Means Committee talk in a way
that Major Mckinley no doubt would
consider very rude If be could hear
them.
They assert very positively that
Notwithstanding the Majors advice
to them to abandon the work of re-
vising the tariff, they mean To 90
right on with that work, just as If
Major Mckinley had not been re-
elected by big majority in Ohio the
other dav.
If Mckinley thinks his re election
means that the country has changed
it's mind about wanting tariff reform,
be is welcome to his thoughts.
The Ways and Means Committee
and the Democratic party think diff
ferently. Some of the committee.
moreover, hint broadly that McKin-
ley is man of one idea and is liable
to construe almost anything that
happens into an endorsement of him
self and his policy.
The work of constructing a new
tariff bill on the revenue lihea laid
down by Democratic traditions and
platforms will go right on, absolutely
regardless of the State and local
elections of last Tuesday.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS LAUGH
at the suggestion that the tariff issue
was IN any way involved in these
elections. The people voted under
the sting of hard times. These hard
times were brought about BY McKin-
leyism, by Republican financial leg
islation and other vicious Republican
legislation.
1t is now the task of tile Democrats
to help restore prosperity by undoing
the evil which the Republicans com
mitted. In this work they will as
suredly not go to the Republicans
for advice.
''lf we admitted, which we emphat.
ically do not" said one member,
that Tuesdays elections were re
pudiation Of the anti Mckinley pol
icy for which the people voted in
1890 and 1892, the Republicans have
furnished us with ample presidents
under which we could Justify our
selves in refusing to head the people.
Mckinleyism was the issue in the
election of 1890. 1t was overwhelm
ingly defeated. The Republicans
themselves admitted this. But they
didn't set about repeating the Nc.
Kinley law in obedience to the vote
of the people. Far from it. They
defed the will of the people, and ar
rogantly blocked every effort the
Democrats made in the Fifty second
Congress to eliminate some of the
most iniquitous features of the Nc
Kinley law. Again in 1892 McKin-
leyism was the ISSUE 1t was again
VIGOROUSLY REPUDIATED.
Still, in the short session of the
Fifty second Congress, after their
second defeat, the Republicans of the
Senate made no move to obey the
popular mandate. They treated the
overwhelming demand for tariff re-
form with contempt. Now because
they are successful in local elections
in which the tariff was not an issue.
they demand that the Democrats
shall not go on with the work of tar
lift reform. This is gall and impu-
dence run mad.
Chairman Wilson, of the Ways
and Means Committee, said to night
that the reports now circulating in
the newspapers purporting to give
outlines of the new tariff bill were
very misleading. All of them he had
seen bore unmistakable evidence of
being mere guess work. The COM
mittee, for obvious reasons, is keep
ing its counsel until it gets the new
tariff bill into something like the f.
nal shape. When that time comes
the provisions of the bill will be made
public Until then people would be
very unwise to get excited over re
ported provisions of the bill.