Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-11-02
THE PEOPLES BATTLE WON.

AS the Philadelphia Times says,
the long fight in tie Senate is near
its end, and once more the country
has reason to be grateful to Grover
Cleveland for his imperturbable de-
votion to its interest, and for that
happy faculty of his dropping a
word in season to bring the strug-
CLING partisan break 70 a sense of
duty.
The President presented accurately
and clearly the requirement Of tie
hour when he called Congress to-
gether, and recommended the imme-
diate repeal of the silver purchase
act. With that accommodation be rest
ed, leaving further responsibility
with Congress. The House Of Rep
reseu tatives acted promptly on the
suggestion, but while majority
of the Senators were apparently ready
to pass the repeal, they have found
themselves so bamrered by the tradi-
tions of their body that definite acS
tion of any sort has seemed impo3si-
bic.
1t was not surprising. as they, as
we'll as the country, grew weary with
delay, that the Democratic Senators
should try to arrange some sort Of
compromise, which might be passed
by votes that would not be given to
unconditional repeal. For few
hours the project was promising,
but when it became known it met
with universal dissent from all the
organs of public opinion, and it call
ed forth indirectly from the Presi~
dent so emphatic an expression of
disapproval that it tumbied to
pieces even before it had been dis
tinctly formulated.
The Senators who had been
drawn into this agreement with the
expectation that it would unite all
factions Of their party, and who
felt themselves deceived aud disap.
pointed, were angry for time, but
there vas nothing for them to do
but to face the situation. They
found that the President was still
where he had always been, on the
side of the country, and strennously
opposed to every kind Of makes
shift. Silver Democrats could
do nothing against that immovable
backbone; the Republicans could
hope to make no party capital out
Of the division OF their opponents
while their authorized representa-
tive stood unchangably for honest
money, and even the Western ex-
tremi>ts recognized at least that their
obstinate and necessarily fruitless
obstruction had become odious to all
parties alike, and without possibility
of profit to themselves.
Monday left the Senate in confus
sion; Tuesday the conviction was
universal that the fight was up, and
that vote on the pending bill
gould be delayed at most but few
days longer. There will be som
dying struggles from the mining
Senators, and some parliamentary
formallties yet to be observed in yot~
ing upon the many amendments
that have been offered, but it has
now been fully demonstrated that
immediate repeal is stronger than
repeal with any possible conditions,
and the public demand for action
has become so overwhelming that
even the Senate must bow to 1t.
No doubt some part of this deter
mination to end the long dispute has
been brought about by the agitation
for an amendment of tie rules. The
minority would rather hasten vote
ON the VOORHEES, bill than risk the
right of obstruction, which they
may find servieeable in the discus
s1on of other issues yet to come be-
fore the Senate. But mainly it Ii
due to the wise, firm and unmistak-
able attitude of the President, wht
has not assumed to interfere with tht
deliberations of the Senate, but by
word fifty spoken has brought i
back to a sense of its duty to itsei.
and to the nation,