Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-05-26

Some Of the leading papers Of the coun-
Try are engaged in discussing subject
which should command profound conside-
ration at the hands of all good Democrats
namely. tho proposition, or rather suegos-
ton. that the President shall favor an IN
come.ta1. and also the abolition Of the
State bank-nOte tax. and Consequently
favor the establishment Of n new system
of State banks. on condition that the
friends Of these measures shall agree TO re-
peal the Sherman silver lew. Asto the tariff
and the Federal election laws, two other
subjects mentioned 10 the same connection,
II Is 20 be presumed that upon these two
measures the Democrats in Congress VIII
not divide. Those election laws are still
on the statute book, and will remain there
until the Democrats remove them, and
il Democratic Congress should be
so unwise as TO leave them I'M
repealed and the Republicans should
get chance 10 elect Republican House
Of Representatives under their operation.
there would never be another Democratic
Congress. Constantly, no doubt, the Re
publican leaders regret that they did not.
as they might easily have done q few years
ago. 90 execute those laws ~ toperpetuaie
Their own rule. The tariff, too. IS ques-
ton upon which there ought not TO be any
intolerance manifested towards those
Democrats in Congress who may endeayor
10 improve the details Of the tariff which
Mr.. CARLISLE will recommend 10 the con-
sidcration of Congress- The importantpoint
is that the new tariff bill should become
law as soon az possible IN order that the
manufacturing interests OF the country
NAV accommodate themselves 10 the new
order Of things.
The New York Tribune. the leading Re
publican journal In the United States,
seems disposed TO flatter itself that the
Democrats in Congress may divide
into two fnctions when the compromise
above alluded to shall be formally proposed
in that body. The Dicker has Begun
Is the heading in one OF our Repubhcsn
exchanges of an article touching that
compromise. The Tribune says that the
President seems 10 be maturing a policy
ofcompromises." and thatit positively de-
clared that he will agree TO favor the repeal
Of the tax on State-bank notes. though IL
will give him pain" This attributlon OF
pain" to the President Is Just what we ex-
pected. He will as we have heretofore said
moro than once, favor such repeal only az
compromise.
We quote the Tribune as follows:
"Ihe Democratic platform requires certain
Things 20 bo done, and the Democratic party
came into power with yociforous promises TO do
them. Who has authorized the President TO
dicker with these promises, using Que oil them
TO buy support for another! They are all
equally sacred. The Democrats declared as
means of getting ofico that the tax on State
bank issues ought 10 be repealed. They have got
Office, now let them repeal it. They declared
that the Sherman act Of 1890 was "cowardiy
,nakeshift" Let them substitute a courageous
specific. They declared that protection was
UNCONSTITUTIONAL" "fraud,"a robbery" Ell
"ntrociiy" They must extirpate II, root and
branch. These and otherspccal and important
things they solemnly promised 90 do aud were
commissioned to do. What business have their
agents at Washington to negotiate bargains and
compromised"
This language would seem to indicate
that the Republican leaders are appre-
hensive that the Democrats Will agree to
disagree upon the subjects to which our
New York contemporary calls attention.
The time to compromise Is when there are
conflicting opinions held 10y the leaders of
q party as TO what the party ought to do.
And certainly there car be no doubt tina.
the monometallists and the bimetalhsts
in Congress take the most divergent views
Of the monetary questions raised in the
Chicago platform. On the silver question
in particular this utterance at Chicago is
susceptible of two constructions-one in
favor of free coinage and the other against
1T.
There are signs of the times which we
wish our Democratic readers to watch.
The Democratic Congress cannot be too
soon convened IN extra session and set to
work upon the duty of solving the various
problems. which it will become their duty
to tackle"