Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-09-13

which it is, in large part, suffering to-
day.
Hero we have Ohio's honorable dema-
eogue placing GROVER CLEVELAND,
pioneer of Tariff RefOEm, in the ats
tude Of warning the people against his
own and his party's policy-a policy for
which he has contended since 1884 and
upon which Mr.. CLEVELAND and the
Democratic party staked all last year
and won.
Does MCKINLEY take the people OF
Ohio for idiots and fools? His clumsy
attempt to mlsinterpret Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS plain and forcible language is
unworthy Of a gutter politician and
certainly must be a disappointment to
those who have banked on his political
shrewdness. An ordinarily intelligent
school-boy could not have made fee
bier effort at gsrbling, and an ordinar-
lily intelligent politician would not have
attempted it.
McKINLEY's whole speech is upon
that line, and throughout contains mis-
representations so gross as to be not
only absurd, but astonishing, For in
stance, on the subject of the Sherman
act he says:
1t is fair to assume, therefore, that
whatever the sO-called Sherman law
has 10 do with the present
condition OF our finances, 1t must
now go. unless Mr.. Cleveland's par
II in the Senate prevents it. The MAORI
" OF Republicans in Congress are openly
committed 70 its repeal, as shown by their
vote in the House on the Wilson bill and
in the Senate Oy the debate which has al
ready taken place; and il it fail, it will be
because the Democratic Representatives
and Democratic Senator'S who constitute
the majority in both branches of Congress,
stand in the way of It's repeal.
MCKINLEY knows that the repeal bill
was passed in the House by Democratic
votes and would have been passed had
there not been a Republican present.
He knows also that STEWART, JONES,
TELLER and WoLcoTT, four Republican
Senators, are at the present moment
obstrueting repeal in the Senate by
dialatory tactics.
In his deliberate misrepresentation OF
facts MCKINLEY does not stop there.
Speaking of the financial situation he
he says:
With confidence in the future once re-
stored, with an abandonment OF the de-
clared purpose 70 introduce revenue
tariff policy in this country, with resolu-
ton adopted by Congress announcing a
policy which shall be genuinely American,
confidence will come back, and this vast
sum Of money will find its way into the
banks and in due course into the channels
Of trade.
Confidence has already come back,
money is now finding its way back to
the banks and into the channels Of
trade, mills and factories the country
over are resuming operations by the
score every day, and trade has already
revived and a business boom has already
been started. Yet the Democratic par
ty has not abandoned its tariff policy,
but is going ahead more rapidly than
ever ia the work Of carrying it out.
Gov. MCKINLEY must have written
his speech of yesterday about a month
ago and failed to revise it in accordance
with the changed condition of affairs.
He is almost as far behind the times
as he is from honesty and truth.
NOBODY knows better than the President
that the tendency Of the Democratic party
is 70 go wrong on the money question. he
wished TO save il from bad record and TO
give the country the benefit or all the
Democratic votes possible 10 get Tor re-
peal
In the House Of Representatives the
repeal bill was passed by an overwhelm-
ing Democratic vote. In the Senate
four Republican Senators are to-
day obstructlng the repeal Of
the Sherman law. The dishon-
est money act itself, was passed by
a sol i'd Republican vote against solid
Democratic vote three years ago. The
InteHigencer should bear in mind that
honesty is the best policy, particularly
in dealing with such recent facts Of
history.