New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-24
STOPNY UE1THER FOR DEMOCRATS


| Mr. Cleveands troubles thicken. One can
not help feeling a profound sympathy for the
| man who has Undertaken to manage the DEM
ocratic party upon its return to power AFTER
| thirty two years of exclusion from the respon-
| sbilities of government. From March, 1885,
TO March. 1889. Mr.. Cleveland and his friends
could hold Office but could not make laws.
Now full responsibility is placed upon them
and they begin - quarrel at once. Even IN
tho present House, more than two-thlldS Dem
ocratic, the coming President can get nothing
done that he wants, and the prospect Is that
it will force upon him an extra session which
he is especially anxious to avoid.
Mr.. Carlisle cxcitcs the alarm and wrath
of Democratic manufacturers by calling on
impractical theorists Of the Reform Club
silver question so-callcd compromise
was concoctcd at small meeting at Mr..
Carslos house which displcases everybody.
The free silver men will fight it to the death,
because it would stop purchases of silver en-
tircly fer sixteen months the time required to
coin bullion on hand Sound money men OPP
poso it because it would add enormously to the
load of useless coin in the Treasury. and would
provide for indefinite issues of silver ccrtfi-
Gates A makcshift so palpabc seems likely
TO get little support, though IFS origin is sup
posed 10 indicate that Mr.. Cleveland insti
gated it.
Democrats who believe in their tariff platform
are growing every day moro distrstful Of Mr..
Cleveland and his closest advisers. Colonel
Wattcrson, Of "Thc Louisville Courier-Jour-
al e. ato Of
every vcstigo Of protection in the tariff. But
" The Cincinnati Enquirer" the foremost Dem
ccratc journal Of Ohio. having very close re-
ations to very powerful interests, declares Is
follows:
To do would bring dlascrs upon tho country which
would annlhIlao the party responsible for them. Mr.
Cleveland, though accused Of It. has never proposed
any such folly. The Dem cracy has never propord
TO run the rlouehshare Of destruc through any Of
oar manufacturing Industries. but would encourage,
foster and enlarge their bcncnccncc.
Then tho same journal talks Of the " De
mocracy II Mr.. Clevelands SCHOOL, The rift
between the two Democratic factions is grow
ing deeper and wider every day, and threatens
to become a rupture when the tariff theorists
send in their bill u Democratic House
After all the cxertions of the representatives
Of Wall Street interests and Mr. Cleveland, the
Democratic House has thus far refused TO do
anything about silver purchases and it is
threatened that the three r-ccnt- bond au
thorzation shall be defeated by flibuStcring if
necessary. The iilibustcrs are already trying
10 strangle the Anti-Option bill, and their
example will he followed by the free silver
men. With only few days remaining of the
rrcscnt Congress and several important an
preparation bills in danger, it looks as if Mr..
Cleveland might be compelled to call an extra
session Immediately after March 4, though he
has been thoroughly aware that it would en-
barrass him exceedingly. His term of official
responsibility has not yet begun, and yet his
troubles and difficulties are already serious
enough t. account fer many slccplcsS nights.
Tho worst of it for him is that they all come
from the dishonest professions or the dangerous
tendencies Of his own party.