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

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LET US HAVE PEACE AND HARMONY
AS the Richmond Dispatch well
says, there is no longer any good
reason why anybody should doubt
that the bill to repeal the purchas-
ing clause Of the Sherman silver
law will soon become a law. The
votes taken in the respective houses
of Congress on that bill indicate its
speedy passage by both of these
bodies; and as the President is known
to be in favor Of the measure, there
will soon remain no such excuse for
clamorous cries about hard times as
has been found by political Cassan-
dras in the said Sherman law.
A most remarkable episode in the
experience of this country-if epi~
sodes we may call it's that which
is now under consideration. The
law condemned to death bears the
name of the most expert fnsncier in
the Republican party, and yet is to
be repealed by and with the advice
and consent of that party and that
man, The Democratic senator whose
boldness, courage, and audacity aided
most in engineering the repeating
bill through the Senate is a man
between whom and the President
there has long existed what may be
termed a GOODNESS. Thus an admin
istration measure will owe it's success
to an anti~administration Senate; for
without the aid of the Republicans
in the Senate Nj. Cleveland would
have been powerless to secure the n
actment into a law of the only bill
Of which he convened Congress in
extra session to secure the passage.
O.
Mr.. Cleveland has thus scored a
victory under unforeseen and UMPIRE
cedented circumstances. 9is polit-
ical enemies secured this victory for
him, and caused his name to be ems
rolled with hat of Andrew jackson
as a born leader of men. Stranger
still, the leader of the anti Cleveland
Democrats, or Democrats who have
personal objections to the President,
is by universal consent conceded
10 have had a larger share in
the triumph under consideration
than any other Democrat in Congress.
What a triumph over himself Mr.
Hill achieved at the same time cans
not oe even so much as imagined ex-
cept by statesmen.
And now let us set up a ID
ment where we are and continue on
our journey. 1t is greatly to be re-
GREETED that a closure rule has not
been made one of the rules of the
Senate, The Democrats in that
body would now have reason To ex.
~perience Hnalloyed satisfaction if uns
der the operation Of such a rule
they could proceed t. consider the
House bill to repeal all Federal
election laws and the projected bill
to reform and revise the existing
tariff laws. In the absence Of such
a rule the Democrats are at the
mercy of the Republicans, for it is a
clear case hal the large Republican
minority in the Senate could success
fully fllbuster for a year against the
passage of any bill Objectionable to
them. The recent experience in the
Senate proves not SO much that pnbe
lie opinion was strong enough to in
fuenee the action of the Senate as
that the minority was too small to
continue the contest indefinitely.
We have claimed that the victory
unQeE discussion was b Victory IOT
both Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Hill
We must add that it was, strangely
enough, a victory in another senaa
for the Republicans slao. But the
Republican victory is not likely to
yield to that party such early fruits
as the Democrats will gather from
theirs, The passage of the repeal
ing bill to even its present condis
ton will strengthen the Democrats
in every State in which there are to
be elections held this week. 1t may
give us Massachusetts It will at
least cut down the Republican ma
jerity in Ohio. 1t will not weaken
the Democrats IN Iowa, Mississ
sippi, Virginia, Maryland, II New
York.
I sAet US have peace