The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-04-14
THE HURRY IS OVER.
Democrats More Intent Upon Office Thsr
Cnon Tariff Reform.

democrats More Intent Upon Ofhce Th8E
Upon Tariff Reform.
There Is the most remark able con-
| trast between the Incidence of the
/ democrats IN power about a revision of
the tariff and their activity in parcel
ing out the offices. When one stops to
think of it, the latter is really the one
subject about which there need to be
no solicitude. The tariff is an issue if
ever there was one The democracy
fought its battles on that ground, and
won them on the promise of immediate
action. If there is one thing to which
it is committed hey ond recall and at
the earliest moment of its access to
power, it is a change of the tariff.
Now a party which has won usually
loses no time in carrying out the princi-
pal pledges that it made to the people.
So well understood is this, and so well
recognized the duty of the democrats,
that the only question asked after
their victory of last November was
whether the extra session to revise the
tariff would meet Immediately after
the Inauguration of Mr.. Cleveland, or
not until little later There is every
incentive to haste. Every rate of duty
which the democrats denounced as an
injustice and an infamy is in force.
Every poor man whom the tariff was
''robbing" has found no relief. There
should not be one moments loss in
matter so urgent and so essential as
this. And yet we find that there will
be no extra session this year, and that
it will be about eighteen months, in
all probability, before congress gets
around to the passage of tariff bill,
even if the majority can agree upon
one.
There is no such deliberation as this
about distributing the spoils of office.
This is something concerning which
there is not the slightest need of haste.
With the exception of a few resigna-
tions, such as come in periodically and
voluntarily, the offices are all filed
with competent men. Most of them
are serving under a tenure which en-
titles them to hold their places for
from one to three years longer. Let it
be granted, if you please, that a demo-
cratic administration would be expect
ed to make changes, even extensive
changes, in the officehOlding force.
What, then, is the hurry about it?
Why should it take precedence of all
reforms, and occupy the time of every
body connected with the administra-
ton, as it undoubtedly does, from morn
ing to night, to the exclusion of other
business? For it is a matter of choice,
after all Mr.. Cleveland and his adj
visors do not need to give themselves
up to the place-hunters if they do not
wish to- There are men who are Just
as sincere and as urgent in the promo
ton of tariff reduction as others are
in the search for Office. The calling of
an extra session to deal with the tariff
has been recommended to the president
as strongly as the appointment of Of
ficers to the latest places within his
gift. But the latter is made the real
business of the hour, while the former
is reserved until a more convenient
season, somewhere long distance off.
Where there is such haste as there is
to do something that has been publicly
and piously renowned, while the full
fllnent of the most solemn and bind
ing pledges rests upon the uncertain
of the remote future, the
public will not find it difficult to con-
clude which of these objects is regard
ed as the really essential one by the
democratic party.-St. Paul Pioneer