Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1893-09-09
KICKING DEMOCRATS
Road to Reform" Strewn
with Thorns.
HOKE SMITH CRAWFlSHES.
Sugar to be Again Taxed to aid
Foreign Producers.
From our regular correspondent

Foreign Producers.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, c., September 7, 1898.
Ex-Speaker Reed has never displayed his
great ability as ready debater and an
able exponent of parliamentary law and
precedent than during the debate of the
new rules, now going on in the House.
The "kicking" Democrats, of whom there
are quite a number, have gladly followed
his leadership in exposing the weak
points in the proposed rules, which he
has been merciless in doing. The "ring
| Democrats" as several of the "kickers
have called those who unquestioningly
follow Speaker Crisp, have no man to
pit against the ex-Speaker in debate, and
since the bitter experience of Speaker
Crisp when he left the chair and attemp-
ted to combat Mr.. Reed, they no longer
try, contenting themselves with out-vot-
ing him and his followers, and upon sew
eral occasions they have found that very
! ulHlcull 10 40. ne ADMINISTRATOR is Ill
no hurry for the House to adopt its new
rules hence the adjournment from Sat
urday until Wednesday. The Ways and
Means committee is at work on the tariff
bill-fourteen days of public hearings be-
gan to-day-and Mr.. Cleveland has no
other work cut out for the House just
yet, and he is not anxious for it to strike
out go-as-you please gait.
History is repeating itself in the silver
fight in the Senate The Southern Sena-
| tors who have been relied upon by the
silver men from the Northwest to aid
them in preventing vote upon the I'M
conditional repeal of the purchasing
clause of the silver law are slowly but
surely going over to the administration,
and during the last two or three days the
prospect for an early vote has very much
! improved, although the thick and thin
silver men still say they will fight to the
last, but it is plain to be seen that they
are no longer confident of success, as
they were but few days ago. Space
/ forbids mention of the numerous causes
assigned for this change, although Wig
orous welding of the party whip by Sena-
/ tors VOORHEES, and German and some judi
cious promises of patronage on the part
of Mr.. Cleveland cannot be overlooked
as factors. The Populist Senators are
also regarded as doubtful by the silver
men, Senator PETER having publicly
stated that while he would vote against
unconditional repeal he would not take
part in or aid in any effort to prevent a
vote by tilibustering. The Populists
privately say that they expect the pass
age of the bill by the Senate to greatly
increase their party in the South and
/ Northwest, because of their belief that
all of the free-silver voters will Join
them. Senator Hansbrough, of North
Dakota, has proposed an amendment,
which he thinks would satisfy the silver
men and not be vetoed 10y the President
/ 1t provides for the retirement of all pa
per money of a less denomination than
500 and of all gold coins less than $50,
! including national bank currency and
the issuing of silver certificates therefor,
to be based upon silver purchased at the
market price and coined into standard
silver dollars as fast as the currency is
retired The amendment is now in the
H., IL. ,,f. .
/ Several special trains left here Monday
for the encampment at indianapolis, fill
ed with G. A. II, men and their families.
The fact that the tickets included a visit
to the Worlds Fair largely increased the
crowd from Washington.
No more complete back down was
ever made by a member of any Presi-
dents cabinet than that of IIoke Smith
on the pension suspensions which have
been such a marked feature of the Demo
cratic Administration. The public rea-
son given for the back down is far from
the real cause of it. 1t gradually enter
ed the mind of Mr.. Cleveland, who was
the originator of the wholesale pension
suspension system, that the statements of
such Democrats as Senators German,
/ Voorhees, and Palmer, and Representa-
tive Holman, as to the certainty of the
wreck of the Democratic party if the ad-
ministration policy was continued, were
worth thinking about, and while he was
! i,1- IN oil, ba I'd
Gus other men who had been Democrats
but had forswOrn the party on account of
its bad treatment of the old soldiers.
Then he became panic. stricken at the
prospect and HoGe Smith was ordered
to close the suspension factory, and issue
an order telling the poor pensioners how
/ 1t is fact that the administration was
sorry-sorry that it dare not keep on
suspending pensioners.
One thing is already given out as GER
tain by the Democratic members of the
House Ways and Means committee, and
that is by no means re-assuring TO the
poor man, 1t is stated by members of
the committee that it has been informal
ly decided that the sugar bounty shall
be abolished and duty put upon for
eign sugar higher than that proposed in
the Mills bill That will be burning the
candle at both ends sure enough, as far
as the wage-earners are concerned-low-
ering his earnings and increasing the
price of his necessities
"Quite Apparent"
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