Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-26
TEACHING THE BULL PUPS

Lemon TO 3 Couple Of Brilliant and I'M
petuous Youag Edltors-SilVer and FED
eral Election Laws.
Under the heading: "As to Bull
PUPS" Hon. Henry Watterson In the
Courier Journal has the following:
Beside the Bull Pup, WHO'S just turn
ing his third year, and to whose educa-
ton the paternal energies are being
strained TO their utmost, the editor OF
the COjTiCr-JOlURQL has taken upon
himself a certain sollcitude, professional
ia its character, as TO two other Ball
Pups, who, albeit very promising are so
ill-disciplIned aud unruly as to require
his occasional attention.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
1T is 70 DO hoped that the unanimous
vote Of the Democrats OF the House TO re-
peal the Federal election laws will not
cause the COurieT-J0Urnal 70 leave the party
The faCt that our contemporary anxiety
for the unconditional repeal OF the Sner-
man law has closed its eyes 70 the fact tnat
Democratic legislation must 90 on, Sher-
man law or no Sherman law, is 10 De re-
GREETED, of course, but IL is not important
enough 70 prevent the Democrats or the
House from taking advantage OF an inter
lude between financial and tariff leglsla'
UiOn. 1t is curious fact that the Courier
Journal, Democratic, and the New YORK
Tribune Republican, are the only newspa-
pers of large influence that have opposed
the repeal OF the Federal election laws.
The y-J0ttIuaI opposes their repeal at
this time because il has soma hOW got the
idea that the repeal Of these laws will be
in the way Of the unconditional repeal or
the Sherman law. Just now this Is 70
happen the C0urisT-JOuTnIl does not say,
but il seems 70 have a vague idea that II,
for any reason party lines are drawn IN the
Senate, the unconditional repeal or the
Sherman law viii be defeated
This sort OF thing may be politics, as
politics 90 10 Georgia, but II is not jour
nalism. The first principle of journal
ism Is good faith; good faith with the
public, good faith with its colleagues,
good faith with itself The plain mis-
statement OF an adversary's position or
argument can not possibly hurt the ad-
versary; it may and will iujure only the
party resOrIing to that kind OF su0ter-
fuge.
The Atlanta Constitution knows that
the C0lriCr-JOTHdJ has never opposed
the repeal of the Federal election laws.
On the contrary, IL knows that II Is not
itself more earnest in its opposition to
those laws, or more bent upon erasing
them from the statute book, than is the
Courier Journal Hence the association
of the COluiCT-JOUrHuL with the New
York Tribune in this particular IS some
thing more than unfair, for the Tribune
isa radical Republican, approving the
| Federal election laws and opposing re-
peal.
The sole suggestion OF the CORStitU-
tou's misstatement can be found only
| in the challenge with the COUTiCr-JOltr-
nat offered 70 the timeiiness Of the in
PRODUCTION OF the repeal bill. The
| C0lricr-JOuudL expressed a fear that
the electoral repeal Dill and the Silver
I Purchase repeal bill might get entan-
/ gled the Senate, ultimately defeat
! ing both. There being no Federal cleo
| ton for more than year, aud there
| fore no urgency In that particular
question, the COlriGr-JOJrRdt urged
| the excellent rule Of one thing at
| time. But the way the Constitution
puts TO the reader, who had not read
/ the Courier. Journal, would infer that
we were actually opposing the repeal
OF the Federal Election law, whereas,
we repeat, no Journal 10 the land has
maintained q steadier attitude toward
/ that question than the COTt6r-JoundL
Young Mr. Howell will learn, as ne
/ advances in age and experience, that
every argument, like every tub, must
/ staud on its own bottom; that In the
/ long run, facts, resting upon just prin-
cfules. rule; aud that fair play, which
is said to be jewel, IS also good sound
/ sense, which Is at once virtue ana
blessing to those possessing it.
Our Mem his Bull Pup is somewhat
| shriller In his bark and more incislve
/ 10 his bite than our very promising
/ Thoroughbred OF Atlantis. The Com
/ mCrciGl says:
"The Hon. Henry Watterson has again
/ bounded out of the bush, roaring IKE
/ wild Numidian lion ana swinging MS
tufted tail ten feet in the air; or, TO
abruptly drop the leOnine figure; Henry
\ has got EN- again. This time be IS oeica-
/ ing his pdilipPic's upon the Democratlc
! Senate who have refused TO follow MIN
\ into the 'gold-bug camp and enlist IN the
I service Of the .mOney.devil' Of whom he
/ was won't 90 give such picturesque and
\ b,ood-Curdljng descriptions IL was but
/ few months ago that Mr.. Watterson was
| ClamOriug for the free, unlimited ana
/ independeut coinage of silver by the
| United States. We shall never forget the
/ uuspariuC inveCtive with which ne lam
/ basIed MIR. Cleveland and Secretary Man
/ ming for their opposition 10 the Bland
act. He has at all times, until quite
I recently. held that the United
! States could safely undertake the
free coinage Of silver at .he present ratio
alone Having led so many men astray oy
these teachings, he ought 70 be charitable
/ To thern in their error. The Senators who
! oppOse the dual closing OF the minis 10 sill
yer are Mr.. WattersOn'S disciples, ana nave
not been blessed as he seems TO nave oeen
/ been with divine revelation. We 90 not
| agree with Mr.. Wa,terson that they nave
I been corrupted any more than we Deileve
| that their opponents are tue lhps OF tue
monsv-devil. as Mr. WattersOn used TO say
thew were They are simply the slaves or
| their DOOR human UNDERSTANDINGS, and the
baneful influence of Mr.. WattersOn's form
or teaching is still upon them. IL is not
given to All men 10 be knocked down In the
road, like Saul Of Tarsus, by revelation
from on high
There is mere more OF misapprehen-
sion than MEASUREMENT. When the
proposition 10 partially remonetiZe sill
YER was made, silver aud gold had not
actually parted company. They were
close upon parity. Specie resumption
was at hand. The editor OF the Courier
Journal supported the Bland-Allison
Act b.th as a bimetallist and a specie
resumptionlSt. He subsequently joined
with the friends Of silver, being then as
now a friend and not an enemy OF silver,
in what appears to have been mistak-
en- effort 70 sustain the parity OF silver
aud gold. Very earnestly, very sincere
ly he pursued this well-meaning out In
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