New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-09-12
CONSCIENTIOUS VOTERS.
They Must Decide What the Future Tariff
Legislation Shall be.
The Election in November Means Much to
the Oountry's Welfare.
Shall the South Continue to Rule the
Country.

Two pathetic political papers appeared
from two able editors, in the Herald a
few days ago. The,e was simple ten
derness about these productions that was
in itself strong appeal. One of the
writers is young, brilliant and promising
the other veteran, with Il long record
of varied achievements. One is from g.
Gulf and the other from a Pacific state.
One is Clark Howell and the other Chas.
Nordhoff. Both are of the opinion they
are members Of the Democratic party,
and that the party is in bad way. They
seem to desire to save the organization
and have deep sensibility that it is in1-
portant they should succeed.
Mr.. Howell clings to the idea he has
often expressed, that salvation must
come through the Chicago platform, and
he is of the opinion that the president
and his cabinet and the majority of the
congress in both branches have not tknown
perfectly the letter of the law, or have
sinned against light and knowledge. The
intensity of Mr.. Howell's devotion to the
Chicago platform seems to increase in
proportion as it is d1sregarded, and his
disgust with the proceedings, or inability
to proceed, of congress is no less trying
than his distress about the conduct of the
president. He goes into the. Silver pur-
chase repeal with unfailing grief, and in
to the failure to repeal the tax on state
bank currency with the mournfulness of
many broken hopes.
Why should this bri ght and ssstrong
young man take upon himself forever the
burden of believing that the Chicago
platform was ether than the bundle of
vote-catching paragraphs it was? The
money resolution that Mr.. Howell regards
as solid free silver declaration was a
plain case of double tender. 1t was for
gold monometallism at one one end and
silver monometallism at the other end.
This provided both sides with an infall-
ible quotation; and the two quotations
compared are expressly contradictory
The Atlanta Constitution quotes one and
the Atlanta Journal the other That is
the way with platforms. Mr.. Cleveland's
particular friends reported a platform
with protection in 1t, and submitted to
an amendment that denounced their work
as fraud in order that they might nom
mate their man and when he was nomi-
mated and elected he returned to the
platform as reported, not as adopted
This was the tactics.
The express requirement that the tax.
alton of state bank paper should be re.
pealed has been treated with contempt
as it deserved; for it was a horrible blum.
der, and now the great majority of the
Democracy have taken the income tax
from the Omaha platform and thrust il
into their tariff reform to stiffen it. That
is something to weep over, but tears are
scarce about it in the South.
We are in the sixth month of the second
year of the second term of Cleveland
and in the ninth month of the second
session of congress in Cleveland's second
term-congress having been in session
almost constantly for year-and ye,
we have not seen day or an hour oi
agreement by the Democratic majorities
upon measure of the tariff reform that
was to express the meaning of the seven
years. war against protection, and of the
campaign of education that closed with
the return of the Democracy to power,
until the German bill was forced through
the house and given to the world loaded
with blunders- now we find allDem-
ocrats admit that the bill is mere make
shift and must be changed as fast and
furiously as time and circumstances will
admit.
There is as yet no answer from Wash
ington by the house or senate or the pre-.
sident or his cabinet, to the question
"What are we here for?" 1t seems there
fore, so futile to be shouting about the
pledges of the Democratic party that il
causes sorrow and WEAKNESS to listen to
the tale of woe. A Georgian should be
slow to anger and slower to admonition
Of the administration, remembering that
Georgia had member on the committee
of conference when no other Gulf state
and no Atlantic or Pacific OF Northern
Estate had that distinction. While Voor-
hees was i'll no Democrat north Of the
Potomac, the Ohio and Missouri was in