Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-05-03
Democratic Unworthiness.

No party in the history Of the
nation has ever undergone such
scorching criticisms at the hands
Of those who have been its friends as
the Democracy is getting at the pres
cnt time. No party has ever shown
such utter inability to cope with
existing conditions as the Democracy
in this administration and the record
1t is making for utter unworthincss
and imbccility will be a black page in
American history 50 long rs time en-
dures. From the day it took up the
reins of government, March 1, 1898,
it has disgusted friend and foe alike
and made itself the subject Of sneers
and jibes from every intelligent man.
A few days ago there was an attempt
to "readn Senator Voorhees,, the
party's longtime leader, "out". of the
Democracy because he refused to en-
endorse that maudlin infamy, the
Wilson bill. The Cincinnati Enquirer,
the leading Democratic paper of two
States, thus comments;
senator Voorhees, has thrown new
light upon the work done in congress
in connection with the Wilson bill.
Without exposing any name he virtu-
ally tells the country that the passage
of that measure in the house was n
fraud, and that its own authors and
supporters have never for a moment
expected it to pass the senate without
amendment. This means that they
been cheating somebody. They have
been guilty of voting for measure
! for buncombe. They have pleased
one class Of voters by voting for free
| sugar, free coal and free iron, and
| then have gone over to the senate and
whispered to the finance committee
that, Of course, they did not mean it
and that the senate must please tn,
advocates Of duty on these commod
itcs-thus rendering nugatory VIVA
they had done for the other side
This is Just what the senator says wa
done. He says that when the Wilson
bill passed the house, many Of 1t
ablcst and most iudicious friends fol
lowed ii over to the senate and point
cd out how It could be improved b
amendments. These are the tactic
, OF confidence operators; not the usua
, methods Of statesmen. Ii is an ed
, tying spectacle to see one batch Of tn
\ presidents friends passing bill /
}, the house to catch votes, and secret
n advising the passage in its place of
b different bill in the senate, to cate
other votes, while another batch
" the presidents friends anathemati2
, the senators who act upon the adviI
thus given them. 1t seems perfect
q clear that the administration Is for Il
Il Wilson bill in the house, and again
Il It in the senate, while in its new
papers il is again in favor of the bill
This Inconsistency is eNplainable upo
i no ground except that the admini
3 tration has some other policy, near,
II and dearer to IL than any mere que
# ton of revenue, to the support
which it hopes TO bring more vot,
than il can marshal ON any side OF II
< tariff question. The correctness
Is this explanation will he found lat,
/. on, When the attempt is made
dragoon congress into creating an il
terest- bearing debt, payable in gol,
u for the benefit Of the gold clique.
p 1t is n versatile administration thu
Y can yoke Wall street and the Pop
y lists together, and make them pull
! wagon up the hill, In which Il hi
" loaded free trade and protection, gol
at bearing bonds and an income tax.
z The wagon is not yet at the top
A the hill.
D. Seldom in American journalism h
ID has appeared so scathing and terrif
2 an arraignment of a great party I
r its misdeeds, and 1t is all the strong
e. for coming from long time su
w porter OF that party More than tn
{, it is true, Can anyone have co
4. lidenre in the Democratic party
he handle the affairs of this nation aft
r. such an exhibition of unworthinC
II and doubledealing a. the present Il
is ministration has shownP
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