Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-18
The le,uoerat.
O. and II. T. MALoNEY. PuBIIsHERs.

HE uemOcratlc prlnAry elcctiOh pAohA- ises to be of unusual interest this year. In every ward there are indications ot great activity and the signs point to a large vote. This is as it should be. The DEMOCRAT has always maintained that every democrat should assist in making the nominations of his party. by voting at the primaries. There should be free ballot and fair count, and when the result is announced let everybody fall in and work to defeat the common enemy
 WELL. the administration has been blamed for everything by the republican press. but the climax of absurdity would seem to have been reached when it was blamed for having allowed the Kentuckians from Colonel Breckinridge's district hold ing office in Washington to go home to help Colonel Breckinridge in his fight for re-nomination. Why. the administration has no more right to say what an office holder may or may not do when he takes the vacation which belongs to him than it has to sly what grocery store he shall patroniza The men who went to Ken lucky to help Colonel Breckinridge were under obligations to him for the govern ment posit ons they hold and if they chose to take their vacation at a time when they could go home and return those obliga- tions nobody had anything to do with it. An administration that would attempt to take part either for or against every candi- date for a congressional nomination in its party would have no time to do anything else. So far as Colonel Breckinridge is concerned thrre are few democrats, either in public or private life. who would not have preferred seeing him voluntarily re- tire from congress. but the most of them considered, when he announced his de- termination to fight for a renomination, that It was A matter belonging exclusively to the democrats of his district, and for that reason few democrats have publicly expressed any opinion about it. Now that the -mocrats of his district have con- pelled his retirement by nominating bis rival. Mir Owens. it is just as well to let the whole matter drop. A continued dis cusSion can profit nobody
 SECRETARY CARLISLE has had to explain to some interested party so often that he Is merely a1 executive officer charged with the duty of enforcing the tariff law as he understands it, and that he has no more authority to change its express provisions than he has to change any other law, that he wouldn't be human if he was not very, very tired of the tIsk. Some of the things he has been asked to do are fairly reasonable, but by far the most lf them are simply out or the domain of reason One sample of these requests will do to ! show the general nature of all of them The section of the new tariff providing for the free admission of alcohol used in the arts las been one of the most troublesome to Secretery Carlisle, largely because con- gross neglected to make any appropria- tion to pay the large number of inspectors that will be necessary to make any reeula- tions adopted by the treasury even fairly effective. 4 committee representing the manufacturing chemists and druggists, who will be greatly benefited by the law has been in Washington for some days, and SD anxious were the members to assist NIT Carlisle that they proposed that the nscessary number of treasury inspectors sh 5uld be appoiuted and that their salaries .ulI be paid by those manufacturers wao used the free alcohol. and they actually seemed to be surprised when told that there VI one little drawback to such scheme-it would be unlawful. Secre- tary Carlisle will shortly put in operation Regulations for the enforcement of this section of the law. without the appoint ment of any new inspectors. depending largely upon putting the manufacturers under heavy bonds to make them toe the mark.