Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-06-15
TlNsLEY g. MORTON. ProprIetors.
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE is, 1894.
THE ISSUE THIS FALL.

We learn from Washington that some
tariff reform members of the House are
getting signatures to an agreement to re-
7act the Senate tariff bill when it is sent
there. but that members Of the Democratic
National Committee are opposing the move
and urging its acceptance.
We have already expressed the convic-
tion that the rejection of the Senate bill is
the proper policy of the party, and is not
only that but, like every other honest policy,
it will greatly add to the number of Demo
Gratis in the next House. No Democrat
syho has kept track of the tariff debate in
the Senate, and of the drift of the four hun
dred amendments there made to the Wilson
5,il. can be deceived into the belief that the
Senate bill is the bill the people Of the coun-
try voted in 1892 to have. The circular
sent out by Senator Faulkner. as Chairman
of the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee, in defence Of the Senate Demo
Gratis. to show that there was only one and
aquarter per cent. difference between the
Wilson bill and the conservative" Sena
tors bill, has not received the confidence OF
the people; indeed we see it is already being
1epudiated by advocates who did not exam
inc it closely. We see that Congressman
Turner of the It'll Va. district, who without
examining it had sent a copy of it to the
Rockingham Register for publication, has
written to that paper explaining that 1t was
sent without examining it, and repudiating
near it, is given by Mr.. Tarsney of Mo-.
who declined to send Mr.. Faulkner S circu-
lar to his constituents. He says: 81
think a less misleading. a more candid and
fair statement to give out for publication
would be that under the Mckinley law the
people are taxed annually $l9S, 600, 600; IN
der the Senate bill it is proposed to tax
them $l75, 100000, and ugder the House
bill 1926, 900, 600, which shows a difference
of something more than 1.27 pei cent
This cry Of people. and congressman as
well, 'sPass tariff bill: no matter what, so
YOU pass a bill, y will result in a Republi-
can House Of Representatives next fall it
it is needed by the House Of Representa-
tives. The Democratic party must be
honest with the people; its representatives
i'll the House must regard the wishes of
their constituents. 1t is not the wish of
their constituents that the Senate Tar
iff bill shall become a law. The Wilson
bill is what they want.
We should like to hear on what ground
Democratic Congressman who has been
one Of the 'protectionists Of local interests
is to ask for reelection. A Senator could
go back on his party promises and on the ex
pressed desire of tie people, with d chance
to escape; the people cannot get at him for
years to come. and in that time his delin-
quency may have been forgotten. But a
Democratic member OF the House; how is
he to escape? When lie reciteS his efforts
fol- the protection of local interests lat the
e8pense Of the whole people Of his DIS
f5ict) his Republican competitor. will ma
turally reply why am the man you want
il you want protection Iii give you fifty,
a hundred, two hundred per cent. more
protection than this man! We are anxious
to hear the answer to this from d Demo
cratic candidate who has voted for protec-
ton this winter. IL the Democratic Con-
gressmen want reelection let them be hon
est, defeat the Senate bill, and then go be-
fore the people on its defeat. Ga that and
that alore they can win. This country has
twice in four years voted by an overwheI-
ming majority for radical tariff reform.
don t try to deceive these voters but try and
carry out their will. Ii the Senate pre-
vents your doing it. tell your people so and
they viii stand by you.