Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-10
DEMOCRATIC DECEPTION.
Cuckooism and CleveIandism but no
Patriotism.

CuckOoiSm and CievelandiSm but no
Patriotism.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, rS94.-Re-
publican Senators are met with piece
of Democratic duplicity at the begin
ming of the consideration OF the Cleve-
land tariff bill by the Senate Finance
Committee that is far from encourag-
ing, Previous to the passing of the
bill by the House Senator Voorhees,,
chairman of the Finance Committee,
promised Republican Senators that
the committee would grant full hear
ings to industries affected by the bill
Now, those promises are ignored and
Mr.. Voorhees, says the committee
will grant few, if any hearings, alleg
ing as an excuse for breaking his word
that the information which will be re-
Ceived from the circular letters sent
out by the committee will be all that
is needed. This is a mere subterfuge
and no one knows it any better than
Mr.. Voorhees,. 1t is perfectly true
that the answers to the questions i'll
that circular letter would furnish all
the information necessary; but it is
also true that this information never
will be put in shape to be used by the
committee, and that also is known to
Mr.. Voorhees,. If answers are receiv-
ed from only one-half of the one mil
lion circular letters sent out it would
require the continual services of fifty
clerks for at least six months to tabu-
late the answers and put them in an
understandable shape. The commit
tee hash the clerks nor the DISPOSE
ton to wait for the work to be done if
it had them. The plain, unvanished
truth is that Mr.. Voorhees, has receiv-
ed the orders of his master in theWhite
House and he will break his word to
his colleagues, who have nothing to
give him in preference, to disobeying
his master who has offices at his dis
posal. 1t begins to look as though
Nj. Cleveland has sufficient control
of the Democrats on the Finance Com
;nittee to compel them to report the
bill to the Senate practically as it was
passed by the House, leaving the fight
to be made on the floor of the Senate.
The Republican Senators propose
making it fight that will be memoir
able i'll the tariff history of the coun-
try.
The most notable feature of the
Democratic side of the Hawaiian dis
cussion in the House was the unblush-
ing effrontry of Representative Nc
Creary, of Kentucky, in standing up
and gravely informing the House and
the country that Mr. Cleveland had
never decided upon the restoration of
the queen. This is one of the results
of cuckooism upon man who has al
ways been considered, in spite of his
intense partisauship, fair-minded and
patriotic. When man becomes the
defender Of Mr. Cleveland policy he
necessarily has to drop the role of pa
triotic statesman and assume that of
a pettifogging special pleader who en-
deavors to make a good case for his
clients regardless of law or facts. Such
men are common enough in every
but it is little short of a
national calamity that so many Of
them should occupy seats in Congress.
The only consolation is that the peo-
pie have fully acquainted themselves
with the facts in this case and cannot
be bamboozled by misstatements or
cuckoo resolutions.
Mr. Cleveland is doing more in his
effort to beat Senator Hill, and secure
the confirmation of Mr. Peckham to
the Supreme Court vacancy, to lower
the dignity attached to the office of
President of the United State than any
other man has ever done, and the re-
suit appears to be contrary TO his ex-
pectations Some Senators who were
at first disposed to vote for Peckham' S
will vote against it as a
rebuke to Mr.. Cleveland for his pecul-
lar and uudigni6ed tactics and it may
be that enough of them will so vote to
reject the nomination. There is an
other feature that is not considered
creditable to Mr. Cleveland. The f.
nancial condition of the government
is such that it would seem to demand
the entire attention and the best abili-
ties of the President, but instead he
is giving his entire time to conducting
a personal fight, leaving the finances
to get along as they may
The patriotism of the Republicans
in Congress has never been more
strikingly exemplifed than by their
conduct concerning the sale of $780,
600. 900 of bonds by Secretary Carlisle.
They preferred maintaining the credit
of the government to taking advan-
tage of the numerous opportunities
given them by the administration and
its indiscreet friends in Congress TO
make party capital. The only men