The Dickinson press., 1894-09-29
A DEMOCRATIC RECORD,
THE SCHEME ADOPTED BY THE
DEMOCRATIC COMPRESSION.
Al COMMITTEE TO De-
CElvE VOTERS.

CEIvE
1hs Sugar Question 10 Giving the Dsns-
Gratis Troubls-How . Democratic Pa.
Per Interprsts the Vermont Elsction-
A Protest from Wool Growsrs - A
Democratic Opinion OF the Dsnoorat-
10 state T~icket-strong Points in short
Paragraph.
A Remarkable Array of Falsshosds with
Which to Fool Voters.
A Washington dispatch to the Philadel.
phia Press says that the record of the
performances of Congress is so devoid Of
anything creditable that the Democratic
members in preparing campaign speeches
have resorted to the stupid process of in
venting so-called reforms" and putting
them to the credit of their party in this
Congress. One of the speeches which
the Democracy in the Tifty-thirl Con.
gress." and was 0stensibly delivered by
Mr.: Coffeen of Wyoming. AS n matter
of fact: no such speech was ever delivered
in the House, though it was printed in the
this obtains for it free circulation in the
that he is a merchant in Wyoming, but
it is evident that he would be more sue.
cessful as a writer of fiction Of the Nun:
chausen order than as a dispenser of
Mr.. Coffeen figures out that the amount
saved to the people by the reductions in
the tariff on wooden goods alone will be
$141, 3S6,O00 a year. As the entire i'm.
ports of wooden goods for the last fiscal
year aggregated only $3G.993,0OO it will
be seen that Mr. Coffeen is not one Of
cannot. lie. The decrease in the value
Of wool and sheep products of the United
States and of ranch property devoted to
sheep industry in q single year has been
$73,O 1896, or more than twice the value
of all the imports Of manufactures of
wooden goods. Hence, instead of the PEG.
this Democratic wool tariff they are los.
ers to a very large extent. The only
wooden goods now imported are fine WOOL
en- goods used exclusively by the rich.
The reduction in the tariff on wooden
goods Is for the benefit of that class OF
Mr.. Coffeen's second reform" is men
toned rs follows: "a bill rec.aiming
nearly 5O.0OO.OOO acres of land from the
land grant railroads, restoring the same
to the people again." No such bill has
passed Congress, and the probabilities are
that no such bill ever will become a law;
A demagcgic measure of this kind passed
the House. but there was no expectation
that it would pass the Senate, as it would
deprive 100000 and more innocent hold
ers of their property without any COM
pensation. Mr.. Coheen's third reform" 10
. bill to restrict immigration by requir.
ing that consular certificates at foreign
Stone bill, which passed the House and
which the administration killed by the
direct interference of Secretary Gresham
and Secretary Carlisle in the Senate.
The next reform" named is q bill
granting to pensioners Q vested right in
their pensions. This refers to a rider"
~ %h nlev %as tR Put On the aicp aS%inisfrat R5l'
from suspending my more pensioners
themselves. the only object in passing
that rider" was to compel the Presi-
dent to stop the infamous course of Sec
rotary Hoke Smith in cutting of old vet.
the. thousands from the pension rolls,
without any just cause or reason except
ing to make q show of economy. That
rider" was q direct condemnation Of
the course Of the administration, q course
which has resulted in an alleged saving
of $29,O00,0 900 in the payment Of pensions,
and which saving alone permits the Dem
VCAdkS uOW Z AuAC NA0!kA GNVlOulyS
as outside of the saving by this infa-
NOUS course the Democrats have actually
appropriated more money than they did
ct the last session of the last Congress.
The saving in pensions is 5000 ,5O4,
whereas the total saving claimed by the
Dsmoerats In their appropriations is S2S,.
$3.50 In other words. it it had not
under which nearly 10000 old soldiers
and widows had their pensions suspended
before the passage of this rider" to
which Mr.. Cofeen refers, the Democrats
would have been unable even to claim q
credit for reducing expenses. But for
circulate a speech claiming credit for the
passage of such q bill is certainly very
remarkable.
Cropping in the dark to find something
more in the line of. reform" Mr.. Coffeen
says: "After overthrowing the capital.
istic schemes shown in the Torrey bank.
ruptcy bill, the voluntary bankruptcy bill
ors." No bankruptcy bill of any kind
was passed by Congress at its recent ses-
sion. The House defeated the bankruptcy
bill which was approved by every CONNER.
cial body nearly in the United States,
and tken It passed the Bailey bankruptcy
bill, so.ealled, which was a hundred times
worse than no bill at al, and which was
Of taking advantage of state laws to &C.
cure q discharge in bankruptcy good
throughout the Union. but which gave
creditors no rights whatever. It wal in
no sense a uniform bankruptcy bill such
as the constitution requires, and did not
body in the United States. But even
that ridiculous bill was not passed.
Another so-called reform Is men.
toned as follows: "A bill for the coinage
Of silver bullion in the treasury and also
the seigniorage was passed and afterward
vetoed by the President. Then 1t was
carried by the Democrats of the House BY
Republicans coming. to the help Of the
President carried the day against tho
Democrats of tue House, 40 that bill wa
defeated" Here we have the Democrats
claiming credit for passing a fat money
bill and for voting by more than two ia
that bill. 1t is also stated as a ninth
that free coinage was defeated "by the
almost solid vote of the Republicans,
joining with the cuckoo Democrats.'
And it is further asserted that there
never has been q time in the last dozen
years when there was not a good ma.
3ority of Democrats in the House and alse
In the Senate in favor of the restoration
Of silver and it, rec0inagc at the ratio Of
16 to l." That is no doubt true, and it il
2 fact the people of the United State will
do well to remember.
Another reform of which Mr.. Coffeeu
boasts very much is the alleged reduction
IN the appropriations. which was accom-.
plished by cutting off pensions to that
amount. T1ien tie federal election laws
were repealed, so that the South can
carry out their election frauds without
the intervention of law. These items
make up the sum of what the Democratic
congressional committee calls 1.-THE reform
work so gl0riOusly begun by the Demo
cratic party" The fact that many Of thu
bills mentioned have not been passed al
oil. and never will become laws, probably
makes no difference. as Democratic cam.
paign literature appears to be just as &C
ceptable whether there is any truth in
It or not. Such is the kind Of literature
that the Democratic party is circulating
Their success by their campaign of ".
ing in 1890 seems to have turned theil
beads. Perhaps they can repeat it, but
the probabilities are against the success
Of another attempt of that kind.
The Sugar Question Troubling the Dom
oorats In Louislana.
MI. Adolph Meyer, Democratic men