Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-07-14

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III Thinkers.
from our regular correspondent
WAsIiISGToN. July 9. So4 Repub-
licans in the Senate and House to a
man support Mr.. Cleveland in
the position he has taken
against anarchy and in favor Of law
and order. but. to their shame be it re-
corded, there are protesting Democrats
in Congress who stand with the pro-
testing Democratic and Populist gov
ernors against theaction Of the admin
istration. Among his opponents are,
ofcourse, most of the extreme States
rights Democrats, and the Populists,
whose public utterances have done
more to encourage the spread of an
archv in this country than all other
causes combined. The question of
the rightfulness or wrongfulness of
the original strikers against the Pull
man Company became secondary
consideration with everybody the
moment the free passage Of the Unit
ed States mails was obstructed and
the authority of United States courts
de6ed.
The United States government has
nothing whatever to do with the
strikes ofemployes against individuals
or corporations. but it has every thing
to do with the rights of the people of
the several States to communicate
with and to do business with each
other at will, and Mr.. Cleveland
would have neglected his sworn duty
had he done less than he has done.
1t isn't the rights of the strikers that
are at stake, but the very life of Re
publican institutions in America.
Fortunately the number of men in
Congress who are opposed to the po-
sition of the administration is too
small to be factor in any Congress
sional action that may become neces-
sary, and as long as Mr. Cleveland
stands for the preservation of law and
order and maintaining the dignity
and authority of the United States
government he can count upon the
support of Congress and Of nine-tenths
of the people, regardless of their polit-
ical opinions. There is no politics
in the present situation; it is Ameri.
canism against anarchy.
Senator Call would better have al
lowed that little episode Of pulling off
his shoes in the Senate chamber while
that august body was in session to die
of itself, as it would soon have done.
Then he would have been considered
merely as man with questionable
taste. But since he made that social
ed personal explanation, and attack
upon the Washington correspondents,
he is considered as blackguard and
a-well, call it little unbalanced.
1t is clear that the Democratic mem
bers Of the Senate committee that in
vestigated the Sugar Trust scandal
are in no hurry to get their report be-
fore the Senate, having failed to get
either Senators Lodge, Davis, or Al
len to meaningless report that
would practically dismiss the whole
matter. The Republican Senators
propose making report that will be
in keeping with the evidence taken,
and owing to the extreme nature oil
some of the conclusions drawn by
Senator Allen he will probably make
a separate report devoted largely to
showing that the money which the
Sugar-Trust people admitted having
contributed to Democratic State COM
mittees was actually used to help the
Democratic National ticket and was
so intended to be used. The Repub-
lican report will only agree with that
of the Democratic Senators in one
thing-it will exonerate Secre-
tary Carlisle from any blame for
having at the request of Senator Jones
written that sugar schedule. 1t will
then show that the Sugar Trust con-
trolled the making of the sugar seized
ule of the tariff bill and the passing
of the bill. The report will make
the most interesting sort of campaign
document, and the Republican Con
gressional campaign committee will
see that it gets widely circulated.
The conference committee on the
tariff bill held its first meeting to-day
in the,,SenateFinance committee room.
If the applause which the Democrats
OF the House gave Mr.. Wilson, chair
man of the Ways and Means commit
tee, when he attacked the CAB Senate
amendments on the tariff bill meant
anything it meant that the House is
going to make hard fight to knock
out every one of those amendments
which raises the duty or which puts a
duty on articles which were put on
the free list by the original Wilson
bill. Upon the result of that fight
depends the fate of the tariff bill If
it is successful, it is believed that the
bill is doomed, unless the German
Brice combine shall abjectly surrender
as every member OF it has openly
stated that they would not vote for
the bill without the amendments they
demanded and obtained from the Sen.
ate. 1t must not be forgotten that a
loss of three votes in the Senate means
the final defeat of the bill. The Re-
publieans are not, of course, expect
ing anything quite SO good as that
but they will not be surprised If it
happens. and you may be sure that
they will do nothing to make the
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