Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1894-04-21

SENATOR HILL and PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND have reached the part
ing OF the ways"
The effect of the HoRNBLowER and
PEcKHAM fights for confirmation Is
now plainly manifest and an open,
pronounced and aggressive antago-
nism between the two great leaders
may be seen by all men.
Senator HILLS scathing denuDcia-
ton of the acknowledged leader of
the Democratic Party and his
caustic criticism of his administra-
tive policy In the United States.San
ate on the 9th inst, was keenly rel
Ished and heartily enjoyed by the
Republicans who witnessed the disln-
tegrating process of which they had
long before prophesied.
AS between the two leaders, jealous
OF each others prominence our sym
pathies go out to Mr.. CLEVELAND.
still Senator HILL gave voice to
some assertions which In their ma
ture partake of truisms, and for the
time being might have been mistak-
en- for the utterances OF Senator
JOIN SHERMAN.
He said In discussing the admins
tration tariff policy
Gan extreme reduction of tariff duties
at time when the Treasury was swollen
with q surplus of a hundred million dol
lars, when the country was reasonably
prosperous. when all our industries
|. were in motion and all our workingme Ell
were employed, assumed different as
pect and presented different question
when proposed now with large anC
growing Treasury deficit instead of Z
surplus staring us in the face, with GU
industries paralyzed. our manufacture
closed, our workingmsn idle, and follow
ing upon the heels of one of the most dis
astrous financial panics in our history.
2 What was sale and prudent and wis
a then, it would be criminal folly to NJ
!. tempt now"
g He then INDUCED In caustic crit
9 clam of the fact that the Presiden
g according to the date of his messag
d had anticipated the action OF tn
8 Committee on Ways and Means. 81
g showed conclusively that the plat
d form of the Democratic Party con
t, tanned no clause pledging the enact
B. lment of an income tax law. The 10
It lowing assertion shows that he cor
It coded the fact that southern vote
y were being used to strange northeE
% interests -
"To show the sectional discriminate
20 of tax, he referred to the income tax
an 1863-'73, which extorted from the pc
pie an aggregate sum OF $347 ,220, Se
iS6. OF this sum the Eastern States pa
as Is per cent. the Middle States SO I
by cent, and altogether they paid II I
= cent; New York alone paid 30 per &c
TO 1t has not been claimed that these p
re- centages will be materially changed
this bill becomes law. These fgu
W spoke louder than words. They w
Sc significant of the selfish purposes OF
bill, the real motives behind it, and
source or section from which the vo
no necessary for it's passage are expected
has be secured.
d. He topped over into the Repul
Oeu can camp when he endorsed its pl
tective tariff policy in the follow
"a language
he prefer rnul 1;o+ S +rss nS t 4e-;g F
It's tinction. / prefer taxing foreign p
ducts, rather than taxing home I
ducts"
,ar But he asserts a bedrock princi
vice when he says:
"If the contention that the rich she
Ut, pay all the taxes and the poor be
empted thereirom is well founded, t
Eni- it may be well urged that the
and should monopolize the suffrages and
81 fees of the country.
.s"- 'sThe very fact that every either
lily obliged tn contribute something, no !
the ter how little, toward the expenses
the government, whether he owns pI
ne erty or not, fortifes his right to
elective franchise and augments his eli