Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-05-05
WHIPPING THEM IN.

acknowledge that ne and the resi- OF
the Democrats. except those who are
d.ckering with the Democratic kick
lers,' were ignorant Of what conces-
sion had been or would be made. but
were prepared to go it blind or the re-
constructed tariff bill, whether it
agreed with their sentiments or not.
Was not that a remarkable confession
to be made by the whilom leader of
the majority side of the Senate! COM
menting on the statement published
that the Democratic leaders were be-
coming more cheerful over the out
look, Mr.. Hale said. "Cheerful. Mr..
President, cheerful when bargaining
and selling is going on instead of
honest tariff legislation. Cheerful
when Jugglery and skullduggery take
the place of open discussion. cheerful
when it is the cheerfulness of adying
man. when decomposition has already
set in and numbed his faculties"
No description could possibly do
Justice to the present d~isgracefu. atti-
tude of the Democratic Senators.
They have refused to grant hearings
to honest working men and women
who have come here to protest against
the bread being taken from their
mouths by vicious legislation, and
they are to-day on their knees, not
granting hearings. but taking and
obeying absolutely without question
the orders of the millionaire trusts, as
to changes to be made in the tariff
bill. Mr.. Cleveland and Secretary
Carlisle are up to their necks in this
filth, while those Democratic Senators
who are always ready to obey the
crack Of the party whip are being kept
in ignorance of what is going on; they
have only to be told that a bill is a
party measure to support it, no mat
ter what its nature may be. Surely
the workingmen will have a long
score to settle with the Democratic
party.
A warning to newspaper publishers
against lending their anne and in
fuence to be used in a business Of
which they know nothing and which
they cannot control, is contained in a
bill filed in court by William R. Hearst
publisher of the San Francisco Exami
ner, against John Wedderburn, mana
ger of the Press Claims Company"
and the Examiner Claims Bureau
of Washington, asking for the ap-
pointment of a receiver. Mr.. Hearst
SAYS he a a partner of Wedderburn's
in the Examiner Claims Bureau
and that Wedderburn was under
contract to furnish the capital and
manage the business. He charges
Wedderburn with organizing and
maintaining the press Claims Com
pany," with money belonging to the
Examiner Bureau" with other mis-
appropriation of funds, including the
proceeds of a note for So, 900 signed by
the firm name without authority;with
creating a large indebtedness; with
refusing to return money in accord
ance with contracts with certain sub
scribers of the st. Paul Pioneer Press
and the Omaha Bee, and with injuring
the reputation of the San Francisco
Examiner by general m~ismanage-
ment and by advertising to give prices
for inventions.
Some Democrat-doubtless an APP
p~licant for his of1ice-started a story
that Gen. James A. Dumont, who has
for many years been chief government
Inspector of steamboats,, was com
templatihg retirement because of fee
bleness caused by old age. 1t was a
cruel lie. Gen. Dumount in denying
it said: 81 am just as lively and ener-
getic as l was twenty years" There
is only n thing the matter with Gen.
Duniont. He is a Republican.
Senator Quay's friends are uneasy
about his condition. His health has
not been good for a year or two, but
it was not until recently that he began
to show signs of a permanent break
down. His absence just at this time
is very much felt by his Republican
colleagues in the Senate, aside from
the feeling of esteem for him which
makes his absence at any time a mat
ter of general regret.
Coxey's so-called army is in the
District of Columbia, and, barring
some expected happening, they will
tomorrow march through the streets
of Washington, but they will not be
allowed to go on the Capital grounds
as an organized body. Their camp
was visited yesterday by a large num-
Der Of curiously inclined Washington
ians, and great was the surprise of
many to find such an insignificant
collection of filthy and woe-begone
humanity dubbed an army. 1t is
doubtful if ten per cent of the several
hundred men composing the army
could be prevailed upon, no matter
how great the inducement offered, to
take a regular job of work. The other
nine-tenths are made up OF profession
al tramps, cranks, and fakirs. Coxey
and Brown, who, by the way, have
ridden and been well fed and housed
during the march. are apparently out
for the money that can be made out of
the tree advertisement their connec-
ton with the movement has given
them. If all of these men are allow
ed to occupy seats in the House and
Senate galleries there will have to be
a general housecleauing before the
seats are again in condition to be oc-
cupied, as some of the men are over
ed with vermin.