The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-11-03
RUNNING BACKWARD.

RUNNING backward.
Congressman William L. Wilson, of
West Virginia. has handled his special
train called "Eloquence on Wheels"
as he handled the business of the
country in the tariff bill which some
times bsars his name, says the Inter
Ocean He reversed the lever in both
instances, and his special train in Yves,
Virginia is running backward, just as
the business train of this country did
when he took hold of the tariff lever
as chairman of the committee on ways
and means. We do not know why
Wilson reversed the-lever on his spe-
cial, ."Eloquence on Wheels which
was carrying Mr.. Wilson and lBourke
Cochran through Virginia, trying to
cover the track of Governor Mckinley
and check the rout of the free trad
ers, but we suspect that the name of
that special had something to do with
its failure.
The people are not caring penny
about eloquence this year, whether It
be on wheels or on foot. They have
found that Democratic eloquence is
dangerous quantity when it promises
the whole. world and delivers nothing
The people are looking for business
and business prospects this year.
They are studying the tariff question
from the practical point of view of
business, not the beautiful .free-trade
theories of college professor, or the
pyrotechnic oratory of Tammany
Democrat who declared in congress
that the Wilson bill was more OBJ
noxioHs tariff measure than the Nc
Kinley law, and then turned about
and voted for it. Mere eloquance is
not forcible factor in this campaign.
The voters want something more sub
stantial.
Congressman Wilson has a hard
e ght on his hands in the second dis
trict of West Virginis. 1t is against
him because it is large mining dis
4-;1t o.1 A. aooI x,,;,are uho yotaJ
for him two years ago do not like his
vote for free coal and his pledge to
secure free coal and place them on a
footing with the miners of Nova
Scotia. Mr.. Wilson's friends have
tried to make i. appear that the Re,
publicans from other states were pour
ing money into the district and send
ing the most popular Republican lead
ers there to help defeat Wilson. This
is not true. No Republican of ma
tional prominence has gone from any
other state into Mr. Wilson's dis
trtre, and the reports of money in the
district, even by Democratic papers,
put it onsthe side of Wilson.
Mckinley and Reed have declined
to go into Mr.. Wilson's district. So
have other Republican leaders Gov
ernor Mckinley went into West Vir
ginia for two days work, but he re-
fused to 60 into Mr.. Wilson's district
because that might be construed as
warfare on the author of the
Democratic tariff law. He would not
be placed in position where he could
be accused of any personality in this
He is opposed to the
party and not to in
1ividual Democrats. He desires Mr..
Wilson's defeat no more than that of
my other Democrat in the house.
He wants Democratic majority dis
placed by Republican majority.
This attitudeof Governor Mckinley
;oward Mr.. Wilson is in marked con-
rast to the attitude of Democrats to- ];
wards Mckinley four years ago. a
Then Democratic legislature gerry
nandered his district so as to make
overwhelmingly Democratic, and :
he biggest guns in the Democratic
amp were turned on Major Mckinley.
senator Hill went TO Ohio to speak
gaInst Mckinley and him only. Mr.. q
,leveland sent letter to the Demo-
rats of the district, and every trick /.
hat cunning. could devise or money b
AIRY out was worked to defect the a
uthor of the Mckinley law. o
Mr.. Wilson has no such fight on :
is hands. His opposition comes .
rom the people in his owu district, s.
nd from ell reports it would seem n
hat the money to overcome this II
pposition comes from outside the x
istrict, and part of it from the En- ;.
llsh manufacturers who cheered Mr. g
wilson at the London banquet in his te
onor.
From SaIurdav's Daily.
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