Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1894-07-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(oUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. }
Washington. July 9. 1894.

en- againSt anarchy and in favor of
law and order, but to their shame be
it recorded, there are quite a num-
ber of Democrats in Congress who
stand with eprotesting dem 1cratic
and populist governors against
the action of the administration
Among his opponents are, of
course. the most of the extreme
states rights democrats, and the
populists, whose public utterances
have done more to encourage the
spread of anarchy in this country
than all other causes combined.
The question of the rightfulness or
wrongfulness of the original strik-
ers against the Pullman company
became secondary consideration
with everybody the moment the
free passage Of the L. S. mails was
obstructed and the authority of Z.
S. courts defied.
The Z. S. government has moth
ing whatever to do with the strikes
of employees against individuals or
corporations, but it has every
thing to do with the rights of the
people of the several states to com
municate 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 RepubE
can institutions in America. Fort
unately the number of men in
Congress who are opposed to the
position of the administration is
too small to be factor in any
Congressional action that may be-
come necessary, and as longas Mr..
Cleveland stands for the preserva-
ion of law and order and maintain
ing the dignity and authority of
the [. S government he can count
upon the support of Congress and
of nine-tenthS of the people, re-
gardleSS of their political opinions.
There is no politics in the present
situation: it is Americanism
against anarchy.
Senator Call would better have
allowed that little episode of pull
ING 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 a man with questionable taste.
But since he made that so-calIed
personal explanation, and attack
upon the Washington correspon
dents. he is considered as black
guard and a-well. call it little
unbalanced.
1t is clear that the democratic
members of the Senate committee
that investigated the sugar trust
scandal are in no hurry to get
their report before the Senate,
having failed to get either Senators
Lodge, Davis or Allen to agree to
meaningless support that would
practically dismiss the whole mat |
ter. The Republican Senators
propose making a report that will |
be i'll keepinging with the evidence
taken, and owing to the extreme
nature of 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 contribut
ed to Democratic state committees
was actually used to help the
Democratic national ticket and
was 50 intended to be used. The
report Will only agree
with that of the Democratic Sena-
tors in one thing-it will eXoner-
ate Secretary Carlisle from any
blame for having at the request of
Senator Jones written that sugar
schedule. 1t will then show that
the sugar trust controlled the
of the sugar schedule of
-he tariff bill and the passing of
.he bill. The report will make
the most interesting sort of cam
paign document, and the Republi-
:an congressional campaign com
nittee viii see that it gets widely
The conference committee on the
-ariff hill held lis first meeting To-