Huntsville gazette., 1894-01-13

The truth of the matter is, according
to Mr.. Watterson,s both parties have
proven recreant to trusts imposed; both
have failed in the discharge of impor
tant duties laid upon them, and both
are responsible for the existing state of
affairs-the Republican party SHINING in
excess. and the Democratic party guilty
of important omissions.
He said the cause Of the revulsion of
| feeling which was shown in 1898, was
the failure of the Democratic party,
which year previous had swept the
/ country, to show disposition to carry
out the program that had been mapped
| out.
This, bringing about an unusual state
of affairs summed up in the following
paragraph:
The political conditions are thus exactly
| reversed. 1t is the victorious Democrats
who are dishearteued, the vanquished Re-
publicans who are encouraged. And the
question for you--the yeritable, the un-
| terrified the original boys in the trenches
the question for you to consider is,
whether you are going to sit down and
sulk over it, or wake to the danger and
make yourselves heard and felt in those
seats cf power, which exist by your will
and athe the breath of life out of your
4 nost.lls.
Mr.. Watterson then entered into dis
cussion of the present plank in the Dem
ocratic platform in reference to tariff
He denounced vigorously the action OF
certain democrats who attempted to in
sert plank which to his mind was good
Republican doctrine, and when they
/ failed, then tried to have Mr.. Cleveland
reDudiate it. Failing in this they charged
that the substitution of the Neal plank
the present one-for the Villas was the
midnight swirl of turbulent mob. The
speaker said:
If history were fiction, and politics a
game of blind-man's buff. poets would be
statesmen and only children would vote.
There was never a more deliberative act
done by deliberative body than the sub
stitution of the Neal plank for the Villas
plank by the national Democratic conven-
tion of 1892 1t was the logical culmina-
ton of campaign of education covering
10 years 1t was an act of the people set
ting aside a subterfuge of the politicians.
Il was not done at the dead of night, un-
der whip and spur, but between the hours
of and o'clock in the evening, when the
convention was wide awake, and knew
pe,.fectly what it was about. 1t was not
planned to obstruet the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland: though, if the convention had
suspected that Mr.. Cleveland had any
hand in the original tariff
plank, which it struck out, he
would not have received one-third Of
its votes. Both Mr.. Villas and Mr.. Whit
ney were assured by myself and others
III. fal,
is well known that, averse as was to the
nomination of Mr.. Cleveland, l regarded
| it foregone conclusion before the con-
vention met and had ceased to disturb
anybody, or to be disturbed on that ac-
count. In short in the most decisive, and,
as far as anything in American politics
cln be solemn, in the most solemn-at
least in the most serious way--the conven-
ton en.'ed, as | hoped, finally and forever,
the long struggle between the forces OF
! light and darkness in the Democratic
party, by stamping out a double tongued
assertion Of its tariff policy, and inserting
declaration which no human being could
misunderstood or misinterpret.
After reviewing the magnificent vic
| tory OF the Democratic party, under the
leadership of Grover Cleveland, 1.-The
IDEAL apostle or tariff reform, and the
successful meeting of every charge
brought by the varquished enemies, IN
cluding filings at sectionalism; the cry of
confederate constitution Mr.. Waiter
son concludes as follows:
The Two Reports.
! / have read with exceeding care and deep
| concern, the reports accompanying the
/ fy,t,. nf tn~
! vision. The Democratic report begins by
| a mastery declaration of tariff for revenue
| only logic, to end iD an actual exposition
| of protectionist practice. The Republican
| report seizes the weak point effectively.
| and, both in its sarcasm and its effrontery,
shows us how impossible it is to placate
the implacable
Democrats may learn from the report of
the Republican minority of the ways and
means committee, if they have any doubt
about it, how hopeless is the task of urg-
/ ing liberality upon monopoly, or reason
ing with the demands of subsidy, or quell-
| ing the spirit of either The concession Of
| today becomes the concession of tomorrow.
Give bounty an inch and she will take an
ell. Just think Of Democratic commit
tee tolerating the sugar bounty for sin
| Sic utty lt., Win the repeal OF Uneif
| bounty before their eyes, the sugar claim
ants, protesting to be Democrats, stood
around demanding their own terms under
threat Of voting with the Republicans
And 50 with every interest that is allowed
to enter the ways and means committee
| room. They all regard themselyet as as
sociate members of the committee-a SORT
OF ex-oiiicio congress by brevet-and it is
to do as we tell you, or die As long as
| this staad-ard-deliver game is allowed to
| go on-as long as there is no one to kick
| the roguCs ami rascals out. and to pitch
after them their bogus samples ami false
| entreaties, and to close the windows and
| bar the doors-be sure that we shall have
no reform which they can prevent
| l believe in the integrity and courage of
| Grover Cleveland. | believe in the patri-
| otism and genius of john @. Carlisle. If
we could put the two into one jackson
would live again. lam giving the admin
istration the most earnest and disinterest-
ed support, because l believe it is trying
to do right, and because, in the main, my
| judgment approves the fruits of its inten-
tIOu MY iuIoruaD- inpS NOT anprova tho