The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-07-21
THE DEMOCRATIC TARIFF ROW.

The House cannot surrender. If there is
to be failure TO pass a tariff-reform bill,
let the line be sharply drawn and the re-
sponsihility plainly fixed.-New York World
Dem)
Let the fight be short and decisive. The
House should present it's ultimatum and il
the Senate will not accept it, let the rene
gade Democrats of that body take the re-
sponsibiity for prolonging the life of Nc
hlnleylSm.-Chicago Herald Dem.)
What influence the Presidents letter may
exert is matter for speculation. Why he
did not send some such communication to
the Senate, where there is sore need of
some Democratic doctrine. is question nat
uraIiy suggested by the correspondence.
Chicago Times Oem.)
The trickery, blindness and cowardice of
the element of the Democracy which is
dominant in the Senate deserve a singing
and emphatic rebuke and the man of all
men who could deal out this rebuke with
the greatest consistency and effectiveness is
the man who has administered it.-St. Louis
GloDe-Democrat lRep)
If the President has hitherto refrained
from interference on behalf of tariff-reform
legislation, it is evidently not on account of
lack of conviction. and he has so timed
his expression of that conviction to
reach the House conferees at the hour when
their opponents seemed 20 be most inVinci-
ble.-Chicago Record Und)
The letter means that the Senate must
give way or there will be no tariff legisla-
ton. For our part we are perfectly salts
ned that if il could be speedily known that
there would be no tariff legislation business
would at once revive and men would have
chance TO do some work and earn a liv-
ing FOR next winter-Loulsville Commercial
Rep)
If the Senate, as dictated TO by President
Cleveland cannot agree with the House, and
the House, sustained by his letter to
Chairman Wilson, cannot agree with the
Senate, then let both branches agree to dis
agree, go home TO their constituents and
await the verdict of the ballot box next
Observation-Disclosures Commercial Gazette
Rep.)
There was a gross improperly in this at
tempt on the part of the executive to over
awe and browbeat the legislative branch of
the government. The Constitution contem-
plates that when the President wants to
address Congress he do it through a mes
sage. but Grover Cleveland treats this con-
stituttonal provision with contemplating
cago Inter Ocean (Rep)
The Presidents letter is manly but
mournful appeal to men who have forgotten
their promises and the pledges of their
party in mad strife for personal and sec
tional advantage. Mr.. Cleveland's letter is
an arraignment of the Democratic party in
the Senate, and amounts to an open asser-
tion that Democratic Senators neither
wholly frank nor wholly honest.-Cincinnati
Tribune (Rep)
AS it is, and for the time being, all is lost,
honor included, and what was year ago a
resstless and confident army, flushed with
victory, is to-day host without a leader,
wandering aimlessly in the wilderness or
faction and despair. Better let the whole
nauseouS affair go to grass, gentlemen, and
come home, where the greater number of
YOU will find business of Importance await
ing you.-Louisville Courier-Journal DEM