The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-06-09
The Demecr.x,c REGARD.

Congress has Done" 1t consists
entirely of blank pages.
The poor little joke is intended to
suggest Democratic imbecility, and
to intimate that nothing has been
accomplished by Democratic Con
gress and Administration during the
fifteen months since the party came
in full control of the Government fol-
the first time in more than thirty
years.
The suggestion is utterly false
The intimation could only have come
from gross ignorance or reckless
mendacity.
AS a matter of fact, Democratic
legislation and administration dur.
ing this brief period have been unus.
ually fruitful Of lasting results and
phenomenally free from those mis-
takes in legislation to which a re-
form party is always liable when
it succeeds to power after a prolong
ed period of laundering; plundering
and miscellaneous misrule.
If nothing else had been done. the
repeal of the force bill would be q
record sufficient for year and q
quarter of work. A Democratic Con
gress has stricken from the statute
book the law which obtruded the
Federal power into State elections
the law which gave to John l. Dav.
export and his kind authority to i'm
prison citizens, intimidate voters and
manufacture major;ties at so much q
head. 1t has put an end forever tc
the idea of "a bayonet behind every
ballot" 1t has taken off the hand
of irresponsible Federal power from
State elections free and restored to
the people the right to say for them
selves how and by whom they shall
be represented.
This Democratic Congress has al.
so removed the fruitful source of
financial, industrial and business
disturbance. 1t has repealed the
Sherman Silver purchase law, out OF
which grew distrust, instability and
one of the worst panics the country
has known for long period. For the
first time since 1878 it has put a
stop to the coinage OF under weight
silver dollars, one third or one-half
of whose legaltender value was mere
ly "the breath of Congress" 1t has
thus restored confidence in our finan
ces, re. established the credit of the
Government and caused the return
to us of large quantity of gold
which had been sent abroad in fear
of lapse to the silver standard.
The Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives has passed genuine,
conservative and conspicuously wise
tariff bill, which, if made law, as it
may yet be, would relieve the people
of their most oppressive burdens,
while subjecting no industry in the
country to any possible injury or in
convenience. This measure was at
once the most just tariff bill that
has been passed or even considered
by any Congress for thirty years
past.
The measure has been greatly
marred and perverted in the Senate
because the Democratic majority in
the upper house is narrow one and
is composed in part of men who,
while protesting to be Democrats,
are in fact not in sympathy with the
purposes of Democracy and are not
reluctant to betray. But the end is
not yet certain that the Wilson bill
will not be passed in it's entirety by
the Senate, in lieu of the German
Surrender bill, and it is still more
uncertain that the really Democratic
House will consent to the "Conserv-
alive" changes made in the bill for
the purpose Duplicating the Republi-
can and protectionist constituents of
Senators who pose as Democrats but
stand firmly for Republican doctrines
and policies.
A Democratic Administration has
put an end to jingoism. The scheme
to annex Hawaii with which the
Harrison Administration sought to
glorify its last hours, has been sub
jected to the scrutiny of common
sense and rejected as unwise and un-
American. Thel filibusterers with
whom the out going Administration
had been so eager for an alliance
were promptly repudiated by the
Democratic Administration, and the
friendly foreign land has been left,
as every country should be, to work
out its destiny for itself Some mis-
takes were made in this business,
but they were not irreparable and
they have been repaired. At the
worst they did not saddle the coun-
try with the embarrassment of a
foreign protectorate on the one hand
or with the burden of mongrel,
Kanaka, Japanese and Polynesian
State on the other.
And the Democratic Administra
ton has sturdily upheld the dignity
and the rights of the Republic when
ever these have been menaced. The
record at Rio is one of honor. That
made at Bluefield is not less credit
able. To Americans generally the
present efforts of the Administration
to disentangle the Government from
the unnatural alliance with England
and Germany for the protection
of Samoa is not less gratifying
There was never anything more fla.
GRAVITY in violation of American ira
ditions than that invasion of helm.