The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-11-06
REED TO THE PEOPLE
THE Ex-ePEAkEH REVIEWS THE WORK
OF THE DEMOCRATIC coNeREss,

he Sends 0uta Torcibis Message and Shown
the Democrats In Thcir True Light--.st.
PsoksniG and Down with Monopoiyi" Is
the Now warcry.
! copyright, 1894. by the New York Pressl
And now they have gone, this senate
and house Of representatives, gone. with
only three, months more of unhappy life
left in them. What are we TO say2 One
year of almost continuous session, and
what have they done, and how have
they done itf The Republicans cannot
use the language Of reproach. of INJECT.
i've or abuse. The whole vocabulary has
boon exhausted by themselves speaking
of themselves We cannot hope to equal,
In commenting on the senate. the tremen-
dous and effective words Of the presi-
dent of their own choice. II we were to
search the whole dictionary Of diatribe,
we could not equal the charge of "par-
ty pertidy and party dishonor" made by
the president against the senate and re.
ceived by the house Of representatives,
with its 100 Democratic majority, with
cheers and applause.
Condemned Themselves.
II we were to comment upon the pres
ident and his action, we could not use
language half SO damaging as Democrat.
ic senators used in open senate with up
lifted hands, asseverating the truth of
personal betrayal and personal bad
faith. If we were to comment upon the
house of representatives and its leaders,
we should BIO deemed guilty of gross
craftsmanship if we used even their own
words in describing their own actions
What o condition for partisan critic
to DO in, to be obliged in common de-
cency to use softer words about his enc
mics than they use about themselves!
And the enemies are not saints in ON
bryo, beating their breasts and confess
ing their transgressions to reach the
heights Of sainthood through tho depths
of sin. Oh, mol They arc simply earnest
men standing by tho broken business of
whole country and trying to tell who
destroyed it, and having met success we
obviously cannot use any language Of
reproaeh or of harshness. Earlier and
for that purpose-worthier hands have
gathered all those laurcls. All we can
say is that all the three sides are prob
ably right. Tho president and senate
have told the truth about each other
and the house about itself.
Slight Review.
With this simple expression Of faith
in their veracity, let us turn TO slight
review OF what they have done. There
is no doubt that this review will be as
distasteful and unsatisfactory to the
majority of honest Democrats rs to Re.
publicans themselves. Whatever good
there has been done has been spoiled in
the doing. If the house has yielded to
the dictates Of long denounced COM
mon sense and adopted proper rules. it
was only after all sound precedent had
been violated in the attempt to avoid
tho necessity. If the congress has re-
pealed the purchasing clause of the Sher-
man act, it was only done after such
long delay as has deprived the country
of any advantage the repeal might have
given it. Nor has the mystery Of tho
collapse of the compromise and the con-
nection of the president Herewith ever
been cleared up Whether he consented
to that compromise or not is not for me
to say. That is family secret, but it
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was not repudiatel until after the Re
publican members We're sounded and it
was clear that they would have no part
or lot in it.
Two such Misunderstanding as these
between the president aud tho senate, if
Republican, would have caused sensa.
ton as of burned wooden among the PEG.
pie. But the Democracy has limitations
as to morality very much enlarged.
That party seems TO realiXe what Cen
eral Butler said in iest-''that nobody
was truly unassailable until his charac-
ter was gone. -
The tariff bill of "pertidy and dis
honor has become a law, and an inter-
esting law it is How Democratic SEN
ate, believing in the platform of its party,
could have passed 1t, how Democratic
house could have passed it, having 100
majority is simply iucomprehensible.
How the president could have permitted
it to become law is simply an impossi-
BILE study i'll human nature How can
the couAtry reconcile this action with its
former estimate of him? He was deemed
by very large part of the people as a
man OF sound common sense and of
great will power. His reputation for
good sense certainly had shock in the
case of the Sandwich Islands. And this
is more likely to suffer from the con-
trast between the letter to Wilson and
the surrender to German was not ono
of those who expected such result.
Surrender was in the eapitulation. He
ought to hive handed in his side arms
and signed tho bill.
A Nero Cipher.
If he did not consent, then by both
house and senate he has been pro-
nounced to be not even a factor in the
transaction. Hereafter the president,
instead of standing on Murwunlp and