The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-08-01
A TIE VOTE

From the New York Tribune.
The Tariff bin goes back to conference
on tie vote In the absence Of Vice
President Stevenson, who has casting
vote, the motion to instruct against the
diferential duty for the sugar reiiners
failed, y against II, and 10y the skin Of
their teeth, 50 10 speak, the Democrats
save the chance 10 agree in conference up
on a bill which they can pass. The gree
dy Sugar Trust still has the business OF
the country by the throat The Presi-
dents cuckoo in the Senate represented
him accurately by Offering an amendment
with loud-voiced denunciations of the
monopoly and its corrupt bargains, with
drawing il a soon as there appeared
chance of its adoption, and finally voting
against II and for the Trust, when his vote
or that Of any other friend Of the Presi-
dent would have carried the amendment
and saved the people S5,O000 directly
and s30.0o0. .OO0 besides which the mOnop-
oily expects t0 snatch. If any President
ever occupied a more piiiahle and humil-
iating position, branded with falsehood
and dishonor by leaders Of his OWN party,
unable to command single vote in the
Senate, and whipped by his own coward
ice into aiding the men and measure he
had denounced, licking the hand that
smote him, history has strangely failedto
record the spectacle.
Not one vote could the President infiu-
ence TO stop the ''perfidy" Of duties on
coal and iron ore; not one vote TO thwart
the infamous sale Of legislation to the
Sugar Trust. But without him the mo-
rlopOly would still have been beaten, and
with il the Bill of sale. if Senator Stew
art had represented anybody bat himself
He proclaims himself 4 Populist, but aids
the most corrupt and shameless bargain
ever made by monopoly 10 control leg
islation. Il is the destiny Of some men
To serve a. the unconscious tool Of those
they most heartily detest Probably Mr..
Stewart deteSts the President as much ~
anybody in the world, and 80 he helps
Villas and the enckOos to dig the Presi-
dent out Of the hole into which his Wilson
letter plunged him.
Who viii rejoice at the passage Of this
bill? 1t Is denounced as infamous by the
President. who viii have 10 sign it; de-
nounced as a shameless barter which
they were forced TO accept by the Senators
who reported and voted fori denounced
as a corrupt sale Of public interests 10y all
Independent men in both bouses, and
resisted 10 the end from a high sense Of
duty by Republicans who know that it,
passage will disgrace and defeat the party
in power. Not a single man lives who
approves il, as one prominent Democrat
has publicly declared, and the men who
have done the most to frame aud pass il
are those who resent most savagely the
base coercion which has forced it upon
them. No body Of citizens anywhere, OF
either party, has ever pretended 10 desire
the passage Of this bill. There never has
been more striking exhibition Of the
innermost nature Of Democratic partisan
ship than * given by the support Of bill
50 hostile TO every public interest, and 30
dishonoring and fatal 10 the party itself
in the end. merely because great major
ity of Democratic Senator'S and RepreSen-
tatiyes care for nothing but Immediate
succcSs in their States and districts. and
have labOriOusly educated their constitu-
ents to believe thai any tariff reform
measure whatever would bless them be-
yond calculation, and meanwhile a few
members have been corrupt enough 10
become the tools Of Unsuitable monopO-
lists and the highwaymen TO force their
party To stand and deliver. Such Is Dem
ocratic rule, and the country viii doubt
leSs think more than once before il tries
that kind Of rule again.
If the bill were beaten. does anybody
ask who would rejoice? Everybody in
the country. President Cleveland. be-
cause without the manly act Tor which be
had not courage he escapes signing .
measure by him publicly pronounced in
famous. The Democrats of the Senate.
because most of them detest the cynically
shameless corruption which has compel
led them ~ choose between this bill and
no tariff bill whatever. The Democrats
Of the House, because the bill they passed
sas clean and pure by the side of this.
Al the people Of both parties, because
their industries would have new life.
But now all ninsf wait for the next barter
in conference