The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-07-26
MIR. GORMAN'S ONSLAUGHT ON
MIR. CLEVELAND.

The Democratic party awoke yes
terday morning to witness with sor'
row and regret the arraignment OF
the president of the United States by
Democratic United States senator
for the objectionable offense, in the
senator's estimation, of the president
insisting that congress should give
the country tariff bill in accordance
with the declarations of the national
Democratic platform.
The most sensational and unprece-
denied part Of this arraignment of Mr..
Cleveland by Senator German was the
introduction of witnesses to prove that
Mr.. Cleveland would be Satisfied
with the senate amended bill
If he could not get any
better bill by reason of the
disloyalty to the party of certain
Democratic senators insisting that %
reduction of the tariff should be ap-
piled TO all the staples of other sec
lions but the staples OF their own sec.
ton, and although Mr.. German sum-
moned witnesses to the stand, he did
not swear them nor did he prove any.
thing more than that that was their
understanding of Mr.. Cleveland's pu-
sitlOn, only one of them had con-
versed with him on the subject.
What of that, MIR. German? What
il Mr.. Cleveland, being assured that
tariff bill without the SEN
ate amendments could not be
passed, grudgipgly intimated, if we
could not get anything better we
would have to take that. Does tina
fact prohibit Mr.. Cleveland from max
ing every effort In his power to get
something better? Mr.. Cleveland
knows as these recalcltrant Demo.
Gratis in the senate know that they
dare not face the mass of their cOnstit.
uents advocating as they have done a
high tariff on particular product
and combining with other senators to
aid them in having heavy duty i'm
posed on products Of their locality, !
(for the mass of their constituents are
not producers but are Democrats), |
unless their course was endorsed |
by the Democrats in congress in the
enactment of such an amended bin, |
and knowing this Mr.. Cleveland pro-
posed nothing more in his letter to |
Mr.. Wilson than pushing these men !
to the wall and testing the extent of
their faithfulness to the party. Mr.. |
German himself is one OF them Mr.. |
German and a few hundred men in |
Maryland have made fortune in
coal, and Mr.. German and that lew |
hundred men have entered into a
conspiracy with the sugar REIN
ing trust and others to force
protection on these ar.
ticles Of necessity and commerce,
but Mr.. German knows that the Dem
ocrallc party Ill Maryland, the coal
consumers, are overwhelmingly in
majority opposing a duty on coal, and
he knows that if he goes back to
without the endOrsation of
taxing raw material by the represen.
tatives OF the Democracy in congress
that the Democracy in Maryland will
repudiate him. Mr.. Cleveland is
right in attempting to push Mr.. Cor
man to the acceptance Of one of the
two horns of the dilemma, either to
sacrifice his pecuuiary interest in coal
10 the limited extent Of the tariff
bonus or his seat in the senate.
Mr.. G0rmau is ambitious and if he
s compelled 20 confront these condi.
ions, be will hold on to his place in
he senate rather than add to his for
une by tariff on coal that every
aboring man in ais state is compelled
o buy. The same may be said of
ther senators who are insisting upon
he products C; their localities being
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